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EEF NEWS (568) ============= d.d. June 25, 2009 (III Akhet 6)
Contents: (I) New: Lectures and symposiums (II) New: Exhibitions (III) Personals: personal and offtopic calls (IV) Read on the Web: online press reports in electronic newspapers etc. (V) Books and Journals Corner: book announcements, book reviews, journal issues appearing, digitised literature, etc. (VIA) Jobs and Grants: announcements of job openings and fellowships. (VIB) New: Courses and Trips: classroom & online courses, field schools, and non-commercial tours. (VII) (Multi)media: AE on TV, in Film, in Music, on CD-Rom or DVD (VIII) Websites: announcing, listing or updates of whole (mainstream) websites (IX) Lectures and symposiums on Ancient Egypt USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, Egypt, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Greece, Switzerland, Russia, Austria, Hungary, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark, Israel (X) Exhibitions on Ancient Egypt USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Egypt, Italy, France, Israel, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Finland, Switzerland, Poland, Danmark, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Mexico, Andorra, Japan, Russia, South Korea (XI) Courses and Trips (XII) Digital Media: online video and audio material Notes: * Sections IX to XII contain the bulk of still current info from earlier issues (these sections are absent from the email version of the newsletter), while sections I to VIII contain new or adjusted information. * Of items marked with #, you can request from me the often longer announcement on which my summary was based. * Items marked with & are topics from earlier issues that linger on a bit (for irregular visitors of this site) or that were already on the EEF forum itself. * The double date in the header above is based on an accurate extrapolation from antiquity of the Ancient Egyptian (AE) Civil Calendar (365 days, wandering through the seasons, not determined by Sothis). * Please send any contributions and additions to: A.K. Eyma ========================================================================= With thanks to: Heather Tunmore [(I) - Australia (d)]; Kat Newkirk [(II) - USA (d)(l), Canada (b), Japan (a)]; Bjorn Koopmans [(II) - USA (d)(l), Canada (b)]; Michael Tilgner [(II) - Italy (f), France (d)] ========================================================================== +++ (I) NEW: LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS --AUSTRALIA-- d) The West Australian Museum, Perth Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Perth Western Australia 6000 URL * "The Tombs at Tehna. An Egyptian Mystery," by Elizabeth Thompson (Maquarie University) Lecture on the speaker's fieldwork on the Old Kingdom tombs at Tehna for the West Australian Museum. date: Sunday, July 5, 2009; 2pm - 3pm (doors open at 1.30) place: "The Tunnel", West Australian Museum, Perth info: email or email ---- For previously listed lectures and conferences, see section IX below. +++ (II) NEW: EXHIBITIONS --USA-- [update] d) Indianapolis Children's Museum 3000 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46208-4716 * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: June 27, 2009 - October 25, 2009 [new] info: press report (with photo, slideshow, and video) at URL "...already more than 75,000 tickets have been sold (..) It is costing the museum $1 million to bring the exhibit to Indianapolis for four months. (..)" [new] info: press report with video at URL [new] info: press report about the security system: URL [new] info: other press reports (many with several photos) at URL URL URL URL URL URL [new] info: video at URL [update] l) M.H. de Young Memorial Museum Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 * "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" date: June 27, 2009 - March 28, 2010 [new] info: press report (with image gallery) about the ten finest items on display, at URL [new] info: press reports (many with several photos) at URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL [new] info: press report (interview with curator Renee Dreyfus) at URL URL [new] info: press reports about the previewing by special guests: URL URL URL --CANADA-- [update] b) Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queens' Park, Toronto * "Out of the Vaults: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" date: February 28, 2009 - May 10, 2009. [new] info: press report at URL --ITALY-- [update] f) Castello del Buonconsiglio Via Bernardo Clesio, 5, Trento * "Egitto mai visto" [Egypt, never seen] date: May 30 - November 8, 2009 [new] info: press report "La 'montagna dei morti' di Assiut a Trento di scena l'Egitto mai visto" URL "Al Castello del Buonconsiglio, i materiali del Museo Egizio di Torino scavati dal grande Schiaparelli nel 1906-1913 e mai esposti. Sarcofagi dipinti e tombe con corredi che devono assicurare al defunto la vita nei 'milioni di anni', l'eternità dell'Antico Egitto. Una collezione inedita anche dal Castello trentino"] --FRANCE-- d) Foire Expo des Côtes d'Armor F-22000 Saint Brieuc * "Trésors des pharaons" [Treasures of the Pharaohs] date: September 12 - 20, 2009 About 300 replicas of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are on display. info: URL info: press report at URL --JAPAN-- [update] a) Pacifico Yokohama 1-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama http://www.pacifico.co.jp/english/ * "Egypt's Sunken Treasures" date: June 27, 2009 - September 23, 2009 [new] info: press report at URL "The exhibition includes 489 pieces salvaged from the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria. " --RUSSIA-- [update] b) The State Hermitage Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 34, 190000 St Petersburg * "'Prekasnaya prishla'. Shedervy portreta iz Egipetskogo museya v Berline" [The Beautiful One has come". Masterpieces of Egyptian portrait. From the Egyptian Museum in Berlin] date: June 16 - September 20, 2009 [new] info: press report (with wrong photo) at URL "The highlights of the exposition are three sculptured heads created in the mid 14th century BC in the studio of Thutmose: Head of Young Nefertiti (sandstone, colouring); Head of Nefertiti in Middle Age (granodiorite), and Head of Tsarevna [sic!], Daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti (sandstone), as well as Head of Amasis (greywacke), created in the mid 6th century BC. " ------ For previously listed exhibitions, see section X below. +++ (III) PERSONALS AND ADMIN NOTES [As you might guess, a "Personal" is exactly that: unlike with the others sections, entries are not necessarily in accord with the scope (mainstream Egyptology) of EEF. They usually are not in the Website version, except for Personalia/Obituaries.] +++ (IV) READ ON THE WEB ------NEWSPAPER REPORTS ONLINE------ [Caveat: it is well-known that a press report cannot always be taken at face value, and it is not possible for the EEF contributors (submitting items) and the moderator (editor) to verify the validity of the contents of all press reports in advance. ] * (&) Press Release: "New Discoveries at Saqqara" (with photos) URL " (..) Egyptian archaeologists, performing routine conservation work at the southern side of Saqqara's step pyramid (..), have stumbled upon what is believed to be a deep hole full of the remains of animals and birds. (..) Thirty granite blocks were also discovered, each weighing five tons. These blocks, Dr. Hawass explained, belonged to the granite sarcophagus that once housed Djoser's wooden sarcophagus (..) " Several other finds are described. -- Another press report: " Archaeological discovery in Saqqara" URL "(..) Samir Abdel-Raouf, the head of the team, said they found adobe bricks [or: limestone blocks] bearing the names of Djoser's daughters and his different titles along the corridor (..)" [Next three items submitted by Kat Newkirk and Bjorn Koopmans] * Press report: "NY hospital test reveals mummy is a man" URL "It turns out one of four ancient Egyptian mummies thought for centuries to be a woman is actually a man. North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset examined the mummies belonging to the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday. A CAT scan revealed that one of the mummies, named "Lady Hor," was actually a man. (..)" -- Earlier press report: URL "The former royal prince of Thebes will undergo a CT scan Tuesday morning (..) The prince, known as Pasebakhaienipet, and three other mummies will be the subjects of a collaboration between the Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian Art department and North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. (..) The four mummies [two male, two female] are candidates for an exhibit at the museum - a mummy room scheduled to open next May. (..)" -- Another press report, with photos and interactive feature: URL "(..) "Lady Hor" dates back to between 712 B.C. and 660 B.C. Egyptologists had assumed that the mummy was female because its covering, or cartonnage, took the shape of a woman, without a symbolic beard attached. But the CT scan revealed "the pelvic organs of a male. (..) Another mystery turned up when researchers looked at the oldest of the four mummies, a royal prince named Pasebakhaienipet. (..) The scan showed a tubelike object in the mummy's throat (..)