Sunday, February 24, 2013

News from 21st to 24th February 2013

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Free article: The Calendars of Ancient Egypt. By R.A. Parker. University of Chicago Press, 1950. Hist.of the Anc.Wrld http://bit.ly/Wkz6yM

A thorough reflection reveals a long-forgotten link between the foundation of Granada (Spain) and Cairo. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/YOopGf

Mystery fibres on the painted coffin of Tawahibre. Penn Artifact Lab http://bit.ly/WjKtqO

3D Petrie exhibition in the news: "Where Science meets Heritage at UCL-Qatar." UCL http://bit.ly/W2gY2i

Virtual Autopsy at British Museum in last few days: British Museum http://bit.ly/UK2hJN

Karnak: Where the digital age meets ancient Egypt. By Andrew Lawler. Humanities magazine http://1.usa.gov/WhuKbE

Disappearing heritage of Sudan,1820-1956: Photographic and filmic exploration in Sudan 17th Jan–30th Apr 2013. Durham http://bit.ly/4t44h4

Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellowship in Egyptology. University of Oxford http://bit.ly/13fdrPI

Obituary: André et Etienne Bernand, jumeaux, égyptologues et morts le même jour http://bit.ly/Vz3E2x

Egypt Salfists forced to cancel preaching event at ancient Pharaoh temple. Al Arabiya http://bit.ly/11ZCmYb

Book review by Valentino Gasperini: Jaime Alvar, Los cultos egipcios en Hispania. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://bit.ly/W2Bgsq

AE blue pigment used 5,000 years ago is giving modern scientists clues toward the development of new nanomaterials http://bit.ly/Yo4sX1

BBC interview with Professor Dimitri Laboury re the newly discovered Vizier's tomb with its small pyramid in Luxor. http://bbc.in/UR3Z1x

Ancient Worlds: Mummy exhibition in Manchester. Click link at bottom of page to see more pages and pics on the story. http://itv.co/XOx4JE

Trabajos en las excavaciones en la Tumba Tebana 39, Luxor: un complejo que funcionó como lugar de peregrinaje http://bit.ly/ZBAa7D

High Definition Surveying (HDS) at Malqata.. HDS scanning is a relatively new tool in surveying. iMalqata dig diary http://bit.ly/YJzgzS

The annual report on Abu Simbel solar event. Al Masry Al Youm. http://bit.ly/15czCoi

Wood-turning in Manchester and Ancient Egypt. Report with photos re Geoff Killen's AE wood-turning demonstration http://bit.ly/ZoCH1b

Old projects, new projects. Brooklyn Museum team back at the Temple of Mut, updating their dig diary. Lots of photos. http://bit.ly/YQ7hP5

Amara West dig diary: a kaleidoscope of life and death in Egyptian Kush http://bit.ly/Yig7Z5

What's the use of a PhD? Can we remake the humanities PhD to have better job prospects? Megan McArdle The Daily Beast http://thebea.st/YFxhhe

Book Review by Tim Reid: Sunken Egypt: Alexandria. Franck Goddio, Andre Bernand. Periplus Publishing. Egyptians blog http://bit.ly/YpK1KZ

Pigmento de la era faraónica puede ayudar a la nanotecnología. Prensa Latina http://bit.ly/UXbHHg

Via Willeke Wendrich ‏@wzzw. Two new and related articles in the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: The Akh and the Northern Bald Ibis (Akh-bird). http://escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee

Via Kate Wong ‏@katewong. Check out @hpringle's spectacular cover story on the evolution of human creativity in the March @sciam http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-origin-human-creativity-suprisingly-complex

Via Kasia Szpakowska ‏@SakhmetK. Another Egyptology position! http://www.ku.dk/english/available_positions/vip/

Via Chris Naunton ‏@chrisnaunton. Two Egyptological jobs going in Copenhagen: http://www.offentlige-stillinger.dk/sites/cfml/kbhuni/kbhuniVis.cfm?plugin=1&englishJobs=Yes&nJobNo=211129&nLangNo=2 … and http://www.offentlige-stillinger.dk/sites/cfml/kbh

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

News for 20th February 2013

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Via HistoryoftheAncient ‏@historyancient: Article: Karnak: Where the digital age meets ancient Egypt http://ow.ly/hRYnP

