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News about ancient Egypt from the Predynastic to Late Period.
Please feel free to email Andie (a.byrnes@ucl.ac.uk) with any comments, or any news items you would like me to post.

Archive for October, 2005

New website re Giza Plateau Mapping Project

Monday, October 31st, 2005

http://www.aeraweb.org/  
The above is a new website, which is the official Web site of the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), specifically Dr. Mark Lehner and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project. It is a good looking site, with some nice features, including a search engine, details on current projects (including an interactive map of the Lost City), […]

Smuggled artefact problems - the Getty and elsewhere

Monday, October 31st, 2005

http://tinyurl.com/8lggk  
"The Getty case is just a slice of an illicit global trade in antiquities that stretches from the Egyptian desert to Chinese tombs to Peruvian monuments, and pulls in some of the most- respected names in art and academia". An article looking not only at the recent dramas at the Getty, whose curator goes […]

He’s no Tennessean

Monday, October 31st, 2005

http://tinyurl.com/avnwh
"Amid displays about Antebellum Nashville and how the state Capitol was built, the Tennessee State Museum features a haunting exhibit: A 3,600-year-old Egyptian mummy. Visitors strolling through the museum might find the mummy jarring, or at least out of place. Enclosed in a glass case, the mummy is unwrapped; the skin of his entire […]

Review: BBC Television’s “Egypt”

Monday, October 31st, 2005

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/49770.html
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/49770-print.shtml  
Ian Bell’s rather entertaining review of last night’s first episode of the six part dramatized story of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon doesn’t rate it too highly: "Trivia question: what’s the real curse of King Tut? What is the ancient malediction sent down over 3000 long years just to make us wonder […]

Donkey discovered Valley of the Golden Mummies

Monday, October 31st, 2005

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/
The regular feature on the Egyptian Gazetter website where Zahi Hawass talks about his experiences: "On March 2, 1996, Mansour Boriak, my most experienced and trusted archaeological assistant burst in to my office, yelling ‘Doctor! Doctor! Ashry Shaker is here. Something important has been discovered in Bahariya Oasis!’ Mansour is a prankster and often […]

Digitized books from Brian Yare

Monday, October 31st, 2005

http://www.egypt.e7even.com/yare%20egyptology/
I always post updates re magazine and journal publications when I know of them, because I believe that they are of interest to visitors, but I rarely post about any other commercial ventures - in spite of a number of requests to advertise tours. However, Yare Egyptology is an online store with a difference. […]

Journal of African Archaeology

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

http://www.african-archaeology.de/vol3(2).html
The website for the Journal of African Archaeology is now showing the contents for Vol. 3 (2) 2005, due for release in December 2005. The full contents listing is on the above URL, but I have listed below those specifically dealing with Egypt.
Papers:
B. Eichhorn, S. Hendrickx, H. Riemer & B. Stern: Desert […]

Riding to the Pyramids

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1541&format=html
Advice from the Cairo Magazine about anyone visitng Cairo who likes the idea of riding out to the pyramids on horseback.

Toutankhamon Magazine

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

www.toutankhamon-magazine.com  
The french magazine Touthankhamon is now available (issue 23, October/November 2005). Its main feature this month concerns the pyramids from Abu Roash to Meroe. Other features are as follows:
Actualités :
- conférence de Toulouse
Dossier :
- Au royaume des pyramides, d’Abou Roach à Méroé
- Les théories de constructions, les textes des […]

Into the baseement of the Egyptian Museum

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/egyptian_mail/m2/
This item is in the Saturday edition of the Egyptian Gazette, the Egyptian Mail, and should be on the site for the rest of this week, after which it will be replaced and the above link will take you to a different article. However, anyone wanting to see the piece after this time can […]

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