Egypt
- Children From Brazil Play Game Of The Pharaohs
Brazil-Arab News Agency (Marina Sarruf) One of the most sold wooden board games made by company Mitra - Oficina de Criação is Senet, or the Game of the Pharaohs. Originally from Ancient Egypt, over five thousand years ago, the game is considered an...
- Trivia
A couple of odds and ends of trivia from the last couple of weeks: Mummy robs bank: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1569756.html "A bank robber dressed as an Egyptian mummy staged a successful raid on a bank in Vienna. The bandage-clad robber walked...
- Luxor, An Egyptian-themed Arcade Puzzler
http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=614 Some of the usual Saturday morning trivia for you. This is a computer game with an Egyptian theme, reviewed on the Inside Mac Games website. The reviewer didn't think much of it: "It was honestly...
- Update: National Geographic Feature On Tutankhamun
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0506/feature1/index.html Further to my earlier posting about this forthcoming article, there is now an exerpt on the National Geographic website from the June issue. The full article will only be available in the...
- National Geographic Feature On Abydos
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/gallery1.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/map.html Thanks to my Dad for buying me the April edition of National...
Egypt
Trivia
Another poor week for trivia, but I particularly liked this idea:
Cultural Feast
Cultural Feast
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/3373597
I don't report on lectures and seminars because EEF already provide this information and do a better job of it than I could, but this brilliant item jumped out at me in the Adult Education Programmes side-column on the Houston Chronicle's Nesperennub report: "A mock mummy unwrapping and dinner is scheduled at 7 p.m. Oct. 18, at the Black Labrador Pub, 4100 Montrose. In the Victorian age, British aristocrats impressed their dinner guests by purchasing a mummy to unwrap. Eventually tickets were sold to the events that attracted hundreds to auditoriums. This event will simulate such an occasion".
Online Game
And on the National Geographic website there is a new online game for children called King Tut's Treasures:
I don't report on lectures and seminars because EEF already provide this information and do a better job of it than I could, but this brilliant item jumped out at me in the Adult Education Programmes side-column on the Houston Chronicle's Nesperennub report: "A mock mummy unwrapping and dinner is scheduled at 7 p.m. Oct. 18, at the Black Labrador Pub, 4100 Montrose. In the Victorian age, British aristocrats impressed their dinner guests by purchasing a mummy to unwrap. Eventually tickets were sold to the events that attracted hundreds to auditoriums. This event will simulate such an occasion".
Online Game
And on the National Geographic website there is a new online game for children called King Tut's Treasures:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0509/games/index.html
- Children From Brazil Play Game Of The Pharaohs
Brazil-Arab News Agency (Marina Sarruf) One of the most sold wooden board games made by company Mitra - Oficina de Criação is Senet, or the Game of the Pharaohs. Originally from Ancient Egypt, over five thousand years ago, the game is considered an...
- Trivia
A couple of odds and ends of trivia from the last couple of weeks: Mummy robs bank: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1569756.html "A bank robber dressed as an Egyptian mummy staged a successful raid on a bank in Vienna. The bandage-clad robber walked...
- Luxor, An Egyptian-themed Arcade Puzzler
http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=614 Some of the usual Saturday morning trivia for you. This is a computer game with an Egyptian theme, reviewed on the Inside Mac Games website. The reviewer didn't think much of it: "It was honestly...
- Update: National Geographic Feature On Tutankhamun
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0506/feature1/index.html Further to my earlier posting about this forthcoming article, there is now an exerpt on the National Geographic website from the June issue. The full article will only be available in the...
- National Geographic Feature On Abydos
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/gallery1.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/map.html Thanks to my Dad for buying me the April edition of National...