Remains of prehistoric hut found in southern Texas
Last month, workers preparing San Antonio's Mission County Park for construction found the remains of a prehistoric hut that had burned down about 3,500 years ago. Betty Bueche, who manages...
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Somerset Lost Islands, Hidden Landscapes Conference
The event was a public conference, which quickly sold out. It was part supported by the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society. “ off to Strode Theatre for the Somerset Lost Islands and...
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Doing Due Diligence but not Knowing the Law?
.There is a revealing post over on the Forum coiney discussion list. The author is one "bpmurphy" (list status given as "Procurator Monetae", "Caesar") who invites members to "Visit my V-Coins store"....
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Focus on Metal Detecting: A Landowners’ Guide to “Finds Agreements”
.One would have thought that the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a publicly funded body would be out there giving the public advice on the treatment of portable antiquities and giving them proper...
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River bank life of Early Humans
Ethiopia, Bahar Dar. Image: Giustino, FlickrMany people conjure up images of our earliest human ancestors living in the hot dried out dusty environments where many of their remains have been found....
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Doctor Who: The Web Planet
The Doctor Who episode “The Web Planet” from the show’s second season, still in the era of the first Doctor, accompanied by Ian, Barbara, and Vicki, sees the travelers materialize on a barren world,...
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Répertoire bibliographique des figurines funéraires
Répertoire bibliographique des figurines funéraires (shabtis / oushebtis) Plus de 12,000 références bibliographiques (nom – titre(s) – parenté – référence bibliographique) Classement selon les noms...
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Ressources Égyptologiques Informatisées
Ressources Égyptologiques Informatisées («Computerized Egyptological Resources»; «Informatisierte Quellen zur Ägyptologie») The five issues of this bibliography were published in the Bulletin de la...
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The Early History of the Dromedary
The National's article Sharjah's 3,000-year-old clue to the first domesticated camels shows why the (one-humped) camel -- first domesticated in the region now known as the UAE -- ...Read Full Post
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New tomb discovered in Luxor?
There have been rumours floating around that a new tomb has been found on the Luxor West Bank. I have seen nothing official, but Jane Akshar seems fairly confident that there is something in it. In a...
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Crocodile Museum to open in Aswan
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)After three years of construction, the Crocodiles Museum in Aswan will share the significance of crocodiles and the ancient Egyptian crocodile god Sobek with visitors by...
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Reading Public Museum's mummy reunited with mask
bctv.orgAfter 82 years, the Reading Public Museum's resident 2,300 year-old mummy, Nefrina, will come face-to-face with her funerary mask when it is on public display in The Museum's Ancient...
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Restoring the pyramid of Djoser
Wales Online DEEP in the world’s oldest pyramid, real-life Indiana Jones Peter James faced the prospect of thousands of tons of rock crushing him at any time.The former Royal Navy lieutenant-commander...
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Photo for Today: Shabti Box
Shabti box showing the deceased and her bareceiving food and drink from the goddess Nut19th DynastyProvenance unknownBritish MuseumEA 35648Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
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Book Review: Ideologies in Archaeology
About.com (Review by K. Kris Hirst)Bernbeck R, and McGuire RH, editors. 2011. Ideologies in Archaeology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 311 p. in 14 chapters; 99 additional pages of bibliography,...
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Lecture Notes: The Life Cycle of a Theban tomb
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)Thanks again to Jane for providing another write-up of the latest Mummification Museum lecture.The Life Cycle of a Theban tomb – A view from the tomb of Panehsy and Tarenu...
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Amarna: End-of-2011 report
Another excellent report from Professor Barry Kemp from Amarna, providing an end of season report:The fieldwork at Amarna for 2011 finally ended on December 28th. At the larger of the two exposures,...
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Online: The Advantage of Cultural Periphery
tau.ac.il The Advantage of Cultural Periphery: The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai (Circa 1840 B.C.E ), pp. 255-321. In Rakefet Sela-Sheffy and Gideon Toury (eds). Cultural Contacts and the Making...
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Tutankhamun in Japan on final leg of journey
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)On the final leg of a 10-year-long world tour, “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” exhibition will officially open at the Tampozan Special Gallery in the...
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