Edward William Lane: The Life of the Pioneering Egyptologist and Orientalist
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Thanks to Bob Partridge for letting me know the actual state of play with the wonderful Temple Mill, modelled on Edfu, that I posted about yesterday. Bob says that it has not yet been been restored, but that work has now started. He was able to visit just before the work began and the place will be off limits for around three years. Part of the mill had actually collapsed and a lot of work will be...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Heritage Key: First Pillared Room Antechamber Ceiling of the Burial Chamber With photos shown in relation to the plan of the tomb. Each link is accompanied by a different summary. One of the best preserved and most decorated tombs in the Valley of the Kings is that of Seti I, adorned with hieroglyphics and colourful paintings on every passageway and chamber wall. In this first post on the Seti I tomb,...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I've had a request from a visitor to the blog as follows: Hi Andie, I just returned from Egypt and loved it (I like your photo at Abu Simbel!!) I’ve been searching on the internet for this toy that EVERYBODY had in the 50’s or 60’s, at least in the US (I’m in California). They were all different colors, like a white tomb with a red bed and a blue or white mummy that could jump...
Wings Over the Pyre (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
<tr><td class="titleblue1"> Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Explorers just returning from the Sahara desert have claimed they found a remarkable relic from Pharaonic times. Mark Borda and Mahmoud Marai, from Malta and Egypt respectively, were surveying a field of boulders on the flanks of a hill deep in the...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
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...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) There is a very short post from Jane to say that she has been notified that the restoration team are returning to the temple of Seti I at Luxor. My very best wishes to lovely Jane who is having a serious operation in Cairo at the moment. My thoughts are very much with her. If you hear any news items about Luxor that might be of interest to Jane whilst she is off her feet...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Luxor, the City of Palaces, counts among the world's greatest open-air museum. If offers awe-inspiring monuments alongside more homely pleasures, riding a horse-drawn caleche along the Corniche, sailing a felucca across the Nile and even taking to the air in a hot-air balloon. Haphazard development, though, has unfortunately compromised some of Luxor's charms. In response,...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
drhawass.com With video (transcription available on Heritage Key ). Before the tomb of King Tutankhamun was found, Egyptologists knew very little about this short-reigned king. Since the discovery of KV 62 in 1922, King Tut has become the most famous pharaoh, and there has been much debate about why he died so young. It is not only at excavation sites that amazing artefacts can be discovered, but the...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom (Kate Phizackerley) Kate has posted a special article by Brian Playfair which looks at the interpretation of Anubis as a jackal and offers an alternative suggestion. Here's a short extract from the introduction: We all know the image of Anubis, we see it in every tomb but how many of these images are wrongly interpreted ? Listed as Anubis the jackal headed god but are we...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
What's New in Papyrology The Trismegistos project is pleased to announce the fourth volume in its series Trismegistos Online Publications: Amin Benaissa, Rural Settlement of the Oxyrhynchite Nome. A Papyrological Survey , Köln / Leuven 2009, 417 pp. This is a comprehensive and up-to-date gazetteer of the villages and hamlets of the Oxyrhynchite nome. It provides first a critically compiled list...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
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'...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
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...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Heritage Key (Helen Atkinson) With three photos. People were just as silly 4,000 thousand years ago as they are now, but they manifested it in different ways, of course, which is what makes it interesting. The Ancient Egyptians, for example, had a well-known obsession with how to get ahead in the afterlife, and the wealthier citizens and royalty poured a lot of money, time, and thought into the items...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
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...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Times Union (Paul Grondahl) With photos. The ancient Egyptian mummies, which alternately have fascinated and freaked out generations of school children and adults alike, will be feted Sunday on their 100th anniversary at the Albany Institute of History & Art. Purchased in 1909 in Cairo by an Institute trustee and displayed at the Albany museum since then, the 3,000-year-old mummies have long been...
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