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2012.02.06: David the Invincible, Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics:...
Review of Aram Topchyan, David the Invincible, Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics: Critical Old Armenian Text with an English Translation, Introduction and Notes. Philosophia antiqua, 122....
View ArticleTextes numériques : représentation et interrogation
La séance du mercredi 8 février reviendra aux enjeux théoriques et pratiques de l’encodage des textes. Cette déviation par rapport au programme initial, qui prévoyait une séance sur les bases de...
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Helping to conserve Albania’s cultural heritage
Participants at the Sarajevo workshop making their own pest traps for museum use. Image: Heritage Without BordersHeritage Without Borders (HWB), a newly established social enterprise founded at UCL...
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MAYA 2012: Lords of Time
Censer lid with portrait of a King One of 12 ceramic lids to a censer, or incense burner, that features portraits of Copan kings. Dated to circa 695 CE, it originally sat atop a large clay vessel used...
View ArticleEgypt kisses tourist industry good-bye — starvation to follow
As I understand it, Egyptian president Mubarak — a relatively mild ruler – fell from power because many Egyptians could not afford to buy bread. It was as simple as that. But the unrest has been very...
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Ottoman Cairo's ghosts hold delightful secrets
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah)Agnieszka Dobrowolska, a conservation architect, travels, often alone or in the company of her co-worker and architectural partner, her husband Jaroslaw Dobrowolski --...
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Recent photos of Luxor's Avenue of Sphinxes
Luxor TimesPhotos on the above page.After our report of the state of the Sphinx Avenue and how it was used as a rubbish dump (Read Here) and the follow up in the last printed issue of Luxor Times...
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Exhibition: Papyri, Mummies, Gold in Warsaw
The Warsaw VoiceA bowl retrieved from a tomb in Thebes, scarabs and other treasures of ancient Egypt unearthed during archeological digs are on show at an exhibition at the Archeological Museum in...
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Exhibition / Interview: “From Nubia to Sudan”
Greek Reporter (by Zdravka Mihaylova)Interview with Alexandros Tsakos and Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos. With photos.Last October the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art inaugurated the photo exhibition ‘From...
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New Book: Tutankhamen’s Curse
The Bolton News ()ANCIENT Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen holds as much fascination for us as Madonna or Angelina Jolie, according to egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley.The Bolton-based academic, who is...
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Object Biography #2: A label of King Djer (Acc. no. 6763a)
Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)A really good piece, putting the label into its Abydos context. With photos and illustrations.This small (1.8 x 1.9 cm) piece of incised bone doesn’t look like much,...
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Crocodile museum to open
Ahram Online (Nevine El-aref)Overlooking the Aswan Nile shore, neighbouring the ancient Egyptian temple of Kom Ombo, the first ever crocodile museum in Egypt is scheduled to be opened on Tuesday.The...
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Suez Museum relates the city’s history through ages
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)Following almost six years of construction the long-awaited Suez National Museum had its official inauguration while the city was marking one year of Egypt’s...
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Diario Djehuty
Diario DjehutyThe Djehuty dig diary is in full swing for those of you speak Spanish, or are prepared to use a translation engine. Daily posts in January and February are accompanied by lovely...
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AERA Giza Plateau blog
Aeraweb The AERA (Ancient Egypt Research Associates) blog for the 2012 Field Season has been running for some weeks at the Giza Plateau, with four posts to date. Here's the most recent of the...
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Saqqara Dig Diary
Saqqara.nl Week 31 January - 2 February 2012There we are again in Cairo, after an absence of two years due to the revolution in Egypt which made work in 2011 impossible. Field director Maarten Raven...
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More from Amara West excavations
If you are not already signed up to the Amara West blog I do sincerely recommend it - they still have a couple of weeks of the season left and update the blog regularly. Here are a sample of recent...
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Oldest case of prostate cancer
This story was reported by The Portugal News back in November 2011, but seems to have been picked up only recently by other media.Bikya Masr An international research team in Lisbon has diagnosed the...
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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
In the episode “The Underwater Menace,” the Doctor, Ben, Polly, and Jamie arrive in the lost underwater city of Atlantis. The situation they find their combines the worst of both religion and science....
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