Archive for January, 2009

The Egyptian Cultural Centre and Educational Bureau in London is concerned mainly with promoting the Egyptian Culture in the United Kingdom, through developing links and exchanges between the two countries’ cultural institutions to help increase cultural awareness and build positive cultural and educational relations. The programme includes evening lectures as well as full days sessions... »

American Exhibitions, Inc., in association with the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum of Mannheim, Germany, announced that the blockbuster exhibit Mummies of the World: The Dream of Eternal Life, the largest traveling exhibition of mummies and artifacts, will tour science centers and museums in the United States for a limited three year tour commencing July... »

Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile is a new generation real time strategy game that lets you raise your own Egyptian civilization. Besides the 3D rendering engine, Immortal Cities is one of the few games that actually use real historical buildings. The title comes with an impressive collection of temples, homes and other civic buildings... »

UK – A council which was duped into paying £440,000 for a fake Egyptian statuette said today that it hopes to put the sculpture on display in a local museum. Bolton Council bought the 20-inch Princess Amarna in 2003 after it was authenticated as 3,300 years old by the Egyptology department at Christie’s and the... »

Finnish archaeologists are conducting field study on a hut village of the workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. The village was originally discovered by Bernard Bruyère in 1935. “In the early twentieth century, archaeologists were only interested in the tombs of kings. Now several international research groups on different excavations... »

Image via Wikipedia In cooperation with Berlin’s world-famous Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, the Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach (Erbach German Ivory Museum) presents Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Rulers in the Divine Light (April 3-August 9, 2009). Some 70 works of art from Egypt’s Amarna Period are superbly displayed, each produced during the 17-year reign of the enigmatic... »

Image via Wikipedia A lecture on the restoration and preservation of Middle Eastern heritage was delivered at the American University of Kuwait(AUK) on Sunday. Dr. Jere Bacharach, Director Emeritus at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies and a world-renowned Middle East studies scholar, spoke during the occasion. Dr. Bacharach outlined five essential... »

Image via Wikipedia Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a pier used by ancient Egyptians to access the Karnak temple complex during the dry season in the southern city of Luxor. The discovery was further evidence of the importance the complex held in the religious life of ancient Egypt, as other temples had a single dock, according... »

This year, as usual, the Main Hall of the Opera House became a temple for the day, embellished with an imposing façade, columns and statues of ancient Egyptian Pharaohs and deities for the celebration of Archaeologists’ Day. The stage had a special backdrop featuring the logo of the SCA, a cartouche bearing the ray... »

Recent discoveries by a Polish archaeological mission at Tel Al-Farkha (literally “the chicken hill”) in the north-eastern Delta about 120 kilometerss north-east of Cairo are remarkable and sensational. Remarkable in that they reveal that the “Two Lands” of Upper and Lower Egypt were not rivals in predynastic times but culturally united. Sensational in the... »