Stanford News Service

Stanford has acquired the library of one of the foremost Egyptologists of the 20th century.

The collection of Wolja Erichsen (1890-1966), now at Stanford’s Green Library, documents more than 1,500 years of Egyptian history, ranging from about 650 B.C. to about A.D. 1000. It includes Egypt’s important transition from paganism to Christianity.

“The Erichsen library […]

The Independent (Steve Connor)

The mystery behind the sudden death of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, may have been finally solved by scientists who believe that he fell from a fast-moving chariot while out hunting in the desert.
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The Encyclopedia of Earth

Wadi Al-Hitan (29° 15’ 13′’ to 29° 23’ 56′’N by 30° 00’ 41′’ to 30° 10’ 06 E) is a World Heritage Site in the Western Desert 150 kilometers (km) southwest of Cairo and 80 km west of Faiyum in the Wadi el-Rayan Protected Area. . . .
Wadi Al-Hitan is of international […]

PR Newswire

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” the exhibition that drew nearly 4 million visitors during its two-year, four-city tour, will return to the United States for a three-city encore tour. Following the success of the first tour, which broke records at each of the four museums it visited in the United States […]

Design Taxi

How the Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous collection.

Ancient Egyptians did not distinguish between religion and magic. They believed that the manipulation of written words, images, and […]

Archaeozoology

The wild ancestor of our domestic cat is Felis silvestris, and more precisely its Levantino-African subspecies, F. s. lybica. The exact place and date of its domestication is unknown, but domestic status seems to have been reached by the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040 - 1782 BC) in Egypt, at the latest during the 12th dynasty […]

Instituto de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto
Bulletin 10, Spring/Summer 2007 (10th anniversary issue). Contents:
PAG. 2 - NOTICIAS ARQUEOLÓGICAS
A 50 kilómetros de Alejandría, un templo podría albergar el secreto mejor guardado de Egipto: las tumbas de Cleopatra y Marco Antonio.
PAG. 3 - PRESENTACIONES Y CONFERENCIAS
Libro: Tiempos de Pirámides III
Conferencias:
- Los logros de la civilización en el […]

Otralala

The authors of “Living images – Egyptian funerary portraits in the Petrie Museum” each spoke, giving context to the writing of the book and to the portraits themselves. The portraits were discovered while Flinders Petrie was looking for something else entirely. But he found a great cache of sarcophagi, each painted with their contents.
The sarcophagi […]

Bagawat is an extraordinary place - a fabulously preserved early Christian cemetary consisting of 263 mud brick, mausoleums dating from the 4th to 6th centuries AD, and a church. The cemetary appears to have been occupied until the 11th century but most were built when Athanasius and Nestorius were banished to Kharga (in the fourth-fifth […]

Smithsonian Magazine

“Heya hup!” Deep in a muddy pit, a dozen workers wrestle with Egypt’s fearsome lion goddess, struggling to raise her into the sunlight for the first time in more than 3,000 years. She is Sekhmet—”the one who is powerful”—the embodiment of the fiery eye of the sun god Ra, but now she is caked […]