Egypt
- Abydos Finds Include Hatshepsut In Female Form
With photo. This story was out and about a few weeks ago but I hadn't seen the photo before of the wooden statuette before (in the New Scientist article). Ahram Online (Nevine el-Aref) With photos. A team of archeologists from Toronto...
- Animal Mummies, Statue (of Hatshepsut?) And Other Objects Found At Abydos
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Thanks to Owen Jarus for sending me the above link. A wealth of new discoveries, from animal mummies linked to the jackal god and human remains to an enigmatic statue, are revealing the secrets of an ancient holy place...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Khasekhemwy
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Khasekhemwy Cultic enclosure at Abydos – Mathew Adams This was the last of a long series of similar structures. King Aha was discovered 2 years ago. They all rectangular, enclosing a ritual space, surrounded by sacrificial...
- Damaged Egyptian "mecca" To Be Restored
National Geographic (Andrew Bossone) A development boom near Egypt's Abydos archaeological site is damaging one of the most sacred gathering places for ancient pilgrims, experts say. Millions of Egyptians crossed the desert surrounding Abydos from...
- Meet The Curators: Josef Wegner
http://130.91.80.97:591/PDFs/47-2/Meet%20the%20Curators.pdfA profile of Josef Wegner, Associate Curator of the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, who works on the Late Middle Kingdom period...
Egypt
Recent finds from Abydos
WAMC
Radio recording (audio file)
Radio recording (audio file)
In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner of the University of Toronto reveals some recent finds from an archaeological excavation in Abydos, Egypt.
Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner is Assistant Professor of Egyptian Archaeology in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. She also serves at Project Director for the North Abydos Votive Zone Project , an ongoing project which focuses on understanding the social organization of the community that left behind traces of votive activity at the site. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
The site of Abydos in southern Egypt has long attracted pilgrims and archaeologists. As the center of the cult of Osiris, god of death and regeneration, Abydos drew people from allwalks of life to participate in a festival that dramatized the god’s successful post-mortemtransformation. The focal point of the festival was a procession in which statues of Osiris, along with his wife Isis and son Horus, were carried on the shoulders of priests in boat-shaped shrinesacross the desert landscape from his temple dwelling to his tomb.
- Abydos Finds Include Hatshepsut In Female Form
With photo. This story was out and about a few weeks ago but I hadn't seen the photo before of the wooden statuette before (in the New Scientist article). Ahram Online (Nevine el-Aref) With photos. A team of archeologists from Toronto...
- Animal Mummies, Statue (of Hatshepsut?) And Other Objects Found At Abydos
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Thanks to Owen Jarus for sending me the above link. A wealth of new discoveries, from animal mummies linked to the jackal god and human remains to an enigmatic statue, are revealing the secrets of an ancient holy place...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Khasekhemwy
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Khasekhemwy Cultic enclosure at Abydos – Mathew Adams This was the last of a long series of similar structures. King Aha was discovered 2 years ago. They all rectangular, enclosing a ritual space, surrounded by sacrificial...
- Damaged Egyptian "mecca" To Be Restored
National Geographic (Andrew Bossone) A development boom near Egypt's Abydos archaeological site is damaging one of the most sacred gathering places for ancient pilgrims, experts say. Millions of Egyptians crossed the desert surrounding Abydos from...
- Meet The Curators: Josef Wegner
http://130.91.80.97:591/PDFs/47-2/Meet%20the%20Curators.pdfA profile of Josef Wegner, Associate Curator of the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, who works on the Late Middle Kingdom period...