Egypt
Richmond Times Dispatch (Ellen Robertson)
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- Hoosier Mummies Inspire Learning
Noblesville Daily Times Julia Meek Gaar was monied. And well-traveled. She was also philanthropic. So when she went to Egypt in February 1929 and bought a mummy from an antiquities dealer, she intended to ship it back to the Richmond historical society...
- Hatshepsut Statues On Special View
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) Thanks very much to Robert Espino for sending me the above link. Stone portraits of ancient Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut have found a temporary home in the Sackler Wing at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two granite...
- Magazine: Archaeological Diggings April/may 2007
http://www.freewebs.com/diggingsmag/currentissue.htm"The April/May 2007 issue takes a closer look at the sphinx and its history. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York gives us a look at the photography of Harry Burton. This collection of photographs...
- Opening The Tomb Of Tutankhamun - Photos Auctioned
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4DYYW On May 12th 142 press photographs of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter are going for sale by auction at Sotheby's. The photos were taken by by Harry Burton (1879-1940):...
- Mummy Secrets Of The Tomb
Here we have a travelling American exhibition presented by the British Museum and opening in Richmond Virginia at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition will run from November 19, 2011 through to March 11, 2012 and display more than a hundred...
Egypt
Sad News: Virginia Burton
Richmond Times Dispatch (Ellen Robertson)
As a curator of Egyptian art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Lucille Virginia Burton often traveled alone, except for a guide, to archaeological spots throughout the Middle East.
"'Ginny' learned that "if you don't show fear, that can get you out of situations," said her friend, Louise Friday of Urbanna. "She once thought two guides were getting ready to rob her, so she quickly jumped up and said, 'Let's go!' and forcefully dissuaded them."
A woman who had stayed in the cliffs of Petra and taught herself to read hieroglyphics, Ms. Burton, who died Sunday at 90 in a Richmond nursing home, said the pièce de résistance of her career was overseeing the transfer of the Temple of Dendur from Egypt.
The temple was given to the United States by Egypt in 1965 and allotted to the museum in 1967. Installation was completed in 1978 in the Sackler Wing, which was built around the temple as it was being reassembled.
See the above page for the complete article.
- Hoosier Mummies Inspire Learning
Noblesville Daily Times Julia Meek Gaar was monied. And well-traveled. She was also philanthropic. So when she went to Egypt in February 1929 and bought a mummy from an antiquities dealer, she intended to ship it back to the Richmond historical society...
- Hatshepsut Statues On Special View
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) Thanks very much to Robert Espino for sending me the above link. Stone portraits of ancient Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut have found a temporary home in the Sackler Wing at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two granite...
- Magazine: Archaeological Diggings April/may 2007
http://www.freewebs.com/diggingsmag/currentissue.htm"The April/May 2007 issue takes a closer look at the sphinx and its history. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York gives us a look at the photography of Harry Burton. This collection of photographs...
- Opening The Tomb Of Tutankhamun - Photos Auctioned
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4DYYW On May 12th 142 press photographs of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter are going for sale by auction at Sotheby's. The photos were taken by by Harry Burton (1879-1940):...
- Mummy Secrets Of The Tomb
Here we have a travelling American exhibition presented by the British Museum and opening in Richmond Virginia at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition will run from November 19, 2011 through to March 11, 2012 and display more than a hundred...