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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 May, 2007

Karnak excavation returns to Web for second time in 2007

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2007/29may07/29briefs.html
“For the second time this year, Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew will be sharing their work with the world via their popular online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. Starting about Friday, June 1, and running through early July, visitors to Hopkins in Egypt Today […]

Giza Archives Project - Finding the Pharaohs

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/tufts_magazine_spr_2007.pdf
Tufts Magazine, Spring 2007 (a publication of Tufts University), has featured the Giza Archives Project, in a paper entitled Finding the Pharaohs, by Helen Ragovin. This is an interesting article in its own right, but the photographs are exceptional - black and white photographs recording the original excavations at Giza […]

A Girl and Her Goddess

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

http://www.aeraweb.org/spec_hatmehyt.asp
There is a new short paper on the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) website by Marie-Astrid Calmettes (Egyptologist), Jessica Kaiser (Osteologist) and Brian V. Hunt, entitled A Girl and her Goddess. I’m not sure when the paper was put up on the site, but it replaces, as the featured “new article” […]

Excavations at the Madrasa area near Karnak

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=538
Jane Akshar’s has posted some good photographs of the excavation at Madrasa on her Luxor News Blog: “If you remember Mansour Boraiks lecture about the SCA excavations http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=433 he talked about the Madrassa area and that has also been in the news recently as they have found an embankment there. […]

Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists online

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/basp/
The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists is now available online: “The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists has been the official journal of the American Society of Papyrologists since the publication of Volume 1, issue 1 in 1963 and is the only North American journal devoted to […]

New Egyptology society in Luxor

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=531
Jane Akshar reports that Luxor now has its own Egyptology society, complete with website: “Stan Kurowski one of the ex pats here has decided to start an Egyptology group in Luxor. Something we truly need and I am sure having seen the interest at the Mummification Museum lectures it will be […]

Current Research in Egyptology

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

http://www.current-research-egyptology.org.uk/index.htm
Thanks to Peter Robinson for bringing the latest updates to the Current Research in Archaeology website to my attention. is an annual symposium held in universities in the UK for students from around the world. CRE aims to provide a forum for the discussion of Egyptological research currently being conducted by […]

A century of making replicas

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/
“The Art Revival Centre (ARC) affiliated to the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) was established more than 100 years ago to prepare drawings of Egyptian antiquities and make replicas of artefacts that are on display in the Egyptian Museum.
The replicas, which are used as marketing tools to promote tourism at […]

More re Kom Madi bowling hall

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

http://tinyurl.com/yqqjag (elmasla.com)
Following yesterday’s brief anouncement on the State Information Service website, a few more details are provided on the above page:
“The course has in the middle a square shaped hole with dimensions of 12 centimeters that is opened to a big pottery fixed under the hole. An archeological source at the […]

Book Review: The Great Pyramid by John Romer

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

http://tinyurl.com/286l6n (brisbanetimes.com.au)
“John Romer has been trying to unravel the mysteries of the pyramids for more than 40 years. His knowledge, deep scholarship and, most of all, his easy and instantly accessible writing style, ensure that this book systematically explores and explains the current thinking about the Great Pyramid, both for the […]

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