Talking Pyramids

Today’s artefact, the Pyramidion of a Woman from the Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund also features in today’s ‘Friday Photo’ where you can read more about it and see close up photos thanks to the Brooklyn Museum.

• Artefact of the Day: Limestone Pyramidion of a Woman, 1185-718 B.C.E., XX – XXII Dynasty, Brooklyn Museum: http://bit.ly/df3sYF #
• PHOTO: 12th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian Magic Wand, made from a hippopotamus tusk: http://bit.ly/4WlzOE #
• UCLA Publication: Cartouche, by Cathie Spieser. Download the PDF or read online: http://bit.ly/dqsYuK #
• The Great Game: Archaeology and Politics in the Colonial Period – the feud over Netertiti at the Ruhr Museum , Germany: http://bit.ly/bkuhr3 #
• AUDIO: Franck Goddio talks recovering artifacts from the ancient cities of Alexandria, Heracleion and Canopus: http://bit.ly/bTKz34 #
• Dr. Rita Freed from the Boston Fine Arts Museum will be giving a lecture Thursday night at the Arkansas Arts Museum: http://bit.ly/9yZLer #
• Egypt posts fastest growth in tourism in more than a year: http://bit.ly/9c4GS2 #
• One flew over the Dhakla oasis – the approach to madness in modern Egypt and ancient superstitions: http://bit.ly/cKxlLR #
• AUC Hosts Conference on Human Remains from Ancient Egypt: http://bit.ly/9WmknL #
• Day School: Ritual and Magic in Ancient Egypt, University of Liverpool, Saturday 6th March 2010, 10 a.m.-4.30 p.m: http://bit.ly/dumQQG #
• VIDEO: Tom's travels in Egypt – White/Black Desert, Pyramids, Luxor: http://bit.ly/ausCGR #
• Biggest Eastern Sahara discovery of the decade: ancient Egyptian inscriptions near the Sudan/Egypt/Libyan border area: http://bit.ly/c66j2Z #
• Culture Minister: 198 antiquities renovated, restored in Cairo: http://bit.ly/cxxBQN #
• Dr Zahi Hawass on the restoration of the Monastery of Saint Anthony: http://bit.ly/d4QQ7R #
• Exhibition Explores the Egyptians' Beliefs about Life and Death and the Afterlife at the Brooklyn Museum: http://bit.ly/aIfNnN #

Previous posts on Talking Pyramids involving Franck Goddio include Alexandria’s Underwater Museum & The Titanic & the Sunken Sarcophagus.

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