." -- Museum's pictures and videos of the scanning: URL -- Other press reports with some extra info: URL "Another curiosity was the discovery of a reed-like tube implanted in the chest of Pasebakhaienipet, the Count of Thebes, who was interred about 1188 to 909 B.C. Researchers theorized it was a postmortem addition to keep his chin up as he faced eternity." URL Has two photos of Pasebakhaienipet and reveals the name of one of the other mummies: "(..) The scans also uncovered a 5-inch reed stuck in the esophagus of a mummy named Pasebakhaienipet. (..) Lady Hor, Pasebakhaienipet, Thothirdes and a fourth unnamed mummy return to the museum June 30. Their scans eventually will be made part of the exhibit. (..)" URL Has good photo of (ex-Lady) Hor. "(..) The mysterious tube was not all that Pasebakhaienipet's scan turned up. "Of the four [mummies], this is the first where we saw a preserved heart," Chusid said. What he believed to be a mostly intact heart still was in the chest cavity, which was filled with traditional plant resin preservation material.(..)" URL With video. URL "(..) The museum expects to complete a full analysis of the images — 2,400 for each mummy — in about six months (..). The scans have already yielded some interesting information, like the presence of four small amulets on one of the bodies (..). URL Has photo of cartonage "(..) The mummies that underwent CT scanning are a Royal Prince, Count of Thebes, who is more three thousand years old; Hor, who was believed to be female prior to yesterday's CT Scan and is actually male; Thothirdes, who is more than 2,500 year old; and a mummy about which little is known, that dates back to the first century C.E. (..)" -- Other press reports that add little (most do have photos): URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL (The latter two also deal with the mummy scans in Sydney, mentioned in last EEF NEWS. That mummy is also called Horus and also had been attributed the wrong gender, see URL) * Press report: "Cincinnati Art Museum's most ancient artwork - Predynastic Egyptian pottery" (with photo of black-topped red ware beaker) URL "(..) What makes this particular vessel especially rare is the figural decoration scratched onto the surface. The animal may represent a gazelle or (more likely) an aoudad, a wild sheep indigenous to North Africa. This technique, (..)" * Press report: "The Artifacts of Life" URL "USC’s first pilgrims to a temple of high-energy physics will be seeking answers to worldly questions about ancient commerce. Archaeologist Lynn Swartz Dodd of USC College and her students are taking trade artifacts from Egypt to the Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source, home of the most powerful X-rays in the country. The group may be the first from USC to secure precious “beam time” at the celebrated particle accelerator, according to Gene Bickers, vice provost for undergraduate programs. The researchers will spend a week in July at the sprawling complex near Chicago. By peering past the corroded metal on the artifacts’ surfaces and deep into their cores, Dodd and her team hope to discover the makeup and structure of the finds, which range from a series of bronze axes and swords to exquisitely forged miniature bronze-gold figurines of unknown age. (..) To view a video of Lynn Swartz Dodd, visit URL " -- Another press report on this: URL [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Press report: "Sensationelle Leihgabe aus dem Sudan" URL "Archäologen sind manchmal die besseren Politiker, findet Dietrich Wildung, Chef des Ägyptischen Museums. Denn Archäologie, bzw. deren Ausgrabungen in Ländern wie Ägypten, Irak oder dem Sudan tragen nicht selten als 'stabilisierende Faktoren' zu einem kulturpolitischen Dialog bei ... Das Kulturministerium des Sudans hat den Staatlichen Museen 74 fragile Sandsteinblöcke aus einer Wand des Naga-Tempel 200 übergeben. Die Teile stammen ursprünglich aus einem Verbund von rund 1600 Blöcken und Fragmenten. Eine Geste des Dankes für das Engagement der Berliner Museen um die kulturelle Wiedergewinnung der Wüstenstadt Nada ..." -- See also: "Staatliche Museen zeigen historische Tempelwand aus dem Sudan" URL [Submitted by Bjorn Koopmans] * Press report: "Saving the Serapeum" URL Dr Hawass tells about the Serapeum and the recent conservation efforts to preserve it. With photos. "(..) The tunnels are now being reinforced with steel archways; these act as a cage in the weakened chambers to ensure that the ceilings do not collapse. The massive stone sarcophagi are protected in wooden casings as the work continues. Standing inside the tunnels today, thin tubes can be seen hanging from the cracks in the ceiling; these are used by the conservators to inject a substance called epoxy into the stone; this strengthens and protects the stone and will stop the ceiling from collapsing. The floors are also being protected and the archways that lead into the burial chambers are being fixed. Humidity can have a serious effect on the stone and so a monitoring system is being set up to record the humidity levels. A ventilation system is also being installed. (..)" * Some Egyptomania items [submitted by Kat Newkirk]: -- A design studio presents their latest piece of furniture, the "Nefertiti Lounge" (with pics): URL "(..).The sleek and feminine lines of the lounge are inspired by the iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. (..)" -- Artist John Rogers exhibits his own collection of Egyptolike mummified birds: URL "(..) if the way their bones are beautifully encased and decorated makes you think of mummies, that isn't coincidental. They sport gilded funereal seals, and their torsos, in some instances, display tiny pictographs of Egyptian or Mayan origin. (..)" -- Jim Onan Sr. opens his Golden Pyramid House (on Dilleys Road in Wadsworth) to the public: URL "(..) Originally, the stone-on-wood structure -- which is a one-ninth scale of the Great Pyramid -- was covered with an estimated 4,000 hammered gold plates. (..) The interior of the ground floor features a pyramid-shaped Russian fireplace and murals by Zion artist Alan Wright with such Egyptian figures as Akhenaten and Nefertiti. (..)" With slideshow: URL --Follow-ups-- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Press report: "Museo Egizio: il dibattito continua" URL "L'intervista apparsa sul quotidiano 'La Repubblica' cronaca di Torino, del 10 giugno 2009, rilasciata dal Prof. Alessandro Roccati, neo Presidente del Comitato Scientifico della Fondazione per il Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino, ha innescato una querelle sui quotidiani nazionali e locali .." -- See also: "'Ma all'Egizio di Torino manca un progetto scientifico' - Replica del Presidente del Comitato Scientifico della Fondazione per il Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino, Prof. Alessandro Roccati" URL [cf. EEF News (566), June 11, 2009] [Next two items submitted by Kat Newkirk and Bjorn Koopmans] * Press report: "Forensic artists put different faces on 2,800-year-old mummy" URL The face of Meresamun was recreated by two forensic artists. "(..) The artists, Joshua Harker of Chicago and Mike Brassell of Baltimore, worked independently and unaware of the other's efforts, each using highly detailed CT-scan images of the skull of Meresamun, a singer who died roughly 800 years before the birth of Christ. (..) Side by side, the finished drawings by Harker and Brassell aren't exactly identical twins, but they bear strong resemblances, differing only in that Harker's Meresamun has a slightly more prominent nose and stronger chin than Brassell's. "They are so close that we feel pleased that we're giving people a pretty good idea of what Meresamun looked like in life," said Egyptologist Emily Teeter. She is installing the likenesses in the exhibit, which runs through Dec. 6at 1155 E. 58th St. Chicago. (..)" -- Other press reports on this: URL URL