Egypt
The Edfu Project
- Egypt And U.s. Partner To Launch A Groundwater Lowering Project At Temple Edfu
Luxor Times The Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) along with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) kicked-off a new groundwater lowering project at Temple Edfu in a workshop held today in Cairo. The project will construct a drainage...
- Online - The Tell Edfu Project
Oriental Institute See the above page for the links. The remains of what once had been the provincial capital of the 2nd Upper Egyptian nome can be found at Tell Edfu, which is one of the best well-preserved ancient towns in Egypt. The continuous occupation...
- New Sound And Light Show At Edfu
Al Ahram Weekly (Ingrid Wassman) The darkness surrounding the temple and the whispers from the eager visitors are quickly submerged by a masterful interplay of music, narration and light. As the show begins, the massive 37-metre-high pylon is splashed...
- Daily Photo By Bob Partridge
I am alternating between Rick Menges and Bob Partridge on a weekly basis because their photographs are so very different and all so interesting! I have lots of both so I should be able to keep going for a long time. I've also found some more that...
- Review - The Temple Of Edfu
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for her review, following, of The Temple of Edfu: The Temple of Edfu A Guide by an Ancient Egyptian Priest by Dieter Kurth. Kat read the book whilst recovering in hospital from an accident, so here's wishing her a huge...
Egypt
Online Resource - The Edfu Project
The Edfu Project
Thanks to the Ancient World Online blog for highlighting this project to record and translate texts from the temple of Edfu. It a site plan, photographs of the temple and of a scale model of the temple, multimedia resources and downloads. Most importantly the website includes a freely accessible online library of monographs, articles, and manuscripts on material about the Edfu district. Here's an exerpt from the introduction.
The Edfu texts had been published for decades before they were worked on adequately. Because of the extraordinarily large amount of texts, most linguistic and factual problems could be solved by searching the rest of the material for comparable cases.
In 1986, Professor Dr. Dieter Kurth of Hamburg University initiated a long-term project that is devoted to a complete translation of the Edfu inscriptions that meets the requirement of both linguistics and literary studies. It was triggered by the frustrating experience that parallel passages and comparable contents were nearly lost among those 3.000 pages of hieroglyphs if researchers did not start to search every single page afresh when they came across a problem.
In a way, this meant that researchers always had to start from scratch if they attempted to further our knowledge of the Edfu texts.
- Egypt And U.s. Partner To Launch A Groundwater Lowering Project At Temple Edfu
Luxor Times The Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) along with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) kicked-off a new groundwater lowering project at Temple Edfu in a workshop held today in Cairo. The project will construct a drainage...
- Online - The Tell Edfu Project
Oriental Institute See the above page for the links. The remains of what once had been the provincial capital of the 2nd Upper Egyptian nome can be found at Tell Edfu, which is one of the best well-preserved ancient towns in Egypt. The continuous occupation...
- New Sound And Light Show At Edfu
Al Ahram Weekly (Ingrid Wassman) The darkness surrounding the temple and the whispers from the eager visitors are quickly submerged by a masterful interplay of music, narration and light. As the show begins, the massive 37-metre-high pylon is splashed...
- Daily Photo By Bob Partridge
I am alternating between Rick Menges and Bob Partridge on a weekly basis because their photographs are so very different and all so interesting! I have lots of both so I should be able to keep going for a long time. I've also found some more that...
- Review - The Temple Of Edfu
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for her review, following, of The Temple of Edfu: The Temple of Edfu A Guide by an Ancient Egyptian Priest by Dieter Kurth. Kat read the book whilst recovering in hospital from an accident, so here's wishing her a huge...