Wednesday Weekly # 14

Welcome to the Wednesday Weekly, your weekly dose of links to Egyptology news, articles, blogs, events and more.

Next week and the week after that there will not be a Wednesday Weekly because of the holidays. Wednesday Weekly will return at January 8.

The Amun-Ra-Egyptology Blog wishes everybody a merry christmas and a happy new year with lots of Egyptology news! Happy Holidays!!


ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE

By Rossella Lorenzi:

Top 10 Discoveries of 2013: World's Oldest Port
http://archaeology.org/issues/116-1401/features/top10/1584-wadi-el-jarf-port-papyrus-khufu-cheops

AHRAM ONLINE

by Nevine El-Aref:

Two Ptolomaic tombs uncovered in Al-Qantara East
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/88863/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Two-Ptolomaic-tombs-uncovered-in-AlQantara-East.aspx

Upper Egypt's Malawi Museum is under restoration
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/89276/Heritage/Museums/Upper-Egypts-Malawi-Museum-is-under-restoration.aspx

Egyptian antiquities ministry tries to stop sale of 23 artefacts in US
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/89383/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyptian-antiquities-ministry-tries-to-stop-sale-o.aspx

AL-AHRAM WEEKLY

by Nevine El-Aref:

'Cooking' Tutankhamun?
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/4886/47/%E2%80%98Cooking%E2%80%99-Tutankhamun-.aspx

EGYPTIAN'S

New blogpost by Timothy Reid:

Gift of the Nile
http://tim-theegyptians.blogspot.nl/2013/12/gift-of-nile.html

ANCIENT ORIGINS

by Margaret Moose:

The Tattooed Priestess' of Hathor
http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/tattooed-priestess-hathor-001122

EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY

Egypt Exploration Society: Winter Study Day - Saturday 7th December, 2013 "The Last Great Age of Ancient Egypt": Third Intermediate Period to the Late Period
http://www.ees.ac.uk/news/index.html

SEMITIC MUSEUM

Lecture by Bob Brier:

Egyptomania: Our Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx8sFU5fosg

BBC NEWS

By Sarah Dickins:

Theories about how the ancient pyramids were built are 'wrong'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25412540

IN THE ARTIFACT LAB

New blogentry:

A demotic jar
http://www.penn.museum/sites/artifactlab/2013/12/17/a-demotic-jar/

TETISHERI

New blogentry by Julia Thorne:

New Egyptology book releases: November 2013
http://www.tetisheri.co.uk/3/post/2013/12/new-egyptology-book-releases-november-2013.html

UCL MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS BLOG

New blogentry:

Back to Ancients/Basics
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2013/12/13/back-to-ancientsbasics/

DR. MGNH

"Son of a count!"
http://drmgnh.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/son-of-a-count/

ANCIENT EGYPT AND A MAPLE LEAF

New blogentry by Thomas H. Greiner:

Tour to 'Gifts of the Nile' Exhibit
http://thomasgreiner.com/2013/12/16/tour-to-gifts-of-the-nile-exhibit/