The latter has a photo and some info on the method used by the artists. URL With photos of both versions of her face. -- For the reconstructions, see the museum's web site: URL * Press report: "Eu-eke-a!" URL About the recent discovery of the dyn 18 tomb of Amun-em-Opet, Supervisor of Hunters, in the necropolis of Dra Abu el-Naga. "[The tomb] consists of an open courtyard and two halls, one square, the other rectangular. It has a deep shaft where the mission unearthed the remains of mummies, funerary seals and fragments of pottery vessels. In the court, says Mustafa Waziri, director-general of Luxor's West Bank inspectorate, another shaft was discovered containing a well preserved mummy that may belong to the tomb's owner. The walls of the tomb had been covered with a black substance, and it had clearly been reused on a number of occasions. Yet when a section of the wall was cleaned, says Waziri, it revealed beautiful decorations. (..) The mission had located two further undecorated tombs at the north western side of Epet's tomb, one containing seven funerary seals bearing the name Amenhotep-Ben-Nefer, the Supervisor of the Cattle of Amun, the other seals with the name of Eke, Royal Messenger and Supervisor of the Palace. Fragmentary remains of unidentified mummies have also been found, as well as a collection of Ushabti figures. " -- Other press reports: URL URL (The latter has a photo of one of the shabtis and lists some earlier finds in the area.) -- Photos of shaft and of the discovered mummy: URL URL --MISCELLANEOUS-- [Submitted by Kat Newkirk] * The Museum of the National Center of Afro American Artists (NCAAA) will apparently host a permanent exhibition called "Aspelta - A Nubian King's Burial Chamber" It draws upon the collection and excavation records of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and features more than fifty objects from Aspelta's tomb and times, "including a brick still speckled with gold, as well as the world's only fully accurate recreation of a Nubian tomb interior. At the center of the burial chamber is a cast from Aspelta's original sarcophagus containing a replica of his gilded coffin." Info and photos: URL More photos: URL --ONLINE TEXT RESOURCES-- * TBA * Michael's Text Resources are stored at: URL +++ (V) BOOK CORNER ---NEW (PAPER) BOOK RELEASES--- [Submitted by David Lorton] * Two books from The Johns Hopkins University Press will be of interest to many members of the EEF list: -- Christopher Haas, Alexandria in Late Antiquity paperback: ISBN 9780801885419, US $30.00 hard cover: ISBN 9780801853777, US $56.00 -- R. E. Witt, Isis in the Ancient World paperback: ISBN 9780801856426, US $22.00 URL [Submitted by Kat Newkirk and Bjorn Koopmans] * Joyce Tyldesley, The Pharaohs, Quercus History 2009, £20. ISBN: 9781847245113 URL "A new book that gives a full but straightforward and colourful account of life there from 3100 BC to 30 BC." [The author is quoted: “[Cleopatra's] daughter survived and went on to become the queen of King Juba of Mauretania so it is possible that there are descendants of Cleopatra living today.”] ---DIGITIZED BOOKS AND ONLINE DISSERTATIONS--- [Next six items submitted by Michael Tilgner] * New addition to "Ägyptologische Literatur - digital" of the University of Heidelberg -- Harry Burton, Tutankhamun Tomb Photographs: A Photographic Record in 5 Albums Containing 490 Original Photographic Prints; Representing the Excavations of the Tomb of Tutankhamun and Its Contents (vol. 5), s. l., [ca. 1924]. - 59 leaves - pdf-file (6 MB) URL * New addition to "Ägyptologische Literatur - digital" of the University of Heidelberg -- Ernest A. Gardner, Naukratis, Part II. With an Appendix by F. Ll. Griffith, London , 1888. - vii, 92 pp., 24 pls. - pdf-file (26 MB) URL -- Another online version - pdf-file (11 MB) URL * New addition to "Ägyptologische Literatur - digital" of the University of Heidelberg -- Eugène Revillout, Nouvelle chrestomathie démotique. Mission de 1878. Contrats de Berlin, Vienne, Leyde, etc., Paris, 1878. - XII, 160 pp. - pdf-file (30 MB) URL -- Other online copies - pdf-file (5.3 - 5.8 MB) [PDF] URL URL * Syria. Archéologie, art et histoire (Syria), vols. 1-69 (1920-1992) URL [The CD-ROM "Egyptological Bibliography (1822-1997)" lists 94 articles related to AE from 1921-1978.] [update] * Revue de l'histoire des religions (RHR), vols. 131-196 = année 66-98 (1946-1979), vols. 197-221 (1980-2004) URL [The CD-ROM "Egyptological Bibliography (1822-1997)" lists 16 articles related to AE from this time period (1947-1966).] [cf. EEF News (552), March 5, 2009 for a list of other online vols. (1880-1916)] [update] * Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (CRAIBL), 1951-2004 [was: -1988] URL [cf. EEF News (551), February 26, 2009 for a list of other online vols.] [Submitted by Brian Yare] * Yare Egyptology (URL) are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the following titles, in pdf format, on CD-ROM: -- Peet, T. E. & Newberry, P. E. (1932) Handbook and Guide to the Egyptian Collection on Exhibition in the Public Museums, Liverpool. Fourth Edition -- Budge, E. A. T. W. (1911) Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection (2 volumes) -- Firth, C. M. (1927) The Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Report for 1910-1911 -- Piankoff, A. (1954) The Tomb of Ramesses VI (2 volumes) --NEW ISSUES OF JOURNALS & MAGAZINES-- * The June 2009 issue of the journal Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics, volume 107, issue 6, contains the following article (only the abstract is for free): -- Gerloni A, Cavalli F, Costantinides F, Costantinides F, Bonetti S, Paganelli C., "Dental status of three Egyptian mummies: radiological investigation by multislice computerized tomography." pp 747-894 URL "The aim of the study was to provide a paleopathologic and radiologic overview of the jaws and teeth of 3 Egyptian mummies preserved in the Civic Museum of History and Art in Trieste. Computerized tomography (CT) imaging and postprocessing techniques were used to examine the oral structures. " * The July 2009 issue of the journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, volume 467, issue 7, contains the following article (only the abstract is for free): -- Stig Brorson, "Management of fractures of the humerus in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome: an historical review" URL "In the Edwin Smith Papyrus (copied circa 1600 BC), three cases of humeral fractures were described. Reduction by traction followed by bandaging with linen was recommended." * The August 2009 issue of the journal Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, volume 73, issue 3, contains the following article (only the abstract is for free): -- Vandenabeele P, Garcia-Moreno R, Mathis F, Leterme K, Van Elslande E, Hocquet FP, Rakkaa S, Laboury D, Moens L, Strivay D, Hartwig M., "Multi-disciplinary investigation of the tomb of Menna (TT69), Theban Necropolis, Egypt." URL "The archaeometrical survey of the tomb of Menna (TT69), which took place in November-December 2007, is part of the extended research program that aims to study and preserve. (..) The research team aimed to gather information, in a totally non-destructive way, on the materials used and the painting techniques. (..) The technical aspects as well as problems that are inherently associated with an interdisciplinary survey of this extent, are discussed. " ---DIGITIZED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND ONLINE PAPERS--- * Addition to the Propylaeum-DOK database: several articles by Prof Joachim Friedrich Quack URL Namely: -- Quack, Joachim Friedrich, "Zwischen Sonne und Mond - Zeitrechnung im Alten Ägypten", in: H. Falk (ed.), Vom Herrscher zur Dynastie. Zum Wesen kontinuierlicher Zeitrechnung in Antike und Gegenwart, Bremen 2002, pp. 27-67 -- Quack, Joachim Friedrich, "Perspektiven zur Theologie im Alten Ägypten: Antwort an Jan Assmann", in: M. Oeming - K. Schmid - A. Schüle (eds.), Theologie in Israel und in den Nachbarkulturen. Altes Testament und Moderne 9, Münster 2004, pp. 63-74 -- Quack, Joachim Friedrich, "Dekane und Gliedervergottung. Altägyptische Traditionen im Apokryphon Johannis", in: Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 38, 1995, pp. 97-122 -- Quack, Joachim Friedrich, "Zum ersten astrologischen Lapidar im Steinbuch des Damigeron und Evax", in: Philologus 145, 2001, pp. 337-344 [Submitted by Jan Bailey] * Arthur Clark, "Chicago House: Rescuing History", in: Saudi Aramco World, September/October 1994, pp. 41-46 URL Almost 80 years of scholarship have made the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute the world center for study of the monuments of Luxor. --MISCELLANEOUS-- [Next two items submitted by Kat Newkirk] * BMCR online book review of: Stavros Frangoulidis, Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes; 2. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. Pp. xii, 255. ISBN 9783110205947. $98.00. URL * Brief book review of: Daniel Meyerson, In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb. Random House. 230 pp. $26 URL +++ (VIA) JOBS AND GRANTS ---JOB OPENINGS--- [# = You may request from the editor the often longer announcement of an individual job opening on which the below summaries were based.] * (&) The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is accepting applications for its Volunteer Docent program. Volunteer Docents receive free training, and develop and lead tours through Penn Museum's permanent and special exhibition galleries, featuring materials from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Americas, Africa, the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, and more. URL * (&) The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, is looking for a Museum Curator (Ancient Near Eastern Art). Applications before June 19, 2009. info: URL * (&) The University of Southampton seeks to appoint five post-doctoral research fellowships in the humanities, incl. archaeology: URL The closing date for applications is 5th June 2009. [For the University's research projects in Egypt, see URL] * (&) The University Museums, Durham University, are inviting applications for the post of Deputy Curator for the collections housed in the Oriental Museum and Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology. Candidates will be experienced museum professionals and must have a demonstrable specialist interest in Egyptology or Chinese material culture. Closing date for applications: May 13, 2009 Full info: URL * (&) The British Museum, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, has the following job opening: Curator in Coptic/Late Antique Egypt (Ref: 76083W) Main purpose of the job: -- To research, catalogue and promote Coptic and Late Antique material in the collection of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan; -- To carry out archaeological investigations in Egypt, with particular reference to the site of Hagr Edfu; -- To place material in the context of Christian reuse of pharaonic monuments and of developments in the wider Mediterranean world. A PhD in subject related to Coptic/Late Antique Egypt, and a . knowledge of Coptic language and material culture, are among the essential requirements. Completed application and equal opportunities forms must be returned, no later than 12 noon on 20th April 2009. For full information and an application form, please go to: URL * (&) The American University in Cairo is looking for a post-doctoral fellow in Egyptology. For info go to the AUC website, and under Faculty and Staff click on Employment Opportunities: URL Note--applicant must have American citizenship. * (&) The Foreign Language College of Peking University is seeking a Senior research Egyptologist with scholarly and teaching interests. [The full announcement appeared on the forum. #] * (&) Flight 33 Productions are now in production on a new three-part DISCOVERY CHANNEL series examining the history of Human Sacrifice from around the globe. (..) They are in search of experts that could guide them through the topic with a camera interview and/or lab experiment demo. Including human sacrifice in mythology and classics, regions they'd like to explore are Europe, Egypt, India, Africa, Oceania/Polynesia, the Asias, and the Americas. Full text at: URL * (&) The Department of History, UCL, London, is inviting applications for a full-time lectureship in the history of the Ancient Near East, including Egypt, from c. 3000 BC into the Hellenistic period, tenable from 1 September 2010. info: URL ---GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS--- [# = You may request from the editor the often longer announcement on which the below summaries were based.] * (&) The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (USA) 2009 Research Prize Competition The competition is open to doctoral students, and recent post doctoral students, from universities in the United States and Canada who study any aspect of ancient Egypt. The intent of these prizes is to assist in the completion of significant Egyptological research. Students must be a member of either the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, or the American Research Center in Egypt, at the time of application. Application deadline: midnight PDT, JUNE 1, 2009. Full info at: URL. * (&) The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts [National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC] announces a postdoctoral fellowship supported by a grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation. This award will be for academic years 2009-2011. The A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will be in residence at the Center. Please download the PDF (44 k) for more information: URL * (&) Information about the Sarah J. Clackson Coptic Fund may be found at: URL "The fund provides travel and research grants to anyone undertaking work on Coptic manuscripts, especially those for which there is documentation in the Clackson bequest, including the viewing, preparation, and recording of material, but excluding conservation." [The next meeting for the review of applications is February, so applications need to be submitted by the end of January.] (VIB) NEW: COURSES AND TRIPS For previously listed courses, trips and field schools, see section XI below. --COURSES-- * TBA --TRIPS & TOURS-- [Only tours organized by non-profit Egyptological organisations (notably if the proceeds go to public education or site excavation/conservation) will be listed here.] * TBA --FIELD SCHOOLS-- * TBA +++ (VII) (MULTI)MEDIA --TV-- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * German TV: - ZDF, June 29, 2009: Die lange Ägypten-Nacht -- 01:20-2:05 "Abenteuer Ägypten (1): Mit Dietmar Ossenberg unterwegs: Gottkönige, Goldschätze und Grabräuber" -- 02:05-02:55 "Abenteuer Ägypten (2): Mit Dietmar Ossenberg unterwegs: Mumien, Metropole und Minarette" -- 02:55-03:40 "Die Geheimnisse von Luxor. Mit Dietmar Ossenberg im Tal der Könige" -- Phoenix, June 29, 2009, 12:30-13:15 "Ägypten - Das Rätsel um Grab 33" [TT 33; Pediamenemope] -- Phoenix, June 29, 2009, 13:15-14:00 "Die heiligen Tiere der Pharaonen" [Tuna el-Gebel] -- Phoenix, June 29, 2009, 14:45-15:00 "Die schwarzen Königinnen. Vergessenes Reich am Nil" -- Phoenix, July 1, 2009, 20:15-21:00 "Katastrophen der Vorzeit - Tod auf dem Nil" --THEATRE & MUSIC-- [Submitted by Kat Newkirk] * Review of the rock opera "Cleopatra: A Life Unparalleled" running at the Robert Moss Theater (New York City): URL "(..) If one is looking for a historically accurate account of the life and times of Cleopatra as Queen of Egypt, then this rock musical is probably not for you. Cleopatra's tumultuous life has been airbrushed for purposes of this production, and the facelift is worth it. (..)" --DVDs & CDROMS-- * (&) For reviews of some CD-ROMs, see the website: EEF: CD-ROMs --ONLINE VIDEO & AUDIO-- * For previously listed online videos, see section XII below. --SOFTWARE-- * TBA --FICTION (NOVELS, GAMES & MOVIES)-- * TBA +++ (VIII) WEBSITES * TBA +++ (IX) LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS --USA-- a) ARCE/NT society's website * TBA date: ..., 2009; 7:30pm place: Fondren Science Building, Room 123, at the Southern Methodist University campus, 3125 Daniel, Dallas, Texas. costs: free to visitors and members (donations at the door welcome) info: email b) American Research Center in Egypt * TBA c) - d) - e) ARCE New Mexico Chapter PO BOX 4152 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196 URL * TBA date: ...; 6-8pm place: Hibben Center, University of New Mexico, Marting Luther King Blvd. & Redondo st., Albuquerque costs: donations at the door welcome info: email; tel. (505) 615-9675 f) Biblical Archaeology Society of New York (BASNY) society's website * TBA date: ...; 6pm (dinner), 7:30 pm (lecture) place: Delphi Restaurant, 109 West Broadway (corner of Reade Street), New York costs: dinner and lecture is $22 for members, $35 for nonmembers; lecture alone is $12 for members and $20 for nonmembers. info: email g) The Egyptological Seminar of New York (ESNY) P.O. Box 1451, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10276 * TBA date: ....; 7:00PM place: Uris Orientation Theater (sic!), MMA costs: note that ESNY lectures are free for first-timers, but regular attendees are expected