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Securing Heritage in Crisis Situations: Some Thoughts on the Egyptian...
As with the Cairo Museum, security cameras, fences, and personnel were apparently not enough to protect the Egyptian Scientific Institute:These treasures are guarded by security personnel 24 hours a...
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Exhibtion Review: Ancient Egypt - Art and Magic
Tampa Bay Times (Lennie Bennett)With photos.Being an art critic has mandated that I see all art, not just my preferred art, and judge it with an open mind. That mandate has been a gift. It opened my...
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Photo for Today: Coffin of Hetepnebi
British MuseumEA46629http://bit.ly/w3qb6WEgyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
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Mummification Museum lecture: The Opening of the Mouth ritual in the tomb of...
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)The Opening of the Mouth ritual in the tomb of Harwa TT37: Miriam Ayad's report.This lecture was a serious treat and I look forward to Miriam publishing her work. That book...
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Online: Egyptian Animal Mummies Database
Egyptian Animal Mummies DatabaseAnimalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly...
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Some MFA galleries are in need of attention
boston.com (Sebastian Smee)Egyptian art, like Greek and Roman, is one of the MFA’s great strengths. What’s more, imaginatively presented, Egyptian art seems to excite young people more than any other...
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La Universidad de Jaén comienza su cuarta campaña arqueológica en Asuán
Diario Digital, Universidad de JaenDesde este próximo día 9 de enero hasta el 3 de marzo, la Universidad de Jaén llevará a cabo su cuarta campaña de excavación en la necrópolis de los nobles de Asuán...
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The Pyramid Shafts: From Dixon to Pyramid Rover
Em Hotep! (Keith Payne)Another excellent summary of a subject that fascinates the public.Last May the Project Djedi Team caught the world’s attention, and imagination, when they announced that the...
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UWO 'ground zero' for mummy studies: Researcher
Toronto Sun Two University of Western Ontario researchers have won international grants for their projects, one of which will make the university the "ground zero" of mummy studies.Using CT scans to...
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Penn Museum collections now online
Penn Museum The diverse, internationally acclaimed Collection hails from six continents and spans the millennia, shedding light on the vast scope of human activity and achievement. The permanent...
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Animals mummified by the millions in Ancient Egypt
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)Millions of animals were ritually slaughtered in ancient Egypt to foster a huge mummification industry that even drove some species extinct. As an exhibition at...
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Object Biography #1: A vessel naming Nesi-khonsu
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)So good to see Campbell Price making real use of this blog.Each month I hope to highlight an individual object that will feature in our new Ancient Worlds...
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Antiquities Council to list endangered archeological sites in Lower Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm The Supreme Council of Antiquities is preparing a list of endangered archaeological sites in the Delta region and Lower Egypt, announced Mostaf Amin, the council’s newly appointed...
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Amara West blog up and running
British Museum If you enjoy following excavation blogs you won't be disappointed by this one. Here's one of the early posts, but they have been posting consistently since then, and their blog provides...
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Egypt and U.S. Partner to Launch a Groundwater Lowering Project at Temple Edfu
Luxor Times The Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) along with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) kicked-off a new groundwater lowering project at Temple Edfu in a workshop held...
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Grand Museum now scheduled for 2015
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)The roar of bulldozers, trucks and rock-crushers will soon be heard again on the Giza plateau as construction work is resumed following a year's hiatus.On Tuesday, at a...
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The Murder of Emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba Caesar Augustus
This Day in Ancient History - January 15 - © British Museum Coin Collection and portableantiquities Servius Galba was born December 24, 3 B.C., in Tarracina (a possibly Etruscan, harbor ...Read Full Post
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Blogosphere ~ Women and the History of Classical Archaeology #1: Caroline...
res gerendae: Women and the History of Classical Archaeology #1: Caroline Bonaparte.
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Blogosphere ~ The Intellectual History of Catacomb Archaeology
History of the Ancient World: The Intellectual History of Catacomb Archaeology.
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