Egypt
The Stanford Papyrus Collection
This collection donated in the 1920's to the university are now being analyzed. The collection appear to be Ptolemaic.
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july23/papyri-072308.html
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Crocodile Mummies Scanned At Stanford
Scope (Lia Steakley) With photos. Conservators at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley are in the midst of reviewing CT images of a pair of crocodile mummies, which were scanned at Stanford last week. The crocodiles, a wrapped mummy with a painted...
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Students Help Decipher Ancient Egyptian Writings
ABC 7 News Eighteen students from around the world are giving new life to ancient Egyptian documents at Stanford University this summer. The students are helping to decipher 70 texts from Stanford's collection of several hundred papyri. At first...
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More Re Stanford Library Aquisition Of Egyptology Collection
The Stanford Daily (Eric Messinger) Students interested in ancient Egyptian artifacts and temples now have a treasure trove of material to explore at Green Library. The diverse collection of materials covers 1,500 years of history, dating...
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Review: Lagunilla Collection In Havana, Cuba
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/vier20/43lagunillas.html A review of the collection of the Dr. Joaquín Gumá, Count of Lagunilla (1909-1980), housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba, which includes a two large halls dedicated to the...
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Letters Of Egyptian Business Life
http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595099068,00.html
"Malczycki, a Ph.D. student in history at the University of Utah, has been translating and analyzing the 777 documents and fragments of the Utah Papyri Collection, believed to be the largest collection...
Egypt