to join ESNY. info: email h) ARCE/Oregon Chapter * TBA date: ...; 7:30 p.m. place: Room 294, Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland State University costs: free info: email i) ARCE/AZ * TBA date: ...; 7 pm place: Room 205 of the "Swede" Johnson Alumni Association building on the University of Arizona campus, 1111 N. Cherry (NW corner of Cherry and Speedway), Tucson, Arizona. costs: free and open to all info: Suzanne Onstine at email or Anne Lopez at 520-621-9026 j) ARCE/DC URL * TBA date: ...; 6:30 PM place: Benjamin T. Rome Auditorium, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC costs: free and open to all info: email k) ARCE/Atlanta Interest Group * TBA date: ...; 10:00 a.m. place: Reception Hall, 3rd floor of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, of Emory University, 571 South Kilgo Street Atlanta, Georgia costs: free and open to the public info: tel. 404-712-9854 (Candy Tate) or email l) ARCE/Northern California society's website * TBA date: ....; 2:30pm place: Room 126, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley Campus info: email m) Egypt Exploration Organization of Southern California, (EEO/SC; previously: ARCE/SC) * TBA date: ...; TBA (5 p.m.?) place: Los Angeles area, venue TBA costs: lecture plus dinner $20, reservations required info: for venue and reservations, contact email or (323) 874-8681 / (818) 768-1236 n) ARCE/Pennsylvania Chapter URL * TBA date: ...., 2009; 6:30 PM place: Classroom 2, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 costs: $5 general admission, $3 museum members/students, free to ARCE-PA members info: email o) Egyptian Study Society society's website. * TBA date: ...; 7:00 p.m. place: Ricketson Auditorium, Denver Museum of Nature and Science info: email p) University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 * "Built of Memory and Hope: The Sacred City of Abydos, Egypt", by Josef Wegner date: February 4, 2009; 6 p.m. costs: $5; free for Museum members and PennCard holders info: tel. (215) 898-4890 info: URL q) ARCE/Orange County California Chapter society's website * TBA date: ...; 1:30 p.m. place: Norma Kershaw Auditorium, Bowers Museum 2002 N. Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92706 costs: free and open to all info: email info: URL r) Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe * TBA date: ...; 7:00 PM place: Life Sciences Bldg. A, Room 191, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ costs: free and open to the public info: email s) West Boylston Arts Foundation * "Mummies; The Eternal Fascination", by S. J. Wolfe The talk will cover how and why mummies were made, as well as tales from S.J. Wolfe's own research and interactions with Egyptian mummies. She will also be talking about finding and meeting a "lost mummy," the one which Ward Nicholas Boylston (for whom Boylston and West Boylston were named) brought to America in 1818. date: Thursday, March 5, 2009; 6:30 - 7:30 place: Stiles Room (downstairs), Beaman Memorial Library, West Boylston costs: free and open to the public. t) ARCE / Northwest (Seattle) Chapter society's website * TBA date: ...; 6:30 PM place: Mueller Hall, Room 153, University of Washington campus, Seattle, WA costs: admission is free info: email u) Embassy of Egypt 3521 International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008 * TBA date: ...; 6:30 PM costs: free info: please RSVP at tel. (202) 895-5463 v) The Smithsonian Resident Associates Program (RAP) PO Box 23293, Washington, DC 20026-3293 * TBA date: ...; 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. place: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, S.W. info: tel. 202-252-0012 info: URL w) Center for the Ancient Mediterranean 501 Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave New York, NY 10027 URL * TBA date: ...; 5 pm place: Room 832, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University's Morningside campus, 116th Sreet and Broadway, New York info: URL x) - y) Egyptology and Ancient Egyptian Studies Society (EAESS) * TBA date: ...; 1:30pm-3:00 place: Panera Bread, Owasso, Ok (Off 96th St and Hwy 169, by Kohl's) info: URL, email z) The Idaho Archaeological Society, Great Basin Chapter * "Tutankhamun and The Golden Age of the Pharaohs", by Jan Summers Duffy (The College of Idaho's Natural History Museum's Archaeologist and Curator) The speaker will comment on the artifacts shown in the DVD 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' and will highlight her ongoing research on the headrests discovered in KV62. She is the College of Idaho's Expert Faculty in Egyptology, and previously worked in Egypt's Nile Delta (excavating mudbrick houses and mastaba burials). An in-depth article by her hand about headrests from KV62 will appear in the near future in Ancient Egypt magazine. date: Thursday, April 9, 2009; 7 pm place: The Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, Boone Hall, The College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, Idaho 83605 costs: none; donations appreciated info: email za) Oriental Institute, University of Chicago * "The Epigraphic Survey in Luxor: Change and Challenges in the Nile Valley", by W. Raymond Johnson (Director, Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute) date: Wednesday June 3, 2009; 7:00 pm place: Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 costs: free and open to the public info: tel. 773-834-9777 zb) North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics * NACAL 38 date: February 13-14, 2010 place: Georgetown University, Washington, DC info: email info: URL zc) Chicago Archaeological Society URL * "Egypt's New Tomb Revealed", by Dr.Otto Schaden date: Sunday, April 26, 2009; 3:30 P.M. place: North Shore Retirement Hotel, 1611 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Chicago costs: free and open to the public info: source - URL info: email zd) - ze) - zf) - zg) - zh) ARCE/Chicago Chapter URL * TBA date: ...; 5:00 pm place: The Oriental Institute, 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago costs: free and open to the public info: tel. 773 702 1062 zi) - zj) - zk) The Memphis area interest group for ARCE * TBA date: ...; 3-4 pm place: University of Memphis campus, Mitchell Hall room 309, Memphis, TN costs: free and open to the public info: Suzanne Onstine at URL or 901-678-3383 zl) - zm) - zp) - zq) - zr) Miller Theatre at Columbia University 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street) MC 1801 New York, NY 10027 phone: 212-854-1633 * Symposium: "Antony and Cleopatra: 'What Becomes a Legend Most?' " Experts in diverse disciplines will offer a wide-angle view of Samuel Barber's 'Antony and Cleopatra' and its sources, and will explore the world's enduring fascination with its larger-than-life heroine. The Egyptologist present is Dr Ann Macy Roth. date: Saturday, January 10, 2009; 12:00 - 5:00 PM costs: tickets $20 ($15 for Students/Seniors) info: URL info: press report, with programme, at URL --CANADA-- a) La Société pour l'Étude de l'Égypte Ancienne Society for the Study for Egyptian Antiquities society website --SSEA Toronto Chapter-- * TBA date:..., 2009; 7:00pm. place: Room 142, basement of Earth Sciences Complex, 5 Bancroft Ave, Toronto info: to see more details and RSVP, see URL info: email -- SEEA Chapitre de Montréal / SSEA Montreal Chapter-- society website * TBA date: ...; 18h00 place: Bureau des Affaires Culturelles et de l'Éducation (BACE) du Consulat Général d'Égypte, 1 Place Ville-Marie, 19ième étage, suite 1936, Montreal, Quebec costs: free; RSVP- to reserve your place please call: 514-353-4674 info: email * TBA date: ...; 18:00 place: The Espace culturel of Librairie Monet, 2752 de Salaberry in Montreal. costs: free for members, $12.00 for non-members. To confirm your place, please contact email info: email or tel. 514-353-4674 --SSEA Calgary Chapter--- * TBA date: ...; 7:00 pm. place: Room 162, Earth Sciences Building, University of Calgary costs: free b) Toronto Society of the Archaeological Institute of America * TBA date: ...; 4:15 pm place: Emmanuel College, 75 Queen's Park Crescent, Room EC001, Basement Level, Elevator Access. info: phone 416-978-7892, 905-823-2819 or 416-489-0209 info: URL c) The Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt * TBA date: ...; 7.30 pm place: National Library of Canada Auditorium, 395 Wellington St., Ottawa costs: free info: email d) Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto URL * TBA date: ...; 7:30 pm place: Sam Sorbara Auditorium of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, 81 St. Mary's St., Toronto costs: free info: URL e) Dept. of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations