Talking Pyramids

As with all the artefacts mentioned in the BBC’s ‘A History of the World’ episodes, you can view images, listen to the podcast, or read the transcript over on the BBC’s website: Egyptian clay model of cattle.

The piece featured today as Talking Pyramids’ ‘Artefact of the Day’ was discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society and so the EES have posted an article with additional details about the discovery with photos and documents so be sure to check that out in the links below.

• Artefact of the Day: An ancient Egyptian clay model of cattle. Listen to the 15 minute audio podcast from BBC: http://bit.ly/b60N2N #
• A clay model of cattle of the Predynastic Period (Naqada I) discovered by the Society at El-Amrah in 1900-1901: http://bit.ly/cjyWpt #
• VIDEO: James Henry Breasted and the founding of the Oriental Institute, thanks to Tim: http://bit.ly/dgKH6h #
• What Kind of God Do You Think You Are? Atum (3), Susan Llewellyn's blog: http://bit.ly/aiSXdG #
• Re-writing Nefertiti: the history and historiography of Egypt's most famous queen, Feb 10th, 3pm, Manchester Museum: http://bit.ly/b1epx4 #
• The UCL Petrie Museum has created an LGBT History Trail of objects that tell of homosexuality in ancient Egypt: http://bit.ly/bU0OEs #
• Em Hotep has a new article: Who Built the Pyramids? Part 1: The Lost City of the Pyramid Builders: http://bit.ly/czf1Yv #
• A number of pyramids had been installed at accident prone spots to 'reduce the negative energy' in Nagpur, India: http://bit.ly/brIyLR #
• Czech President Vaclav Klaus and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak talked about a large Egyptological exhibition in Prague: http://bit.ly/dAOqoD #
• Books on board games, puzzles, teachers guides, cut outs, activity books, mazes, jigsaws, code writing kits, and more: http://bit.ly/9ChhpX #
• The American Research Center in Egypt is running a level 2 class in hieroglyphs in California, March 6: http://bit.ly/bOtUfC #
• Egyptian Hieroglyphs Meetup Groups in America: http://bit.ly/bFFtm7 #
• Ancient Egyptian Exhibit Opens at Children's Museum in Macon: http://bit.ly/amvhKq #
• Interpretations of Edfu. For the first time, a temporary exhibit is being displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo: http://bit.ly/dno0qf #
• Project Djehuty Dig Diary Update: Uncovering the new mud brick tomb from the New Kingdom & fragments of Coptic textile: http://bit.ly/cKBmDS #
• A list of letters and papers relating to Amelia Edwards and her colleagues is now available online at the EES: http://bit.ly/a8QeKT #
• Conference: Experiment and Experience: Ancient Egypt in the Present – May 10-12 2010, Faraday A , Swansea University: http://bit.ly/9Mzjl6 #
• Zahi Hawass pays tribute to James Romano of the Brooklyn Museum of Art: http://bit.ly/cGC4bG #
• Ancient Legacies program readies to ship off
  Study abroad program to travel to Egypt, Greece and Italy: http://bit.ly/dg1fhB #
• The Giza Pyramids are NOT going to feature on Egypt's national flag after all: http://bit.ly/cf7Bhv #
• The Brooklyn Museum is back to re-wrapping the Anonymous Man. Update expected at the end of the day. Pictures so far: http://bit.ly/9Ce2Ar #
• Jane Akshar reports on the Luxor Temple excavations: http://bit.ly/9EaOE7 #

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