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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 February, 2007

Complaint re teaching that Israelites built pyramids

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3370258,00.html
Head of the SCA, Zahi Hawass “has Hawass filed an official complaint to the Egyptian attorney general of Egypt against a Cairo high school for teaching the students that it was the Israelites who built the pyramids. Hawass, prominent figure in Egyptian culture and around the Arab world, criticized the school […]

Exhibition: Ancient Egyptian textiles and modern art

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

http://tinyurl.com/ytbaj2 (theboltonnews.co.uk)
“Ancient Egypt will come alive this week in a new exhibition at Bolton Museum.
From a Modern Land. Ancient Egyptian textiles: Contemporary Paintings will include ancient artefacts alongside contemporary art inspired by them.
Bolton’s valuable collection of archaeological textiles, the fruit of British excavations in Egypt, is one of the most […]

Photo of work underway on recently discovered sarcophagus

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5850
“An Egyptian archaeologist works on a Sarcophagus, which dates back to a Pharaonic new Kingdom, and was recently found near the famous Step Pyramid in Saqqara by Japanese team of Waseda University Mission, in Cairo 21 February 2007. A Japanese archeological team has discovered three painted wooden coffins in Egypt, including […]

France to return ‘pharaoh’s hair’ to Egypt

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070226-013711-2645r
“France is to hand over to Egypt a lock of hair said to belong to the mummy of Ramses II that was put on sale on the Internet last year, French officials said Monday. Egyptian diplomats made a formal request last week to recover the hair, which was seized by French police […]

Giza Archives project website wins award

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=pressrelease009
“The ABC-CLIO Online History Awards are offered biennially to developers of freely available and sustainable online history resources that are useful and innovative. The award is administered by the History Section of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association. It is the first American Library Association […]

Book: Giza Reports Volume 1

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

http://www.aeraweb.org/gizareports.asp
Details of this new publication (inluding Contents listing), available in late Spring 2007, can be found on the above page: “Ancient Egypt Research Associates and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project are pleased to announce the publication of the first in a series of monographs detailing our work at the settlement of […]

Tourism: Online resources for travellers

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

http://www.ttnworldwide.com/Articles.asp?Article=6288
“The Egyptian Tourism Authority (ETA) will relaunch a dedicated website at the domain http://www.trade.egypt.travel/, to cater to the travel and tourism trade and press this month, according to a statement.
The move follows recent enhancements to the authority’s international website http://www.egypt.travel/, following a staggering 2.2 million visitors in nine months. Some […]

Current World Archaeology magazine 21

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Current World Archaeology magazine 21

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa21/cwa21.htm
CWA 21 features an article on Dakhleh Oasis: “What was life like in an Egyptian oasis? The Dakhleh oasis is huge - today it is home to some 70,000 people - and the Dakhleh Oasis Project has been charting the environmental background throughout history. The sands are […]

Photographs of an archaeological adventure

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/23/features/melik24.php
“Of all the cold cases in the art world thrillers, none beats the story of Tutankhamun’s funerary chamber and the saga of the art treasures it held, recovered in what turned out to be the most important excavation ever relating to the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
Yet it took more than 80 years […]

Saturday Trivia

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Stone in Paper: Ancient Egypt
http://www.ulster.net/~spider/convpage
Thanks to the weekly EEF newsletter for this lovely piece (submitted by David Lorton):
“Stone in Paper: Ancient Egypt was an exhibit at the Origami USA 2002 convention in New York City. On display Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22, this exhibit comprised more than 80 original origami […]

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