of the University of Toronto * TBA f) - g) Canadian Society for the Study of Egypt * TBA date: ...; 6.30 p.m. place: Lecture Hall C300, The University of British Columbia, Robson Square, Vancouver, B.C. costs: non-members $8, members: $5, students: $3, student members: free info: email h) Le Bureau des Affaires culturelles et de l'Éducation du Consulat général d'Égypte * TBA date: ...; 18h30 place: Bureau des Affaires Culturelles et de l'Éducation (BCAC) du Consulat Général d'Égypte, 1 Place Ville-Marie, 19ième étage, suite 1936, Montreal, Quebec costs: free, but reservation is required info: email or email --UNITED KINGDOM--- a) Egyptian Embassy, London, Education & Culture Bureau 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London W1. tel: 020 7491 7720; email * Regular lectures: -- “The Temple of Amun at Karnak”, by Bob Partridge date: January 22, 2009; 6:45 pm -- “From Siwa to Kharga”, by Peter Philips date: February 12, 2009; 6:45 pm -- “Individual Hands? The elusive writers and makers of ancient Egypt”, by Dr Stephen Quirke date: February 26, 2009; 6:45 pm * Day School: “Egyptology in Manchester : the first hundred years” With Prof. Rosalie David, Mrs Jacqueline Finch & Dr Karen Exell. date: February 14, 2009; 10 am – 4.30 pm b) ICAANE * 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Deadline for papers is April 30, 2009. place: The British Museum and the University College London date: April 12-16, 2010 info: URL info: email c) Manchester Ancient Egypt Society (MAES) society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:30 place: Weston Building, UMIST, Sackville Street, Manchester costs: members GBP 3, non-members GBP 5 info: email d) British Museum, London Great Russell Street, London WC1N 3BG tel.: 020-7323 8299, e-mail: information@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk * The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology 2009: "The last New Kingdom tomb at Thebes: the end of a great tradition", delivered by Prof. Dr. Tamás Bács (Head of Department of Egyptology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) date: Monday 20 July 2009, 18.00 place: BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Centre, The British Museum, London. * Annual Egyptological Colloquium 2009 "The Egyptian Book of the Dead: recent research and new perspectives" date: Tuesday 21- Wednesday 22 July 2009 place: The BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Centre, The British Museum, London costs: £50 (students -50%, BMF -10%) plus Sackler Lecture £60 tickets are available (after June 1st) with email --British Museum Friends-- * TBA date: ...; 18:30 place: BP lecture theatre, British Museum, London costs: tickets GBP7.50 info: booking at 020 7323 8566, friends@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk source: The London Diary for the ANE, edited by Jan Picton. e) Petrie Museum * "Socks and more: weaving in the Petrie Museum", by Charlotte Booth date: Saturday, June 6, 2009; 13:00-15:00 place: Petrie Museum, Malet Place, London WC1. costs: all welcome but pre-booking essential at email --- Friends of the Petrie Museum -- society's website * "Petrie in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen", by Tine Bagh date: Friday, June 12, 2009; 13:00-15:00 place: Room G6, Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq, London WC1 costs: free, all welcome info: email f) Poynton Egypt Group society's website * TBA date: ...; 8:00 pm place: Lower Park Primary School, Hazelbadge Road, Poynton, Cheshire. costs: open to all, with entrance fee (GBP2 members) info: group@poyntonegypt.freeserve.co.uk g) The Egypt Exploration Society 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG society's website --EES London-- * Conference: "EES: New explorations at Gebel Ramla, Tell Basta, Saqqara, Tell el Amarna, the Dakhla Oasis, Karnak, Sesebi, and in the archives at Doughty Mews" date: June 21-22, 2009 place: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St, WC1 London costs: tickets: £65 (EES members), £75 (non-members); students: £50 (EES members), £65 (non-members) info: tel: 020 7242 1880 * TBA date: ...; 18.00 for a 18:30 start place: Brunei Gallery lecture theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1 London. EES lecture. costs: £10 members, £15 non-members. info: 020 7242 1903, email --EES Manchester-- * TBA date: ...; 7:00pm place: Lecture Theatre 1, Stopford Building, 1st floor, Oxford Rd, University of Manchester info: email --EES Exeter-- * TBA date: ... place: St Loye's Foundation, Topsham Road, Exeter EX2 6EP. info: email h) University College London, Institute of Archaeology * Conference: "Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium" Pre-circulated papers will focus on the artefactual nature of writing— the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and landscapes, and structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. A number of papers deal with evidence from the Nile Valley / Eastern Mediterranean / Near East. date: May 15 - 17, 2009 costs: £50 (£15 student) before 1 May / thereafter £75 (£25 student) info: URL info: email i) Egypt Society of Bristol. society's website * "Egypt's Earliest Writing", by Dr Kathryn Piquette (Trinity College, Dublin) date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009; 18:45 place: Lecture Room 1, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, 43 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol 8 info: email j) Sussex Egyptology Society society's website * TBA date: ...; 2 pm place: Brighton Hove & Sussex 6th Form College, 205 Dyke Road, Hove, East Sussex costs: free for members, GBP 3 for non-members info: URL info: email k) The North Yorkshire Ancient Egypt Group society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:30pm to 9:30pm place: Taits College, Station Bridge, Harrogate costs: £5 entrance info: contact Anne Murray at tel. 01423.861604 or anne@annemurray50.wanadoo.co.uk l) Staffordshire Egyptology Society URL * TBA date: ...; 7:30 pm place: St Leonards Sports and Social Club, St Leonards Avenue, Stafford. costs: members GBP1.50, non-members GBP3.50 info: staffordshireegyptology@yahoo.co.uk m) The Leicester Ancient Egypt Society * TBA date: ...; 2:00 pm. place: The New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 53 New Walk, Leicester info: dylan367@yahoo.com n) The Southampton Ancient Egypt Society (SAES) Society's website * TBA date: ..., 2009; meet at 1.30 pm for a 2 pm start place: Main School Hall, Wyvern Technology College, Botley Road, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, Hants SO50 7 AN costs: GBP 3.0 members, GBP 6.0 non-members info: email o) Three Counties Ancient History Society society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:30h place: Upton Snodsbury Village Hall, off the A422 between Worcester and Stratford info: brian@yare.org p) The Egypt Centre, University of Wales Swansea Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP * TBA q) The Friends of the Egypt Centre, Wales, Swansea society's website * "Ancient Egyptian Amulets", by Carol Andrews date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009; 7.00pm place: Faraday A Lecture Theatre, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP cost: free for members, £3.00 non-members info: tel. 01792 295960 r) Tameside Egypt Group society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:00-10:00pm place: St Marks Social Centre, corner of West St (off the A627) and Railway St., Dukenfield, Cheshire. cost: members GBP2, non-members GBP3 info: kendowns@lineone.net s) Swansea University Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP. * TBA date: ... place: the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology (KH 115). costs: all welcome. info: URL t) Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society URL * "What is an Egyptian god", by Prof Alan Lloyd date: June 13, 2009; 13:30 for a 14:00 start place: Allen Laboratory, Building 48, Whiteknights Campus, Pepper Lane entrance, Reading University costs: TVAES members free, visitors £3 info: email * Amarna Study Day with Professor Barry Kemp date: Saturday July 11, 2009; 9:30-16:30 place: The Oakwood Centre, Headley Road, Woodley, Reading, Berkshire costs: £30/Person (proceeds go to the Amarna Trust) info: programme and booking form at URL u) Current Research in Egyptology * Conference CRE X The Call for Papers is on the website below; deadline for submissions is September 14, 2008. date: January 7-9, 2009 place: University of Liverpool info: URL info: email v) Sussex College of Egyptology website * TBA date: ... place: Queen Street Community