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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Archaeology Magazine (Mark Rose) Archeaology Magazine covers topics from all other the globe (including Egypt) and recently asked its readers for feedback about its content. A summary of some of the responses is quite fascinating. Here's a short extract: There were calls for more coverage of different countries and regions, such as Canada, Eastern Europe, and Africa. We’ll tabulate those and...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) Jean-François Dumon and Alamanga have developed 'Aaou', an application for iPhone and iPodTouch which allows a quick translation of hieroglyphs. The iPhone app over 10,000 words or symbols to - depending on your iPhone settings - French or English. the translation in French / English of more than 10200 words and symbols and offers the possiblity of transliteration. 'Aaou'...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A new entrance for Luxor Temple and the reopening of Howard Carter's dig house as a museum are the main events commemorating the 87th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, says Nevine El-Aref Waset is the pattern of every city... Mankind came into being within it, to find every city in its true name." These words uttered by an ancient Egyptian priest...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
CTV.ca Toronto The AGO is banking on this exhibit to boost attendance which has been dwindling since it reopened last November after a year-long shut down due to a $276 million renovation. Despite that renovation receiving critical acclaim and being designed by celebrity architect Frank Gehry, the gallery has seen only 700,000 people in the year since it opened, versus the usual one million annual...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Forbes.com (Sarah Wolff) Slideshow Besides ensuring tourism and providing storylines for scores of feature films, the mystique of ancient Egypt also launched a specific sort of museum show that has become de rigueur for large institutions: the blockbuster. When the traveling exhibition Treasures of Tutankhamun came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979, it broke all the museum's previous attendance...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON.- The most important treasure trove found in Britain for decades is on display at the British Museum in London and will be the subject of two hot-ticket lectures and a drop-in talk by experts in the coming weeks. The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered by metal detectorist Terry Herbert in central England in July , comprises mainly gold and silver items and has been compared in importance to the...
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Working notes (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I've been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's unbelievable Mars trilogy lately--alongside Fredric Jameson's amazing Archaeologies of the Future--and this nicely happened to coincide with NASA's mission to crash Lcross into the moon in search for water. It's coincidental because the presence of water opens up an issue of colonization that lies behind the entire project in the Mars books specifically
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Later On (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Fascinating article, and thanks to The Younger Daughter for the pointer: The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers. Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and [...]
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Unstable Euphony (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Here's a list of texts I'll be studying for my comprehensive exams. Rhetoric is one of my two secondary areas of study. Isocrates. Against the Sophists . Plato. Republic Book X. Aristotle. Rhetoric Books 1-2. Cicero. De Oratore . Augustine. On Christian Doctrine . Erasmus, Desiderius. Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style. Ecclesiastes . De Pizan, Christine. The Book of the City of Ladies . Vico,...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
SCOTLAND already has more identified Roman camps than any other European country – reflecting Rome's repeated attempts to stamp its rule on the troublesome north. Now the number is set to increase. The first comprehensive survey of Roman remains for 30 years will boost the total of officially recognised sites and give them greater legal protection, officials said yesterday. Traces of at least...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
A Vatican scholar claims to have deciphered the "death certificate" imprinted on the Shroud of Turin, or Holy Shroud, a linen cloth revered by Christians and held by many to bear the image of the crucified Jesus. Dr Barbara Frale, a researcher in the Vatican secret archives, said "I think I have managed to read the burial certificate of Jesus the Nazarene, or Jesus of Nazareth."...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Mammoth dung has proved to be a source of prehistoric information, helping scientists unravel the mystery of what caused the great mammals to die out. An examination of a fungus that is found in the ancient dung and preserved in lake sediments has helped build a picture of what happened to the beasts. The study sheds light on the ecological consequences of the extinction and the role that humans may...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
A race of intelligent, diminutive hominids co-existing alongside humanity in South-East Asia? In the year 2003, a creature from mythology stepped out of the shadows and into the cold, hard light of science when an archaeological dig revealed what appeared to be a new species of hominid that matched closely with local myths of a creature known as the Ebu Gogo. Read the rest of this article...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Remains of a burial site on Skye thought to date back to Neolithic times and uncovered during house building work look set to be relocated. Flint tools and urns along with damaged skeletal remains were found at Armadale on the Sleat peninsula. The artefacts along with stone slabs used in creating the graves have been removed. Read the rest of this article...
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