Remains of a mud-brick pyramid-shaped tomb cover belonging to vizier Khay (reign of Ramesses II) found. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/XpfNVe

Creating a pointcloud for a 3D model of houses in E13, Amara West, using a process called ‘Structure from Motion’. http://bit.ly/XpiM00

Via @chrisnaunton. New book in German - the personal memories of the former Director General of the Egyptian Museum http://bit.ly/Wan9f7

Durham Univ. 3–4 March 2013 2-day international conference, The Construction of Time in Antiquity. lutz.doering [at] http://durham.ac.uk

Missed this a couple of wks ago: Campbell Price's Texts in translation #10: The Stela of Hesysunebef (Acc. No. 4588) http://bit.ly/WfXftd

Penn Artefact Lab: A step a-“head”: improving storage for our mummified heads http://bit.ly/YArZCt

Curator's Choice: Sue Giles on a toy from a child's grave at Bristol's King of Egypt show. Culture24 http://bit.ly/Y6J22a

Discovery of Luxor tomb of Vizier Khay, “the First Royal Herald of the Lord of the two lands” announced. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/15uCVYY

Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor, fully illuminated at night for the first time. Lots of photos. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/11UOj1m

Amara West 2013: scarabs – for life and death. http://bit.ly/ZdA8Pw

Via Alice Williams ‏@alicewilliams86:
Fab new book on World Archaeology at the Pitt-Rivers, with fascinating chapters on the Egypt & Sudan collections: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/world.html

Book Review - Americans in Egypt, 1770-1915 http://collectingegypt.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-americans-in-egypt-1770-1915.html

Upstairs, Dowstairs: contrasting palace life and village life at excavations in Malqata http://bit.ly/Y6rumN

New Book: Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim (Egypt). Part I: Footwear from the Ottoman Period. André J. Veldmeijer 2013 http://bit.ly/WPfWmR


Tuesday, February 19, 2013

News for 17th, 18th and 19th February 2013

Copied from @egyptologynews. It has been a busy few days, so apologies for the late posting, but here's the news round-up.


Oriental Inst.News and Notes (PDF). 6 pages on Demotic Dictionary + small piece on Statue of Liberty's ties to Egypt http://bit.ly/WMOFBl

Egypt Exploration Society Centenary Awards 2012 providing funding for research at Saqqara and in Khartoum http://ees.ac.uk/news/news/210.html

Replicas of famous objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun on display at Lord Carnarvon's Highclere Castle. Daily Mail http://bit.ly/WTJdyh

In Spanish: Analysis of 200 mummies and skeletons from Aswan paints a picture of deprivation, not opulence. ABC.es http://bit.ly/WKuP9P

My review of "Digital Egypt: Museums of the Future" (@3DPetrie) has been added to the Petrie Museum's blog today. http://bit.ly/Y1V10W

Photo slideshow of dunes, rock formations and rock art in the Western Desert http://bit.ly/11SkvSY

Cotsten Inst of Arch annual review "Backdirt" with article "Coffin Reuse in the Twenty-First Dynasty" by K. Cooney. http://bit.ly/Y5wdU7

Grand Egyptian Museum will receive 5 objects of King Tut’s collection after returning to Egypt. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/Xm5fpN

Amara West 2013 dig diary: getting to grips with this year’s villa. British Museum http://bit.ly/YCFnGk

Retrospective field diary (posting now from January's work) of excellent EES Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Project. http://eestheban.tumblr.com

Jane Akshar's notes from the Mummification Museum lecture: José Galán – Update from the Spanish Mission. Luxor News http://bit.ly/ZcNBHm

Another photo story recording the project to rescue statues of Amenemhat III. Luxor News Blog http://bit.ly/YvW0Vb

Photo story showing emergency project to save 2 colossal statues of Amenhotep III at his funerary temple. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/XKcF5y

Finding the northern end of the Palace of the King. iMalqata dig diary http://bit.ly/15q4QcG

Em Hotep Digest vol. 02 no. 06: Jean-François Champollion http://bit.ly/ZbeKdL

Hierarchy of Women within Elite Families. Iconographic Data from the Old Kingdom. V. Vasiljević. Hist.of the Anc.Wrld http://bit.ly/152OZ2w

