Archive for February, 2009

From Amazon: Economy theory suggests that price ceilings produce shortages and price floors produce surpluses. Good theories should have testable results. This book describes examples in history where the government initiated price controls. It then shows the ill effects such controls caused. The most insightful criticism comes from perceptive contemporary sources who cite the... »

Image via Wikipedia India’s tech boom has inspired other developing nations to promote themselves as outsourcing destinations. The latest to try to cash in: Egypt. Tarek El-Sadany, a government official in charge of helping to grow the country’s information-technology industry, says that the country is well positioned to do these tasks—literally. Egypt is only two hours... »

Student Groups – Academic Groups The Revival of the AUC Egyptology Club…Coming Soon. Contact Info Email: Website: http://www.egyptologyclub.co.nr/ Location: Cairo, Egypt The First Official Meeting will be held on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 from 10.10 to 10.55 on the New Campus ( place to be announced ). »

A fortnight long archaeological extravaganza across the UK! The Festival of British Archaeology is the new name for the extremely successful and popular National Archaeology Week, the annual nationwide event which encourages people to get involved in archaeology through specially organised events and which has been celebrated and supported by hundreds of heritage organisations since... »

For this year, 2009, the annual meeting shall be through March’s first week, March 5th-13rd at Sawy Culture Wheel with the slogan “Heritage and Tourism”. The event is of three phases as follows: Phase 0 “Training and Orientation” A set of short presentation, each of 20-30 minutes is given that work as an orientation program for... »

Egyptian Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail called for a “scientific renaissance” in the Arab world, criticizing the region’s “bureaucracy” and lack of interest in research. He made the remarks at a meeting with University of Jordan professors and postgraduate students on Wednesday, one day before the university grants him an honorary PhD in arts and... »

An attacker stabbed a U.S. citizen in front of his wife in a popular Cairo tourist area on Friday in the second attack on foreigners in the Egyptian capital in less than a week, security sources said. They said the American, a teacher in his fifties in an American school in the coastal city of... »

The Neues Museum is Germany’s equivalent of the Louvre. It will house Berlin’s Egyptian collection, including the famous bust of Queen Nefertiti. Built between 1841 and 1859, the Neues Museum was left to decay after suffering bomb damage in World War II. Chipperfield’s approach to conserve everything that remained without replicating what was destroyed, filling... »

The mummy, Tchai-Ameni-Newit, and her sarcophagus are on public display in the Classical Studies Department’s Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World in North Court Academic Building. She lies in a glass-sided drawer that pulls out from the left wall, and her sarcophagus stands in a large glass case directly above her. According to... »

The last season of the mission lead by Prof. Karol Myśliwiec, from the University of Warsaw’s Mediterranean Archaeological Center in Egypt ended with spectacular discoveries that will help scientists understand procedures in preparing graves in the time of the Old Kingdom. The archaeologists also have found new aspects of burial rituals. The excavation zone... »