Archive for March, 2009

Image by mharrsch via Flickr I first thought that the scientists here were seeing more than the CT in their interpretation, since this type of sculptures are usually created by roughing out the proportions in the carved stone core and refining the details in the surface modeling. Other articles indicate that the layer of stucco... »

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An excerpt from a thought provoking article by Henry Newman, an industry consultant with 28 years experience in high-performance computing and storage. My wife and I were in New York’s Central Park last fall when we saw a nearly 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk that has been remarkably well preserved, with hieroglyphs that were clearly legible —... »

During a press conference at the exhibition “Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaoh,” Zahi Hawass, suggested that an important new finding in the Valley of the Kings is imminent. Dr. Hawass was in Atlanta to give a lecture at the Fox Theatre about new discoveries that he has made with a team of... »

Since it opened last October, the King Tut exhibition has drawn more than 500,000 visitors to the Dallas Museum of Art, officials there announced this week. That means the DMA has passed the halfway point of its anticipated 1 million visitors, with eight weeks left until Tut embarks for San Francisco. With the Tut show... »

The Pyramids and the Sphinx, normally bathed in the golden glow of high-powered floodlights, will go dark for an hour on Saturday, in a symbolic statement Egyptian environmentalists hope might indirectly save the Nile Delta from inundation. The World Bank has warned that Egypt faces “catastrophic” consequences from global warming. A rise of one meter... »

Three Ancient Egyptian child mummies dating 2000 years were virtually unwrapped by sophisticated X-ray scanners more usually used to detect brain tumours in hospitals. Within just an hour of starting the scans at BMI The Blackheath Hospital, in London, the scientists made a startling discovery. A gold-masked mummy, long thought to belong to a girl... »

Egypt’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate for a second consecutive month as urban inflation in the Arab world’s most populous country eased to its slowest pace in more than a year and the economic growth rate fell. The overnight deposit rate was lowered by half a percentage point to 10 percent and the... »

Individual and group ticket pre-registration for Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (June 27-October 2009) is being accepted at the exhibition’s website. Currently at the Boisfeuillet Atlanta Civic Center in Georgia (November 15, 2008-May 17, 2009), the exposition explores the role of kingship in the earthly and... »

Image via Wikipedia The history and culture of Lower Nubia was always inextricably intertwined with Egypt’s. Yet, the relationship was never clearly defined. Lower Nubia was culturally contiguous with Egypt proper, but it was never fully incorporated into the “Two Lands”. Why Lower Nubia continued to be designated as something of a Wild West by the... »