http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/kemp.html
The Archaeology Magazine website has been updated with an interview with Barry Kemp, who has been directing excavations at Amarna since 1977. The interview is timed to compliment the new exhibtion, Amarna, Ancient Egypt’s Place in the Sun, opening at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in November. […]

http://tinyurl.com/g75h2 (theage.com.au)
A fascinating multi-page insight into Sigmund Freud’s private collection of antiquities, which included Egyptian artefacts. Written by Janine Burke, art historian and the author of The Gods of Freud, published by Random House:
“How did Freud afford his habit? His favourite antiquities dealer in Vienna was Robert Lustig, a personable young […]

http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_060929.html
Winning image of the mummy scan, mentioned last week, which won the photography category of the 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Truly fascinating.

http://tinyurl.com/f6jrc (sis.gov.eg)
“Zahi Hawas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), won Thursday the Oscar Emmy Award presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the best TV film at the international level.
Hawas won the Prize over commenting at the background of a documentary film on Pharaoh King […]

Review: Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
http://rr.cube.ign.com/rrview/cube/sphinx_and_the_cursed_mummy/499526/50040/
“The biggest annoyance in the game was the bugs. I was 8 hours into the game and I was playing one of the Mummy’s stages, and I was suppose to walk past a Watching Eye and enter the door behind it. What confused me was there […]

http://www.las.uiuc.edu/news/2006fall/06oct_rockart.html
This important item dates back to the 21st September, so thanks to Kat for finding it and bringing it to my attention: “When Douglas Brewer ventured deep into the Egyptian desert this year, he expected to find possibly 100 examples of ‘rock art’—evidence of ancient civilization. What he actually found were […]

http://tinyurl.com/koenu (sciencemag.org)
On the Science Magazine’s Random Samples page, there’s a short paragraph about the Petrie Museum and its plans to move to new premises: “The Petrie Museum, one of the world’s biggest collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts, has been “temporarily” housed at University College London (UCL) since 1953. But its 80,000 […]

http://www.freewebs.com/diggingsmag/currentissue.htm
The October/November issue of Archaeological Diggings is now available, featuring some Egytpological topics, including the transportation of Ramesses II to his new home in Cairo, an article about ancient Egyptian antiquities from the Louvre in Paris, and another on items accompanying the ancient Egyptian dead in their tombs. Their is also […]

http://tinyurl.com/lq64m (gulf-daily-news.com)
“Egypt has agreed that Bahrain can host a roaming exhibition of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in April. Egyptian Ambassador Dr Azmi Khalifa said Bahrain will be the first Arab country in Middle East and North Africa to host this exhibition which mirrors the golden era of the pharaohs. The exhibition is currently […]

http://www.etana.org/abzu/
Please see the following update and request for feedback re the excellent Abzu service, from Chuck Jones. Abzu is an excellent resource for Near Eastern (and Egyptian) documents, with authors like Sir William Flinders Petrie and Guy Brunton well represented.
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