Just to let everyone know that I am off again for a week or so, and will update when I return, if not before.
Have a very happy New Year if I don’t post before
All the very best
Andie
xx

http://www.eais.org.eg/pdfs/January_2007.pdf
The Egyptian Antiquities Information System website has been updated with the latest Newsletter, at the above address. In PDF format, it includes information about the latest activities of the EAIS and relevant organizations. Announcements and subjects include:

Announcement that the EAIS is now the official GIS centre of the SCA
In its third […]

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/visual_arts/16305725.htm

Cities are continually built and rebuilt in layer upon layer, much of which is invisible. We’ve heard of the catacombs of Rome and Paris and have seen or read about the Temple of Mithras, an important Roman ruin discovered on Walbrook Street in London during rebuilding work after World War II. […]

Sincere and multiple thanks to Chris Townsend for providing me with a number of additional URLs which either provide stories which I missed when back-dating the blog, or give more information about key stories which have appeared. Here they are, and click on the links to see the full story:

More re […]

http://www.geographical.co.uk/

Geographical Magazine’s January 2007 issue is featuring an article about the Nile:
Down the big river
“Winding some 6,695 kilometres from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile is the world’s longest river.” The article is only available in print (magazine hard copy) format, although there is a preview […]

A very sincere Happy Christmas to all visitors, with special thanks to the following for being good e-friends to myself and the blog (in absolutely no particular order, although Kat gets five gold stars for all the news articles that she sends me):

Kat Newkirk
Chris Townsend
Carolin Johansen
Jennifer Mason
Kevin LaCroix
Jane Akshar
Greg Reeder
Aayko Eyma
Mark Morgan
Bob Partridge
Nick Reeves
Paula Veiga
Thierry […]

http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/

Jane Akshar has been so busy whilst I’ve been away that it is difficult to know where to start! Here are some recent important headings that are to be found on the above address - do go and have a look!
Visitor Centre at the Valley of Kings opened today
Photos from the […]

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/824/he1.htm

“The Coptic monastery known as Deir Al-Surian, or the Monastery of the Syrians, contains more than 3,000 books as well as a vast number of texts in Syriac, Aramaic (the language of Christ), Coptic, Arabic and Ethiopic. They date upwards from the fifth century and today, as a result of the […]

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/bswbba3301f1.html

The latest issue of the BAR includes an article entitled Out of Egypt by James K. Hoffmeier: “Based on archaeological evidence, how likely is it that Israelites were enslaved in Egypt? And if they were there, which way did they go when they left? Recent archaeological excavations in Egypt shed new light […]

http://www.nysun.com/article/45604

“Discovering Tutankhamun: The Photographs of Harry Burton creates a visual first-person narrative of one of modernity’s greatest archeological finds. This exhibit gives viewers the feeling they’re standing with art photographer Harry Burton as he chronicles the exploration and discoveries of more than 5,000 objects from Tut’s tomb in a series […]