Ancient Egypt News for Sunday 06-12-09
More teaching and learning news today with the announcement of a vacancy for a Curator of Egyptology and Archaeology at the Bolton Library in London and the final of four seminars on Middle Kingdom Art by the the Society for the Study of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities (SSEA) at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Some presentations included one on the Giza underground cave system by Andrew Collins, another by Dr Szucs on the excavations currently under way at Lahun.
And as usual, a few interesting photos are included amongst the daily news posts.
- PHOTO: The Ramesseum: Past & Present: http://bit.ly/8XxNjQ
- PHOTO: Scarab: http://bit.ly/6v21aR #
- SSEA Seminar: The final of four sessions on Middle Kingdom Art: Royal Ontario Museum, Dec 10th: http://bit.ly/7j326P #
- Egypt is preparing to make a formal request for the return of the Rosetta Stone: http://bit.ly/5w0LZu #
- Job Vacancy: Curator of Egyptology and Archaeology at Bolton Library, London. Closing date: 8 January 2010: http://bit.ly/8oaSnL #
- Tim reports on the Andrew Collins talk last week about the underground cave system at Giza: http://bit.ly/6XMVum #
- GIFT:Ancient Egypt Explorer: Featuring a spotlight effect – shine a light into the tombs and pyramid to find things: http://bit.ly/5N7PUH #
- VOCAB: (MdC): zt (zmyt), (English): desert, necropolis , (Hieroglyphs): http://bit.ly/8okeeE #
- Dr. Laszlo Szucs will hold a presentation of the works carried out at El Lahun. Monday, December 7: http://bit.ly/4ESTa9 #
- PHOTOS: Some great shots of the Abydos and Dendara temples: http://bit.ly/4Xpaic #
- Your Mummy and Your Health: The Swiss Mummy Project Unravels Ancient Illnesses: http://bit.ly/7gi9ai #
Photo of the Ramesseum by the Brooklyn Museum used in referrence to the post about the The Ramesseum: Past & Present photo taken by © Libyan Soup.
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