Issue 10 of free online journal i-Medjat, edited by the Unité de Recherche-Action Guadeloupe. TOC and PDF at http://bit.ly/YuWJpD

Video showing reconstruction of the monuments of Biahmu in the Faiyum by Ben Baker and Chris Kirby. YouTube http://bit.ly/152OF3U

Was Cleopatra murdered? Author talking about her version of the classic story. No reviews seen yet. Huffington Post http://huff.to/151P729

Vast robber pits around the 4,000-year-old Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III, metres deep. Triblive http://bit.ly/YDiMJy

Truth of Tutankhamun curse removed from myth. Times of Malta http://bit.ly/UCcsW8








Saturday, February 16, 2013

News for 16th February 2013

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Today is the 90th anniversary of the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb by Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter. The Telegraph http://bit.ly/12QKidm

A New Kingdom jigsaw puzzle from Malqata: reconstructing a pottery vessel and a bone disc. iMalqata dig diary http://bit.ly/XP0PuK

The new volume of The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (EES) is now out (vol. 98, 2012). The Table Of Contents is at http://www.ees.ac.uk/userfiles/file/JEA98-Contents.pdf

The head of the Egyptian antiquities ministry believes that archaeology and tourism will bounce back. NBC Science http://nbcnews.to/Xa5RC0



Digital Egypt: Museums of the Future:


I had a brilliant afternoon volunteering at the Petrie Museum's Digital Egypt event today. I'll be writing it up on the Museum's blog v. soon.If you're interested in the digitizing of archaeology in museums you might check out @3DPetrie on Twitter, charting the museum's digi work. If you're on Facebook, here's my initial enthusiastic blurb re the Digital Egypt event at the Petrie (under the pic). http://on.fb.me/12ufxvd



Friday, February 15, 2013

News for 15th February 2013

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Via Kasia Szpakowska ‏@SakhmetK: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offering a summer position for a research associate in Egyptian art: http://bit.ly/WN52j5

The first week of the Brooklyn Museum's dig diary in the Karnak area, with lots of great photographs http://bit.ly/Xc3g9u

American Soc. Papyrologists invites papers for "Culture and Society in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Egypt" Chicago 2014 http://bit.ly/WMXMDS

More news from the Amara West dig diary: "What a difference a day makes." http://bit.ly/11KMbZP

Man finds stuffed cat in attic is 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. IBN Live http://bit.ly/XIanrn

Live webcams will be placed in Egypt's major tourist areas to show the true conditions of the country. ANSAMed http://bit.ly/X9kd5u

This guide to the old Ashmolean Egypt galleries shows the old Victorian cabinets, themselves a bit of museum history. http://bit.ly/Ad7cXm

iPad app: "Tour of the Nile" introduces Petrie Museum and uses Augmented Reality to explore artefacts in 3D. iTunes http://bit.ly/12Qxx2G

Petrie Museum Object Analysis e-Learning Resource gives ability to analyse objects in 3D and to generate a catalogue http://bit.ly/TkFYPr

Al Ahram Weekly article re Hatshepsut’s Netery Menu chapel opening at Karnak and restoration of Amenhotep III colossi
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/1449/17/New-glories-of-the-New-Kingdom.aspx

Thursday, February 14, 2013

News for 14th February 2013


Happy Valentine's Day!

News copied from Twitter @egyptologynews


The ARCE has announced the launch of its new Luxor West Bank Archaeological Field School for local MSA/SCA inspectors http://bit.ly/X6jHVT

Article about the building of the replica of a New Kingdom chariot for a television show. ARCE http://bit.ly/Uk7e1a

New on the EES Publishing Blog: "Hasiballah Saqqara photos 1909-1988" with photos. http://bit.ly/14V3OnD

Interesting article looking at the role of spiritual leaders in rural communities a generation ago. Al Ahram Weekly http://bit.ly/14RitjS

A 48 hour tour of the heritage of some of the New Valley oases during a forum on sustainable tourism. Al Ahram Weekly http://bit.ly/XrnYAW

Forthcoming titles from the AUC include three Egyptology, two Coptic studies titles and one about Old Cairo heritage. http://bit.ly/X8u2Q8

Diana Craig-Patch talks about roof collapse at the Malqata excavation, west bank Luxor. iMalqata Dig Diary http://bit.ly/WrzNIB

