Egypt
- Experiment And Experience - Ancient Egypt In The Present
University of Wales Swansea Thanks to Charles Ellwood Jones and the Ancient World Online blog for pointing me to the above link. This conference included an exciting array of demonstrations and talks, from flint knapping to flower arranging, from textiles...
- Egypt Centre Achieves Accreditation
This Is Swansea Supporters of Swansea's Egypt Centre have been given a pat on the back this week after it achieved an accreditation award. The museum, which is based on the campus of Swansea University, is also enjoying a double celebration — it...
- Egyptology Websites
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for pointing out two websites which might be of interest to blog visitors. If anyone else wants to point out sites that they think may be of interest to other visitors to the blog, please let me know. An Introduction...
- Rhind Papyrus & Vr Book Of The Dead
http://tinyurl.com/bdzde "An ancient Egyptian mathematical scroll believed to be more than 3,500 years old will go on display in Wales on Thursday. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus has been lent to the University of Swansea from the British Museum for a...
- Gender In Tomb Art
Here an article on gender representation in ancient tomb art. http://www.examiner.com/x-15428-San-Diego-Art-Examiner~y2009m8d9-Gender-representation-in-Ancient-Egyptian-tomb-art...
Egypt
Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/cm7w4
"Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, cosmetic surgery, gay hairdressers, desperate housewives and a mysterious sex manual. A new TV offering aimed at overshadowing the BBC's sex and swords drama Rome? Well, no, actually - welcome to the world of the ancient Egyptians. Their music, sex lives and cosmetic foibles are just some of the topics to be debated at Swansea University's Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt conference at the campus' Egypt Centre this month. The conference, the third the centre has organised, will welcome leading egyptologists and experts in gender from academic institutions across the world".
"Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, cosmetic surgery, gay hairdressers, desperate housewives and a mysterious sex manual. A new TV offering aimed at overshadowing the BBC's sex and swords drama Rome? Well, no, actually - welcome to the world of the ancient Egyptians. Their music, sex lives and cosmetic foibles are just some of the topics to be debated at Swansea University's Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt conference at the campus' Egypt Centre this month. The conference, the third the centre has organised, will welcome leading egyptologists and experts in gender from academic institutions across the world".
See the IC Wales website at the above address for the full article.
- Experiment And Experience - Ancient Egypt In The Present
University of Wales Swansea Thanks to Charles Ellwood Jones and the Ancient World Online blog for pointing me to the above link. This conference included an exciting array of demonstrations and talks, from flint knapping to flower arranging, from textiles...
- Egypt Centre Achieves Accreditation
This Is Swansea Supporters of Swansea's Egypt Centre have been given a pat on the back this week after it achieved an accreditation award. The museum, which is based on the campus of Swansea University, is also enjoying a double celebration — it...
- Egyptology Websites
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for pointing out two websites which might be of interest to blog visitors. If anyone else wants to point out sites that they think may be of interest to other visitors to the blog, please let me know. An Introduction...
- Rhind Papyrus & Vr Book Of The Dead
http://tinyurl.com/bdzde "An ancient Egyptian mathematical scroll believed to be more than 3,500 years old will go on display in Wales on Thursday. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus has been lent to the University of Swansea from the British Museum for a...
- Gender In Tomb Art
Here an article on gender representation in ancient tomb art. http://www.examiner.com/x-15428-San-Diego-Art-Examiner~y2009m8d9-Gender-representation-in-Ancient-Egyptian-tomb-art...