Egypt
The Guardian (Philippa McDonnell)
With photo.
See the above page for the full story.
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- A 1371 View Of The Great Pyramids
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/of_the_country.htmlAnother lovely extract from something written about Egypt in another era, this time by Jehan De Mandeville, or Sir John Mandeville, who compiled a travel book published by 1371, and...
- The Boat Beneath The Pyramid
Nancy Jenkins Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York 1980 ISBN 0-03-057061-1 This attractive book is filled with many images about pyramids of the Old Kingdom and the boat pits that accompany them including the subject of the book the boat found and restored...
Egypt
Why my great-great-great grandfather defaced ancient Egyptian monuments
The Guardian (Philippa McDonnell)
With photo.
My ancestor, Earl Belmore, travelled throughout Egypt in the early 1800s - and developed a taste for signing his name on antiquities
I have been worried by the behaviour of my great-great-great-grandfather. I had always known that the 2nd Earl of Belmore went to Egypt and "rescued" – as they termed it then – some famous antiquities. What I didn't know was that before sending them to museums, he defaced them.
Go to the Metropolitan Museum in New York and you'll see the name BELMORE inscribed in 3in-high Roman capitals on the side of the Temple of Dendar. As graffiti goes, it is beautifully carved. But then, so is the temple.
Apparently he had mounting debts when, in 1813, he decided to flee the bailiffs by touring Egypt. He bought an 86ft schooner and spent £9,600 transforming it. He took his family and assorted others along, including the Countess Juliana, Rosa the lapdog, the family doctor and the vicar.
I went to Egypt this spring to see whether there was any legacy.First stop, the Great Pyramid. And, dear oh dear, there at the summit, BELMORE. Thankfully he appears to have made no attempt to ship the Great Pyramid back to Britain.
See the above page for the full story.
- Tale Of Tutankhamun Treasures Recreated
Basingstoke Gazette (Chris Gregory) THE discovery of a famous Egyptian mummy is the focus of a dramatic new exhibition at Highclere Castle. The new display tells the story of how, in the 1920s, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon and archaeologist Howard Carter...
- Pyramids Discovered In Silicon Valley
The Inquirer This is another news editorial on "The Lost Pyramid", a sensational mega-documentary the History Channel is about to air. Using computer technology, they uncover and recreate a supposed fourth pyramid, taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza....
- Lord Carnarvon Returns To Egypt To Examine New Evidence About Tutankhamun
Newbury Today () A TELEVISION documentary will follow Lord Carnarvon’s travels back to Egypt to examine new finds from Tutankhamun’s tomb, which question long-held theories about the young pharoah. The eighth Lord Carnarvon, a keen amateur archaeologist,...
- A 1371 View Of The Great Pyramids
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/of_the_country.htmlAnother lovely extract from something written about Egypt in another era, this time by Jehan De Mandeville, or Sir John Mandeville, who compiled a travel book published by 1371, and...
- The Boat Beneath The Pyramid
Nancy Jenkins Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York 1980 ISBN 0-03-057061-1 This attractive book is filled with many images about pyramids of the Old Kingdom and the boat pits that accompany them including the subject of the book the boat found and restored...