tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57073728597925305872024-02-19T04:22:45.881-06:00I should be writingMichaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-24638202507471845842020-02-10T07:51:00.000-06:002020-02-10T07:51:38.074-06:00Ancient Egypt News 02/10/2020
Is this the original board game of death?
THE YORCK PROJECT/WIKICOMMONS
Ancient Egyptians took their board games seriously. The backgammonlike senet started out as a mere pastime, but over nearly 2 millennia it evolved into a game with deep links to the afterlife, played on a board that represented the underworld. Now, a version of the game sitting in a California museum might reveal whenMichaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-3733980352465255812020-02-03T08:45:00.000-06:002020-02-03T08:45:30.385-06:00Ancient Egypt News 02/03/2020
Forget Giza, These Are The Unknown Pyramids Of Egypt You Need To Have On Your Bucketlist
Photo: Flying Carpet Tours
A wonder of the ancient world, the Pyramids of Giza stand tall thousands of years after their construction, a testament to the ingenuity and perseverance of the Ancient Egyptians. Yet, despite their historical significance, many tend to forget that these aren’t the only Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-46105944902942714092020-01-28T09:31:00.004-06:002020-01-28T09:31:24.400-06:00Ancient Egypt News 01/27/2020
GEM Receives 356 Artifacts from Tut,Ramses II, Thutmose III, Ptah Treasures
The general supervisor of the Grand Egyptian Museum Atef Moftah announced that the museum has received a collection of 356 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, among which 57 artifacts from the treasures of the Golden King Tutankhamun and 11 pieces will be displayed on the grand staircase.
Director GeneralMichaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-62039197361815531562020-01-13T16:50:00.000-06:002020-01-13T16:50:24.168-06:00Ancient Egypt News: Astronomy 01/13/2020
Rain, Rain, Go Away: Dealing with Wastewater and Rain in Ancient Egypt
Photo: H. Köpp-Junk
An efficient drainage system for rain and wastewater is important for every complex society. Even today, water discharge is a central issue in Egypt, especially in the global metropolis Cairo. While irrigation is frequently discussed in Egyptology, dewatering systems are only rarely investigated.
No Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-22241103251144398062020-01-06T09:00:00.002-06:002020-01-06T09:01:04.290-06:00Ancient Egypt News: The GEM is Coming 01/06/2020
90 Percent of GEM work is Finished
File - Grand Egyptian Museum
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that about more than 90 percent of the Grand Egyptian Museum work was finalized. GEM is expected to be inaugurated in the last quarter of 2020.
The inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum is one of the main events that Egypt and the whole world is waiting for in 2020.
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Egypt's History of Humanity' Monuments Face Climate Change Threat
Ceiling at Karnak © Michalea Moore 2017
It’s a steamy November day in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, and the tourists tramping through the ancient temples of Luxor and Karnak are sweating. But the city’s famed 7,000-year-old antiquities are feeling the heat too.
Increasingly high Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-84906891984219287372019-12-16T09:34:00.000-06:002019-12-16T09:34:07.887-06:00Ancient Egypt News 12/16/2019
Sun to Illuminate Egypt’s Ancient Karnak Temple Dec. 21
Crowds of tourists and Egyptians are expected to flock to Luxor on December 21 to witness the magnificent phenomenon of the sun aligning on the Temple of Amun inside the 4,000-year-old Karnak Temple.
The annual two-hour event, starts at 6 a.m., will mark the first day of winter, as per the outstanding progressive knowledge of the Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-71237178566468271912019-12-09T08:41:00.000-06:002019-12-09T08:41:49.398-06:00Ancient Egypt News 12/09/2019
New Discoveries in Egyptology (September-October 2019)
Photo: Ministry of Antiquities
Every two months, the Nile Scribes bring you summaries of the latest research and discoveries in Egyptology, both from the field and the archives. We introduce you to the newest archaeological finds or rediscovered artefacts from museum collections, plus other new theories stirring in the Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-10357024594372483772019-12-02T08:51:00.001-06:002019-12-02T08:51:36.009-06:00Ancient Egypt News 12/02/2019
Archaeologists Tie Ancient Bones to a Revolt Chronicled on the Rosetta Stone
R. LITTMAN AND J. SILVERSTEIN
xcavated remains of a warrior slain around 2,200 years ago provide rare, physical evidence of an uprising that’s described on the Rosetta Stone, scientists say.
