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Ian Shaw's email re the postponement of the 2013 season of the Gurob Harem Palace Project posted on Egyptology News blog at http://bit.ly/111Pto6
Young Egyptians start “Stop the heritage drain” campaign to prevent loss of Egypt's heritage. Daily News Egypt http://bit.ly/17yTxQn
More re Nature article: Mummy genetics study may enable widespread genome mapping of Ancient Egyptians. Huff Post http://huff.to/17BTlzI
Egypt lifts ban on Luxor ballooning, although company that owned crashed balloon still grounded. IOL News http://bit.ly/ZukQVt
Strike in front of the Karnak temple in Luxor has ended after officers heard the strikers' demands. Daily News Egypt http://bit.ly/159NphX
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Fieldwork
Gebel el Silsila Survey Project: Start of a new season: http://gebelelsilsilaepigraphicsurveyproject.blogspot.com/2013/04/start-of-new-season.html …
Vast Kushite royal palace (5000 sq m) found on Nile betwn 3rd & 4th cataracts in Sonijat, Tergis, Sudan. Archaiologia http://bit.ly/YAL3oB
Looting and the black market
Young Egyptians start “Stop the heritage drain” campaign to prevent loss of Egypt's heritage. Daily News Egypt http://bit.ly/17yTxQn
Egyptian authorities seized 5 AE coffins, 63 statues and c.5000 coins in Beni Suef governorate. Xinhuanet via MENA http://bit.ly/130XY6M
Museums
Hixenbaugh Ancient Art Presents Recently Acquired Royal Ushabti of the Viceroy of Kush, Hori. With photo. SFGate http://bit.ly/Zxo1e1
Egypt's Minister of Antiquities, Mohamed Ibrahim, inaugurated Assiut's first national museum. allafrica .com http://bit.ly/10VevDG
HMNS Ancient Egypt Hall has partnered with multiple museums to create "permanently changing" display. culturemap http://bit.ly/ZUqOOq
Will a museum studies degree help you get a job in a museum? UCL Museums and Collections http://bit.ly/14s8zJ0
Research
Mummy of an AE woman, believed to be at least 2,500 years old, has been scanned in Ohio. Columbus Dispatch http://bit.ly/128uGk2
What links the evolution of language to the collection of baboon figurines at the Petrie Museum of Egyptology? UCL http://bit.ly/XOFjZP
The digital Gurob Ship-Cart Model, an open access digital supplement to Shelley Wachsmann's book. vizin .org http://bit.ly/15dwCuE
Biblical Blame Shift - Is the Egyptologist Jan Assmann Fueling Anti-Semitism? Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/15ab3e5
Essay on Margaret Benson, first woman to gain right to excavate in Egypt, in 1895: http://www.williamhpeck.org/margaret_benson
Tourism
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