Egypt
- Book Review: Arqueología De La Palabra
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Roger Wright) Ana Rodríguez Mayorgas, Arqueología de la palabra: oralidad y escritura en el mundo antiguo. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2010. Ana Rodríguez Mayorgas works at the Instituto de Historiografía...
- New Book: Everyday Writing In The Graeco-roman East
University of California Press Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East Roger S. Bagnall December 2010 Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world—that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution—has perished....
- Children’s Exhibit At The Cairo Museum
drhawass.com Recently we opened the new Children’s Museum exhibit at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. This exhibit is very good, it is for children, and contains replicas of ancient Egyptian monuments, sculptures and artefacts using LEGOS. The purpose...
- High-tech Imaging Reveals Hidden Past In Ancient Texts
Physorg It might simply look like a smudge, but even the slightest stain on the ancient writing surface of papyrus could obscure a revelation of a past civilization. Now, with the advent of high-tech imaging, some of those secrets could reveal fascinating...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever At The Columbus Museum Of Art
Ohio.com (Betty O'Neill-Roderick) This review of the exhibition focuses on the mummy of a Graeco-Roman man named Demetrios, of which there is also a photograph on the above page. "To Live Forever," an exhibit of Egyptian treasures from the Brooklyn...
Egypt
Orality and Literacy in Greek and Roman Egypt
Heritage Newspapers (Krista Gjestland)
Visitors to the University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library will get a peak into the past through a papyrus exhibit called "Orality and Literacy in Greek and Roman Egypt."
The exhibit showcases ancient Egypt's written and spoken word through the university's papyrus collection. It includes writings from people of all different classes and literacy abilities.
Arthur Verhoogt is the acting archivist of the U-M papyrology collection and is overseeing the exhibit. The items in the exhibit help the viewer gain an understanding of the lives of these ancient people.
"Studying these ancient writing provides us with a window looking on the ancient world," he said. "By contrasting and comparing things that happened then, we may understand similar processes at work in our own society better."
- Book Review: Arqueología De La Palabra
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Roger Wright) Ana Rodríguez Mayorgas, Arqueología de la palabra: oralidad y escritura en el mundo antiguo. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2010. Ana Rodríguez Mayorgas works at the Instituto de Historiografía...
- New Book: Everyday Writing In The Graeco-roman East
University of California Press Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East Roger S. Bagnall December 2010 Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world—that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution—has perished....
- Children’s Exhibit At The Cairo Museum
drhawass.com Recently we opened the new Children’s Museum exhibit at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. This exhibit is very good, it is for children, and contains replicas of ancient Egyptian monuments, sculptures and artefacts using LEGOS. The purpose...
- High-tech Imaging Reveals Hidden Past In Ancient Texts
Physorg It might simply look like a smudge, but even the slightest stain on the ancient writing surface of papyrus could obscure a revelation of a past civilization. Now, with the advent of high-tech imaging, some of those secrets could reveal fascinating...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever At The Columbus Museum Of Art
Ohio.com (Betty O'Neill-Roderick) This review of the exhibition focuses on the mummy of a Graeco-Roman man named Demetrios, of which there is also a photograph on the above page. "To Live Forever," an exhibit of Egyptian treasures from the Brooklyn...