Overview: The Gurob Harem Palace Project Conference
The Gurob Harem Palace Project (http://www.gurob.org.uk), directed by Dr Ian Shaw from the University of Liverpool is collaborative, led by the University of Liverpool, University of Copenhagen and University College London. The conference took place on July 29th 2012 in Liverpool. Originally named Mer-Wer, today’s name derives from the nearby Medinet el-Gurab. It was investigated by a number of previous excavators including Flinders Petrie, William Loat and Guy Brunton before coming, for many years, under military control. The Gurob Harem Palace Project started work at the site in 2005, and their work is ongoing. [more…]
Book Review: Life Everlasting
Life Everlasting: National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins Bill Manley and Aidan Dodson 2010 National Museums Scotland ISBN 978-1-905267-17-0 176 pages Introduction Having recently read an excellent paper by Julie Ann Morgan about the way in which Third Intermediate Period mummies can be analysed and understood, I was in just the […] [more…]
Book Review: Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel
Grand Hotels of Egypt is essentially a book about the influx of western visitors into Egypt after Napoleon had departed and Anglo-American style infrastructure had arrived in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using contemporary accounts and photographs, cartoons and some remarkable marketing material in full colour, Andrew Humphreys explores the role of the grand hotels of the day in the constant swirl of people as they experienced Egypt’s towns and cities. [more…]
The Mortuary Temple of Nebpehtyre Ahmose at Abydos
By Barbara O’Neill. Published on Egyptological, In Brief, August 14th 2012 Introduction: An Overview of the Mortuary Temple In the Old and Middle Kingdoms, pyramid complexes incorporated a mortuary chapel where cult to sustain the deceased king could be maintained. By the Eighteenth Dynasty however, the royal-mortuary temple had evolved from an integrated part of the […] [more…]
Maths made fun! Pharaoh’s Formulae: a fun approach to Egyptian Mathematics.
Published by Wendy Goodridge (Assistant Curator, the Egypt Centre) on Egyptological, In Brief, on 3rd August 2012. The Egypt Centre, at Swansea University, was faced with the threat of loosing school party visits when ancient Egyptian history was taken from the National Curriculum in Wales. The education programme was re-vamped, with advice from local […] [more…]
Egyptological Back Online Today
Anybody who tried to access the site yesterday would have noticed that the site was down. I am pleased to say that it wasn’t a problem with the site itself but with the Rackspace database server. Our hosting provider, SiteHQ, moved us off the affected server to get us running again as quickly as possible. […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Edition - July, 2012
Babi: Bull of the Baboons
By Andrea Byrnes. Published on Egyptological, In Brief, 26th July 2012 Ferocious and alarming, baboons are amongst nature’s aggressive species. With vast teeth, which they are all too willing to display, brightly coloured rear quarters and loud, screeching voices, they make an impression. They are also sociable animals, at least amongst themselves, forming tight […] [more…]
21st Dynasty Mummification
By Michelle HY Low. Published on Egyptological, In Brief, 24th July 2012. The death of Ramesses XI marked the end of the 20th Dynasty and the New Kingdom, which consequently led to the emergence of the 21st Dynasty and the Third Intermediate Period. With the emergence of this new era, Egypt experienced an instability not […] [more…]
By Michelle Low
Book and CD Review: Ancient Egyptian Designs and Motifs
By Andrea Byrnes. Published in In Brief, on Egyptological. 18th July 2012. Ancient Egyptian Designs and Motifs CD-Rom and Book (451 Royalty Free Designs) Dover Publications 2006 ISBN-9780486997612 Introduction I saw this for sale on special offer in a bookshop and bought it out of curiosity, not for any specific purpose, […] [more…]
Photo request: Pepy 1 and his son in the Cairo Museum
I am very urgently trying to obtain a good colour photo of Pepy 1 and his son in the Cairo Museum, for use in an exhibition catalogue. I can’t get any response from the Museum. Can you help or suggest where to try? It is very urgent. I have found a good one of the […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley