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Ancient Egypt News for Friday the 22-01-10

Signet Ring bearing the cartouche of Khufu
There is not much in the news today so I have linked to a few books and journals that were listed on EEF this morning.

Don’t forget that you can find many more books in the Library at the Pyramid Texts Online.

  • Artifact of the Day: Signet Ring bearing a cartouche of Khufu, belonging to Neferibre, a priest in the cults of Isis: http://bit.ly/6MbSZG #
  • "The Secret African City": Ancient Egyptian's Influences On Washington, D.C.'s Planning And Architecture…: http://bit.ly/61Db2w #
  • Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary obtains Dead Sea Scrolls fragments: http://bit.ly/4TJhTh #
  • AUDIO: Egypt Explores Tourism Beyond The Package Tour: http://bit.ly/4RFSHv #
  • COURSE: Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture), taught by Bob Brier: http://bit.ly/7QFUmr #
  • Photographer focuses on ancient Egypt in new exhibit at Albany Institute of History & Art: http://bit.ly/84Cwr3 #
  • UCL Museums & Collections – Upcoming exhibitions and lectures: http://bit.ly/8wgb3s #
  • PDF: The Book of Dead (after a hieroglyphic papyrus in Turin) – Lepsius, Carl Richard (in German): http://bit.ly/8M4XTx #
  • PDF: The royal tombs of the first dynasty, 1900-1901 (1900) – Petrie, Flinders (from the EEF): http://bit.ly/4Kgt9j #
  • PDF: The Queens of Egypt, the complexities of female rule in the First through the Nineteenth Dynasty – Hamar, Rachel: http://bit.ly/5eIlml #
  • Summary of Natural Language Processing and ancient languages. Language Processing 2009 Volume 50 Number 2 (from AEL): http://bit.ly/5Z1Chf #

Finally, a colourful video involving the pyramids of Giza….just because it’s Friday.

Photo Signet Ring is from the Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.734E. Creative Commons-BY-NC

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