Italy says will return Ethiopian obelisk [the Axum Obelisk] in April
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=7454760
[Submitted by Michael Tilgner]
Press report: "The Valley of the Golden Mummies" "... about recent discoveries made by archeologists working in Egypt ..." [in Special English]
URL: http://snipurl.com/cine">
The Shabaka Stone / "The Memphite Theology" (BM EA 498) date: 25 dyn., reign of Shabaka (Junge) [original composition also dated to the NK by others]
-- Photographs, drawing [= ZÄS, vol. 39 (1902), pls. 1-2], English translation and commentary
URL: http://maat.sofiatopia.org/shabaka.htm
URL: http://maat.sofiatopia.org/memphis.htm
-- The same drawing (590 KB)
URL: http://snipurl.com/cggm
-- English translation
URL: http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/texts/shabaka_stone.htm
-- English translation: Lichtheim I, 51-57 [see also Lichtheim III, 5]
URL: http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~wilson/The%20Memphite%20Theology.htm
(WOW. Just. . . .WOW)
Online version (in several PDF files) at the Etana website of: W. M. Flinders Petrie, Tarkhan I and Memphis V. British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London, 1913.
URL: http://snipurl.com/cing
[Next two items submitted by Michael Tilgner]
Online version of: William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery and Palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London, 1921. 7 pp., 61 pls. - pdf-file: 2.9 MB
URL: http://library.case.edu/ksl/ecoll/books/petcor00/petcor00.html
Digitized Books from the Giza Digital Library
-- Giza Mastabas, vol. 1: William Kelly Simpson, The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III [G 7530-7540], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1974. VI, 26 pp., 1 map, 4 plans, 22 pls., 17 pls. with drawings [7 folding] - pdf-file: 30.4
MB
URL: http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=gizamastabas1
Giza Mastabas, vol. 2: William Kelly Simpson, The Mastabas of Qar and Idu [G 7101-7102], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976. VIII, 31 pp., 34 pls. [one folding], 43 pls. with 1 plan, sections and drawings [22 folding] -
pdf-file: 58.6 MB
URL: http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=gizamastabas2
Giza Mastabas, vol. 3: William Kelly Simpson, The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II [G 7110-20, 7130-40 and 7150 and Subsidiary Mastabas of Street G 7100], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1978. X, 34 pp., 47 pls., 72
pls. with plans, sections and drawings [9 folding] - pdf-file: 58.8 MB
URL: http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=gizamastabas3
Giza Mastabas, vol. 4: William Kelly Simpson, Mastabas of the Western Cemetery, Part I [Sekhemka (G 1029); Tjetu I (G 2001); Iasen (G 2196); Penmeru (G 2197); Hagy, Nefertjentet, and Herunefer (G 2352/53); Djaty, Tjetu II, and Nimesti (G 2337 X, 2343, 2366)], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1980. VIII, 37 pp., 2 col. pls., 61 pls., 52 pls. with plans, sections and drawings [8 folding] - pdf-file: 66.6 MB
URL: http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=gizamastabas4
Giza Mastabas, vol. 5: Kent R. Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000 [Including G 6010 (Neferbauptah); G 6020 (Iymery); G 6030 (Ity); G 6040 (Shepseskafankh)], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1994. XXIII, 98 pp., 8 col. pls., 55 pls. - pdf-file: 32.9 MB
URL: http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=gizamastabas5
Giza Mastabas, vol. 6: Ann Macy Roth, A Cemetery of Palace Attendants [Including G 2084-2099, G 2230-2231, and G 2240], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2001. XXVI, 175 pp., 210 pls. - pdf-file: 56.5 MB
URL: http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=gizamastabas6
Giza Mastabas, vol. 7: Edward Brovarski, The Senedjemib Complex, Part 1 [The Mastabas of Senedjemib Inti (G 2370), Khnumenti (G 2374), and Senedjemib Mehi (G 2378)], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2000. XLIV, 186 pp.,
126 pls. - pdf-file: 169 MB
URL: http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=gizamastabas7
Online version of: John Gee, "There Needs No Ghost, My Lord, Come from the Grave to Tell Us This": Dreams and Angels in Ancient Egypt, Seminar Paper of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio,
Texas, November 20 - 23, 2004 ["Because these papers represent works in progress, they should not be quoted or otherwise cited without permission from the author."] - 23 pp., pdf-file: 178 KB
"This paper will discuss the ancient Egyptian use of dream sending and the messengers that appeared in them."