“Most likely, the warrior we found was a casualty of the ancient Egyptian revolt,” said archaeologist Robert Littman on Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-44091787505971491292019-11-25T08:33:00.000-06:002019-11-25T08:33:03.590-06:00Ancient Egypt News 11/25/2019
Cleopatra VII: Scholar, Patron, Queen
Photo: The British Museum
Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, altering the political panorama of the eastern Mediterranean and the ancient Near East for the centuries to come. One of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy Lagos, identified Egypt as one of the richest areas of Alexander’s empire. He first served as regent for Alexander’s half-brotherMichaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-87786199022490989172019-11-18T08:49:00.000-06:002019-11-18T08:49:24.249-06:00Ancient Egypt News 11/18 2019
World's Oldest Cheese: A 3,200 Years Old Cheese Found In An Egyptian Tomb
Scientists from the University of Catania and Cairo University found a solidified whitish mass in a jar, left in an Egyptian tomb. The substance turned out to be a 3,200 year old piece of cheese, among the oldest ever discovered.
A few years ago a team of archaeologists cleaning sand from an ancient Egyptian tomb Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-79625828014922856022019-11-11T09:11:00.000-06:002019-11-11T09:11:17.615-06:00Ancient Egypt News 11/11/2019
I Know This Place Podcast
Series 1, episode five of I Know This Place takes a trip into the past with Egyptologist Kara Cooney
Episode: 5 Featuring Ute Junker and Dr Kara Cooney
The pyramids at Giza are simply awe-inspiring; but they are just the start. Egypt is home to a dazzling collection of ancient tombs and temples, some of which date back 5000 years. Egyptologist Dr Kara Cooney Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-24589931361044953152019-10-28T09:28:00.000-05:002019-10-28T09:28:00.988-05:00Ancient Egypt News 10/28/2019
4,000 Year Old Life Map Found in Sarcophagus
Writing in the sarcophagus appeared to be from the Book of Two Ways.
Egyptians believe the travel needed to reach the eternal kingdom is full of obstacles.
The texts were drawn inside the sarcophagus.
Archeologists have discovered a 4,000-year old Egyptian sarcophagus with an unprecedented finding: an ancient map of the afterlife. A Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-75343106693065274722019-10-21T08:58:00.000-05:002019-10-21T08:58:50.356-05:00Ancient Egypt News 10/21/2019
‘Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene’ Review: Exploring Egypt Through a Lens
John Beasley Greene’s ‘Karnak. Hypostyle Hall. Northern Wall, Interior. No. 3’ (1854) PHOTO: MUSEE D'ORSAY
J.B. Greene (1832-1856) might be relegated to dusty obscurity, just another amateur 19th-century photographer and archaeologist, had one of his Egyptian landscapes—an 1854 view of an Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-69314843076360973142019-10-14T09:07:00.000-05:002019-10-14T09:07:04.621-05:00Ancient Egypt News 10/14/2019
‘Unexpected’ Discovery Stuns Archaeologist as Long-Lost Tomb FOUND
The find was made in the Aswan region of Egypt (Image: GETTY)
Imhotep was an Egyptian chancellor to the pharaoh Djoser, who is believed to have also been the mastermind behind the Step Pyramid in Saqqara. The Third Dynasty is remembered as being a great author of wisdom texts and also a physician, but the location of his Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-15299568991987607582019-10-07T09:26:00.000-05:002019-10-07T09:26:14.485-05:00Ancient Egypt News 10/07/2019
Emulation Hall: Egypt Style for Sale in Canterbury at Old Masonic Hall
Ian CurrieSource:News Limited
A former Masonic temple that wouldn’t look out of place on the streets of Cairo is for sale in Melbourne’s leafy east.
