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 July 4th – July 10th 2009
- VOCAB: (MdC): imntiyw, (English): Westerners, (Hieroglyphs): http://twitpic.com/9tup2 #
- AUDIO: Ever wondered about the meaning of the word ‘Sarcophagus’? http://is.gd/1sFiI #
- PHOTO: Some shots of the Tutankhamun Mummy: http://is.gd/1sEAF #
- PHOTO: Dr. Hawass and the Japanese Ambassador Kaoru Ishikawa: http://is.gd/1sEoz #
- Japan tour success for Durham’s Egyptian treasure: http://is.gd/1sEgV #
- DOWNLOAD: Queen, by Silk Roth from UCLA’s Encyclopedia of Egyptology, from the EEF: http://is.gd/1sD70 #
- RT @Lizzi2611 Learn Hieroglyphs! Ask me how! Help me feed the kids and finance law school. Pretty please? http://is.gd/1sBkD in reply to Lizzi2611 #
- RT @britishmuseum Free tour this Friday at 18:15. Meet in Gallery 64 to hear about the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt #
- Egypt Project, forthcoming exhibitions of new work inspired by ancient Egyptian art: http://is.gd/1sAZR #
- Mummy Murder Mystery Deepens After Scans: http://is.gd/1sclj #
- X-ray scans of three ancient relics from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery show the museum’s mummy to be a man: http://is.gd/1rwu3 #
- Czech scientists study mummies with CT scan: http://is.gd/1rwgW #
- Egypt tries to break foreign monopoly in archaeological finds: http://is.gd/1rwfO #
- VOCAB: (MdC): imntt, (English): West, western, (Hieroglyphs): http://twitpic.com/9q0gf #
- VIDEO: National Geographic – Into the Great Pyramid – USA Only: http://is.gd/1rt0X #
- New book features pyramid in the old churchyard at Castlerickard, Longwood, & almost 200 pyramids in Britain and Ireland: http://is.gd/1rsKL #
- PHOTO: The Catacombs of Tuna el-Gebel, or Hermopolis: http://is.gd/1rs73 #
- Advanced nuclear science can shed new light into the well-being and nutrition of ancient mummies: http://is.gd/1rs2V #
- Azazeel (or Azazil), or Beelzebub is a controversial novel to look forward to: http://is.gd/1rrZB #
- The first phase of The Virtual Manuscript Room (VMR) project is complete and is now online: http://is.gd/1rrxI #
- Cleopatra VII Documentary to be filmed in Egypt later this month on the life of Cleopatra VII: http://is.gd/1rrpJ #
- Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed another cache near the Western gate of the National Museum in Cairo: http://is.gd/1rreK #
- Berlin’s Neues Museum Announces Grand Re-Opening: http://is.gd/1rr6G #
- High-tech imaging reveals hidden past in ancient texts: http://is.gd/1rqQv #
- VOCAB: (MdC): imnty, (English): western, (Hieroglyphs): http://twitpic.com/9mvnv #
- Manchester Museum is currently hosting four curators on the British Museum’s International Curatorial Training Programme: http://is.gd/1qp1h #
- The Bangkok Post calls Dr Zahi Hawass “the real Indiana Jones”: http://is.gd/1qoKd #
- Dr. Hawass gazing at the site of Taposiris Magna: http://is.gd/1qoew #
- News from the Petrie Museum, London, UK, from Jan Picton, via Andie Byrnes: http://is.gd/1qocr #
- Easily Overlooked Ornamentation – a segment on James Henry Breasted and the typmanum over the Oriental Institute doorway: http://is.gd/1qo33 #
- Berlin’s Neues Museum Announces Grand Re-Opening: http://is.gd/1qnS8 #
- How the Brooklyn Museum transported their Mummies to the hospital: http://is.gd/1pdH2 #
- IAEA – Mummy Secrets: Nuclear Science Unravels Mysteries: http://is.gd/1pcU4 #
- VOCAB: (MdC): iAbtt, (English): East, (Hieroglyphs): http://twitpic.com/9j4h2 #
- During work on developing the Egyptian Museum, a monument cache was discovered near the western door’s stair: http://is.gd/1pbB2 #
- Opera stars get physical for new Aida: http://is.gd/1pbw8 #
- Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun: http://is.gd/1paVU #
- Dr Zahi Hawass and his trip to San Francisco and Indianapolis: http://is.gd/1p8Gk #
- VOCAB: (MdC): iAbty, (English): eastern, (Hieroglyphs): http://twitpic.com/9fy7h #
- After 2,800 years, court singer gets some help facing the music: http://is.gd/1oi0u #
- Latest news from Ian Shaw, who is the Director of the Gurob Harem Palace Project (GHPP) in Egypt, from Andie: http://is.gd/1ogjG #
- Kings of the Nile – Tut stars in striking exhibit featuring more than 100 Egyptian antiquities: http://is.gd/1oeVd #
- Experiment and Experience: Ancient Egypt In The Present at Swansea University, week of 10th May 2010. From the EEF: http://is.gd/1ocBn #
- PHOTO: A beautiful shot of the Pyramid Texts in the Pyramid of Teti from the passage looking into the burial chamber: http://is.gd/1ndY7 #
- India meets Egypt musically in Rahul Sharma’s new album: http://is.gd/1ndTZ #
- VOCAB: (MdC): r, (English): to; for, (Hieroglyphs): http://twitpic.com/97fx9 #
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