Monday, October 18, 2004

Following news courtesy of the EEF.

Oh, sure

Egyptian mummy odour for sale "to help give displays a more authentic touch":
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=553&fArticleId=2261949

Trust us. Mummies stink.

Dr Hawass about the supposed "hidden chamber" in the Kheops pyramid:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/712/hr2.htm

The "annual occasion of the perpendicular sun fall on the face of
Ramses II's statue in the Temple of Abu Simbel" will get a special
celebration and a CD:
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o171024h.htm

Dr Hawass about the supposed "hidden chamber" in the Kheops pyramid:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/712/hr2.htm
[Ed. You know, before we die we'd like to be able to say this: " On my first night in Paris I was fortunate to be dining with Omar Sharif."]

The "annual occasion of the perpendicular sun fall on the face of Ramses II's statue in the Temple of Abu Simbel" will get a special celebration and a CD:
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o171024h.htm

"The Stela of Era of 400 Years" (JE 60539)
-- Drawing of the stela in: Revue archéologique, Nouvelle série, vol. XI (1865), pl. IV [between pp. 168 and 169] - this vol. also contains an early French translation by Auguste Mariette, La stèle de l'an 400, pp. 169-190
URL: http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Gallica&O=NUMM-203580
-- Hieroglyphic text and French translation
URL: http://sethy1.free.fr/An400.html
-- English translation in: James Henry Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, vol. III, Chicago, 1906, sections 538-542
URL: http://snipurl.com/9tml
-- English translation by James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts, Princeton, 1969, pp. 252-253
URL: http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/rameside_inscription.htm

Online version of: E.H. Cline, D. Harris-Cline( eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium, Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Symposium, University of Cincinnati, 18-20 April 1997, in: Aegaeum, vol. 18 (1998) - the articles can be downloaded as pdf-files.
TOC: http://www.ulg.ac.be/archgrec/aegaeum18pdf.html

Online version of: Lana Troy, Resource management and ideological manifestation. The towns and cities of ancient Egypt, in: The Development of Urbanism from a Global Perspective ("Urban Origins in Eastern Africa" final conference in Mombasa, 1993)
"Today's scholars ... present a vision of Egypt as a complex society incorporating a great diversity of communities, combining both rural and urban elements. An increasing focus on settlement archaeology has fuelled an interest in the social structure as well as the material remains of ancient Egyptian communities." - 58 pp., pdf-file: 168 KB
URL: http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/afr/projects/BOOK/Troy/troy.htm