Edition - July, 2011
Inscriptions of Mortuary Temple of Seti I
The author Michael Heiser is looking for publication on the inscriptions of the hieroglyphic inscriptions at the West Bank of thw Mortuary Temple of Seti I. Can anybody point to where these have been published please? [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Edition - June, 2011
The Geese of Meidum
This iconic painting from the Old Kingdom Mastaba of Nefermaat and Itet is in The Egyptian Museum in Cairo and consists of three pairs of birds on one register. The right-hand central pair are universally accepted as Red-breasted Goose, Branta ruficollis, and the left-hand central pair as Greater White-fronted Goose, Anser albifrons. [more…]
By Jackie Garner and John Wyatt
The Rekhyt
The hieroglyphs of the rekhyt, Gardiner sign G23 or G24 have previously only been identified as the “black”-backed Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus. However, apart from its colours, the Northern Lapwing has two other key identification features, a crest and a solid black breast. [more…]
By Jackie Garner and John Wyatt
Gantenbrink’s Door – Part I: the Orginal Discovery
Although we now know that there is chamber at the end of the shafts in the Queen’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid, I still remember first hearing in the late 1990s that something had been found. The whole affair was shrouded in secrecy, back in the days when Dr. Hawass was the Director in charge of the Giza Plateau rather than Minister of State, the position he holds today. [more…]
Television Review: Egypt’s Lost Cities
“Space Archaeology” is the new buzzword adopted by the BBC in its documentary “Egypt’s Lost Cities.” Not to be confused with the branch of archaeology studying orbiting space debris, it describes instead the use of satellite images to locate archaeological remains beneath the earth’s surface. [more…]
Studying Hieroglyphs Online – Some Observations
In 2009 I signed up to study the ancient Egyptian Language online through the Glyphstudy group. The Glyphstudy group is available, free of charge, to anyone interested in studying the grammar of ancient Egyptian. There are a number of groups under the Glyphstudy banner. [more…]
Pigs in Ancient Egypt – Photographs
Does anyone have any photographs of pigs in AE contexts that they would be willing for me to use? I want to write an article on the subject of how pigs were used in the Egyptian agricultural mix, and need photographs to illustrate the article which may appear online. You would need to own the […] [more…]
Please help identify these Egyptologists / Anthropologists
Marianne Clancy has sent in a couple of photos and would appreciate help in identifying the people shown, thought to be Egyptologists. She believes they were taken in 1925/6 and knows that the gentleman in the top left in the close up is the anthropologist Maurice Emetaz who was a member of Societe d’Anthropologie de […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Odd-headed deity from Abydos
James Whitfield, who has added some great photos of Abydos to the Photo Album, has a query about the figure in this post: I haven’t seen any figures like this before that I can remember. I can see the hieroglyphs for Nephthys on the right side of the photo, but I’m unsure if […] [more…]
Edition - May, 2011
Picture Wanted: KV58 Shabti (CCG 60472)
Dylan Bickerstaffe is still trying to trace a photograph of this shabti, shown in this drawing – Plate XCI by Lancelot Crane, from Theodore Davis’ The Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatankhamanou (London 1912). The figure is 23.5 cm high and numbered CCG 60472. If anybody has a photograph, Dylan would be very appreciative! I have […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley