Talking Pyramids

This weeks feature photo comes from the Brooklyn Museum’s Egypt collection: Beginning in the New Kingdom, when the solar cycle became a major theme in art, small pyramid-shaped objects called pyramidions (which, like the pyramids themselves, were solar symbols) were made as separate funerary stelae or to cap the pyramids now built atop private tombs. [...]

Cat mummy x-ray, Brooklyn Museum CC BY-NC-ND The Brooklyn Museum has an update on the musuem’s animal mummy research project. In the video Lisa Bruno, head conservator of objects at the Brooklyn Museum, discusses the nature of many of the animal mummies in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. She begins her presentation, however, with the scanning [...]

In a previous post about the statue of Hemiunu, I mentioned that his eyes, which were probably made from coloured stones, were gouged out by robbers. The Brooklyn Museum yesteday made the announcement of an upcoming exhibition Body Parts which will feature a range of other body parts from ancient Egyptian works of art in [...]

Brooklyn Museum’s trip to the hospital with four of their mummies yesterday was an event not to be missed. Many of us all over the world were able to ‘tune in’ via popular social networks such as Flickr and Twitter. Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum’s technology geek, delivered a running commentary with photos as the four [...]

Tomorrow morning the Brooklyn Museum will be taking their four ancient Egyptian mummies to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset to undergo CT scanning. One of the four mummies is former royal prince of Thebes, Pasebakhaienipet, another is simply referred to as the “mystery mummy”. The aim of the scanning is to help learn more [...]

The British Museum’s much loved wall paintings from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun has become a permanent peice in the new gallery of ancient Egyptian art. Visitors who came to pray or to make offerings would have admired the murals for qualities that would make any work of art from any historical period exceptional – the [...]

For the final post in the series on Ancient Egyptian Games I’ve collected a bunch of games that can be played online and put them all together here on one page. Looking for more games? I’ve started a blog called Ancient Egyptian Games that features many games with an Ancient Egyptian theme including a selection [...]