Egypt
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=635353
- Who Really Invented The Alphabet
Biblical Archaeological Review In a landmark article in the March/April 2010 issue of BAR, Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed,...
- Time Magazine And Discovery Channel
http://www.time.com/time/2006/egypt/index.htmlThanks to David Meadows for his Explorator newsletter, which this week provided the above link to a collection of Time Magazine's most recently covered features. Entitled "World of the Pharaohs" it also...
- Records Provide Clues To Ophthalmic Care
http://tinyurl.com/8b7v6 (Opthalmology News)Thanks to David Meadows and his Explorator newsletter, for this item. Information from the Ebers and Edwin Papyri has been used to identify some of the eye-related complaints suffered by ancient Egyptians. Unlike...
- Egyptian And Hebrew Connections
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/713/he1.htm "Egypt is indisputably a part of the Biblical tradition. This much is clear, not only from the role the country plays in providing the setting for certain famous episodes in both Old and New Testaments, but...
- Oldest Writing
During an excavation in Jerusalem just south of the walls of the old city a clay chip from a 3400 year old clay tablet covered in cuneiform script has shown the importance of that city in the late Bronze age. Researchers from Hebrew University...
Egypt
Translation into Hebrew of Amarna Letters
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=635353
This one is only going to be of interest if you read Hebrew or have a friend to translate. Thanks to David Meadows and his excellent Explorator news email (issue 8.26 [email protected]) for this link which I had missed myself. I don't read Hebrew, but according to Explorator it is a review of a recent translation into Hebrew of the El Amarna letters by Dr. Zipora Cochavi-Rainey.
- Who Really Invented The Alphabet
Biblical Archaeological Review In a landmark article in the March/April 2010 issue of BAR, Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed,...
- Time Magazine And Discovery Channel
http://www.time.com/time/2006/egypt/index.htmlThanks to David Meadows for his Explorator newsletter, which this week provided the above link to a collection of Time Magazine's most recently covered features. Entitled "World of the Pharaohs" it also...
- Records Provide Clues To Ophthalmic Care
http://tinyurl.com/8b7v6 (Opthalmology News)Thanks to David Meadows and his Explorator newsletter, for this item. Information from the Ebers and Edwin Papyri has been used to identify some of the eye-related complaints suffered by ancient Egyptians. Unlike...
- Egyptian And Hebrew Connections
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/713/he1.htm "Egypt is indisputably a part of the Biblical tradition. This much is clear, not only from the role the country plays in providing the setting for certain famous episodes in both Old and New Testaments, but...
- Oldest Writing
During an excavation in Jerusalem just south of the walls of the old city a clay chip from a 3400 year old clay tablet covered in cuneiform script has shown the importance of that city in the late Bronze age. Researchers from Hebrew University...