Meyers and Rollston are guest editors for ASOR’s coverage of the “New Jesus...
Professors Eric Meyers and Christopher Rollston will be the guest editors of the ASOR Blog for the month of March. ASOR plans to invite scholars in ASOR and the field to react to the proposals made by...
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Ahram Online (Mary Mourad)The Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies is a unique resource for references and periodicals on Islamic civilisation during the first ten centuries of Islam. Founded in...
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Book on Bachit’s leatherwork available
Leather and ShoesAbstract:The Coptic monastery and cemetery Deir el-Bachit stands on the hilltop of Dra’ Abu el-Naga, the well-known necropolis in Qurna (West Bank, Luxor). It is the largest Coptic...
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Article: A Different Configuration for the Quarter-Rudders on the Khufu I...
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology March 2012, Volume 41, Issue 1.A Different Configuration for the Quarter-Rudders on the Khufu I Vessel (c.2566 BC), and Egyptian Methods of Mounting...
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New Book: TT176. The Tomb Chapel of Userhat
Golden House PublicationsBy Bram Calcoen in collaboration with Christiane Müller-Hazenbos. TT176. The Tomb Chapel of UserhatISBN 978-190613727434 pages + 23 b/w plates; 4 colour plates, paperback, A4...
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Doctor helps to translate Egyptian treatise
NECN.comA few decades ago, a glance at an ancient medical text alerted Dr. Gonzalo M. Sanchez to something he found fascinating. Medical professionals, he discovered, had been scrutinizing patients and...
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Book Review: American Egyptologist
Wall Street Journal (John Ray)In 1922, the University of Oxford conferred an honorary degree on James Henry Breasted, who was at the height of his fame as an Egyptologist and historian of the ancient...
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New Book: The Temple of Tausret
The University of Arizona Thanks to Jane's Luxor News blog for the link to the above page, which has the following summary. The Temple of Tausret summarizes the University of Arizona Egyptian...
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New Facebook page / New Book: Third Intermediate Period
Thanks to Kate Phizackerley for pointing out that there is a new page on Facebook dedicated to the Third Intermediate Period: http://www.facebook.com/groups/239832019441502/On that page Aidan Dodson...
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Book Review: Tutankhamen's Curse by Joyce Tyldesley
The Guardian, UK (Review by Toby Wilkinson)Among the manifold treasures of Tutankhamen's tomb, "the only thing missing", as Joyce Tyldesley notes in her new book, "was a library". The boy-king need not...
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Exhibition: Norwich shroud to return to Norwich for event
EDP24 The Norwich Shroud, which was the subject of some fascinating posts on the British Museum blog, is to return to Norwich in April:Two of the most significant objects in Norwich Castle’s...
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Visitors Flock to Leeds City Museum to Visit Ancient Egypt
About My Area The new exhibition devoted to ancient Egypt at Leeds City Museum enjoyed a stunning first week with almost 20,000 people flocking to see it.The touring exhibition entitled ‘Pharaoh: King...
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More re ICOM Red List
The Art Newspaper (Martin Bailey)The International Council of Museums (Icom) published an “emergency red list” of Egyptian cultural objects at risk of being illegally traded earlier this month. It...
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Amarna fund raising tour
Friends of the Petrie (Lucia Gahlin)Amarna at sunset.Photograph by Lucia Gahlin I don't advertise tours, but this one is organized by the Friends of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology to raise...
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iMalqata Project update - Everything Amenhotep
iMalqata Project With some useful links.2012 is turning out to be the year of Amenhotep III. In addition to our work at his jubilee palace-city at Malqata, excavations and restoration projects are...
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Past HorizonsWith photos. An exciting new project exploring how people in the past viewed the geography of the ancient world, has been backed by $50,000 grant from Google, Inc. via its Digital...
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Book fair produces fascinating discovery: Theatrum Italiae (1663)
Wired.com (Joan Blaeu)Not much text, but some great pictures.Moving is never easy, and moving is especially difficult when you own a 327-ton Egyptian obelisk and you want it shifted 275 yards to sit...
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Rhind Mummy under the scanner
MarketWatchTwo thousand years ago, using state-of-the-art mummification techniques, a mummy was entombed in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Now, using state-of-the-art High Definition Volume...
View ArticleBrief Reflections of an Epigrapher on Talpiyot Tombs A and B
Professor Christopher A. Rollston, Emmanuel Christian Seminary Much can, and no doubt will, be said about the proposal (and new volume) of Professor James Tabor and Filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici that...
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