Egypt
- Exhibition: Pharaoh - King Of Egypt
British Museum Blog (Margaret Maitland) In just under two weeks, over 3,000 years of history – in the shape of 130 objects – has been installed at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne for the British Museum UK touring exhibition...
- New Book: The Language Of The Papyri
Oxford University Press The Language of the Papyri Edited by T. V. Evans and D. D. Obbink The modern rediscovery of the Greek and Latin papyri from Egypt has transformed our knowledge of the ancient world. We cannot, however, make the same claim in the...
- Mysteries Of Ancient Egyptian Papyri Revealed
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63063Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for this article from 14th February, which I missed:"Three BYU professors have uncovered mysteries in ancient Egyptian writings aided by new technology that allows people to see inscriptions...
- More About The Reisner Papyri At Berkeley
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4718864 There is a video report aout the Reisner papyri on the above page (preceded by an irritating but very brief advert). The text from the video is also shown on the above page. "They've arrived...
- Egyptian Papyri Arrive On Campus
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/01_papyri.shtml A rather nice piece from UC Berkeley looking at the arrival of a set of Reisner's Middle Kingdom papyri at Berkeley. The article gives details about the content of the papyri, Reisner's...
Egypt
The Ramesseum Papyri
The British Museum Blog
With photos.
The British Museum
With photos.
For many years before joining the British Museum as a curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, my life was tied up with the so-called ‘Ramesseum papyri’: a library of ancient Egyptian papyri that were discovered in 1895-6 under the temple of Ramses II, now known as the ‘Ramesseum’. As a school boy I had bought Alan Gardiner’s 1955 partial publication of some of the papyri and my doctorate was a commentary on one of the poems preserved in them, The Eloquent Peasant.
The 24 papyri are an almost unique surviving example of an ancient Egyptian library that was buried in its owner’s tomb around 1680 BC, but although some of them have been much studied they are extraordinarily fragmentary and fragile. Over the years, Bridget Leach, the Museum’s papyrus conservator, and I have helped many students and scholars examine them, and every time we have worried about their extreme fragility. And so we were eager to have a full visual record made in high resolution colour, so that the papyri could also be studied remotely without being disturbed too often, as well as enabling a global audience to access them.
The British Museum
This online research catalogue brings together for the first time all of the surviving Middle Kingdom papyri from a 13th Dynasty shaft-tomb at Luxor that was later covered by the funerary temple of Ramses II, known as the Ramesseum. This unique library is now held in the British Museum (136 frames of papyri) and the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin (38 frames). Associated objects from the tomb are held in the University Museum, Manchester, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
- Exhibition: Pharaoh - King Of Egypt
British Museum Blog (Margaret Maitland) In just under two weeks, over 3,000 years of history – in the shape of 130 objects – has been installed at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne for the British Museum UK touring exhibition...
- New Book: The Language Of The Papyri
Oxford University Press The Language of the Papyri Edited by T. V. Evans and D. D. Obbink The modern rediscovery of the Greek and Latin papyri from Egypt has transformed our knowledge of the ancient world. We cannot, however, make the same claim in the...
- Mysteries Of Ancient Egyptian Papyri Revealed
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63063Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for this article from 14th February, which I missed:"Three BYU professors have uncovered mysteries in ancient Egyptian writings aided by new technology that allows people to see inscriptions...
- More About The Reisner Papyri At Berkeley
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4718864 There is a video report aout the Reisner papyri on the above page (preceded by an irritating but very brief advert). The text from the video is also shown on the above page. "They've arrived...
- Egyptian Papyri Arrive On Campus
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/01_papyri.shtml A rather nice piece from UC Berkeley looking at the arrival of a set of Reisner's Middle Kingdom papyri at Berkeley. The article gives details about the content of the papyri, Reisner's...