Amenemhet III’s ‘Black’ pyramid
A series of lectures will be given by Egyptologist Gayle Gibson at the Royal Ontario Museum on the last Wednesday of each month.
ROM Egyptologist Gayle Gibson returns to Egypt in January 2010. This time she will be in Dashur crawling around in three of the biggest Pyramids in Egypt. The Blunt Pyramid [...]
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Today’s artefact, the Pyramidion of a Woman from the Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund also features in today’s ‘Friday Photo’ where you can read more about it and see close up photos thanks to the Brooklyn Museum.
Artefact of the Day: Limestone Pyramidion of a Woman, 1185-718 B.C.E., XX – XXII Dynasty, [...]
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
Today’s artefact is once again, inspired by the BBC’s ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’. It is the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.
From the BBC website:
An ancient Egyptian papyrus from around 1550 BC, used to train scribes. It contains 84 different calculations to help with various aspects of Egyptian life, from [...]
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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 [...]
Statue of Cleopatra VII
Artefact of the Day: Mummy of Hornedjitef in the British Museum . Listen to the 15 minute podcast: http://bit.ly/d0hh5R #
Love triangle set in ancient Egypt: Elton John & Tim Rice’s AIDA, Pasadena, Texas, Feb 19th – March 14th: http://bit.ly/af7Hay #
Arts of Ancient Egypt, an introduction to the art and [...]
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Artefact of the Day: Cleopatra's Needle – photos and documents relating to the obelisk’s removal & transportation: http://bit.ly/aXDUmY #
CC Talks With Shelly Bernstein about the Brooklyn Museum's openness and use of the Creative Commons licenses: http://bit.ly/cPwuIC #
Turin Egyptology collection online: http://bit.ly/d38ZPX #
Employment: Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology/Egyptology, UCL. Closing Date: 1st [...]
Nubian Pyramids
This morning saw a continuation of the rewrapping of the mummy known as the “Anonymous Man”. There will be one final day on Tuesday when they’ll wrap things up…literally. Sorry, couldn’t resist that one.
There was a very brief but interesting video on the website of Dr Hawass today about producing a very [...]
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