Egypt
Wizzley (Kate Phizackerley)
Kate has written a tabloid-style article about the magic of Tutankhamun during the Egyptian revolution. You can find it on the above page.
- Online: Ancient Egyptian Chariot Trappings Rediscovered
Nature (Jo Marchant) Excellent five page article, with photos. Many thanks to David Krueger for the link. The beautifully preserved leather trappings of an ancient Egyptian chariot have been rediscovered in a storeroom of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo....
- Feature: The Voice Of Howard Carter
News from the Vally of the Kings (Kate Phizackerley) Kate has posted a remarkable recording of Howard Carter talking about the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, accompanied by still photos of the modern Valley of the Kings. Egyptology News Blog, Andie...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun In Indianapolis
examiner.com By the time of Tutankhamun’s birth, Egypt had been a superpower for nearly two centuries. The nation itself had been formed about 1,600 years earlier, and the great pyramids at Giza were already ancient edifices at more than one thousand...
- Daily Photo - Tutankhamun
As nearly all of today's posts feature Tutankhamun, I felt obliged to make today's Daily Photograph relevant to the boy king. However, when I last took photographs at the Cairo museum I didn't have a good enough camera for the job, so I decided...
- Yet Another Colossal Statue Of Amenhotep Iii
Here we find an image of a rather unimpressive looking monument of Amenhotep III, I suspect it was not reused for a reason, though confusingly the article refers to Amenhotep III as Tutankhamun's great grandfather. This statement is questionable as...
Egypt
Online: Magic of King Tutankhamun
Wizzley (Kate Phizackerley)
Kate has written a tabloid-style article about the magic of Tutankhamun during the Egyptian revolution. You can find it on the above page.
Only two tombs in Valley of the Kings, the graveyard of many of the most famous kings of ancient Egypt, escaped plunder thousands of years ago: the famous tomb of Tutankhamun and that of Yuya and his wife Thuya. Although Yuya may seem much less famous than Tutankhamun, he is often believed to be the real Biblical Joseph made famous by Andrew Lloyd Webber and is probably the great-grandfather of Tutankhamun. The great tragedy of the break in at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, one of the world’s greatest museums, is that items from both these tombs were stolen, breaking up collections of objects which had survived intact for nearly 3,500 years.
- Online: Ancient Egyptian Chariot Trappings Rediscovered
Nature (Jo Marchant) Excellent five page article, with photos. Many thanks to David Krueger for the link. The beautifully preserved leather trappings of an ancient Egyptian chariot have been rediscovered in a storeroom of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo....
- Feature: The Voice Of Howard Carter
News from the Vally of the Kings (Kate Phizackerley) Kate has posted a remarkable recording of Howard Carter talking about the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, accompanied by still photos of the modern Valley of the Kings. Egyptology News Blog, Andie...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun In Indianapolis
examiner.com By the time of Tutankhamun’s birth, Egypt had been a superpower for nearly two centuries. The nation itself had been formed about 1,600 years earlier, and the great pyramids at Giza were already ancient edifices at more than one thousand...
- Daily Photo - Tutankhamun
As nearly all of today's posts feature Tutankhamun, I felt obliged to make today's Daily Photograph relevant to the boy king. However, when I last took photographs at the Cairo museum I didn't have a good enough camera for the job, so I decided...
- Yet Another Colossal Statue Of Amenhotep Iii
Here we find an image of a rather unimpressive looking monument of Amenhotep III, I suspect it was not reused for a reason, though confusingly the article refers to Amenhotep III as Tutankhamun's great grandfather. This statement is questionable as...