Fun/Odd
The return of the “Mummy Worshippers”
Chanting mummy worshippers have returned to plague a South Wales museum. The mummy-obsessed visitors deserted Swansea Museum after CCTV cameras were introduced five years ago. But now they are back, sometimes spending hours prostrated before the remains of Tem Hor, a mummified priest who lived in Upper Egypt between 250 and 200 BC during the... »
Brew ancient Egyptian-style beer with unhulled barley
Image via Wikipedia When archaeologists dug up King Tut’s and other ancients’ tombs in the 1920s and more recently, in the 1990s, they found starch granules in the ancient bread crumbs and beer dregs that revealed all the processes to which the bread was exposed during baking and brewing into beer. All you have to do... »
Sadat's daughter sues Egypt government over Hollywood movie
Image via Wikipedia Rokaya Sadat, elder daughter of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, claims the memory of her father has been sullied by a Hollywood film that has named a dog after him. Sadat has filed a lawsuit against Minister of Information Anas Fekki for allowing the release of the “I Love you, Man”... »
Death of Michael Jackson "revives" ancient Egyptian statue
The public is flocking to the Chicago Field Museum with the hope of catching a glimpse of the newest celebrity: the limestone head of an Egyptian female from the New Kingdom Period (1550 B.C. to 1050 B.C.), which has an uncanny and now eerie resemblance to the last facial alteration of the now defunct... »
Egyptian Case Mod fit for a Pharaoh
Chris Kramer decided to do something different during summer holidays and what he ended up was building an Egyptian themed computer mod. He used some really specialized jewelry metal working, lapidary skills which involve gemstone cutting and polishing, stone working, several dozen pounds of limestone tiles and a stuffed dog in order to create... »
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
In Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy Nintendo DS players embark on a single player adventure in which they assume the role of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Victorian super sleuth Sherlock Holmes and investigate the mysterious case of a missing archaeologist and a valuable Egyptian mummy in turn-of-the-century England. What begins as a... »
'Battle of the Smithsonian' is right: Ancient Egypt is really, really cool
The sequel to Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum opens this week, cumbersomely titled Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. In the first film, Larry, a divorced dad played by Stiller, ends up as a night watchmen at the Museum of Natural History. What sets the movie’s plot in motion by magically... »
Egyptian inspired movie theaters
Image via Wikipedia Carlos Museum Egyptian art curator Peter Lacovara calls Atlanta’s Fox Theatre the “best-preserved example” of an Egyptian-styled showplace, but it’s hardly the only one. Also still in operation are: The Egyptian, Los Angeles: The old Grauman’s, which opened a month before the Tut discovery in 1922, earned a 2000 National Preservation Honor Award. The... »
Play the Game of the Pharaohs
The ancient Egyptian game of Senet is one of the oldest board games known, dating to Predynastic Egypt, circa 3500 BC. The game is featured in tomb paintings from the earliest dynasties. It appears that Senet began as a simple game popular across all social classes ... »
