Egyptology

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• Secret Soltice: The Lost Symbol Of Ra

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 152
  The Secret Sun : Wayne Herschel has been looking at the same memes and symbols in an ancient context that weve been seeing pop up like mushrooms in the media lately. Ancient or modern, it all points to the stars. Maybe its no accident that so much of the symbolism lately has to do with the space program- maybe ...
  2 days ago

• Nefertiti “Summit” held at Cairo

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 129
  Image via Wikipedia A meeting was held today at the offices of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, where Dr. Friederike Seyfried, Director of the Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung in Berlin, presented Dr. Hawass with copies of all of the key documentation held by the Berlin Museum concerning the discovery ...
  4 days ago

• Zahi Hawass states Egypt’s claim on the return of antiquities

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 129
  Image via Wikipedia In truth, I had no desire to wade into this battle, but I told the media that Egypt is demanding the return of six individual antiquities, and that the real home of these artefacts is their native Egypt. These six antiquities are; the bust of Queen Nefertiti in Berlin’s Neues Museum, the ...
  5 days ago

• Granite pylon lifted out of the Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 129
  Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday lifted an ancient granite temple pylon out of the waters of the Mediterranean, where it had lain for centuries as part of the palace complex of Cleopatra, now lay strewn on the seabed in the harbor of Alexandria, the second largest city of Egypt. The pylon, which once stood at the ...
  6 days ago

• Egypt Puts Pressure on Britain to Return ‘ancient Artifact’

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Barely 48 hours after France handed over stolen relics to Egypt, the authorities have demanded that Britain returns the Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian artifact. The Egyptian Council of Antiquities (ECA), stated Thursday that the stone, which was discovered by Napoleon and given to Britain as part of a peace ...
  6 days ago

• Susan Weeks reported dead from drowning in Luxor

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 129
  Photo from Theban Mapping Project Dr. Nicole Hansen mentions in her Facebook page that she has received news that Susan Weeks drowned in the Nile late last night/early this morning (13th December) in Luxor. She apparently fell from the dahabiya, a houseboat she and her husband acquired in 2001, and drowned. The ...
  1 week ago

• Deciphering the Rosetta Stone debate

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 129
  Image via Wikipedia Andie Byrnes has posted a compendium of articles regarding the repatriation of the Rosetta Stone. Much of the information is of course repetitive, and while the majority if not all of the writers seem to agree on keeping the historic relic at the British Museum, comments are divided. We ...
  1 week ago

• Poison in Jest

  
  Alternation — Authority: 115
  I guess we have to be careful what we say.  Not everyone has the same sense of humor.  One of my good friends, who grew up in Mississippi, said he thought the “Obama Psalms 109″ bumper stickers are just a joke.  Nobody means the president harm; Southern Republicans just want one of their own back in office.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zahi Hawass and the Future of Ancient Egypt

  
  Jonathan Fryer — Authority: 106
  Egypt’s Head of Antiquities, Dr Zahi Hawass, is a man on a mission: to try to persuade some of the world’s leading museums to repatriate several of the greatest treasures of ancient Egypt — starting with the bust of Nefertiti, from Berlin. A man who courts publicity by his style — he is not known as the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zahi

  
  The Arabist — Authority: 497
  I just caught up and read the recent New Yorker profile of Zahi Hawass , Egyptologist-in-chief and showman extraordinaire. Unfortunately it’s not one of the freely available articles. The piece is full of classic Zahi scenes, but although some might see it as derisive, it confirms my general impression that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Egypt’s Cave Underworld Under Investigation – Egyptian Archaeological Team Move in to Find Answers

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 152
  Egypt’s leading Egyptologist, Dr Zahi Hawass, has revealed that an excavation team under his charge are investigating an ancient tomb at the centre of claims regarding the alleged discovery of a cave underworld beneath the Pyramids of Giza. ( Read more... )
  2 weeks ago

• Arteriosclerosis as ancient as the Egyptians

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 129
  Early this year, in the back courtyard of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a team of cardiologists and archaeologists assembled at the trailer carrying the CT scan machine to carry out scientific tests on 20 ancient Egyptian mummies. The mummies belonged to people with a high socio-economic position such as priests, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 10 Days in Egypt & Israel – Day 3

  
  Where's the Travel Answer Man — Authority: 132
  SaturdayWe meet our guide, Mohammed, in the lobby and begin the morning with a drive to south Saqqara to visit the Step Pyramid built for Zoser – Egypt’s first pyramid. We also visit Memphis, Egypt’s first capital, to enjoy the open-air museum displaying statues of Ramses II, an alabaster sphinx, and other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Links for 12.04.09 to 12.07.09

  
  The Arabist — Authority: 497
  ✪ ElBaradei on Zakaria’s GPS – CNN | Check in at around 30:50 for his take on Egypts current situation. ✪ Egypt to re-evaluate subsidies for the poor – The National Newspaper | The debate over subsidies reform in Egypt. ✪ Start the Week: 30/11/2009 | Andrew Marr interviews Eugene Rogan, author of ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Word on The Hand

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 152
  The ancient Egyptian Hand (hieroglyph) is a hieroglyph with the meaning of "d"; it is also used in the word for hand, and actions that are performed, i.e. by the way of ones hands, or actions. (Source: Wikipedia )
  2 weeks ago

• Papyrus of Turin to be modified

  
  True Paradigm — Authority: 416
  In c. 1820–1822 Italian Bernardino Drovetti discovered a papyrus in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes which contained a list of Egyptian kings on the reverse side. It lists them thru to about the 17th of 20th dynasty of Egypt which suggests that it may date from this period. It is unknown who the author was nor ...
  2 weeks ago

• The ancient world on the web

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: History , Learning , Africa , Egypt Archaeology buffs and staycationers have a new way to explore the worlds ancient civilizations and monuments. The Heritage Key site offers an amazing 3D tour of King Tuts treasure, plus piles of photos of the Pyramids, Stonehenge, and the rest of the ancient ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dental and other diseases revealed in ancient Egyptian mummy study

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 129
  Image by Steve Parker via Flickr After examining research of more than 3,000 mummies, anatomists and paleopathologists at the University of Zurich concluded that 18 percent of all mummies in case reports showed a nightmare array of dental diseases. Worn teeth, periodontal diseases, abscesses and cavities ...
  2 weeks ago

• Touching Hands

  
  Willy or Won't He? — Authority: 130
  Amongst the many Egyptian artifacts at the recently restored Neues Museum this fragment - shown a little bigger than actual size - could go unnoticed. For some reason I find it exquisitely touching. The thumb of one hand covers the back of the other in a loving, almost protective fashion. I find it incredible ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dr Zahi Hawass discusses the mummy curse

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 129
  When KV 62, the tomb of Tutankamun, was found, an English reporter translated a piece of text from the front of the Anubis shrine incorrectly.  She claimed it said “I will kill anyone who enters this tomb.”  But if this text represented an actual, effective curse, everyone who entered the tomb should have died ...
  3 weeks ago

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