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Haremhab, The General Who Became King at the Met
The ambitious successor of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.) is the subject of Haremhab, The General Who Became King, opening November 10, 2010 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. This landmark exhibition’s objects are drawn entirely from the institution’s collection of Egyptian art. Haremhab (r. 1332-1309 B.C.) was the resourceful commander-in-chief of the boy-king... »
Ancient Letter to Akhenaten found in Palestine
Image via Wikipedia A one square inch fragment of a clay tablet believed to be a letter written by Abdi-Heba, the Canaanite ruler of Jerusalem to pharaoh Akhenaten has been found outside the old walls of the ancient city. Thought to date back some 3,400 years, this would make it the most ancient written document ever... »
Tutankhamun’s DNA test results unveiled
Image via Wikipedia UPDATE: June 28, 2010 – German researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in the northern city of Hamburg said in a letter published online Wednesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association that closer scrutiny of Tutankhamun’s foot bones pointed to sickle cell disease, in which red blood... »
King Tut DNA tests results to be published this month
Image via Wikipedia Dr. Zahi Hawass will soon announce the results of a DNA study conducted on the mummy of King Tutankhamen. The tests are part of a larger ambitious program aimed at confirming the identity of the royal mummies and their familiar relations. It is believed that Tutankhamen is the son of Akhenaten, the pharaoh... »
Akhenaten a pacifist? Not so, according to findings from Toronto’s Egypt Symposium
Despite popular belief that he (Akhenaten) shied away from warfare, Professor Prof. James Hoffmeier, of Trinity International University, found evidence that the heretic-king kept a well-equipped, and supplied, fortress in the Sinai desert. It was located on the east side of the modern day Suez Canal. How well supplied? Well for starters the fortress had... »
Exploring Amarna: Akhenaten’s Abandoned City
Image via Wikipedia Exploring Amarna: Akhenaten’s Abandoned City is a course directed by Professor Barry Kemp, a renowned Egyptologist and Director of excavations at the site since 1977. This will be a unique opportunity to hear Professor Kemp give a week of lectures in addition to guided tours of Tell el-Amarna. Course Description This course will be... »
Amarna: Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun
Image via Wikipedia The long-term exhibition Amarna: Ancient Egypt’s Place in the Sun at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia debuted on November 12, 2006. Expertly designed by the McMillan Group, the state-of-the-art installation features more than 100 artifacts from Akhetaten (present-day el-Amarna), the desert capital of heretical Pharaoh AKhenaten... »
The Beautiful has Come. Portrait Masterpieces from the Egyptian Museum of Berlin
23 June 2009 – 20 September 2009 The exhibits displayed at the exhibition were taken away from Germany in time of the Second World War and were kept in the State Hermitage until 1958; they were returned to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin the same year. Three sculptural heads from the workshop of Tuthmosis created in... »
Archaeologists find statues of ancient Egypt king
A team of Egyptian and European archaeologists have discovered two statues of King Amenhotep III in front his mortuary temple at Kom Al-Hittan near modern Luxor, the site of the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes. Amenhotep III (ca. 1379 – 1340 BC) left more images of himself than any other pharaoh, among these the... »
Akhenaten and Nefertiti Exhibition in Erbach, Germany
Image via Wikipedia In cooperation with Berlin’s world-famous Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, the Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach (Erbach German Ivory Museum) presents Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Rulers in the Divine Light (April 3-August 9, 2009). Some 70 works of art from Egypt’s Amarna Period are superbly displayed, each produced during the 17-year reign of the enigmatic... »
