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Dec 26, Love Egypt Ancient and Modern, Mystery, Wonders and Civilization
Nowhere but in Egypt are there so many marvellous things, nor in the world besides are to be seen so many things of unspeakable greatness, Said Herodotus...
Mar 14, Resources for Egypt Lovers from www.Love-Egypt.com
Travel resources for Egypt and other exciting travel resources from around the world....
Mar 13, Karim ElKadi - Biography, Photos and His Egyptian Heritage
This is the biography and Photos of Karim ElKadi born 8 January 1991 to an English mother and an Egyptian father, he attends The Grammar School at Leeds and soon will be going to university...
Feb 13, Your Modern Egypt's Alexandria Guide
Your Egypt Alexandria Guide...
Feb 11, Agriculture Life in Ancient Egypt as Described by Herodotus, Optimistically!
Probably a majority of the Ancient Egypt Agriculture laborers in the field were moderately content, accepting their poverty patiently....
Feb 10, Khafre, "Chephren" Second Pyramid Builder of Ancient Egypt
Khafre, "Chephren" Second Pyramid Builder...
Egyptology News
Cleveland Museum of Art galleries welcome back ancient collections
News Herald (Janet Podolak)Works from the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Egypt and Africa are now in place in 17 recently opened galleries, renovated on the first floor of the Museum's original 1916 Beaux Arts building.It's all part of the museum's eight-year, $350 million renovation and reconstruction, and this recent...
Valley of the Wales (Wadi al Hitan)
National GeographicFollowing on from Saturday's article about whale fossils from the Faiyum being held up at Egyptian customs, thanks very much to Helen Williams-Alden for letting me know about this recent set of lovely photographs on the National Geographic website.I've posted about the Wadi Hitan several times before, including news...
Egypt's new desert battle - landmines in the Western Desert
You Tube - Al Jazeera (Ayman Moyheldin)I've posted about this before on my Egyptian Deserts blog, linking to several other stories. This is the area where the battle of el-Alamein was fought.Video. 3.33 minutes.An estimated 16 million landmines and unexploded munitions from World War II continue to maim thousands...
Online: The Gates of Heaven. Visions of the World in Ancient Egypt. Mini Site.
The LouvreFor the ancient Egyptians, the expression "the Gates of Heaven" referred both to the passageway into the afterlife, and to certain everyday objects. The exhibition entitled "The Gates of Heaven. Visions of the World in Ancient Egypt" features some 350 artifacts dating from the Old Kingdom to the Roman...
Photo for Today - Stela of Pehmnefer
Stela dedicated to Ra-Horakhty by the scribe Pehmnefer for Yourekhy24th Dynasty. Nubia?LimestoneMuseum of Beaux Arts, LyonH.1380Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
Egyptian vessels to go on display in Tenerife
El DiaThirteen vessels of ancient Egypt are deposited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Cruz (Tenerife) will become part of the public collection of the Museum of Nature and Man. The thirteen vessels were acquired as a result of an exchange with the ...
Egypt at the Manchester Museum
Curator’s Diary, Thursday 22nd July 2010
We have been hosting two curators from the Beijing Palace Museum in China, Sun Yue (ceramics specialist) and Xu Jing (exhibitions). They came to Manchester for ten days, spending half their time at the Whitworth Art Gallery and half their time at the Manchester Museum, as part of the British...
Egypt Exploration Society online shop open for business
The EES has opened an online shop to purchase its publications, with discounts for members: www.ees-shop.co.uk (or www.ees-shop.com)...
Curator’s Diary, Friday 9th July 2010
Yesterday and today (8th and 9th July) the Museum has been hosting the conference Museums and Restitution, organised by the Centre for Museology and Chimera at the University of Manchester. I sat in on the session this morning on the issues surrounding the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles from the...
ACCES Ancient Egypt and Sudan workshops 2010-2011
Over the next year, ACCES (the Association of Curators of collections for Egypt and the Sudan, UK) will be running free practical workshops for non-specialist curators in three areas of Egyptian/Sudanese collections. These will be held at three different venues across the UK and will take the form of half-day...
Curator’s Diary, Wednesday 9th June, 2010
Over the last few weeks I have completed sorting and packing the Early Dynastic pottery, which is now boxed and ordered in the Inorganic Store. The next job is to complete the photography of the lithics and re-store them in the new cabinets. I have also had two new volunteers...
Ancient Worlds summer school, University of Liverpool, 26th July-6th August 2010
The School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE), University of Liverpool, is pleased to announce its Summer School Programme for 2010. This year, summer school courses will be available in two subject areas: Classics and Egyptology. Egyptology Summer School The Egyptology Summer School will comprise two parts, focussing on the...
Luxor, Egypt News
It's a Long Road From Ancient Egypt
As 18th-Dynasty pharaohs' chariots go, the one that arrived in Times Square on Friday night was not a Mercedes or a Bentley....