Centre, Queen Street, Worthing, West Sussex cost: GBP10 for members, GBP13 for non-members info: egyptology.sussex@mcmail.com w) North-East Manchester Egypt Society (NEMES) society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:30 pm place: St Andrews Church, Woodward Road, Carr Clough, Prestwich, Manchester info: alan@nemes.co.uk x) Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt society's website * TBA date: ...; 1.30 pm place: University of Derby, Main Kedleston Road Campus, Derby place: the Library Lecture Theatre, New Beetwell Street, Chesterfield info: mail.ssae@ntlworld.com y) Horus Egyptology Society society's website * TBA date: ...; time TBA (likely 7:30 pm) place: The Orwell, Wigan Pier, Wigan costs: (incl. meal) adults GBP8.00, concessions GBP6.00. info: horusegyptology@talk21.com z) Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society * TBA date: ...; 19:30 place: St Matthew's Church, Clare Road, Kingdsown, Bristol. costs: non-BAAS members GBP1.00. za) Society for Libyan Studies URL * TBA date: ...; 17.00 place: British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 zb) Bloomsbury Academy Department of History, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK tel: 020-7679 3622; bloomsbury@egyptology-uk.com URL zc) Wirral Ancient Egypt Society * TBA date: ...; 2pm place: Mayer Hall, Bebington, Wirral. cost: GBP25 (includes two course buffet lunch, teas and coffees) info: Brenda Bridge at bembridge@ntlworld.com or tel. 0151 - 334 6721 zd) Egyptology Scotland 30 Athole Gardens, Glasgow, G12 9BD * TBA date: ...; 2 pm place: Lecture Theatre of the Burrell Collection Museum, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow costs: GBP2 for members, GBP 4 for non-members info: URL ze) The Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB tel: 01223 332900; fitzmuseum-enquiries@lists.cam.ac.uk * Conference: "Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology 2009" date: May 20-23, 2009 costs: £20; registration with email info: URL info: email * The annual Stephen Glanville Memorial Lecture: "A city on the move: Egypt's capital in the Old Kingdom". by Dr Jaromir Malek date: May 23, 2009; 5pm place: Zoology Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology info: URL info: email * Glanville Symposium: "Egypt in the age of the pyramids: new research in the Memphite region" date: preceding the Glanville Lecture. costs: £35, booking required info: URL info: email zf) Sudan Archaeological Research Society (SARS) Dept Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum WC1B 3DG * TBA date: ...; 18:00 place: BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, Gt Russell St WC1 London info: SARS@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk zg) Ancient World Tours * "Ancient World Conference" date: September 12-13, 2009 place: University College, London This is a joint event with the Petrie Museum; speakers include writer and broadcaster Michael Wood, Dr Sabry Abd el-Aziz, head of Egyptology at the SCA, Stephen Quirke, Rosalie David, Paul Collins, Caroline Wilkinson, Colin Reader, Chris Naunton, Dirk Huyge and Lucia Gahlin. info: URL info: (some details of topics) URL zh) British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 website * Symposium: "New Greek Texts From Oxyrhynchus" The presentation evening offers an opportunity to preview some of the exciting new texts to come from Oxyrhynchus and there will also be an opportunity to hear something of the present state and future prospects of the Oxyrhynchus project as a whole. A compact display of papyri, photographs, and other relevant material will also be on view. Convenors: Professor Eric Handley, CBE, FBA, University of Cambridge and Dr Dirk Obbink , University of Oxford Speakers: Dr Dirk Obbink, Professor Peter Parsons, FBA, University of Oxford and Dr Dorothy Thompson, FBA, University of Cambridge date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 7pm - 8.30pm costs: free (but seating is limited) info: URL zi) The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester * Symposium: "Egypt in its African Context" Discusses interpretations of ancient Egypt from an African perspective, exploring the ‘African-ness’ of ancient Egyptian culture and ways of presenting Egypt in its African context in museums, literature and the media. Abstracts are invited before July 31, 2009 date: 3-4 October, 2009 info: email info: URL zj) Essex Egyptology Group * TBA date: ...; 3-5pm place: Spring Lodge Community Centre, Powers Hall End, Witham, Essex costs: GBP25 per year to join or GBP5 per meeting for non-members info: neferleli@yahoo.co.uk zk) The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL * TBA zl) Wessex Ancient Egypt Society * "Decline and Fall: The Last Years Akhenaten", by Dr Aidan Dosson date: June 6, 2009; 2 pm (prompt) place: Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Wallisdown costs: members GBP 2, non-members GBP 4 info: tel. 01202-241973 zm) The British Association of Near Eastern Archaeologists ---BANEA South-East/The London Centre for the Ancient Near East--- URL * TBA date: .., 2009: 18.00 place: Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St, London WC1. info: email zn) Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies University of Oxford. * Conference: "Redefining the Sacred: Religious Identity, Ritual Practice, and Sacred Architecture in the Near East and Egypt, 1000 BC – 300 AD" The aim of the conference is to explore the immense potential of diachronic studies of sacred space. Deadline for abstracts of papers is November 30th, 2008. date: March 19-21, 2009 info: email info: URL zo) Birkbeck College * Study Day: "The beginning of the Egyptian state" Speakers: John Wyatt, Tine Bagh, Joseph Clayton, Joanne Rowland, Alice Stevenson date: Saturday, June 13, 2009; 10.00-17.00 place: Room B34 Birkbeck College, Malet St, London WC1. costs: £40 (£20 concessions); places limited, enrolment on tel. 020 7631 6651 info: tel .020 7631 6627 --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden * TBA date: ...; 20:00 place: Tempelzaal, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, Leiden. costs: free and open to all info: URL b) Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap 'Ex Oriente Lux' * TBA date: ..; 20:00 place: Openbare Bibliotheek, Hinthamerstraat 72, Den Bosch costs: EUR 2 for non-members info: tel. 073-6133336 (J. Croonen) c) Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) URL * "De Egyptische collectie van de Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (Brussel): een kijkje achter de schermen", by L. Limme date: April 16, 2009; 14:45 for a 15:00 start place: filmzaal, 2nd floor, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, Leiden costs: open to all info: email d) Leiden University * Conference: Current Research in Egyptology XI date: January 5 - 8, 2010 The main aim of the conference is to provide graduate and post-graduate students the opportunity to present their research. Abstracts of papers are due by October 1, 2009. info: email info: URL e) Het Huis van Horus & Mehen URL * "Horemheb and his reign", by Dr. Jacobus van Dijk (University of Groningen) Dr. Jacobus van Dijk discusses the career of Horemheb as military commander and king, his tombs at Saqqara and the Valley of the Kings and the length of his reign, based on discoveries during the re-examination of his Theban Tomb. date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009; 19:15 for a 19:30 start. place: Leiden University, Lipsius 005, Leiden costs: EUR 8,-- (donateurs) or EUR 10,-- (niet-donateurs) reservations appreciated at email info: URL --GERMANY-- a) Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster Schlaunstr. 2, D-48143 Münster fax: +49 251 83 29933, e-mail: aegypkop@uni-muenster.de * "41. Ständige Ägyptologen-Konferenz" (SÄK 2009) Generalthema: "Ägyptologie unter dem sog. Bologna-Prozess"; Sektion: "Themen der jungen Ägyptologie" date: July 17-19, 2009 info: preliminary programme and registration info at URL info: new information and preliminary program at URL "15.04.09: SÄK - ade ? ... die Anmeldefrist zur SÄK 2009 ist längst abgelaufen: Wir haben 93 Anmeldungen. Natürlich werden wir auch eine 'kleine' SÄK organisieren ... Zusatz 22.4.09: Zu obigem sind Tadel und Lob gekommen. Kritische Stimmen sagen, das Thema des Hauptvortrages [Ägyptologie unter dem sog. Bologna-Prozess] betreffe ein schon erledigtes Problem ..." info: Zweiter Rundbrief (Programm) at URL b) Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Schlossstr. 