New book: Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia. R.Klemm and D.Klemm (Geoarchaeology in the Eastern Desert) http://bit.ly/XbqZES

Jane Akshar's notes from the Mummification Museum Lecture, Luxor: Joint Expedition to Malqata. Luxor News Blog http://bit.ly/Viy3SH

Routine archaeo survey in one of Alexandria’s most densely populated areas revealed Graeco-Roman tombs. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/YgdIMu

As the project comes to completion: "Demotic Dictionary unveils culture of ancient Egypt." University of Chicago. http://bit.ly/14sMNlF

Official denial of problems at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim. allAfrica http://bit.ly/VgdXuQ

As the value of the Egyptian pound continues to fall, a look at mosques shown on LE and piastre notes. Cairobserver http://bit.ly/VeYPO6

Amara West 2013 dig diary: faience production in the town? http://bit.ly/YtgSvh

Greco-Roman tombs have been discovered at Gabbari necropolis in Alexandria. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/VWxP0E


Wednesday, February 13, 2013

News from 13th February 013

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The Oriental Institute Electronic Publics. Initiative has made several new Egyptology publications available as PDFs: http://oi.uchicago.edu/news/

I had missed that the Djehuty dig diary is back online for 2013, with several weeks already published (in Spanish): http://www.excavacionegipto.com/diario/2013/diario13.jsp.html

Apologies if I've posted this before, but excellent if you are interested in Gilf Kebir: Wadi Sura project reports: http://bit.ly/QseTE4

Super photo from 1920s Port Said. National Geographic. http://bit.ly/12zZKpZ

Em Hotep Digest vol. 02 no. 05: Ancient Egyptian Gods, Myths, and Legends. http://bit.ly/15cWeWB

Disputed St Louis Art Museum Ka Nefer Nefer mask settlement terms to be discussed on appeal. Cultural Heritage Lawyer http://bit.ly/WmSTQ6

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology database images are now available under Creative Commons license C BY-NC-SA 3.0 http://bit.ly/ooecxi

Slightly off-topic but interesting. Ancient languages reconstructed by computer program. BBC http://bbc.in/11Dy0pC

The Ptolemaic temple of Qasr Al Agouz on Luxor’s west bank is to open next week. With 3 photos. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/SJxEYb

Book: O.E. Kaper. Colours of the Oasis: Artists and the archaeology of Dakhleh Oasis. Only available from publisher http://bit.ly/XzJG4f

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

News from 12th February 2012


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Preserving one of Egypt’s most efficient ecosystems: The mangrove. Egypt Independent http://bit.ly/12J7hqI

Amara West excavations 2013: the past as seen in photos from a photographic kite flown over the site. British Museum http://bit.ly/VSDSDl

Malqata dig diary: One enigmatic feature of the site is a huge area over 72,000sq.m that is a vast deposit of potsherds http://bit.ly/Y7jf68

Eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Bibliotheca Alexandrina 13th-20th September 2013 http://bit.ly/PBKUIi

A Roman statue head has been repatriated to Egypt from Brazil. With photo. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/YUTTLC

Not news, just a short article on the AE city of On (Heliopolis), but might be of interest to some. Daily News Egypt http://bit.ly/YQFcJw

Job opening: Herbert Thompson Lecturer in Ancient Egyptian Language, University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology http://bit.ly/14QLgow

Digital Archaeology. Uncovering the “A New Look at Ancient Egypt” website after years of neglect. http://bit.ly/YSgkRw

Free online: The Goddess Hathor and the women of ancient Egypt. Danielle Basson. MPhil, University of Stellenbosch http://bit.ly/YaIoP7

French archeologist Michel Wuttmann found dead in his Cairo apartment, investigators suspect foul play. Washington Post http://wapo.st/12J4oGt

Barry Kemp and his team have resumed work at Amarna. Their email newsletter is copied here: http://bit.ly/V2hWeb

Amara West Dig Diary 2013: the latest from Cemetery C. British Museum http://hvrd.me/WUYD3o

Speaking at Harvard, Egyptologist Marc Gabolde offered different interpretation of Tut DNA evidence. Harvard Gazette http://hvrd.me/WUYD3o

Brown University's Abydos Dig has uncovered a skeleton in the North Cemetery, among other finds. Brown Daily Herald http://bit.ly/X1sGYy

Amarna 2013 begins

2013 STARTUP

It has proved possible to resume fieldwork at Amarna. Barry Kemp and a small team traveled to the expedition house on Wednesday, January 30th and began work on site on Saturday, February 2nd, with 20 local workmen, mostly from El-Till and regularly employed by the expedition.

