Comments for Egypt Then and Now http://allaboutegypt.org Discoveries, news, travel updates, films, documentaries, publications, exhibitions Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:44:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Lower Tourism Revenue Expected for Egypt by Egypt announces measures to bolster tourism : Egypt Then and Now http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/10/lower-tourism-revenue-expected-for-egypt/#comment-559 Egypt announces measures to bolster tourism : Egypt Then and Now Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:15:30 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=445#comment-559 [...] Lower Tourism Revenue Expected for Egypt Possibly Related Classroom Projects From DonorsChoose.org [...] [...] Lower Tourism Revenue Expected for Egypt Possibly Related Classroom Projects From DonorsChoose.org [...]

]]> Comment on Tutenstein captures the Daytime Emmy for Best Cartoon two years running by Summer Finley http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/tutenstein-captures-the-daytime-emmy-for-best-cartoon-two-years-running/#comment-557 Summer Finley Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:26:12 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=458#comment-557 I wouldn't exactly call this a comment, but I just want to say that I am also really proud about the hit series, "Tutenstein", because I am a truly big fan of the series. (the fact that I love learning things on Egypt) What I really want is if whoever is responding to this letter, if you can ask Jay Stephens if his hit movie, "Tutenstein: Clash of the Pharaohs", is coming to DVD, or at least will be posted on the internet, because I technically don't have cable where I live, and the only time I ever get to watch "Tutenstein" is if I go to my friend's house. I would rather much like to see it, it sounds interesting the fact that I heard that it was a TV Special! Please ask Jay Stephens if he could make it onto DVD, if not planning to. Thank you for your time! :) Sign: One of King Tut's most adoring follower. I wouldn’t exactly call this a comment, but I just want to say that I am also really proud about the hit series, “Tutenstein”, because I am a truly big fan of the series. (the fact that I love learning things on Egypt) What I really want is if whoever is responding to this letter, if you can ask Jay Stephens if his hit movie, “Tutenstein: Clash of the Pharaohs”, is coming to DVD, or at least will be posted on the internet, because I technically don’t have cable where I live, and the only time I ever get to watch “Tutenstein” is if I go to my friend’s house. I would rather much like to see it, it sounds interesting the fact that I heard that it was a TV Special! Please ask Jay Stephens if he could make it onto DVD, if not planning to. Thank you for your time! :) Sign: One of King Tut’s most adoring follower.

]]> Comment on Egypt: 4,300-year-old pyramid discovered by Three Egypt related stories among National Geographic Top 10 archaeology news : Egypt Then and Now http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/egypt-4300-year-old-pyramid-discovered/#comment-530 Three Egypt related stories among National Geographic Top 10 archaeology news : Egypt Then and Now Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:24:31 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=483#comment-530 [...] New pyramid found in Egypt: Long buried by deep sands, the newly discovered 4,300-year-old Queens tomb is a testament to a [...] [...] New pyramid found in Egypt: Long buried by deep sands, the newly discovered 4,300-year-old Queens tomb is a testament to a [...]

]]> Comment on Ancient warrior mummy found by Three Egypt related stories among NG Top 10 archaeology news : Egypt Then and Now http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/02/ancient-warrior-mummy-found/#comment-529 Three Egypt related stories among NG Top 10 archaeology news : Egypt Then and Now Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:22:05 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=69#comment-529 [...] Rare Egyptian Warrior tomb found: Feathered arrows lying near a well-preserved coffin suggest that the mummy inside, when alive, may [...] [...] Rare Egyptian Warrior tomb found: Feathered arrows lying near a well-preserved coffin suggest that the mummy inside, when alive, may [...]

]]> Comment on A call for a new era of reconciliation and cultural exchange at the MET by Stan Parchin http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/12/a-call-for-a-new-era-of-reconciliation-and-cultural-exchange-at-the-met/#comment-432 Stan Parchin Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:56:11 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=530#comment-432 In Sharon Waxman's op-ed piece titled "How Did That Vase Wind Up in the Metropolitan?" in "The New York Times" (December 1, 2008), the author conveniently left out two important facts. (1) After New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated the Lydian Hoard to the Republic of Turkey in 1993, the country's authorities revealed the following year that an irreplaceable golden brooch from the cache had been purloined from a Usak museum and quietly replaced by a replica. The actual artifact still has not been recovered. (2) Waxman reported about the theft and substitution on her own website on July 21, 2007. The antiquities were obviously more secure at The Met than in their homeland. Using Waxman's own words, the FORMER New York Times reporter has committed a "lie of omission" in her unfairly negative characterization of The Metropolitan Museum of Art with regard to the Lydian Hoard. In Sharon Waxman’s op-ed piece titled “How Did That Vase Wind Up in the Metropolitan?” in “The New York Times” (December 1, 2008), the author conveniently left out two important facts. (1) After New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated the Lydian Hoard to the Republic of Turkey in 1993, the country’s authorities revealed the following year that an irreplaceable golden brooch from the cache had been purloined from a Usak museum and quietly replaced by a replica. The actual artifact still has not been recovered. (2) Waxman reported about the theft and substitution on her own website on July 21, 2007.

The antiquities were obviously more secure at The Met than in their homeland.

Using Waxman’s own words, the FORMER New York Times reporter has committed a “lie of omission” in her unfairly negative characterization of The Metropolitan Museum of Art with regard to the Lydian Hoard.

