Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly
- Book Review: Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs And The Cult Of Osiris
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) David O'Connor's Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo (2009) Abydos is situated on the western bank of the Nile about seven kilometres west of the...
- Profile: Zahi Hawass
Art Museums Journal (Stan Parchin) An excellent factual and no-nonsense profile of SCA General Secretary Zahi Hawass. Zahi Hawass (b. 1947), a native of Damietta, Egypt, has served as his country's Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- Zahi Hawass On Egyptian Archaeologists
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Hawass on the subject of valuing Egyptian archaeologists: When I became secretary- general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), I stated that we must restore Egyptian archaeologists before we can restore the monuments....
- Bruce Trigger
http://anthropology.net/tags/death There are early reports that Bruce Trigger has died. Bruce Trigger has helped to explain in the clearest terms how archaeology had developed, and the consequences that this has had for the field as a whole, but he has...
- Recent Discoveries At Abydos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,12674,1266978,00.html This Guardian Online article summarises recent discoveries at Early Dynastic Abydos, including the probable human sacrifices and the 14 buried boats. It includes extensive comments...
Egypt
Zahi Hawass talking about David O'Connor
Al Ahram Weekly
Hawass is using his occasional Dig Days slot on the Al Ahram Weekly website to honour Egyptologist David O'Connor, who he describes as "an ideal role model for us all".
O'Connor is unique. Originally from Australia, he received a postgraduate diploma in Egyptology in 1962 from University College London. He then studied for his doctorate at Cambridge. He was always honest, a good excavator, and a true leader. I learnt a lot from him.
The first four of the seven years I spent at the university were fundamental to building me up as an Egyptologist. O'Connor was an excellent teacher. He taught us to understand the context of artefacts; how we can identify their origin, and how to date Pharaonic cemeteries based on the relative evidence.
I selected Giza as the topic of my doctoral dissertation. I also studied history so that I could learn to use literature or textual evidence to reconstruct the past. I also took
independent study courses with O'Connor, who suggested I take courses in anthropology. The most important aspect of my time in Pennsylvania was that O'Connor treated me as a student so I could learn, rather than as an important official who could learn nothing from him. He was a happy man and we knew he was
approaching when we heard him whistling.
- Book Review: Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs And The Cult Of Osiris
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) David O'Connor's Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo (2009) Abydos is situated on the western bank of the Nile about seven kilometres west of the...
- Profile: Zahi Hawass
Art Museums Journal (Stan Parchin) An excellent factual and no-nonsense profile of SCA General Secretary Zahi Hawass. Zahi Hawass (b. 1947), a native of Damietta, Egypt, has served as his country's Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- Zahi Hawass On Egyptian Archaeologists
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Hawass on the subject of valuing Egyptian archaeologists: When I became secretary- general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), I stated that we must restore Egyptian archaeologists before we can restore the monuments....
- Bruce Trigger
http://anthropology.net/tags/death There are early reports that Bruce Trigger has died. Bruce Trigger has helped to explain in the clearest terms how archaeology had developed, and the consequences that this has had for the field as a whole, but he has...
- Recent Discoveries At Abydos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,12674,1266978,00.html This Guardian Online article summarises recent discoveries at Early Dynastic Abydos, including the probable human sacrifices and the 14 buried boats. It includes extensive comments...