The main work for the next two months is a resumption of the re-excavation and restoration at the Great Aten Temple, concentrating again on the front part. Areas adjacent to those examined in the spring of 2012 have been marked out, on the south and east, and the cleaning of surface deposits begun, already revealing a strange feature uncovered earlier by Pendlebury, a gypsum-lined trough surrounding a rectangular area and belonging to the temple's final phase. Removal of the large Pendlebury dump over the brick pylon has also been resumed. Further east a start has been made on cleaning the surface of the two pedestals of thick gypsum concrete that measure about 10 x 15 metres and stood in front of the stone entrance to the temple and probably acted as foundations for very large columns. They are covered with the impressions of stone blocks that will require much patient planning to record in sufficient detail.

Thanks to the good offices of Nicholas Warner, the first delivery arrived today of limestone blocks from the quarries at Turah, outside Cairo, of much better quality than those we have bought in the past, from local quarries. These will be used for the final layer that will mark the positions of the walls of the Platform Building the foundations of which were uncovered last year.

We have also chosen this year to carry out an inspection and maintenance of the column in the Small Aten Temple that the expedition (then under the auspices of the Egypt Exploration Society) erected in 1994, on the initiative of architect Michael Mallinson. It has since become a familiar landmark. The column is hollow, and formed of panels fixed to a central iron lattice-work tower. It needs to be inspected from the inside. To this end, scaffolding is being erected around the column. Simon Bradley, who built the column in 1994, has returned to carry out the inspection and any necessary maintenance.

Much of the funding for this season's work comes to the Amarna Trust from the Big Give Christmas Challenge, to which so many of you responded. Many thanks again for your generosity on this and on other occasions.

The further plan for the spring is that another month of excavation will be carried out at the South Tombs Cemetery in April, to be followed by a return of the Arkansas University anthropology field school which will study the human remains.

4 February 2013

Barry Kemp/Anna Stevens


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News for 11th February 2013

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Cleopatra's World - Lecture Series free to listen to on iTunes, with some very good names - http://itun.es/i6J25cj

Kasia Szpakowska Kasia Szpakowska ‏@SakhmetK
So pleased that "Companion to Women in the Ancient World" won a PROSE Award for Professional & Scholarly Excellence! http://bit.ly/WUcSW9

Lorna Richardson Lorna Richardson ‏@lornarichardson
What are your archaeological Internet habits? Where/how do you look for info about #archaeology? https://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=22070  Please RT/share!

More re restoration of newly discovered colossi of Amenhotep III. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/WEYcvO

Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile (AUC) wins professional (PROSE) ceremony in Washington. Daily News Egypt http://bit.ly/YRm0Lu

RT @historyancient: Free online: The role of the chantress in anc. Egypt. Suzanne Ostine. PhD Thesis, Univ Toronto 2001 http://bit.ly/12G8NtG

New on Osirisnet: The Old Kingdom tomb of Irukaptah at Saqqara, also called Khenu. http://bit.ly/Y60ZM4

Mummification Museum Lecture notes by Jane Akshar - The tomb of Panehsy, TT16. Lecture by Suzanne Onstine. Luxor News http://bit.ly/YR71Bu

The 1928 Italian-built El Shinawy Palace in Mansoura will be converted into an antiquities museum. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/X2fm34

New Book: The Signs of Which Times? Chronological and Palaeoenvironmental Issues in the Rock Art of Northern Africa. http://bit.ly/Z55Thq

Sad News: Obituary of geologist Rushdi Said who has died at the age of 93. Egypt Independent http://bit.ly/U5aFJ5

Saving the twin statues of Amenhotep III in Kom El Hetan, West Bank, Luxor. With photos. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/XpWttM

Book Review: D. Wengrow, What makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West, 2010. Rosetta 11 http://bit.ly/Z53W4v

More re Hatshepsut limestone chapel that will be put on display for the 1st time at Karnak's open air mus. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/XpVkCx