]]> Comment on Mystery of the screaming mummy by julie lawlor http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/mystery-of-the-screaming-mummy/#comment-376 julie lawlor Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:10:13 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=473#comment-376 could you please send any information about dr asraf salim the doctor who x rays the mummies at cairo museum thank you julie could you please send any information about dr asraf salim the doctor who x rays the mummies at cairo museum

thank you julie

]]> Comment on Great Pyramid was on the verge of collapse during construction by Jean-Pierre Houdin http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/10/great-pyramid-was-on-the-verge-of-collapse-during-construction/#comment-286 Jean-Pierre Houdin Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:44:46 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=421#comment-286 In reply to Mr Robert G. Bauval... Dear Sir, Before going public with wrong affirmations, you should better inform you about what you are writting... For your information: If you had red the book Dr Bob Brier and I have recently published, you should have noticed that I know Mr Jean Kerisel an hundred times more than you could think. Mr Kerisel was a friend of my father since 1954...and for 50 years ! Mr Kerisel is at the origin of my passion for Khufu ! Even if Mr Kerisel was a well respected engineer, he went wrong regarding the cracks of the King's Chamber...It happens sometimes...And he went wrong too about Khufu himself...Khufu was certainly not a tyranic guy... Your writings are too much biased with nothing true !!! As for the Orion Mystery...before going to the stars, look first at the topography of the Plateau...The answer is just there... I fully understand that I'm disturbing your own Pyramid Business...A lot of people thinking the Earth was flat were angry when it was prooved that the Earth was spheric... That's life... Best Regards Jean-Pierre Houdin In reply to Mr Robert G. Bauval…

Dear Sir,

Before going public with wrong affirmations, you should better inform you about what you are writting…

For your information:

If you had red the book Dr Bob Brier and I have recently published, you should have noticed that I know Mr Jean Kerisel an hundred times more than you could think. Mr Kerisel was a friend of my father since 1954…and for 50 years !

Mr Kerisel is at the origin of my passion for Khufu !

Even if Mr Kerisel was a well respected engineer, he went wrong regarding the cracks of the King’s Chamber…It happens sometimes…And he went wrong too about Khufu himself…Khufu was certainly not a tyranic guy…

Your writings are too much biased with nothing true !!!

As for the Orion Mystery…before going to the stars, look first at the topography of the Plateau…The answer is just there…

I fully understand that I’m disturbing your own Pyramid Business…A lot of people thinking the Earth was flat were angry when it was prooved that the Earth was spheric…
That’s life…

Best Regards

Jean-Pierre Houdin

]]> Comment on Great Pyramid was on the verge of collapse during construction by Breitner http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/10/great-pyramid-was-on-the-verge-of-collapse-during-construction/#comment-277 Breitner Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:17:03 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=421#comment-277 The pyramid was *never* on the verge to collapse and Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin are not saying that in their book. Simulations performed with industrial software from Dassault Systèmes have shown that the cracks in the beam occured after the king's chamber was completed. However, only a slight collapse on the southern wall account for that disorder. We have carefully simulated each step of the chamber construction and found out that the Egyptians never made design errors, as some people previously wrote. This is the first time that finite element analysis software is used to simulate and explain the cracks in the king's chamber and it does make a big difference. The plasters put by the Egyptians in the cracks was here only to check that the disorder was not progressing anymore. It was not intended to repair anythinbg (how could have it repaired such cracks?). We know now how and when the cracks occured, and this has never been done before. The simulation and the result is not borrowed from any previous work or hypothesis. The pyramid was *never* on the verge to collapse and Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin are not saying that in their book.
Simulations performed with industrial software from Dassault Systèmes have shown that the cracks in the beam occured after the king’s chamber was completed. However, only a slight collapse on the southern wall account for that disorder. We have carefully simulated each step of the chamber construction and found out that the Egyptians never made design errors, as some people previously wrote.
This is the first time that finite element analysis software is used to simulate and explain the cracks in the king’s chamber and it does make a big difference. The plasters put by the Egyptians in the cracks was here only to check that the disorder was not progressing anymore. It was not intended to repair anythinbg (how could have it repaired such cracks?). We know now how and when the cracks occured, and this has never been done before.
The simulation and the result is not borrowed from any previous work or hypothesis.

]]> Comment on Great Pyramid was on the verge of collapse during construction by Robert G. Bauval http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/10/great-pyramid-was-on-the-verge-of-collapse-during-construction/#comment-271 Robert G. Bauval Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:38:14 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=421#comment-271 Bob Brier has "borrowed" this theory from another researcher. The hypothesis that the cracks in the granite roof beams of the King's Chamber are contemporary with the Great Pyramid's contruction was first proposed by Jean Kerisel many years ago. Kerisel even proposed that the ancient architect examined the cracks from above the roof and repaired them with mortar. See Jean Kerisel's book "La Pyramide a Travers les Ages" (1991),pp.78-9. Bob Brier has “borrowed” this theory from another researcher.

The hypothesis that the cracks in the granite roof beams of the King’s Chamber are contemporary with the Great Pyramid’s contruction was first proposed by Jean Kerisel many years ago. Kerisel even proposed that the ancient architect examined the cracks from above the roof and repaired them with mortar.

See Jean Kerisel’s book “La Pyramide a Travers les Ages” (1991),pp.78-9.

]]> Comment on Rosetta Stone(s)? by Ben Morales-Correa http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/10/rosetta-stones/#comment-233 Ben Morales-Correa Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:35:34 +0000 http://allaboutegypt.org/?p=409#comment-233 This is the first time I read about these "Canopy Stones" and I don't understand why a proclamation with a version written in demotic, a popular script, would be placed in an area of a temple where the public was not allowed. This is the first time I read about these “Canopy Stones” and I don’t understand why a proclamation with a version written in demotic, a popular script, would be placed in an area of a temple where the public was not allowed.

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