Yesterday's EEF news first, and then we will post some more news items later.
"Egyptian embassy retrieves stolen [Predynastic] antiquities":
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o250225f.htm
Dr. Hawass reacts against critics in the Tutankhamun scanning project:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/732/he2.htm
Some Egyptological sections in the online version of:
Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002.
"Rejecting the usual arid descriptions of sine, cosine, and their trigonometric relatives, he [Maor] brings the subject to life in a compelling blend of history, biography, and mathematics."
-- Prologue, pp. 3-10: "Ahmes the Scribe, 1650 B.C." [About pRhind, especially problems 56-60] - pdf-file: 320 KB
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/books/maor/prologue.pdf
-- Sidebar A, pp. 11-14: "Recreational Mathematics in Ancient Egypt" [problem 79 of pRhind] - pdf-file: 240 KB
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/books/maor/sidebar_a.pdf
A ' new' text from the BM, about the invasion of Ptolemy III into Mesopotamia, has been published online as BCHP11:
R.J. van der Spek, I.L. Finkel, Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period (forthcoming), no.11, preliminary on line:
http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/chron00.html
(The website deals with Babylonia, but has some background articles about Egypt:
http://www.livius.org/egypt.html
With e.g. the bibliographic text of Wedjahor-Resne.)
Digitized books from the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée
-- Auguste Mariette, Karnak. Étude topographique et archéologique avec un appendice comprenant les principaux textes hiéroglyphiques découverts ou recueillis pendant les fouilles exécutées à Karnak, 2 vols., J. C. Hinrichs, 1875. 88 pp., ills.; 56 pls.
text vol:
http://www.mom.fr/bibliotheque/bibnum/Notice.php?id=1004&url=3D1
plate vol.:
http://www.mom.fr/bibliotheque/bibnum/Notice.php?id=1003&url=3D1
Digitized Book from the Giza Digital Library
-- Ahmed Fakhry, Sept tombeaux à l'est de la Grande Pyramide de Guizeh, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Le Caire, 1935. 36 pp., 8 pls. - pdf-file: 5.9 MB
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/fakhry_7_tombeaux.pdf
'Archaeology' magazine of March/April 2005 has two articles by Mark Rose
-- "Queen of the Novel", about best-selling author Barbara Mertz.
Long abstract online:
http://www.archaeology.org/0503/abstracts/mertz.html
-- Book review, available online, of: Janice Kamrin's Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide (New York: Abrams, 2004; compared to Collier&Manley:
http://www.archaeology.org/0503/reviews/glyphs.html [Eds. We found this book to be excellent]
Online version of: Mark Lehner, Giza. A Contextual Approach to the Pyramids, in: AfO, vol. 32, pp. 136-158 (1985)
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/lehner_afo_32.pdf
* Online press review of:
Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel-Hakim (eds.), 'Traveling through Egypt: From 450 BC to the Twentieth Century' (American University in Cairo Press, 2004)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/731/tr3.htm
Online press review of:
Dr O. El Daly, 'Egyptology: The Missing Millennium. Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings' (UCL Press, 2005)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/feature/newsitem.shtml?cleopatra