Egypt
University News
- Book Review: The Akhenaten Colossi Of Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Lise Manniche, The Akhenaten Colossi of Karnak, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo and New York, 2010 You will want to read this book -- but perhaps not in the order in which it is published. In The Akhenaten Colossi...
- Tutankhamun & Amarna Period Books
Bibliography prepared by Stan Parchin The ceaseless fascination with ancient Egyptian art and civilization during the revolutionary age of the "heretic" pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 B.C.) and Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1322 B.C.) continues to inspire extensive...
- Egyptian Art Exhibit Coming To Cal State San Bernardino Museum Nov. 22
The Press EnterpriseFor the first time in history, a portion of his extraordinary findings have come to the United States in "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology." So far, the exhibit has traveled to such...
- Exhibition: More Re Amarna At Upenn
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15720389/A comprehensive summary of the Amarna exhibition currently showing at UPenn: "The exhibition timeline starts before Tut's birth, and before Amarna was built, with excavated busts of the pharaohs from whom he was...
- Professor Barry Kemp At The Rom
Professor Barry Kemp the director of the Amarna trust has been excavating at Tell el Amarna in middle Egypt since 1977. The sites name in antiquity was Akhetaten, the home of Akhenaten the heritic pharaoh who ruled the two lands in the middle of the...
Egypt
Thursday's lecture to complement DMA King Tut exhibit
University News
With perfect timing, the University of Dallas Art Department has invited a world-renowned Egyptologist to lecture on Akhenaten, father of the most famous Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamen, or, as we know him today, King Tut. Dr. James Hoffmeier is a professor specializing in Near Eastern Archaeology at Trinity International University, which is based in Deerfield, Illinois.
The lecture promises to be particularly interesting as it comes just before the Dallas Year trip to the Dallas Museum of Art, where the King Tut exhibit is being held temporarily. According to the art department's press release, Dr. Hoffmeier will be discussing "the significant amount of material from the Amarna period uncovered since 1999 at Tell el-Borg in North Sinai. The Amarna period began when Pharaoh Akhenaten moved his capital city and changed the state religion to a form of monotheism. This revolutionary period only lasted briefly; King Tutankhamen (King Tut), a successor to Akhenaten, died at the young age of eighteen." Those who attend Dr. Hoffmeier's lecture will undoubtedly have a historical framework with which to view the Tut exhibit.
The lecturer, Dr. Hoffmeier, was actually born in Egypt, where he lived until he was 16. According his profile, found on the Trinity International University webpage, he received his undergraduate degree from Wheaton College, going on to the University of Toronto to earn his masters and Ph.D. in philosophy. He has returned to Egypt several times on archaeological digs in Sinai, where he not only studies the civilization of Akhenaten and Tutankhamen, but also attempts to uncover parts of the Old Testament story of the Jewish people. Sinai is the location where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, as recorded in the book of Exodus.
- Book Review: The Akhenaten Colossi Of Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Lise Manniche, The Akhenaten Colossi of Karnak, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo and New York, 2010 You will want to read this book -- but perhaps not in the order in which it is published. In The Akhenaten Colossi...
- Tutankhamun & Amarna Period Books
Bibliography prepared by Stan Parchin The ceaseless fascination with ancient Egyptian art and civilization during the revolutionary age of the "heretic" pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 B.C.) and Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1322 B.C.) continues to inspire extensive...
- Egyptian Art Exhibit Coming To Cal State San Bernardino Museum Nov. 22
The Press EnterpriseFor the first time in history, a portion of his extraordinary findings have come to the United States in "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology." So far, the exhibit has traveled to such...
- Exhibition: More Re Amarna At Upenn
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15720389/A comprehensive summary of the Amarna exhibition currently showing at UPenn: "The exhibition timeline starts before Tut's birth, and before Amarna was built, with excavated busts of the pharaohs from whom he was...
- Professor Barry Kemp At The Rom
Professor Barry Kemp the director of the Amarna trust has been excavating at Tell el Amarna in middle Egypt since 1977. The sites name in antiquity was Akhetaten, the home of Akhenaten the heritic pharaoh who ruled the two lands in the middle of the...