Egypt
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1937151,00.html
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies, Edinburgh Uk
STV (Catie Guitart) The Fascinating Mummies exhibition runs from February 11 to May 27 at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. There's a nice slideshow of the exhibition aswell. An exhibition guiding visitors through the complex rituals...
- Exhibition: Pharaoh - King Of Egypt
British Museum Blog (Margaret Maitland) In just under two weeks, over 3,000 years of history – in the shape of 130 objects – has been installed at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne for the British Museum UK touring exhibition...
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) As anyone who has visited its ancient Egyptian galleries will know, London's British Museum has one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the famous Rosetta Stone,...
- Egypt's History In Photographs
Al Ahram Weekly (Rania Khallaf) Presenting Egypt's history through photography is a recurrent theme in today's art galleries. However, it can be hard to get a sense of Egypt's long history through a single exhibition, since the country's...
- Daily Photo - Mortuary Temple Of Merenptah, Luxor
It has been pointed out to me that I published these photographs earlier this month with the heading "Merenptah" and no more detail to explain what is being shown. So here they are again with a bit of explanation to clarify them! I hope that the additional...
Egypt
History from on high
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1937151,00.html
A new exhibition in London, UK, looks at some of our more admirable achievements from the air in an exhibition entitled The Past From Above, at the British Museum from November 16 2006 to February 11 2007. There were all taken by Swiss photographer Georg Gerster, who has been photographing from the air since 1963: "He came back from more than 40 years of aerial photography with an exceptional record of monuments as their long-dead creators could only hope to see them from some celestial viewpoint in the afterlife.Pharaoh Ramesses II, for instance, had to be content to imagine the magnificent pattern of the Ramesseum, his mortuary temple dating from the 13th-century BC, from 1,000ft up. He had only his architect's plans and the vast but partial views available from the flat desert ground surrounding it. Visitors to the museum see not only the bird's-eye view, but the striking effects of later history on the monument - and the hundreds of others alongside it in the exhibition."
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies, Edinburgh Uk
STV (Catie Guitart) The Fascinating Mummies exhibition runs from February 11 to May 27 at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. There's a nice slideshow of the exhibition aswell. An exhibition guiding visitors through the complex rituals...
- Exhibition: Pharaoh - King Of Egypt
British Museum Blog (Margaret Maitland) In just under two weeks, over 3,000 years of history – in the shape of 130 objects – has been installed at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne for the British Museum UK touring exhibition...
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) As anyone who has visited its ancient Egyptian galleries will know, London's British Museum has one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the famous Rosetta Stone,...
- Egypt's History In Photographs
Al Ahram Weekly (Rania Khallaf) Presenting Egypt's history through photography is a recurrent theme in today's art galleries. However, it can be hard to get a sense of Egypt's long history through a single exhibition, since the country's...
- Daily Photo - Mortuary Temple Of Merenptah, Luxor
It has been pointed out to me that I published these photographs earlier this month with the heading "Merenptah" and no more detail to explain what is being shown. So here they are again with a bit of explanation to clarify them! I hope that the additional...