Family-friendly A.C.? Christie's plan no sure bet
During a weeklong family vacation in Ocean City last summer, John Wisniewski suggested an evening buffet at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa....
So there I was, in the middle of a Sydney winter, sitting in a hotel room editing photos, when out of the blue came an invitation to shoot a new tourism campaign - four weeks, all expenses paid, shooting the most stunning locations in Egypt....
Deir el-Medina in the Days of the Ramesses
Thanks to ongoing toothache and the inevitably resulting sleepless nights I have been pottering around some websites that I don't usually visit very often....
In the land of the Cartouche and Hieroglyphs, in the ancient city of Thebes, the Egyptians were busy decorating their temples with pictorials of life and when one ventures through the Luxor Temple, these pictorials come to life in various ways, some of which need interpretation and some of which...
King Tut's chariot to travel to New York
Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced on Monday that one of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's chariots will be exhibited in New York city....
Egypt Then and Now
Unified call to prayer will be first activated in Greater Cairo
Image via Wikipedia For more than 13 decades, the call to prayer has begun five times a day via microphones attached to Egypt’s mosques. Many of muezzins (the person who recites the azan or calls to prayer) have imperfect voices thus creating a citywide cacophony while reciting the azan. Although each...
Heliopolis City of the Sun Under Destruction
Image via Wikipedia When Heliopolis was planned in 1905, the suburb was zoned with designated areas for villas, others for apartment buildings and others for entertainment and commercial use. Restrictive zoning and adherence to certain architectural styles is what gave Heliopolis its special character that is worth celebrating 100 years later. Heliopolis...
Whale of a dilemma at Egypt’s Customs
One of the most exceptional fossil finds at Wadi Hitan is the only complete specimen from the species Basilosaurus Isis, a 37 million-year-old whale unearthed by a team led by Prof Philip Gingerich of the University of Michigan in the United States. For the past two years Prof Gingerich and his...
Egypt’s school teachers form second independent union
The new syndicate’s founders claim to have attracted 5000 of Egypt’s roughly one million teachers. The by-laws of the new syndicate demand a minimum wage of LE1200, the improvement of working conditions in public schools and the amendment of Egypt’s education law. The establishment of the new union represents the latest...
National Geographic Channel to produce comedy set in ancient Egypt
Image via Wikipedia National Geographic Channel (NGC) has commissioned two coproduction specials – a factual heist comedy set in ancient Egypt and a Tony Robinson-fronted history special about the formation of Britain. The Egyptian Job is being coproduced with French terrestrial France 5 and CGI-specialist Wide-Eyed Entertainment, and is billed as a...
Luxury hotels carve a niche in Cairo
Image via Wikipedia A luxury hotel market is emerging in Cairo alongside the recovery of Egypt’s tourism industry after the downturn, hoteliers and analysts say. The hotel company Kempinski opened a boutique property in Cairo this month, while Ritz-Carlton and Rocco Forte are renovating and rebranding existing hotels. Other brands heading to...
Talking Pyramids
Which Pyramid Would You Most Like to See Open?
It’s always fun to have a bit of interaction and feedback from you, the readers of Talking Pyramids. A small part of this interactivity is the poll that appears on the right side, just below the Delicious Links. The last poll asked what theory you favoured to explain the construction...
Pyramids in the Cosmic Landscape
Giulio Magli was in the news a couple of years ago with his grand plan for Giza, the idea that the three Giza pyramids Related posts:Pyramids of Giza: One Grand Plan? The Search for the Missing Pyramid Texts Beer & Kites Build Pyramids ...
Update on Access to the Pyramid Fields
In the past it has been a struggle to keep up to date with which sites are open to visitors and those that are closed. I keep in regular contact with sources in Egypt as well as travellers who have recently visited the sites. I have used news websites, blogs,...
Update on the Father & Son Tomb Discovery
In the last 24 hours a bit more information on the discovery of what has become known as the ‘Father & Son’ tombs located west of the pyramid of Unas at Saqqara has been released as well as more photos and a video. An obvious point I missed is the...
Ancient Tomb Discovered Intact at Saqqara
False door from the newly discovered tomb Two tombs dating to Ancient Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty have been discovered west of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara. The 4200 year-old tombs appear to have belonged to a father and son, named Shendwa and Khonsu respectively. Inside the father’s was found...
Seeds Found in Pyramid Calibrate Timeline
Scientist have used new radiocarbon dating techniques to precisely lock down the historical chronology of ancient Egypt. Plant material from various periods of Egypt’s ancient past were dated using the new techniques to verify the accuracy of our current understanding of ancient Egypt’s history. Seeds over 4,500 years old that...
Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Dear friends,We have the great pleasure to present to you the tomb TT60, classically assigned to the vizier Antefoqer, but which actually belongs to the lady Senet, of whom it is not known if she represents the mother or a wife of Antefoqer. He was one of the characters the...
