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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
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...
Anthro-Ling (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Will the Coptic Language Rise Again? Portion of an article appearing in Egyptology News and RantRave . Some people agonise over endangered species. My pet cause is endangered languages. When I hear that a dialect is dying out or that young people aren’t passing on an obscure language, it saddens me. It is one thing to examine shards of pottery or fragments of a manuscript found insulating a wall....
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
New Yorker (Ian Parker) Read the full text of this article in the digital edition. ( Subscription require d.) November 16, 2009 Issue ABSTRACT : LETTER FROM CAIRO about archeologist Zahi Hawass, the secretary-general of that country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (S.C.A.). Hawass is a lordly, well-dressed man of sixty-two. Hawass is the international star of Egyptology, thanks largely to a...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Egypt State Information Service Egyptian -French archaeologists have unearthed in El Sharqiya governorate four ancient wells that date back to the 25th and 26th pharaonic dynasties. The wells are part of a newly-discovered Sacred Lake in a temple to the Egyptian goddess Mut in the ruins of ancient Tanis. Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary General Zahi Hawwas said on Sunday 8/11/2009 the wells...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
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...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As usual I'm using my owner's rights to break my own rules and plug a tour/lecture meeting. operated by Lucia Gahlin and the Bloomsbury Summer School . This one is a bit special partly because over 50% of the profit is going to the Amarna Trust . Thanks to the October tour/course they will be able to give the Amarna Trust nearly £4000. October was sold out but there are some places left for December...
ricklibrarian (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Remember Time Life books? Our libraries used to be full of them, including series on many big topics, such as World War II, the age of explorers, the history of the Western States, national parks, photography, and the development of flight. These books from the 1960s and 1970s always had lots of colorful illustrations to support the text written by teams of authors. We also had a series on world cities...
Talking Pyramids (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
The granite chamber inside the Great Pyramid. Photo by Jon Bodsworth. Abdel-Halim Noureddin, professor of ancient language at Cairo University’s Faculty of Archaeology and his team of Egyptologist and Astronomers have come under fire as Zahi Hawass and Ramadan El-Badri slam their finding that the contstruction of the Great Pyramid commenced on the 23rd of August, [...]
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology Volume 38 Issue 2 (September 2009) There's an article in the above journal which may be of interst (available to subscribers or via payment for 24 hour access) An Exploratory Geophysical Survey at the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur, Egypt, in Search of Boats (p 386-399) By Pearce Paul Creasman, Benjamin Vining, Samuel Koepnick, Noreen Doyle...
In the Garage (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Some of you people who don't know what Legends of the Hidden Temple is, I am shaking my head at you. Not being part of the Nickelodeon generation, I can buy, but those of you around my age -- not having cable is no excuse. This is why you should've befriended kids who had Nick! This is just common sense, people. Legends of the Hidden Temple was, as far as I'm concerned, the single greatest Nick game...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Radio Praha It’s not everyday that archaeologists can boast a discovery such as this one: the finding of a fully-intact archaeological site dating back 4,500 years. That is exactly what happened in the pyramid fields of Abusir, Egypt, where Czech experts recently opened a tomb belonging to an Egyptian dignitary. Czech experts revealed the news just a few days ago, having first thoroughly documented...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
For reasons unknown, the only photos of Egypt that I have stored on my laptop are of the Gilf Kebir, so it was a choice of giving you more photos of north Wales, a rather nice collection from Italy, or photos of the Western Desert! So the Gilf it is. I'm sure that I have posted some of these before but you'll just have to bear with me! This is a shot of Eight Bells. For those of you unfamiliar with...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
Thainidan News Expert assistance from Egypt is finally on its way to conserve an Egyptian mummy dating back to 2500 BC at a museum here. The mummy, believed to be of Nasihu, daughter of the sixth Pharaoh of Egypt, is on display at the Andhra Pradesh State Archaeological Museum here since 1930 but is now decaying. A two member team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt will visit Hyderabad...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
ANSAmed The historical Giza zoo, near the centre of Cairo, will stay where it was built over 120 years ago, confirmed the head of Islamic monuments of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Hisham El Leithy, speaking to ANSAmed. After speculation about moving the zoo to another area of the Egyptian capital, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has declared the zoological...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
archaeology-news.org Hundreds of viper trails covered the sand before them. The Egyptologists could only hope that the serpents themselves were long gone as they made their way off the ancient desert road towards the limestone cliffs. First to reach the wall, Dr John Coleman Darnell of Yale University, was surprised to find the surface covered with rough hieroglyphic inscriptions in apparently random...
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