Late Antiquity Newsletter -- Call for Papers, APA 2013 Seattle
Letters in Late AntiquityOrganizer: Noel Lenski, University of Colorado at BoulderSponsored by the Society for Late AntiquityWe are fortunate to have more letters and letter collections from Late...
View ArticleInternational Studies in Medievalism(s) Call for Student Participation
The International Conference on Medievalism (http://www.medievalism.net/conferences.html) will be hosted by Kent State University Regional Campuses (particularly Stark and Trumbull) on October 18-20,...
View ArticleCall for papers at the SBL international meeting July 2012
Digital Humanities and Manuscripts, chaired by David Hamidovic and Claire Clivaz.The process of editing of ancient biblical manuscripts, as well as of editing other ancient Jewish and Christian...
View ArticleCentre for e-Research Seminar: Digital Transformations of Research and Styles...
Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of KnowingRalph Schroeder, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet InstituteEric T. Meyer, Research Fellow, Oxford Internet InstituteTuesday 17 January,...
View ArticleNEH Institute at Tufts University - Working with Text in a Digital Age
"Tufts University invites applications to “Working with Text in a Digital Age”, a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities (July 23-August 10, 2012) that combines...
View ArticleNeanderthals see red 200,000 years ago
Image: crowolf, John Glenn (Flickr, Creative commons License)The use of manganese and iron oxides by late Neanderthals is well documented in Europe from 60–40,000 years ago, and although they are...
View ArticleAPA Blog : Tenth Conference of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor...
The tenth annual Conference of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) will be held in Mexico City, on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from Friday August 10...
View ArticleRecent articles and albums on Egyptological
Edition 4 of the Magazine section of Egyptological is due out at the end of February. In our 'In Brief' and 'Photo Album' sections we publish pieces between editions. The following short articles and...
View ArticleBook Review: The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt (in German)
PalArch (Review by Christoffer Theis)Dodson, A. 2003. The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt. – London, New Holland PublishersAidan Dodson verfolgt mit seinem Buch den Ansatz, eine Zusammenstellung aller...
View ArticleFirst UK distance Diploma course to be offered by Manchester
Great news from the grapevine. Apparently the proposal to run a distance learning Egyptology Diploma course out of Manchester University has passed with no objections at the Education Board and has...
View ArticleHoremheb symposium on video
You TubeSymposium on Haremheb. General and King of Egypt.Metropolitan Museum of ArtIntroduced by Catherine H. Roehrig.Many thanks to Dr Nick Reeves for this link. It shows a video version of a...
View ArticleSearch for Cleopatra to be resumed, although artefacts stolen during...
Dominican TodayEgypt’s new military authorities have reissued the license to Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez to resume the excavations in the historic search for the tomb of Cleopatra, an...
View ArticleRed List Announced Covering At-Risk Egyptian Cultural Objects
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Rick St Hilaire)The International Council of Museums (ICOM) today announced that it would soon release a Red List for Egypt. Red Lists describe various types of cultural...
View ArticleLong lost temple from the Meroe period found
Prague MonitorCzech archaeologists have found a long lost temple from the Meroe period near the town of Vad Bon Naga in Sudan, Pavel Onderka, from Prague's Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and...
View ArticleVideo: Scarabs in Ancient Egypt
Egypt at the Manchester Museum blog (Campbell Price)In preparation for the opening of our Ancient World Galleries, I spoke to our entomologist Dr. Dmitri Luganov about the habits of the scarab beetle...
View ArticleAPA Blog : Isles of Greece Study Tour
The Isles of Greece 2012: Attica and the Northern Cyclades. The University of South Dakota will offer an interdisciplinary sailing and study tour in Greece for undergraduate and graduate students in...
View ArticleExhibition: The Oldest Modernist Paintings (Faiyum Portraits)
Smithsonian Magazine Between 1887 and 1889, the British archaeologist W.M. Flinders Petrie turned his attention to the Fayum, a sprawling oasis region 150 miles south of Alexandria. Excavating a vast...
View ArticleAPA Blog : Conventiculum Latinum, Lexington, Kentucky
Conventiculum Latinum, Annual Workshop for Spoken Latin, July 22-29, 2012, Lexington, KY. These summer workshops have become internationally known for providing a stimulating occasion in which...
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