URL: http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Gee_Dreams.pdf
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And still in Egypt. . . Scientists find fossil proof of Egypt's ancient climate
Earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are studying snail fossils to understand the climate of northern Africa 130,000 years ago.
While that might sound a bit like relying on wooly bear caterpillars to predict the severity of winter, the snails actually reveal clues about the climate and environment of western Egypt, lo those many years ago. They also could shed light on the possible role weather and climate played in the dispersal of humans "out of Africa" and into Europe and Asia. Periods of substantially increased rainfall compared to the present are known to have occurred in the Sahara throughout the last million years, but their duration, intensity, and frequency remain somewhat unconstrained.
Lost city. . . .(not) found! (yet) Archeologists seek ancient lost city in Malaysian jungles?
Archeologists plan to search for what they believe might be a 1,000-year-old lost city in southern Malaysia's dense jungles, a news report said Thursday.
The Department of Museum and Antiquities hopes to mount an expedition in Johor state for a site known as Kota Gelanggi, an early trading center of the Srivijaya empire that ruled swathes of Southeast Asia for over 600 years starting in the seventh century, The Star newspaper reported.
Gold! RARE BRONZE AGE RING FIND
A CRUMPLED piece of metal found in a field in the Newchurch parish turned out to be an extremely rare Bronze Age decorative ring of national importance.
A treasure trove inquest was told how it was unearthed by illustrator Alan Rowe, of Alvington Road, Carisbrooke, while out metal detecting last summer.
Experts believe the ring, known as a composite ring and which comprises of three ribs fused together, may have hung from a twisted torc worn around the neck or from a bracelet.
Frank Basford, county archaeologist, said the piece, which weighs 3.57 grams and is 82 per cent gold, probably dated back to the middle Bronze Age period, making it around 3,500 years old.
Dig uncovers Roman links
Coventry's medieval history is well documented, but experts excavating in the city centre have made a discovery which could indicate there was a Roman settlement here hundreds of years before.
A team of archaeologists digging up the site near the Herbert Art Gallery ahead of the construction of the city's new history and archive museum have unearthed a Roman brooch. The find indicates there was Roman activity in the area - and could mean there was a settlement on the site.
The team has already found a number of other objects, including a Tudor salt container, several pieces of medieval pottery and a pit containing cat bones.
Old account may yield new clues to Lost Colony
A new translation of a 16th-century Spanish document may reinforce a hypothesis that the ill-fated Lost Colonists settled more toward the middle of Roanoke Island near Shallowbag Bay, rather than the north end of the island, where archaeologists have been searching for more than a century.
Working off a copy of the original document that was located at the Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, James Lavin, professor emeritus with the department of modern languages and literature at The College of William and Mary, said that Spanish pilot Pedro Diaz described a “flimsy” wooden fort that is “in the water,” possibly indicating a moat, and that it was located in a wet, marshy spot.
Experts check prehistoric Colo. village
Five thousand years ago, a band of ancient people built homes on the edge of a stream in what is now the Denver suburb of Parker.
It was not a temporary camp, like so many of the archaeological discoveries made from that period. People here made large houses, some of them 24 feet across, with wood posts and walls of brush or hide. They probably spent months in the area and may have returned, again and again, over centuries.
The experts at a construction site here have about a month or two to make sense of butchered bison bones, spear points, grinding stones and pit houses. After that, the site will probably be demolished to make way for Parker's new reservoir complex.
Biblical archaeology update Relics add to ongoing biblical disputes
An ancient fortress, a burial box and a piece of cloth--historical remains related to the Bible never cease to provoke heated debate, whether the discoveries are thought to be tantalizing clues, cynical hoaxes or just archeological mistakes.
Right now, for instance, three highly technical disputes have erupted over materials linked to Scripture. . .
Generally, yes. . . . Archaeologists Help Uncover Human Remains
Investigators uncovering clues in suspected serial killer Larry Bright’s backyard turned to archaeologists for their expertise.
Dickson Mounds archaeologist Alan Harn describes the soil behind Larry Bright’s house as a “layer cake.”
Grass was disrupted, and beneath it, archaeologists unearthed some important evidence.
All that digging is the painstaking process archaeologist Alan Harn has been leading in Larry Bright’s backyard.