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Heritage Key (Sean Williams) A summary of some of the main themes of the Colloquium. This year's Egyptological Colloquium, held in the British Museum's fantastic BP Lecture Theatre, was roundly applauded as a great success. No fewer than eighteen gifted minds took to the lectern, as a glut of opinions, theories, excavations and discoveries were explored to a large audience's enthralment. Some of the...
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JNES October 2009 There is an article on Egypt in this month's JNES: The Names “Naneferkaptah,” “Ihweret,” and “Tabubue” in the “First Tale of Setne Khaemwas ” by Steve Vinson The full article is available to subscribers or for purchase. The first page of the paper, with a paragraph of summary, can be found here . There are also book reviews that may...
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Heritage Key (Jonathan Yeomans) The cemetery at Saqqara is one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt. Over six kilometres long, it boasts thousands of underground burial sites, as well as the six-step Djoser pyramid – Egypt’s oldest pyramid. The ruins at Saqqara have long attracted the interest of explorers, grave-robbers and local people. Travellers first reported evidence...
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Heritage Key The Desert Fathers of ancient Egypt were some of the world's first hermits. Despite the modern ideal of the hermit, these didn't live in total isolation. However, they did live a sparse, hard life in the country's early Christian monasteries. If women chose to enter their sphere, they would do so dressed as men. Who were these scholastic men of the desert, and how did their form of worship...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It is great news that the mud-brick home of Howard Carter on the West Bank at Luxor has now opened to the public as a museum, on an anniversary of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen. Thanks to Jane Akshar for the pre-opening updates . Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has provided a photo-story of the opening ceremony and the house itself which looks great. BBC News (Yolande Knell) The Egyptian...
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Heritage Key (Sean Williams) Dr Stephen Quirke is a lecturer of Egyptology at University College London, and curator of the Petrie Museum, named after the famous archaeologist William Flinders Petrie. Dr Quirke has written several books on Ancient Egypt; his main areas of interest being history of the state/institutionalisation; gender; Egyptian language; museology; and ethics in archaeology and anthropology....
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Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) It is good to see that the famous footed bowl from the Metropolititan Museum of Arts has been made available for purchase from the Met's store as a reproduction for everyone to enjoy. Stan gives a description of the original vessel which belongs to the Naqada (pre Pharaonic) period of Egypt and dates to between 3900 and 3650 BC. Sadly it is unprovenanced. Egyptology...
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Heritage Key (Charlotte Booth) I haven't seen this yet so I'm looking forward to a visit in the not too distant future: Amidst the charming Victorian cases of jewellery along the walls of the larger room in the Petrie Museum is the “Framing the Archaeologist” exhibition (follow their blog here); a series of framed photographs from 1880 – 1900 categorised into excavation sites of Petrie;...
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Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets at Brooklyn Museum With photographs. Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets at the Brooklyn Museum (November 19, 2009-October 2, 2011) features 35 artifacts in stone and wood. Some are distinct sculptural entities while others are derived from larger compositions. Many are displayed publicly for the first...
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Heritage Key (Helen Atkinson) The Nubians get short shrift when it comes to recognition of significant ancient cultures. A new exhibition at the Clay Center in West Virginia, US, hopes to rectify that. It is cleverly entitled: “Lost Kingdoms of the Nile,” but the artefacts are all Nubian, not Egyptian. (The subtitle is: “Nubian Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.”)...
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Recordnet.com This article looks at the science behind the Very Postmortem exhibition mentioned on previous posts. It describes both the scanning process and the information that was revealed. The photo at the top of the article may startle some people (it looks a little gory at first glance) but it is fascinating to see the amulets over the skull. Here's an extract: "To get all of this done so...
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Los Angeles Times (Duke Helfand) Four thousand years ago, a government bureaucrat in Mesopotamia jotted down a tally of slave laborers on a clay tablet. The bureaucrat left behind the count in wedge-shaped symbols that proved hard to fully decipher with the naked eye. Until now. Researchers at USC's West Semitic Research Project have helped uncover its hidden narrative with the aid of lighting and...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Travel with a twist from the New Stuff website where the team are preparing for a camel trek in the footsteps of Rohlfs's 1874 expedition. They have been doing the planning and recruiting expedition members and recently went to Dakhleh oasis in the Western Desert to buy camels where he ran out of fuel but was rescued by a Cairo neighbour! As the writer says, "Such stories are common in Egypt,...
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Middle East Online A German expert will attend talks next month to discuss Cairo's demand for the return of a 3,400-year-old statue of Queen Nefertiti, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Wednesday. The bust of the Egyptian beauty is the centrepiece of Berlin's "Neues Museum", which reopened last month 70 years after it was closed following heavy bomb damage during World War II. "The director...
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Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Thanks very much to Jane for making both the symposium abstracts and her own notes from the Luxor Symposium available on her blog. The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for dialogue surrounding the Valley of Kings. The symposium organizers intend to hold future scholarly sessions at the rest house on an annual basis, as a means to encourage scholars working at...
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