Archive for January, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Many of us are tired of mass media’s interest in using archaeological facts as a solid foundation on which to build hoaxes usually dealing with apocalyptical issues and hyping them to their prime time audiences. Well, archaeologist Sarah Parcak is doing something about it. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) professor conducted... »

The Victoria and Albert Museum presents a unique collection of over 100 forged paintings and sculptures seized by the capital’s Metropolitan Police. Shown to the public for the first time, the collection includes fake antiquities, paintings attributed to English painter L.S. Lowry, Roman vessels and medieval jewelry from the workshop of Shaun Greenhalgh, called the... »

Image via Wikipedia According to a recent survey conducted by US-based travel company Gate 1 Travel (www.gate1travel.com), only Italy surpasses Egypt among the top 10 travel destinations worldwide. Not only home to the only standing wonder of the ancient world, Egypt is geopolitically stable, sunny and surprisingly affordable, especially to European travelers. moneycontrol.com »

In the field of archaeology, a great number of extraordinary finds make headlines either because of their actual significance or because of the sensational circumstances surrounding them. Some discoveries, however, come to us piecemeal; they are never breaking news because their significance comes only gradually, the result of years of sustained work, dedication and... »

Image via Wikipedia A touring exhibition that has been traveling to museums and science centers across the globe has landed a permanent home at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square. In “Secrets of the Pharaohs”, Egypt’s ancient monuments have been rebuilt in the basement exhibition area of the museum — entirely in Lego. Scale models of some... »

At the heart of a “heated debate” in the Egyptian Parliament (People’s Assembly) was the question of what constitutes an Egyptian antiquity and whether the people are capable of identifying an object as such. Article 8 of the proposed law, supported by Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, would ban the trade or any other form... »

In this exhibition, contemporary photographer Sarite Sanders approaches Egypt’s ancient monuments like a 19th century traveler, purposely ignoring color and human presence, creating the illusion of distant structures just emerged from the sands of time and seen for the first time. Using infrared film 35mm film that the photographer now calls “extinct”, Sanders contrasts the... »

From about 700 to 1700, many of history’s finest scientists and technologists were to be found in the Muslim world. In Christian Europe the light of scientific inquiry had largely been extinguished with the collapse of the Roman empire. But it survived, and indeed blazed brightly, elsewhere. From Moorish Spain across North Africa to Damascus, Baghdad,... »

Image via Wikipedia In an extensive new study, a team of scientists has determined that the revered relics of Joan of Arc are nothing more than the bones of a human and a cat tracing back to ancient Egypt. The relics, which have fooled onlookers for decades, did resemble burnt bones, in keeping with historical accounts... »

Image via Wikipedia The global agency overseeing Internet domain names said Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates can begin creating online addresses in their native languages. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) effectively broke the Latin alphabet’s three-decade hold on Internet domain names. The four approved countries may request local language... »