http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews Egyptology news and Ancient Egypt News Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:49:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Due to other committments I will not be updating the blog for the forseeable future.  Apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause, and thanks very much to all who have visited and emailed since the blog was started on the Tour Egypt site. Kind regards Andie http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3522 Egypt State Information Service Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak inaugurates Sunday 10/2/2008 the International Whales Nature reserve of Al Fayoum in celebrations to be organized by the Environment Ministry on the occasion of the UNESCO'S choosing this nature reserve to join the list of the world nature heritage which comprises 259 such locations ... http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3521 Archaeology Magazine - Nefertiti's Eyes (Earl R. Ertmman) Archaeology has a feature in the March/April 2008 issue entitled Nefertiti's Eyes, which you can see online at the above address. Did the queen's distinctive feature become a symbol of Egyptian royalty? All eyes were on the Valley of the Kings the morning of February ... http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3520 Ancient Egypt The February/March 2008 issue of “Ancient Egypt” magazine (published in the U.K.) is now available. This issue is also available as an electronic version which can be found at the web site at the above address. This may be useful for anyone with a broadband connection who may have difficulty ... http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3519 Pasadena Star Silk kites and beer will be the tools of choice for Cal Poly Pomona students as they try to build a pyramid. Architecture students in the cement and masonry structure class will construct a 106-ton pyramid without modern tools. Instead, they will use a technique that could have been used by ... http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3518 Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has posted the sad news that author and lecturer Professor Christine el-Mahdy has died. Professor el-Mahdy was head of the Egyptian Society (Taunton). Apparently she had been unwell for some time. Sympathies to her family and friends. There is a short biography of her, in ... http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3517 McGill Library and Collections Nile Letters: From Montrealers and Others is centered on the letters Peter Redpath sent to a friend in London while he was travelling up the Nile in Egypt in the winter of 1873. Peter Redpath was not the only notable McGill benefactor and supporter whose interest in ... http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3516 newindpress I always assumed that a seven-day trip to Egypt would be like a prolonged history lesson — a multitude of complicated names, a mess of dates and gory tales of warriors and beautiful women. I wasn’t wrong about the technical jargon, but being in a land so soaked with ancient ... http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3515 Journal3 This site recommends the top 10 sites you should see if you are going to visit Egypt. Most of them you could guess, but some that might suprise are New Kalabsha, the Temple of Tod and the Temples of Montu (the last of which I cannot actually place off the ... http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3514 National Geographic Egyptian homeowners who find ancient artifacts buried on their land sometimes sell them to smugglers. Lisa Ling goes undercover to show how it's done. http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3512