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National Museums Liverpool Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's an update from curator of Egyptology Ashley Cooke about the work on the new Ancient Egypt gallery which opens at World Museum later this year: "Last week a team of forensic Egyptologists from the KNH Centre for Biomedical and Forensic Egyptology at the University of Manchester came to visit two mummies in our collection. The one you can see in the photograph will soon be displayed in the new...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
UC16139 . Model wooden bed, wooden supports of head board broken and one half missing. Dynasty 12 (1795BCE-1985BCE). Found at Hawara. Length 49 cms width 23.7 cms Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
UC16215 . Flint knife, Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE), found at Abydos, length 26.5 cms Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology , University College London With my thanks Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Egypt Daily Star News (Ahmed Maged) The ancient Egyptian custom of offering a virgin as a sacrifice to the river Nile every year to instigate a flood is a big historical error, Egyptology researcher Bassam El Shammaa told Daily News Egypt. “The myth of Arous El Nil (Bride of the Nile) has tarnished the image of ancient Egyptians who by nature hated violence and were only content to see blood at the...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for pointing out two websites which might be of interest to blog visitors. If anyone else wants to point out sites that they think may be of interest to other visitors to the blog, please let me know. An Introduction to the History and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt An Introduction to the History and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt is a website dedicated to the study of Egyptology....
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
NVIC Daniel Soliman, a 23 year old Egyptology student, is currently doing an internship at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo for three months. The NVIC was looking for someone to assist in the organization of the Conference on “Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean” that will be held in Cairo from 26 – 29 October. Why did you decide to study Egyptology? I am half Dutch half Egyptian...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Dallas News Tutankhamun ascended the throne as a 9-year-old and died about 10 years later. Many things in the boy king's tomb, from a dog collar to game boards, reflect his young age. David Silverman, national curator for the exhibition and professor of Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania, hopes others will become as hooked on Egyptology as he became after going to New York's Metropolitan...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Science Daily Thanks to Kat for this. A useful idea, not specific to Egyptology but certainly relevant to it: Gennari set about photographing 2,500 documents, producing some 25,000 images in total, which would have been the equivalent of $15,000 worth of photocopying. If he had used a film camera, almost 700 rolls of film (about $4,000) would have been required with the attendant costs of converting...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
UC17588 . Burnished red ware pottery bowl with incurve rim. Broken and repaired. Dynasty 4? (2494BCE-2613BCE). Found at Meydum. Diameter 25.5 cms. Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology , University College London With my thanks Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
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Talking Pyramids (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Exploring the Grand Gallery A part of the Brooklyn Museum’s To Live Forever touring exhibition of Egyptian objects is a very special treasure from the Wilbour Library of Egyptology, a volume from the series entitled the “Description de l’Egypte”. Published in the early 19th century, these volumes are the product of Napoleon’s ill-fated expedition to [...]
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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Because time isn’t always kind: economic reviews in a world full of waste! Elizabeth Peters’ latest may not star her regular heroine Amelia Peabody, but THE LAUGHTER OF KINGS remains rife with Egyptology. Returning to the Vicky Bliss series, Peters kicks off this light suspenser with the theft of King Tut. Curator Vicky’s cad-like boyfriend has [...]
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
UC16647 . Crude wooden figure of recumbent lion. Dynasty 12 (1795BCE-1985BCE). Found at Lahun. Length 7.8 cms Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology , University College London With my thanks Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
UC11152 . Scarab faience yellowish; with scroll design with nefer, wd and ankh signs. Late Middle Kingdom (1700BCE-1850BCE). Found at Lahun. Faience. Length 2 cms width 1.5 cms. Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology , University College London With my thanks Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Thanks very much to Mahmoud Mola, who is an excellent tour guide working in Aswan, for letting me know that Egyptian winter time started at the weekend. The clocks went back by one hour. You can check out the current time in Egypt at the timeanddate.com website . Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
UC2010 UC1652 UC2127 Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology , University College London With my thanks Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
