Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Wednesday Weekly # 35

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


DISCOVERY NEWS


By Rossella Lorenzi:


Long-Lost Mummy of Pharaoh's Foster Brother Found

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/long-lost-mummy-of-pharaohs-foster-brother-found-140523.htm

AL-AHRAM WEEKLY


By Nevine El-Aref:


Restored tombs reopen

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/6262/47/Restored-tombs-reopen.aspx

Artefacts recovered from USA
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/6261/47/Artefacts-recovered-from-USA.aspx

THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE

Gregory Marouard | New Discoveries at Wadi el-Jarf: The Harbor of King Khufu


Join Gregory Marouard, Research Associate in Egyptian Archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the Univeristy of Chicago for New discoveries at Wadi el-Jarf: The Harbor of King Khufu on the Egyptian Red Sea Coast.

This lecture focuses on the latest results and discoveries at this site and demonstrate the complex and extensive logistical organization of the Egyptian seafaring expeditions since the middle of the third millennium BC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-NjvVT95l0#p395550

THE ANCIENT WORLD ONLINE

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Collection Online
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.nl/2014/05/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html

Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.nl/2010/10/fs-murnane.html

Egyptological Publications of the Glyptothèque Ny Carlsberg København
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.nl/2011/09/egyptological-publications-of.html

Online Journals - Egyptology
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.nl/2009/01/online-journals-egyptology.html

3D Petrie Museum
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.nl/2014/05/3d-petrie-museum.html

EGYPTIAN'S

New blogpost by Timothy Reid:

Secrets of Egypt For The Millions
http://tim-theegyptians.blogspot.nl/2014/05/secrets-of-egypt-for-millions.html

LUXOR TIMES

An attempt to smuggle antiquities inside a copy of Tut Ankh Amon's mask
http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.nl/2014/05/an-attempt-to-smuggle-antiquities.html

Tracked Ancient Egyptian antiquities after illicit digs and smuggled abroad
http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.nl/2014/05/tracked-ancient-egyptian-antiquities.html

EGYPT AT THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM

New light under old wrappings (II): The temple singer Perenbast
http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/new-light-under-old-wrappings-ii-the-temple-singer-perenbast/

IN THE ARTIFACT LAB

Consolidating and reconstructing glass objects
http://www.penn.museum/sites/artifactlab/2014/05/21/consolidating-and-reconstructing-glass-objects/

HAIR AND DEATH IN ANCIENT EGYPT

by María Rosa Valdesogo:


The Ancient Egypt burial and rebirth “narrated” in a fragment of a coffin.
http://hairanddeathinancientegypt.com/2014/05/21/the-ancient-egypt-burial-and-rebirth-narrated-in-a-fragment-of-a-coffin/

BRITISH MUSEUM BLOG

By John H Taylor and Daniel Antoine, curators, British Museum:

Eight mummies, eight lives, eight stories
http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/05/22/eight-mummies/

AHRAM ONLINE

Five stolen Egyptian artefacts located in Europe
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/102112/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Five-stolen-Egyptian-artefacts-located-in-Europe.aspx

THE EGYPTIAN HISTORY PODCAST

Episode 29: The War God

Montuhotep II (Part III)
http://egyptianhistory.libsyn.com/episode-29-the-war-god

DEMONTHINGS - ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DEMONOLOGY PROJECT

CALL for CHAPTERS: The Material Culture of Magic

This sounds like a fascinating project, perfectly timed to reflect the growing interest in the material manifestations of magic and religion. The result will be a book on The Material Culture of Magic, edited by Dr Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie and Dr Leo Ruickbie.
http://www.demonthings.com/material-culture-of-magic/

ACROSSBORDERS

Impressions from the SARS colloquium 2014
http://acrossborders.oeaw.ac.at/impressions-from-the-sars-colloquium-2014/

Ippolito Rosellini, Sudan and Pisa
http://acrossborders.oeaw.ac.at/ippolito-rosellini-sudan-and-pisa/

THE DOUBLE LOTUS

New post by Nicky van de Beek:

Jan Herman Insinger: A Dutchman in Egypt
http://blog.eurasianstates.org/2014/05/24/insinger/

KELSEY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY

My Favorite Artifact
https://kelseymuseum.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/my-favorite-artifact/

SOUTH ASASIF CONSERVATION PROJECT BLOG

Week 3
http://southasasif.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/week-3/

THE GUARDIAN

Battered pot found in Cornish garage unlocks Egypt excavation secrets
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/26/pot-found-cornwall-garage-reveals-egypt-excavation-history


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