Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah)
- Ottoman Cairo's Ghosts Hold Delightful Secrets
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) Agnieszka Dobrowolska, a conservation architect, travels, often alone or in the company of her co-worker and architectural partner, her husband Jaroslaw Dobrowolski -- author of The Living Stones of Cairo -- to bring back...
- Animals Mummified By The Millions In Ancient Egypt
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Millions of animals were ritually slaughtered in ancient Egypt to foster a huge mummification industry that even drove some species extinct. As an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National...
- Exhibition: Pharaoh - King Of Egypt
Culture 24 (Nick Owen) With 2 lovely photographs. Exhibition: Pharaoh: King of Egypt, Great North Museum: Hancock until September 25 2011 The North East’s premier museum, Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle, is hosting the largest ever UK touring...
- Priests Ate Like Gods – And Paid By Dying Young
Manchester University The splendid banquets offered to ancient Egyptian gods may have been delicious and bountiful but they were also a killer, blocking the arteries of the high priests who made the offerings in the temples then took them home to their...
- Exhibition: Ippolito Rosellini
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) Every depiction of an ancient portrait has the capacity to change interpretive history. It is mid-February and the Temple of Edfu looks a shadow of its usual self. Instead of picture-postcard columns, the colossal figures...
Egypt
Still them and us
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah)
Drawings of the Time: Impressions from Edfu Temple is an exhibition that displays colourful and engaging portraits of high priests of ancient Egyptian Temples. Gamal Nkrumah discovers they tend to be at odds with contemporary art in many respects. These striking images are definitely not the stuff of daily life in the closing years of the Pharaonic era. They have a broader and more aspiring canvas
The exquisite works of Andalusian artists Asuncion Jodar Minarro and Ricardo Marin Viadel ornament the Egyptian Museum and offer a timely lesson in Mediterranean camaraderie. The exhibition focuses on the miscellaneous aspects of the high priests of the Ptolemaic Period. The focus of this show is art rather than history. And yet the images have quite a tale to tell
What a difference a couple of millennia make. Two thousand years ago, these images were adored as the very likeness of the living gods. Or those destined to serve the gods. Today they are admired as imaginative and ingenious interpretations of an art of an age bygone. They were worshipped then, and they are viewed with wonder now.
- Ottoman Cairo's Ghosts Hold Delightful Secrets
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) Agnieszka Dobrowolska, a conservation architect, travels, often alone or in the company of her co-worker and architectural partner, her husband Jaroslaw Dobrowolski -- author of The Living Stones of Cairo -- to bring back...
- Animals Mummified By The Millions In Ancient Egypt
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Millions of animals were ritually slaughtered in ancient Egypt to foster a huge mummification industry that even drove some species extinct. As an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National...
- Exhibition: Pharaoh - King Of Egypt
Culture 24 (Nick Owen) With 2 lovely photographs. Exhibition: Pharaoh: King of Egypt, Great North Museum: Hancock until September 25 2011 The North East’s premier museum, Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle, is hosting the largest ever UK touring...
- Priests Ate Like Gods – And Paid By Dying Young
Manchester University The splendid banquets offered to ancient Egyptian gods may have been delicious and bountiful but they were also a killer, blocking the arteries of the high priests who made the offerings in the temples then took them home to their...
- Exhibition: Ippolito Rosellini
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) Every depiction of an ancient portrait has the capacity to change interpretive history. It is mid-February and the Temple of Edfu looks a shadow of its usual self. Instead of picture-postcard columns, the colossal figures...