Weekly Updates from Bennu on Twitter
Every day Bennu reports on the latest news and information related to ancient Egypt. Once a week these updates are compiled and posted here.
Daily News from 23rd – 29th of May 2009
- Playmobile’s Pyramid, Sphinx with Mummy, Royal Ship, Pharoahs Temple, Egyptian Chariot, Egyptian Soldiers, Tomb with …. http://is.gd/CvNi #
- Students’ Mural To Be Wrapped Around Egyptian Pyramids: http://is.gd/CJSc #
- VIDEO: Forensic Brenda Robertson Stewart creates a face for the Wayne County Historical Museum’s 3000 year old mummy: http://is.gd/CJSc #
- For Kids – Tips for Budding Archaeologists, from Zahi Hawass: http://is.gd/D0i0 #
- From the people who brought you the pyramids…American Uni in Cairo is now fully operational: http://is.gd/D0jL #
- East Oweinat Satellite-Image Map acquired by Landsat-7 on May 2009 shows groundwater resources of Nubian sandstone aquifer: http://is.gd/D0te #
- Calling the Queen’s Authenticity into Question, more on the ongoing saga of Nefertiti’s bust: http://is.gd/Cs1w #
- Chemists from the University of Pennsylvania are trying to identify herbs in Egyptian medicines, tasty brews: http://is.gd/D8pJ #
- Story on Jane Akshar’s flats in Luxor: Exotic Arabesque House Opens in Luxor, Full of Eastern Promise and Western Comfort: http://is.gd/DDxi #
- Photo: Richard Avedon at the Pyramids, 1951: http://is.gd/DEtu #
- The Great North Museum and the ancient world opens with an ancient Egyptian gallery, from AWBG: http://is.gd/DIE0 #
- PHOTO: Maya Pyramids at Uxmal Glow in the Mexican Night with New Light and Sound System: http://is.gd/EfGu #
- The Wonderful Things from Howard Carter’s family cellar go on display. Tut’s items used as toys for children: http://is.gd/Fztc #tutankamun #
- The “Discovering Ancient Egypt” LinC class at Kelly Springs Elementary presented a play “The Point of the Pyramid”: http://is.gd/FAFd #
- Penn Museum is accepting applications for its Volunteer Docent program to start training in late August: http://is.gd/FANu #
- An archaeologist advocates multidisciplinary excavation to improve results – Sevilla team and the Temple of Tutmosis III: http://is.gd/FBF5 #
- Another Pyramid Computer, this one designed by a guy called Vincent wins first prize in Intel Case-mod competition: http://is.gd/FFTk #
- Ancient Pyramid with large, open rooms found on Apupato island in Mexico, may have been used for rituals: http://is.gd/FRts #
- Starting this weekend, COSI will be featuring a new exhibition entitled “Lost Egypt: Ancient Secret, Modern Science.”: http://is.gd/Hkl6 #
- Forensic artist Brenda Robertson Stewart’s reconstruction of a Mummy’s face gets ready for big debut Sunday: http://is.gd/HkGe #
- AUDIO: Penn Museum mummy to be CT scanned, this one is from the 2nd century BC: http://is.gd/Hl0N #
- German panel opposed to Egyptian minister as UNESCO head: http://is.gd/HlaG #
- Mummy myths are dispelled at Columbus Museum of Art: http://is.gd/Hlht #
- 13 year old Preston wins an award for his ancient Egypt project….and gives the $50 prize money to the SCA: http://is.gd/HlEs #
- Eton College returns suspect antiquities to Egypt after it was realised that many had probably been illegally exported: http://is.gd/HlWi #
- Reconstructing the Afterlife in a Vanished Religion: http://is.gd/Hsdh #
- Adin Jewelry: The unlikely Evolution of the Dung Beetle: http://is.gd/HuYK #
- VIDEO: Replica of Tutankamun’s artifacts on Exhibit in Watertown: http://is.gd/Hw90 #
- Enjoy a day at the Great North Museum with two Egyptian mummies:http://is.gd/HwxP #
- Law & Osiris: a book review of ‘Nefertiti the Book of the Dead’ by Nick Drake: http://is.gd/HwEH Buy the book at Amazon: http://is.gd/Hx5Z #
- Culture minister Farouk Hosni apologises for offer to burn Israeli books, hopes to become director-general of UNESCO: http://htxt.it/Tl1C #
- Tomb raiders – COSI’s new archeological exhibit focuses on everyday Egyptians’ lives (and afterlives): http://is.gd/InUx #
- More on the “Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science”. COSI exhibit helps visitors solve mysteries of past: http://is.gd/Iohy #
- VIDEO: Egypt Unwrapped – Alexander the Great’s Lost Tomb, from National Geographic: http://is.gd/IpJU #
- AUDIO: Hyperlinked History – Building a Following by The Faceless Historian, Egyptian pyramids are linked to soft drink?: http://is.gd/IpTa #
- Workmen find remains of the Temple of Isis while digging inside Florence courthouse: http://is.gd/Iqsi #
- Egypt at the Manchester Museum has a Curator’s Diary update from the Mnajdra temple in Malta: http://is.gd/IqLt #
- In search of a Dominican Cleopatra, from Friends of Egyptology: http://is.gd/Iujj #
- National Museums Liverpool Blog has a Night at the Museum Competition. Score some free tickets, a telescope, a torch, …: http://is.gd/Iupr #
- AUDIO: Berkley webcasts – History 4A The Ancient Mediterranean World, from Andie Byrnes: http://is.gd/Jmsy #
- Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar – Onomastics and Name-extraction in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri: http://is.gd/JmLK #
- Seven of the eight ancient Egyptian artifacts that were stolen in 2007 from the Bijbels Museum in Amsterdam are recovered: http://is.gd/JpBN #
- Egypt at the Manchester Museum – EES Annual Conference 2009: New Explorations, 20-21 June 2009: http://is.gd/JrhR #
- The Last Pharaoh of Egypt – Zahi Hawass, from the Friends of Egypt: http://is.gd/Jrja #
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