Talking Pyramids

The exhibition Journey Through the Afterlife: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead will be at the British Museum’s Round Reading Room from November 4, 2010 to March 6, 2011.

An announcement on EEF this morning was that there will be a conference on Human Remains from Ancient Egypt – Possibilities, Problems and Priorities in January next year over two days: 28th & 29th:

The American Research Center in Egypt, the Institute for Bioarchaeology, and the American University in Cairo are pleased to announce the first Conference on Human Remains in Ancient Egypt 2010.

This one day conference will be held at the American University in Cairo campus, Midan Tahrir, Cairo.

A Keynote Address will take place on the evening of Thursday, January 28th at 6pm, at the American Research Center in Egypt, 2 Simon Bolivar (Qasr al-Dubara), Garden City, Cairo, by Dr. Sonia Guillen, Director of the Peruvian Centro Mallqui and member of The Institute for Bioarchaeology.

This lecture will be followed by a reception.

Registration fee for the conference is LE20 and can be paid either on the evening of the 28th or before 9:30am on Friday morning. Speakers and SCA employees are exempt.

If you wish to attend, please send a pre-registration email titled ‘ATTENDANCE’ to CHRAE2010@gmail.com and please advise if you wish to attend the buffet lunch on the 29th.

Discover the archaeology & way of life of the ancient Egyptians with Egyptology courses at the University of Cambridge.

Ever wanted to know how to make the temple of Hatshepsut out of paper? Well, there is a link to a kirigami model of the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut – created by cutting a piece of paper to get the 3D form.

The big news today is that an ancient granite temple pylon from the submerged palace complex of Cleopatra was lifted out of the waters of Alexandria’s harbor:

The pylon, which once stood at the entrance to a temple of Isis, is to be the centerpiece of an ambitious underwater museum planned by Egypt to showcase the sunken city, which is believed to have been toppled into the sea by earthquakes in the 4th century.

Divers and underwater archaeologists used a giant crane and ropes to lift the 9-ton, 7.4-foot-tall pylon, covered with muck and seaweed, out of the murky waters. It was deposited ashore as Egypt’s top archaeologist Zahi Hawass and other officials watched.

The temple, dedicated to Isis, a pharaonic goddess of fertility and magic, is at least 2,050 years old, but likely much older, and the pylon was cut from a single slab of red granite quarried in Aswan, some 700 miles to the south, officials said. It was part of a sprawling palace from which the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt and where 1st Century B.C. Queen Cleopatra wooed the Roman general Marc Antony before they both committed suicide following their defeat by Augustus Caesar.

• PHOTO: Last Judgment of Hunefer by Osiris: http://bit.ly/6VhdcR #
• PHOTO: Horus: http://bit.ly/6SSDkX #
• PHOTO: List of the kings of Egypt from the Temple of Ramesses II, Abydos: http://bit.ly/6kK0cu #
• Exhibition: Journey Through the Afterlife: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, at the BM: Nov 4 2010 – March 6 2011: http://bit.ly/8atVnF #
• First Conference on Human Remains in Ancient Egypt 2010, American Uni Jan 28th, 6pm. Email CHRAE2010@gmail.com with 'ATTENDANCE' in title #
• Discover the archaeology & way of life of the ancient Egyptians with Egyptology courses at the University of Cambridge: http://bit.ly/69np15 #
• PHOTO:A letter from Thomas Young about hieroglyphs: http://bit.ly/8AaJPD #
• A Kirigami model of the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut – created by cutting a piece of paper to get the 3D form: http://bit.ly/6RqL2P #
• Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city, story includes 7 photos: http://bit.ly/7Hbecd #

Keeping with the Book of the Dead theme I am recommending Raymond Faulkner’s Book of the Dead as a Christmas gift today:

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