Friday, February 15, 2013

News for 15th February 2013

Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews - in no particular order

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

4 comments:

Thutmose said...

Thanks for doing this Andie. :) There does appear to be a problem with the last link to the Amenhotep III colossi though.

Andie said...

Hello Thutmose - You're right! It results in flapping wings :-). Here's the correct link, which I've updated in the post:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/1449/17/New-glories-of-the-New-Kingdom.aspx

Thutmose said...

Thanks. This is James in NZ by the way. ;)

Andie said...

Ah ha! You're using an alias :-). Good to have a proof reader.