http://allaboutegypt.org Discoveries, news, travel updates, films, documentaries, publications, exhibitions Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:24:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Walters Art Museum and the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Diagnostic Radiology department joined forces to perform a virtual autopsy of the mummy of a woman who is the centerpiece of the museum's exhibit "Mummified," running from Nov. 15 through Nov. 8, 2009. The computerized tomography (CT) scan ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/virtual-autopsy-of-mummy-at-walter-arts-museum/ Fifty-nine world nations represented by 150 movies, including 22 movies from nine Arab countries, will take part in the event. Egypt is participating with nine movies. The Spanish cinema is the guest of honor of this year's CIFF. The nine Arab countries participating in the event are Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/cairo-international-film-festival-kicks-off/ An estimated 30,000 Bedouins in the Sinai peninsula are no longer able to make enough milk, butter and cheese off their animals. A severe drought over the past years has dried out available pasture land and is forcing them to eek out a meager existence out of the waste left ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/a-not-so-glitzy-way-to-live-off-egypt-tourism-for-sinai-bedouins/ Image via Wikipedia Jane Akshar of Luxor News has posted an article by Ray Johnson, Director of the Epigraphic Survey Chicago House about the urban renewal program in Luxor and its effects on the local population, tourism, antiquities preservation, and the archaeological community. The following is an excerpt: Since I started working ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/more-re-luxor-development-plan/ "Can you believe our government can do nothing for us, and this thing that was built thousands of years ago is still helping me feed my family?" Image by liber via Flickr For citizens and foreigners alike, there is no escaping the truth that Egypt is inextricably linked in the public consciousness ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/modern-egyptians-living-in-the-shadow-of-past-greatness/ Image by ©M o c c a . CHOCOLATA via Flickr Forty-five tribes have populated Egypt's deserts for millennia and yet their existence remains a mystery to the country's urban masses. The Characters of Egypt Festival aims to showcase their ways of life. The aim of the festival is to provide ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/a-joyful-encounter-with-the-desert-people-of-egypt/ Over the past three months, conservators at the Museum of Civilization have been painstakingly piecing together a few large pieces and hundreds of tiny fragments from the lid and the back of a rare 2,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus broken during a violent student protest in 1969 at the École des Beaux-Arts ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/curators-restore-ancient-egyptian-coffin-smashed-in-1969-student-protest/ Image by Abe WORLD!!!! via Flickr “Unlocking the Great Pyramid” (8 p.m. Sunday). So the Egyptians just used a giant ramp to cart those 2-ton stones up to the top, right? Actually, there’s no way that happened, despite what you saw in the movies. In this program Nat Geo contributor Bob Brier ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/pyramids-and-mummies-on-national-geographic-channel/ The exhibit "Egypt's Sunken Treasures" will remain until next December 30 at the Matadero de Legazpi given its huge success among the public of Madrid. More than 200,000 people have already visited the show since its inauguration on April 15. Although its closing was supposed to happen on September 28, the ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/egypts-sunken-treasures-prolongs-its-stay-in-madrid-until-the-end-of-the-year/ Image via Wikipedia Archaeologists have discovered a new pyramid under the sands of Saqqara, an ancient burial site that remains largely unexplored and has yielded a string of unearthed pyramids in recent years. The 4,300-year-old monument most likely belonged to the queen mother of the founder of Egypt's 6th Dynasty, several ... http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/11/egypt-4300-year-old-pyramid-discovered/