Egypt
Research: The Temple as Canon of Egypt’s Religious Literature
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Prof. Dr. Christian Leitz has been awarded with a prestigious research grant for a long-term research project entitled ‘The Temple as Canon of Egypt's Religious Literature'. At the University of Tübingen he will direct a group of researchers whose aim is to explore the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Egyptian temples dating to the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The project is affiliated to the Heidelberg Academy and is financed by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. During the initial phase of twelve years the German Union of Academies will support his research with more than 300.000 Euros per annum. It is the second major archaeological project of the Heidelberg Academy based at Tübingen: in 2008, the project ‘The Role of Culture of Early Expansion of Humans' started here.
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News: Arce Wins Big Grant To Help Safeguard Egyptian Antiquity
San Antonio Business Journal (Tamarind Phinissee) Another old news item which I missed, this one dating to the end of August. The American Research Center in Egypt, based in San Antonio, has been awarded a $6.6 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International...
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Us Funding Boost For Web-based Archaeology Journal
Yorkshire Post The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded 250,000 US dollars to help York University make academic research material available online. The project will allow researchers to link their work to databases, video, audio and other information...
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Culture Minister Opens The Renovated Egyptian Museum In Turin
Egypt State Information Service Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni returned home Thursday 31/7/2008 from Turin city, wrapping up a several days' visit to Italy during which he opened the renovated Egyptian Museum in Turin (Museo Egizio Di Torino)....
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100th Anniversary Celebrations Of German Archaeological Institute In Cairo
Der Lifestyle Presseservice The "Kaiserlich Deutsche Institut für Ägyptische Altertumskunde" in Cairo was founded in 1907 by Ludwig Borchardt on the recommendation of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. In 1929 it was made a department of the German Archaeological...
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Keeping Records
An article on recording Egypt's religious literature carved on the walls of its temples from the University of Tübingen. http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=63740&CultureCode=en...
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