Ancient Egypt News for Thursday 04-02-10
Quinn Dombrowski, who discovered the graffiti asked an Egyptologist at the university to translate it. It reads:
ỉw ỉr.n.n st m dw3t sp sn
“We did it twice in the morning”.
Today’s artefact is the King Den’s sandal label from the British Museum, which is currently running the History of the World in 100 Objects podcast. You can subscribe to it for free on iTunes or visit the website A History of the World in 100 Objects, where you can also read about the object and listen to the podcast. Each podcast is about 14 minutes in duration.
In Den’s time the role of ‘keeper of the sandals’ was a high rank with privileges
Meanwhile, Hawass teases us with some exciting news to come in the weeks ahead, once again mentioning the long awaited and much postponed exploration of the narrow ‘air shafts’ inside the pyramid of Khufu:
Hawass said that “the next three months will see a series of discoveries and important events at the level of Egyptian antiquities, including, along with what the golden pharaoh Tutankhamun, other important archaeological discoveries in the area of Saqqara and the Pyramids,” south of Cairo.
He added that during the next few days, Egypt will announce important discoveries in Saqqara at a conference on the same area of archaeological discovery, while the month of March will witness the “introduction of robots to the corridors of the Great Pyramid of King Khufu to reveal the secrets of these corridors.”
- Artifact of the Day: King Den's sandal label. View the photo, read the summary, & listen to the podcast at the BBC: http://bit.ly/atBd2H #
- Leena posts a close up of the latest addition to the Cleopatra & Caesarion painting: http://bit.ly/cTPJaq #
- PHOTO: Stairway to Light – inside the Red pyramid of Sneferu at Dahshur: http://bit.ly/b3QufM #
- PHOTO: the Giza Pyramids: http://bit.ly/dxxD8A #
- PHOTO: Beneath the Lourve Pyramid – the Pyramide Inversée: http://bit.ly/aMO3cq #
- More on the Antiquities bill: “Zakariya Azmy accuses Zahi Hawass of leaking false information on the antiquities law": http://bit.ly/cx3eJS #
- LECTURE: "Art in Ancient Egypt: Images of Life in the Afterlife", 7 pm Tues, Feb. 9, University of Wyoming Art Museum: http://bit.ly/9Fc9BF #
- Latest batch of 2nd-hand books from the EES added to eBay include Beni Hasan, Meir, Abydos, Naukratis and Bubastis: http://bit.ly/cVCgRr #
- Sphinx-lined alley hints at wealth of Egypt's lost empires: http://bit.ly/annYrB #
- PHOTO: Pyramids Over Cairo – the Giza Pyramids overlook Cairo in the evening light: http://bit.ly/ckxR3Z #
- Artist's paintings are inspired by Ancient Egypt: http://bit.ly/aeTDoj #
- Hawass: Egypt to make major archaeology announcements on February 17, including secrets of the lineage of Tutankhamun: http://bit.ly/ckn0Sz #
- Hosni, Hawass and Luxor's governor Samir Farag will today inspect the progress of the work on the Avenue of Sphinxes: http://bit.ly/9hqo3K #
- The University of Manchester to discuss the scientific study of mummies – was Ramesses II a true redhead? http://bit.ly/avCd2M #
- Ancient Egyptian Artefact, Returned by Met Museum, to be Reunited with Statue at Karnak: http://bit.ly/daKTgc #
- Hieroglyphic Sex Graffiti at the Oriental Museum…and Hieratic sucks: http://bit.ly/9fEXQ2 #
Photo Hieroglyphic sex graffiti by Quinn Dombrowski. Some rights reserved.
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