But surely there is nothing left to find out about?
I am sure many of you wonder what on earth students find to research and look at. I have a big bunch staying at my flats at the moment working on the South Assasif project. They are all on their Masters or PhD and it has been totally fascinating seeing...
Mummification Museum Lecture - South Assasif Project - Dr Elena Pischikova
South Assasif Project - Dr Elena Pischikova Nespakashuty TT 312 late Twenty sixth Dynasty tomb Back in 2005 when Dr Elena was coming to the end of her excavation of Nespakashuty TT 312 a late Twenty sixth Dynasty tomb at Deir el Bahri they decided to look for...
A visit to Early Kushite Tombs of South Asasif TT223 etc
Firstly I am not going to give a big report on the excavation as lots has to wait for publication but it does mean that when Elena gives her public lecture on Saturday I will be able to expand the things she mentions knowing I am safe doing so. As...
BA in Egyptology online, is there a demand?
As you know I am doing the Certificate in Egyptology with Manchester University. I am totally loving it as do my fellow students. A number of us having been asking if it was possible to do a BA. At the recent graduation ceremony for the Certificate students Rosalie David announced...
New method could revolutionize dating of ancient treasures
Not Luxor news but non the less very relevant. It constantly fascinates me how much archeology is changing and how new scientific methods are giving us information not thought possible just a few years ago. I attended a lecture where they were analysing the paint using non destructive methods and...
What's New in Papyrology
F. Morelli, L'archivio di Senouthios anystes e testi connessi (CPR XXX)
L'archivio di Senouthios anystes e testi connessiLettere e documenti per la costruzione di una capitale[The Construction of a Capital]Ed. by Morelli, Federico2010 | Hardcover | Euro [D] 149.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 210.00. *ISBN 978-3-11-022887-8 Series: Corpus Papyrorum Raineri (CPR) 30Blurb:The volume contains the edition of 32 Greek...
R.W. Daniel, Architectural orientation in the papyri
Daniel, Robert W. : Architectural orientation in the papyri / Robert W. Daniel . - Paderborn [u.a.]: Schöningh, 2010 . - XXII, 238 S....
M. CAPASSO ed., "Leggere greco e latino fuori dai confini nel Mondo Antico”
«I Quaderni di Atene e Roma» 1 (2010) = M. CAPASSO (ed.), Atti del Primo Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica “Leggere greco e latino fuori dai confini nel Mondo Antico”, Lecce 10-11 maggio 2008, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce 2010, pp. 211. Sommario:M. Capasso, PresentazioneSaluto del Presidente dell’Associazione Italiana di...
UPDATE: J. Lundon, The Scholia Minora in Homerum: An Alphabetical List
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Katelijn Vandorpe and Sofie Waebens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ archives. A multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt (Collectanea Hellenistica 3), Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België & l’Union Académique Internationale 2010, 327p. ISBN 97 8906 5690579.Price, excluding port charges: 49,90 euro ...
F. A. J. Hoogendijk, B. P. Muhs (ed.), Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts: Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 33. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2008. Pp. xl, 416. ISBN 9789004166882. $216.00. Reviewed by Daniela Colomo, University of Oxford (daniela.colomo@classics.ox.ac.uk)Table of ContentsThis volume contains sixty-five texts, almost...
Egyptology Online Resources -
Egypt scours bed of Lake Qarun in search of antiquities
Egyptian experts have begun to explore the depths of Lake Qarun south of Cairo using remote sensing radars in search of sunken artefacts....
Tutankhamun – the secrets of the tomb go online
Howard Carter spent years documenting the thousands of artefacts from Tutankhamun's tomb. Now, thanks to the efforts of an Oxford archaeologist, this remarkable archive of pictures and notes can be viewed online....
Ramesses II temple found in Ehnasia
The remains of a 3,000 year old temple dating from the reign of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II have been unearthed in the excavations in Upper Egypt's Ehnasia archaeological area. Inside the remains of this temple, excavators uncovered ten cartouches of Ramesses II and beneath them a relief saying that...
Ancient Letter to Pharaoh Found
Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed the most ancient written document ever found in the Holy City – a tiny fragment of a letter thought to be addressed to Akhenaten. The fragment is believed to be a contemporary of the 380 tablets discovered in the 19th century at Amarna in Akhenaten’s...
6th Dynasty father-son tombs discovered at Saqqara
The two colourful tombs belong to a father and his son from the 6th Dynasty and were found west of the Step Pyramid in Saqqara district. The father was carrying the titles of the Chief Clerk of the King and the supervisor of missions and also held many honorary titles,...
Minister announces new antiquities guidelines
Culture Minister Farouk Hosni on Sunday issued a list of new regulations to be adopted by his ministry in line with guidelines laid out in the recently approved Egyptian Antiquity Protection Law. The new directives include guidelines for defining what constitutes an "antiquity" per se; determining ownership of antiquities; regulating...
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