Ancient Egypt News for Friday 04-12-09
Having studied a bit of Programming language and also dabble in the ancient Egyptian language I enjoyed the story about the project to get the words “Hello World” printed in Ancient Egyptian on a T-shirt.
Other stories today include another group of students and a mural of the pyramids, a new study shows the horrible dental problems the ancient Egyptians suffered from, a mummified Ibis gets reborn thanks to high tech scanning, the Suez canal celebrates it’s 150th birthday.
The Oriental Institute Splendors of the Nile group continues thier tour of Egypt and they’ve been blogging as they go. The group has just been to the temple of Hathor at Denderah. I noticed that one of the photos posted was of the rear side of the temple Sanctuary and has the scene of Cleopatra and Caesarean that we’ve been following Leena paint. The same scene is mirrored on both areas. They’ve weathered quite differently over the years. Here are links to both so that you can compare them for yourself: Leena’s painting & the OI photo.
- PHOTO: Inside the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid of Khufu: http://bit.ly/4ovC28 #
- PHOTOS: Medinet Habu slideshow: http://bit.ly/8rnCxq #
- The Audi tomograph scanner used for examining an Egyptian mummy of an ibis, can even make it fly (through simulation): http://bit.ly/7dKQJy #
- Computer Programmers and Egyptologists converge to create simple traditional output: 'Hello World' in hieroglyphs: http://bit.ly/80BmSC #
- VOCAB: (MdC): Wrt-n Tr, (English): necropolis, (Hieroglyphs): http://bit.ly/5BUdDd #
- CT scan at Stanford University goes inside the wrappings of a mummy…without destroying what lies beneath: http://bit.ly/6K7p3v #
- Not ancient but the Suez Canal is now 150 years old: http://bit.ly/4u3xzK #
- A systematic review of more than 3,000 mummy analyses reveal ancient Egyptians suffered from bad teeth: http://bit.ly/8eys3I #
- ADHS students help build bridges of understanding through mural of the pyramids of Egypt: http://bit.ly/5mmDBu #
- English voyager finds whales in Egyptian desert: http://bit.ly/6ILxIj #
- Ancient descriptions of ancient Egyptians: http://bit.ly/73NFtK #
- VIDEO: King Tut’s Treasure: http://bit.ly/75fsZu #
- Nefertiti Summit Moved to December 20, 2009: http://bit.ly/5vS2Q3 #
- The OI Splendors of the Nile group are now at Denderah. Recognise the scene in the bottom photo? http://bit.ly/5JY0jj #
- PHOTO: The Mummy of Sitre-In, the wet-nurse of Queen Hatshepsut, found with her in KV 60. From Dr Zahi Hawass: http://bit.ly/6WqbqU #
Photo: Canal de Suez by mmma some rights reserved.
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