Article about Frédéric Cailliaud's early 19thC accomplishments as explorer and scientist in Egypt. Saudi-Aramco World http://bit.ly/Vls5Q8

The villa of Kevork Ispenian, Giza, was looted and destroyed despite being on Egypt’s heritage list. Al Ahram Weekly http://bit.ly/YIyXar

Via @ArcEgyptologist. A roundup of some of the most notable new Egyptology books from 2012. Amun-Ra Egypt http://bit.ly/155FIaS

Book: M.F. Ayad, Coptic Culture: Past, Present and Future, 2011. Papers from a conference. http://bit.ly/WT4OVH  Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Neal Spencer Neal Spencer ‏@NealSpencer_BM
@susiezgreen launching photography kite above 3200-year old town of Amara West.  http://twitpic.com/c2ikv3

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Stories from W/E 10th February 2013

Taken from my @egyptologynews Twitter account:

Free online paper: Architectural Conservation of an Amun Temple in Sudan. T. Sweek, J.R. Anderson, S. Tanimoto. JCMS. http://bit.ly/12DJGrE 
    
Queen Hatshpsut’s Netery-Menu has been reconstructed at Karnak, open to public by the End of February. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/122kScQ
    
David Lightbody has added a piece about the new find of 35 Sudanese pyramids with inner circles on his Arkysite blog http://bit.ly/YikC2y

Osteogenesis imperfecta in skeletal remains of foetus from Romano-Byzantine cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis. Past Horizons http://bit.ly/WXouc8

Book Review by Tim Reid: "Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum" E.R. Russmann. Egyptians http://bit.ly/V8disI

The iMalqata dig diary is being updated: "A Celebration Fit for a King: Amenhotep III's Heb Sed festival." iMalqata http://bit.ly/VLuJBT

Slightly older article, but in case you missed it from 30th Jan: Searching for lost royal city in Nubia. Past Horizons http://bit.ly/WyRaaV

Temple of Mut dig diary is online for the new season: "Back at Mut – How things have changed!" With pics. Brooklyn Mus. http://bit.ly/VKkusd

Proyecto de la UJA en Egipto "peligra" por la supresión de ayuda del Gobierno. Europa Press http://bit.ly/U1jtiT

Reviews of the British Film Institute's "Digging the Past" in 3 parts: http://bit.ly/SAbkBw, http://bit.ly/WAIY7i, http://bit.ly/11huHUF

Early Third Intermediate Period tombs with grave goods found at Mortuary temple of Amenhotep II on west bank. Al Shorfa http://bit.ly/XltGqk

Lovely review from @egyptologynews of @poisonchallis and I at @bfi having a great deal of fun in the name of research! http://petriemuseum.com/blog/the-british-film-institute-and-petrie-museum-presentation-digging-the-past-3/


30 Jan françois tonic françois tonic ‏@francoistonic
@egyptologynews little news about Karakhamon et South Asasif (in french sorry) http://goo.gl/FVo1Z

Leiden excavations at Saqqara: Dig diary, week 3: 2nd - 8th February 2013. A Name for the Anonymous Tomb...saqqara.nl http://bit.ly/VMdUS6

Em Hotep Digest vol. 02 no. 04: Dedicated to Barbara Adams best known from Hierakonpolis Expedition and Petrie Museum http://bit.ly/Y3vmBF

Amara West: The life of a field ceramicist is certainly never dull, though perhaps sometimes repetitive. With photos. http://bit.ly/XUnjIs

Archeologists excavating near Luxor have found a wooden sarcophagus believed to belong to a 5-yr old. Huffington Post http://huff.to/VHsWh3

35 small pyramids, along with graves, have discovered clustered closely together at Sedeinga in Sudan.Yahoo News. http://yhoo.it/Yauz1U

Mini-pyramids of of Kush: Archaeologists discover 35 burial chambers in Sudan desert with fascinating links to Egypt http://bit.ly/VLW15J

Ahram Online traces the footsteps of Egyptian and Sudanese history in the capital, Khartoum. http://bit.ly/YN8JUu

Ancient Rome In Libya: A Suppressed History Resurfaces After Revolution. With photos. IBT http://bit.ly/WRvGXp

Very short piece about fire breaking out at Karnak Temple. More will doubtless be forthcoming. Al Arabiya http://bit.ly/12BZH18