Fun/Odd
Cat survives two-week voyage to Britain from Egypt
Pharoah the cat has survived after stowing away in a container on a merchant ship that arrived at the British port of Felixstowe after a 3,000 mile journey from Egypt. The hungry animal was found in a container after two weeks on board the MV Maersk Batam which travelled from the Port Said in Egypt... »
Nintendo DS Game – Jewel Master: Egypt
Storm City Entertainment, a publisher of interactive entertainment products, today announced release information for “Jewel Master Egypt,” a story-based, match-three puzzle game developed by cerasus.media for play on Nintendo DS™. November 3, 2009 has been confirmed as the shipping date for the game, with in-store product availability shortly thereafter. Beyond the “typical” match-three puzzle game,... »
Garden statue is really a masterpiece by a modern Egyptian sculptor
A 4 feet tall bronze statue of a woman carrying a water vessel, used as a mere back yard adornment for 4 decades in a Cleveland home, turned out to be a work of art created in Paris in 1931 by Egyptian sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar, known as the father of modern Egyptian art. The piece... »
Meaning of ancient Egyptian script on “LOST” poster revealed
Dr. James Allen, Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Chair of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University was asked by Popular Mechanics to decipher the hieroglyphs inside the letters of “The Final Season” in the poster for ABC’s show LOST. The ancient Egyptian writing translates to “Who is the leader (guide)?” »
Ancient artifacts to be returned to bankrupt antique dealer
Nebraska State Treasurer Shane Osborn has seen a lot of odd unclaimed property. But this year the surprise was ancient artifacts, and they’ve set a precedent, Osborn said. A Pharaoh mask from 2,500 B.C., ancient Roman clay jars, daggers from Phonecia, pottery from Greece and hunting spears from Africa comprise the true treasure trove this... »
Hawass’ lucky hat
My lucky hat has become my trademark, and a symbol of archaeology. Since I started wearing it, it has become more famous than Indiana Jones’. An article in the Washington Post even said that the real hat of archaeology is the Zahi Hawass hat. We are selling the reproduction hats now in the United States, and next... »
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... »
