Egypt
The Lost Dynasty of Abydos
Here is another article on the recent discovery of Second intermediate period tombs of two kings, one unknown but of who's damaged name may be on the mutilated "Kings list" in the Turin museum, Italy. The article comes with a number of new pictures of the find made by the University of Pennsylvania mission to South Abydos.
Photo Credit: Josef Wegner/Penn Museum
Josef Wegner/Penn Museum]
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Recent Finds From Abydos
WAMC Radio recording (audio file) In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner of the University of Toronto reveals some recent finds from an archaeological excavation in Abydos, Egypt. Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner is Assistant Professor of...
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Expedition Magazine - Summer Issue
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/Zine/48.2.shtmlExpedition's summer edition (Volume 48, Number 2, Summer 2006). Highlighted items are available on the website, in PDF format. Others are not available online. DepartmentsFrom the Editor From the DirectorMeet...
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Meet The Curators: Josef Wegner
http://130.91.80.97:591/PDFs/47-2/Meet%20the%20Curators.pdfA profile of Josef Wegner, Associate Curator of the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, who works on the Late Middle Kingdom period...
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A Week Of Discoveries
The recent events of the last week include the discovery from the Wellcome collection at Swansea University Egypt Center that a mummified baby in the collection long thought as a fake because the hieroglyphic inscription on it is meaningless, has through...
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Tragedy In Papyrus
New fragments of the papyrus known as the Turin Kings list have been found in the basement of the Turin museum in Italy. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/27/egyptian-papyrus.html...
Egypt