The 1927-28 Emulation Hall is sure to catch buyers’ eyes, being decked out in Egyptian motifs including gold-winged scarab beetles, sacred serpents, astrological symbols, Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-64368998531866058562019-09-30T10:45:00.000-05:002019-09-30T10:45:30.016-05:00Ancient Egypt News 9/30/2019
Jewels of the Nile: 11 Awesome Egyptian Museums
The Coptic museum holds the largest collection of Egyptian Christian relics in the world. Courtesy Experience Egypt, Egyptian Tourism Authority
For much of the 20th century, the Egyptian Museum in the center of Cairo was the gold standard for collections along the Nile.
Mainly because among the many nuggets inside were the glimmering Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-76949223865368018482019-09-23T08:01:00.000-05:002019-09-23T08:01:24.500-05:00Ancient Egypt News 09/23/2019
Egypt Historian Uncovers ‘Underground Paradise’ 138 Metres Below Valley of the Kings
Photo from Tour Egypt: The Tomb of Seti I
An Egyptian historian was granted access to a tomb in the Valley of the Kings that has been marked unsafe for years, and she uncovered an "underground paradise".
KV17, located in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, is the tomb of the Pharaoh Seti I of the Nineteenth Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-26547406691493949082019-09-16T08:07:00.000-05:002019-09-16T08:07:29.956-05:00Ancient Egypt News 09/16/2019
The Pharaoh We Need
Photo: Paola Kudacki
At the heart of Egypt’s ancient history is the 14th-century-BCE pharaoh Akhenaten, a leader depicted with full lips, a long nose, and evident breasts. At the heart of the visual cornucopia in Philip Glass’s 1983 opera Akhnaten is Anthony Roth Costanzo, a slender singer with full lips, a long nose, and a voice so high and clear it seems Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-5924042488785779612019-09-08T10:39:00.002-05:002019-09-09T08:01:00.800-05:00Ancient Egypt News 09/09/2019
Ancient Egypt and Solar EclipsesCredit: Wikimedia
Two articles on this topic:
Khepri - Total Solar Eclipse Scarab God
The Internet Archive has done a pretty good job of preserving my 'Khepri - Total Solar Eclipse Scarab God' eclipsology "web site". Here is the complete text of the original website with the two main GIF animations that it displayed.
The Winged Sun Disk Symbol Of Ancient Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-8370746050662146962019-09-02T09:23:00.003-05:002019-09-02T09:23:53.318-05:00Ancient Egypt News 09/02/2019
Labor Day in Ancient Egypt
Labor Day is a holiday in the United States, and one most of us look forward to celebrating. (Who doesn't like a day off work?) This link is to a post from Labor Day 2015 about what was it like to be a working man or woman in ancient Egypt.
Recreate the Essence of Mummification with Dora Goldsmith
Throughout this workshop, you will learn about the smells Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-92094777440051247492019-08-22T09:28:00.003-05:002019-08-26T08:40:18.201-05:00Ancient Egypt News 08/26/2019
Was It Really a Mummy’s Curse?
A handout photo made available by Egyptian Ministry Of Antiquities on July 17, 2019
A slew of mysterious deaths following the opening of King Tut’s tomb prompted one epidemiologist to investigate.
Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s gold-covered sarcophagus is undergoing its first restoration work since its 1922 discovery. The conservation initiative at the Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-69085865222176572962019-08-19T07:26:00.000-05:002019-08-19T07:26:45.744-05:00August 19, 2019
'Invisible Ink' on Antique Nile Papyrus Revealed by Multiple Methods
Photo from Science Direct
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190816092420.htm
The first thing that catches an archaeologist's eye on the small piece of papyrus from Elephantine Island on the Nile is the apparently blank patch. Researchers from the Egyptian Museum, Berlin universities and Helmholtz-Zentrum Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707372859792530587.post-79976359531048620302019-08-12T08:19:00.000-05:002019-08-12T08:19:26.155-05:00August 12 2019
A 'Secret' Tour Inside The Long-Awaited Grand Egyptian Museum
When it finally opens, Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum will be the largest museum dedicated to a single civilization.
Standing just two kilometers away from the pyramids of Giza, the monument, which will house some of Egypt's most precious relics, is expected to attract around five million visitors a year.
More than a decade in Michaleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559497398641294745noreply@blogger.com0