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Ancient Egyptian Epagomenal Festival
Image via Wikipedia The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California will be hosting its annual Egyptian Epagomenal Festival on Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, July 19. In ancient Egyptian mythology, the calendar included 360 days plus five additional epagomenal days. These epagomenal days were days “out of time” when the goddesses Isis and Nephthys,... »
Isis an influence on modern religions
Image via Wikipedia According to Egyptian mythology, Isis was the spiritual mother of every pharaoh, but experts say her influence is still seen in the Christian icons of the faithful wife and loving mother. She was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, the goddess of the Overarching Sky and was born... »
Musée de la Civilisacion website is fun an educational
Musée de la Civilisacion is located in Quebec, Canada. Their latest exhibit takes you back to ancient Egypt to learn about the process behind mummification, and the significance of the rituals these desert dwellers engaged in to secure a blissful afterlife. The exhibit website has a variety of features to engage the user in the... »
Exhibition review: Gates of Heaven at the Louvre
Image via Wikipedia Ancient Egyptian tombs and mortuary temples usually featured stone stelae, or markers, which were carved to resemble doors or gateways, and these seem to have had a symbolic function as ways of access to the dead. Investigation of the function of such gateways is one part of the exhibition’s remit, but the... »
Book Review: The Smiting Texts
Author: Roy Lester Pond Published by Austin Macauley 372pp A controversial Egyptologist is hired to avert a clash between two world superpowers thousands of years apart Mr. Anson Hunter is an Egyptologist not so comfortable with the term. A phenomenologist who specializes in what the author calls fringe Egyptology, Hunter interprets arcane Egyptian belief in a way that... »
UA Libraries and Professor Richard H. Wilkinson publish new E-Journal
UA Regents’ Professor Richard H. Wilkinson, who has led excavations and other research in Egypt, came up with the idea to launch a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on scholarly work centered on ancient Egypt art, history, religion, technology and culture and the country’s relationship with its neighbors. The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, an electronic... »
Ancient Egypt: Pioneers in medicine
Image via Wikipedia Egyptian medicine is one of the oldest in history. Herodotus identified this region as a fertile land that produces an abundance of drugs, some are remedies and other poisons, its doctors are the wisest of the world. The art of healing that was practiced at that time made use of plants and plant... »
Man arrested in Egypt for mummy smuggling
An Australian teacher who stuffed his luggage with 2,000-year old animal mummies and religious figurines wrapped as gifts was arrested Wednesday, an Egyptian airport security official said. The 61-year teacher was heading to Thailand when a security official became suspicious of the wrapped figurines that were placed amid souvenir ceramic pots in his suitcase. When... »
Performing Ritual in Ancient Egypt
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:00 to 9:00 pm Friends of Ancient Egypt (FAE) are invited to a lecture by Dr. Robyn Gillam, Professor at York University. Archaeological and textual evidence points to performance-based activities in ancient Egyptian religious ritual. Dr. Gillam will explore this on-going tradition and the emerging field of “performance archaeology”. Dr. Robyn Gillam is a... »
"An archaeologist's dream and biggest challenge"
A comprehensive article by Will Hobson about the significance of having the rightful place to preserve and exhibit Egypt’s vast archaeological legacy. I especially like the following paragraphs for his views on ancient Egyptian’s obsession with life (not death as many suppose) and three good reasons why Egypt has so much archaeological wealth. The Ancient... »
