Talking Pyramids

The year begins anew and we enter another decade. I’ve been away for the holidays and so to catch up, today’s update is actually covering the past ten days.

The new year started off with a major new discovery: the largest tomb ever discovered at Saqqara! New discoveries seem to be a regular occurrence at Saqqara with this new find following last year’s announcement of the discovery of a ‘Storeroom of Mummies’ and the excavation of the pyramid of Sesheshet in which her body was found, not to mention the many discoveries at Saqqara the year before.

• Building Pharaoh's Ship – Can the legendary trading vessel of an Egyptian Queen sail again: http://bit.ly/7re3qX #
• Riddles of the Sphinx Preview – Watch Tuesday Jan. 19, 2010, 8PM: http://bit.ly/7mwOTq #
• Building Pharaoh's Ship Preview – Watch Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010, 8PM: http://bit.ly/4xTQ85 #
• Tut Talks: Learn about the Boy King and his fellow pharaohs at the Toronto Public Library – January 14, 2010 07:00 PM: http://bit.ly/5gRwFZ #
• Oriental Institute's new exhibit examines it's founding father, James Henry Breasted: http://bit.ly/6XSLri #

• Mummy Dearest: Renowned Scientists Discuss How Paleoimaging Reveal Hidden Secrets Of The Dead: http://bit.ly/54AXPG #
• Egypt at the Manchester Museum Curator's update on the Egypt and Archaeology galleries: http://bit.ly/76As5p #
• ‘Portrait of Egypt’ – Exhibition at Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery: http://bit.ly/8E3LIN #
• Brooklyn Museum Presents To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt: http://bit.ly/54ALR9 #
• CRE XI – Religion and more Religion; Egyptology versus Egyptomania: http://bit.ly/50BMXJ #
• Massive Taharqa statue discovered deep in Sudan – Pictures, inscriptions and an interview: http://bit.ly/5rxc1R #

• Employment: Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Liverpool: http://bit.ly/5dMUxx #
• Cairo to Host Conference on Stolen Antiquities: http://bit.ly/5ylz7o #
• Free book: Manual of Egyptian Archaeology, and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt: http://bit.ly/8LmE5K #
• VIDEO: The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea: http://bit.ly/5nal8Q #
• APA -American Society of Papyrologists session today: http://bit.ly/6rm1ic #
• Cleopatra's stunner make-up cured eye disease as well: http://bit.ly/6pg8Lw #
• Andie describes her and Kate's idea for a new online Egyptology magazine: http://bit.ly/4JUDnC #

• RT @SSEAToronto: Course on Old Kingdom Art starts tomorrow. Visit http://www.thessea.org/coursesphp for more info. #
• Merry Coptic Christmas to all of you who celebrate it! #
• Job Vacancy: Lecturer of Egyptian Archaeology at the Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History, Monash University: http://bit.ly/6cgFW3 #
• Interested in supporting an Ancient Egypt Magazine? Then read Kate's post on the matter: http://bit.ly/8PZrlT #
• Fit to be counterfeit: New ROM exhibit Kaes & Forgeries explores the fine line between bogus and bona fide: http://bit.ly/8YiKEx #
• Forensic Aspects of Ancient Egypt with Joyce Filer: http://bit.ly/8pS7v2 #
• CRE XI: Demarée's Opening Lecture Kicks Off the 'Current Research in Egyptology 2010' Conference in Leiden: http://bit.ly/7vSKS6 #
• Exhibition: Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt. June 5, 2010 – Jan 2, 2011: http://bit.ly/8BezAW #
• Leena's painting of Clepatra update: Shadow to the right of Caesarion's torso: http://bit.ly/4ZmIvI #
• From the AMICA library:Relief of Hemiunu, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu, 2585-2560 B.C. by unknown artist: http://bit.ly/788x5W #
• Ancient Foods: How the pharaohs were fed: http://bit.ly/8Jikke #
• Discovery to show the pyramids in 3-D: http://bit.ly/64iYzf #
• RT @kv64info: Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea (UK: BBCTV): making of a reconstruction.  http://bit.ly/7JYGfn #
• The Prosopographia Ptolemaic has been integrated in the papyrological framework of Trismegistos: http://bit.ly/8FjuWs #
• PHOTO: Pyramids of Abusir, from Dr Hawass: http://bit.ly/8YSQbz #
• Elizabeth Frood, ‘Claiming Space and Memory: the Development of Priestly Inscriptional Practices in Late NK Egypt: http://bit.ly/6MCz6P #
• LECTURE: The Birth of Ancient Egyptian Literature
  Speaker: James Allen, Brown University
  Friday, January 8 at 7:00 pm: http://bit.ly/8IVAnn #

• Exhibition: Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt Coming to North America: http://bit.ly/6L94xu #
• PHOTO: Alcohol's Neolithic Origins: Brewing Up a Civilization: http://bit.ly/6mob1B #
• PDF: Studies of Ancient Egyptian Footwear. Technological Aspects. Part x. Leather Composite Sandals: http://bit.ly/4Pa46D #
• 'Hellenic Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt': http://bit.ly/6eI9sc #
• Helwan is home to over 10,000 tombs that date from pre-dynasty Egypt to the third dynasty (5000 years ago): http://bit.ly/6iKfSC #
• What's New in Papyrology? Lots of things. Rather than list them all I'll let you check them out for yourselves: http://bit.ly/5T8hXD #
• Unraveling an old mummy mystery: http://bit.ly/6imzWK #
• PHOTO: Archaeologists dining in the tomb of Ramses XI, Valley of the Kings: http://bit.ly/8NbIqG #
• POSTCARD: Colossal statue of Tutankhamun fromMedinet Habu: http://bit.ly/8OIga1 #
• Conference "The treasures of Tanis" in Valencia by Francisco Cardona Fayos: http://bit.ly/6K6UOz #
• One for the Antiquities Dealers' Lobbyists. Excavations in Hatshepsut's Temple & Temple of Ramsess III at Medinet Habu: http://bit.ly/8UAJfp #
• Monumental Statue Of Black Egyptian Pharaoh Found: http://bit.ly/5Yldxh #
• What will happen in this year in archeology? http://bit.ly/4JWkcd #
• The excavation of the tomb of Amen-Hotep-Huy put us at the forefront of the global Egyptology: http://bit.ly/7StWPr #
• Helwan, Egypt: linking history: http://bit.ly/6iKfSC #
• Cairo museum offers tours for visually impaired visitors: http://bit.ly/583v7m #
• PHOTO: The interior Theban Tomb 1, on the West Bank of Luxor, from Dr Hawass: http://bit.ly/7X8tlK #
• PHOTO: Hatshepsut Statue, from Dr Hawass: http://bit.ly/5cLFLE #

• Mark-Jan Nederhof has redrawn his TrueType NewGardiner font for Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Unicode proposal N3349: http://bit.ly/8DI6Kv #

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