Egypt
- First Uk Museum Now On Culture Grid
Egypt Centre Press Release: Online first for the Egypt Centre’s Ancient Egyptian Artefacts Swansea University’s Egypt Centre is the first museum in Britain to have its whole collection go online on the Culture Grid - a searchable database for...
- Woking College Collection At Swansea
Egypt Centre, Swansea A collection of over 50 ancient Egyptian objects travelled from Surrey to Swansea, and arrived at the the Egypt Centre today (31st May 2012). Items on loan include a Sokar hawk, shabti figures, two glass bottles, two amulets,...
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- Lanny Bell - Digging For History
University News Lanny Bell discovered his lifelong passion for archeology in the 8th grade. He will soon be sharing some of his scholarly zeal for Egyptian history here at UMKC. "I took an Ancient History class and when everyone else had moved on to Greece...
- 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...
Egypt
Talisman of Ancient Googly-Eyed God Discovered
Yahoo! News (Owen Jarus)
Originally published on the Live Science site, but there were problems with the link.
Originally published on the Live Science site, but there were problems with the link.
A newly identified googly-eyed artifact may have been used by the ancient Egyptians to magically protect children and pregnant mothers from evil forces.
Made of faience, a delicate material that contains silica, the pale-green talisman of sorts dates to sometime in the first millennium B.C. It shows the dwarf god Bes with his tongue sticking out, eyes googly, wearing a crown of feathers. A hole at the top of the face was likely used to suspend it like a bell, while a second hole, used to hold the bell clapper, was apparently drilled into it in antiquity.
Carolyn Graves-Brown, a curator at the Egypt Centre, discovered the artifact in the collection of Woking College, the equivalent of a high school for juniors and seniors. The college has more than 50 little-studied Egyptian artifacts, which were recently lent to the Egypt Centre at Swansea University where they are being studied and documented.
- First Uk Museum Now On Culture Grid
Egypt Centre Press Release: Online first for the Egypt Centre’s Ancient Egyptian Artefacts Swansea University’s Egypt Centre is the first museum in Britain to have its whole collection go online on the Culture Grid - a searchable database for...
- Woking College Collection At Swansea
Egypt Centre, Swansea A collection of over 50 ancient Egyptian objects travelled from Surrey to Swansea, and arrived at the the Egypt Centre today (31st May 2012). Items on loan include a Sokar hawk, shabti figures, two glass bottles, two amulets,...
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- Lanny Bell - Digging For History
University News Lanny Bell discovered his lifelong passion for archeology in the 8th grade. He will soon be sharing some of his scholarly zeal for Egyptian history here at UMKC. "I took an Ancient History class and when everyone else had moved on to Greece...
- 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...