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Richard Parkinson on Egyptology
Image via Wikipedia Egyptology is a relatively recent discipline, and was born in imperial times. Unfortunately it is still tainted by its own colonialist stereotypes or those similar to the macho archaeologist embodied by Indiana Jones. Popular books still go on relentlessly about uncovering finds, cracking secret codes – a language... »
International Congress of Egyptologists
Image via Wikipedia The Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt (SCA) is proud to announce that it has been entrusted by the International Association of Egyptologists (IAE) with the task of organizing the 11th International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE) 2012. The SCA hopes to build on the enormous success of the 2000 Congress, the last... »
Peter D. Manuelian to be appointed Harvard’s first Egyptology professor in decades
Image via Wikipedia After years dedicated to shedding light on the work of the late Harvard Egyptology Professor George A. Reisner, Class of 1889, Peter D. Manuelian ’81 will become the first Egyptology professor at Harvard since his predecessor’s death 68 years ago. Manuelian, currently an Egyptology lecturer at Tufts, will be the first person to... »
“Mummies, Science and Egyptology II” at the University of Manchester
Image via Wikipedia The University of Manchester is hosting “Mummies, Science and Egyptology II”, a day school on Saturday 6th February to discuss the scientific study of ancient Egyptian mummies, including Ramses the Great. Professor Rosalie David, who will lecture at the day school, said: “Even in death Ramesses II remains a fascinating figure. In 1974,... »
DVD: The Pyramid Code
The Pyramid Code is a fascinating new five-part series that explores the pyramid fields and temples in Egypt and megalithic sites around the world, looking for clues to sophisticated technology in the ancient world. The series is based on the extensive research done in Egypt and around the world by Dr. Carmen Boulter of the... »
Hitler, Nazi Germany and Egyptology
University of British Columbia Professor Thomas Schneider is examining the history of German Egyptology during the Nazi era. Before Hitler’s rise to power Germany was a respected centre of Egyptology. The foreign affairs ministry financed an archaeological institute in Cairo that was used as a base to conduct scientific research. The country’s scholars had made important... »
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... »
Zahi Hawass and the future of Egyptology
Excerpted from an interview by Megan Kirby before Dr. Hawass’s lecture at the architectural history department’s sixth Savannah Symposium on World Heritage last month. Kirby: Do you think the field of Egyptology is finally in the hands of the Egyptians? Hawass: Well, I’ll tell you one thing; I think that the Egyptology of the past was... »
Retired curator Virginia Burton dies at 90
Image via Wikipedia The only child of a dentist and his wife, Ms. Lucille Virginia Burton was born in St. Louis but moved to Richmond as a child. After graduating from Barnard College, she worked in public relations for the Metropolitan Museum and eventually landed a position in the Egyptology department of the Brooklyn Museum. She returned... »
The Egyptian Cultural Centre and Educational Bureau Egyptology programme for 2009
The Egyptian Cultural Centre and Educational Bureau in London is concerned mainly with promoting the Egyptian Culture in the United Kingdom, through developing links and exchanges between the two countries’ cultural institutions to help increase cultural awareness and build positive cultural and educational relations. The programme includes evening lectures as well as full days sessions... »