70, D-14059 Berlin email museum's website tel: +49-30-34357311 * TBA date: ...; 07.15 h p.m. place: Brugsch-Pascha-Saal im Haus 20 B, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2-8, 10117 Berlin costs: entrance 2 Euro; no fee for Museum community members and members of Aegypten Forum Berlin e.V info: URL c) Forum Aegyptologie an der Universitatet Hamburg e.V. c/o Universität Hamburg, Archäologisches Institut, - Abteilung Ägyptologie - Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel West, D-20146 Hamburg * Lecture series "Das Mittlere Reich / Zwischenzeiten" -- "Kunst und Künstler im Mittleren Reich" by Dietrich Wildung date: April 28, 2009, 6:30 pm -- "Eine königliche Domäne aus der Zeit des Chufu in Al Shaky Said" by Harco Willems date: June 11, 2009, 6:30 pm -- "Orientalische Despotie oder afrikanisches Königtum? Die ägyptische Gesellschaft im Mittleren Reich" by Wolfram Grajetzki date: July 9, 2009, 6:30 pm -- For all lectures is valid: place: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstr. 116, D-20249 Hamburg d) Ägyptologisches Institut Schloss, D-72070 Tübingen tel: +49 7071 29-72650, fax: +49 7071 29-5909 e-mail: aegyptologie@uni-tuebingen.de * TBA e) Sudanarchaeologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. c/o Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Philosophische Fakultaet III, Richard-Lepsius-Institut Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin tel.: +49 30 47 97 328, fax: +49 30 47 97 326 society's website * TBA date: ....; 18.00, place: Remise des Ägyptischen Museums Charlottenburg (Berlin) costs: free and open to all f) Institut fuer Aegyptologie Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Friedrich-von-Pfeiffer-Weg 5, D-55099 Mainz tel.: +49 6131 392 2438, fax: +49 6131 392 5409 e-mail: instaegypt@mail.uni-mainz.de URL * TBA date: ...; 6:30 pm place: Hörsaal N6, Gebäude der Naturwiss. Fakultät info: URL info: URL g) Die Aegyptisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft Nord e.V. c/o Dr.-Ing. Hani El Nokraschy An de Masch 24, D-25488 Holm tel.: +49 4103 15199, fax: +49 4103 919792 * TBA date: ..., 11 am place: Vortragssaal des Museums fuer Völkerkunde, Rothenbaumchaussee 64, Hamburg info: [Word document]: URL source: URL h) Collegium Aegyptium e.V. Foerderkreis des Instituts fuer Aegyptologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen e.V. tel.: +49 89 289 27 540, fax: +49 89 289 27 545 e-mail: collegium-aegyptium@aegyp.fak12.uni-muenchen.de * TBA date: ...; 19:00 place: Groszer Hoersaal of the Institute für Ägyptologie, Meiserstr. 10, D-80333 München, 2nd floor costs: open to non-members at a donation of EUR 6 info: URL i) Aegypten-Forum-Berlin e.V. URL * "Alte Bilder neu entdeckt - Konzeption und Ausfuehrung der Mastaba des Mereruka", by Dr. Gabriele Pieke, Bonn date: July 23, 2009; 7:30 p.m. place: Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Hoersaal 2091/92, Hauptgebaeude, 1. Etage, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin costs: free info: URL j) Ägyptologisches Institut Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig Burgstraße 21, D-04109 Leipzig tel.: +49 341 97 370 10, fax: +49 341 97 370 29; e-mail:aegmus@rz.uni-leipzig.de * TBA date: ...; 18:15 place: Städtisches Kaufhaus, Eingang Universitätsstraße, Raum 0208 info: URL k) Urania e.V. An der Urania 17, D-10787 Berlin tel.: +49 30 2 18 90 91, fax: +49 30 2 11 03 98 * TBA date: ....; 3:30 pm info: URL URL l) Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim Am Steine 1-2, D-31134 Hildesheim tel.: +49 5121 9369-21, fax: +49 5121 35283 e-mail: info@rpmuseum.de * TBA m) Uschebti e.V c/o Seminar für Aegyptologie der Universitaet zu Koeln Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Koeln tel.: +49 221 470 3876, fax: +49 221 470 5079 e-mail: Svenja.Guelden@uni-koeln.de * TBA date: ...; 7 pm s.t. place: Hörsaalgebäude der Universität zu Köln, Hörsaal E entry: EUR 3 for non-members info: URL n) Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, * Symposium: "Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece: Zur Übersetzbarkeit von Wissenschaftssprachen des Altertums " The conference aims to explore problems involved in translating ancient scientific texts and to create a methodological framework to improve the quality of future translations. date: July 27-29, 2009 costs: EUR 15 (registration in advance, before May 31, with email) info: URL info: preliminary programme at URL o) Freundeskreis Aegyptologie an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz e. V. Johann-Friedrich-von-Pfeiffer-Weg 5, D-55128 Mainz tel.: +49 69 51 42 53 (Marianne Arnold), e-mail: FK-Aegyptologie-MZ@web.de URL * TBA date: ...; 18:30 place: Philosophicum, Hörsaal P2 info: URL p) Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Bonner Sammlung von Aegyptiaca e. V. c/o Ägyptologisches Seminar der Universität Bonn Regina-Pacis Weg 7, D-53113 Bonn tel: +49 228 737587 * TBA date: ...; 06:00 pm place: Hörsaal 17 des Englischen Seminars, Regina-Pacis-Weg 5, Bonn costs: EUR 2 for non-members info: URL q) Ägyptologische Arbeitsgruppe Megypt * TBA date: ... place: Münchner Institut für Ägyptologie, Meiserstraße 10, 80333 München costs: - info: URL r) Museum August Kestner * Colloquium "In Memoriam Peter Munro" Meeting in commemoration of Prof. Dr. Peter Munro (8.1.1930 - 2.1.2009). date: May 27, 2009; 15:00 - 18:00 info: participants please register before May 15 with email The programme was on the forum (#; April 27) s) Ägyptisches Museum, Bonner Sammlung von Aegyptiaca Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, D-53113 Bonn tel.: +49 228-739717 (Kasse), fax: +49 228-737360 e-mail: aegyptisches-museum@uni-bonn.de website: URL * TBA date: ...; 07:15 pm info: URL t) Seminar fuer Aegyptologie und Koptologie, Georg-August-Universitaet Prinzenstrasse 21, D-37073 Goettingen tel.: +49 551 39-4400, fax: +49 551 39-9332 e-mail: uhak@uni-goettingen.de * TBA date: ...; 7:15 pm info: URL u) Institut fuer Aegyptologie, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet Meiserstr. 10, D-80333 Muenchen tel.: +49 89 289 27 540, fax: +49 89 289 27 545 e-mail: aegyptologie@aegyp.fak12.uni-muenchen.de * TBA date: ...; 18:00 place: Grosser Hoersaal of the Institute info: URL v) Seminars für Ägyptologie der Universität zu Köln * Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz (SÄK) date: TBA w) Freie Universität zu Berlin Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften Ägyptologisches Seminar * TBA date: ..., 18:00 h. place: Hörsaal 1 im Gebäude Schwendener Straße 1, 14195 Berlin (2. Obergeschoss, links) costs: free info: email x) Ägyptologisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Marstallhof 4, D-69117 Heidelberg tel.: +49-06221-542533, fax: +49-06221-542551 e-mail: aegypt-inst@urz.uni-heidelberg.de * TBA date: ...; 07:00 pm - 03:00 am place: Sammlung des Ägyptologischen Instituts, Marstallhof 4, 4. Stock info: URL z) - za) Ägyptologisches Seminar Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, D-53113 Bonn e-mail: aegyptologisches.seminar@uni-bonn.de * TBA date: .. zb) - zc) Freundes- und Förderkreis 'Antike und Gegenwart e.V.' Kestner-Museum Trammplatz 3, D-30159 Hannover tel.: +49 511 168-42120, fax: +49 511 168-46530 e-mail: kestner-museum@hannover-stadt.de * TBA date: ...; 18:30 place: Kestner-Museum, Trammplatz 3, D-30159 Hannover info: URL zd) Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut / Fachbereich Orientalistik Rothenbaumchaussee 67/69, D-20148 Hamburg tel.: +49 40 42838-4055, fax: +49 40 42838-6530 e-mail: aai@uni-hamburg.de * TBA date: ...; 6:30 pm ze) Egyptological Institute, University of Leipzig * TBA date: ... place: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig info: URL --SOUTH AFRICA-- a) The Egyptian Society of South-Africa society's website * TBA date: ... place: The Jenny Mallett Hall, St. George's Grammar School Richmond Road, Mowbray, Cape Town costs: members free, non-members R20 info: grenvill@iafrica.com --EGYPT-- a) Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) 1, Dr Mahmoud Azmi Street P.O. Box 50, 11211 Zamalek - Cairo - Egypt phone: ++20 2 738.2522 / 738.2520 email: nvic@rite.com; institute's website * TBA date: ..., 2009; 5:50 pm for a 6 pm start b) EES Cairo C/O British Council, 192 Sharei el-Nil St. Agouza -Cairo. Cell.pho.:010/6797508 * Regular lectures: -- "Recent discoveries at Tell el-Farkha (Nile Delta)", by Dr.Krzysztof Cialowicz and Dr.Marek Chlodnicki dae: March 17, 2009; 7:00 pm. -- "Water, water every where. The results of the North West Delta survey", by Dr. Penny Wilson date: March 23, 2009; 7:00 pm. -- "The Liverpool University Harem Palace Project. New field work at Ghorab", by Dr Ian Shaw date: March 30, 2009; 7:00 pm. -- For all lectures is valid: place: British council, ‘Garden Room’ costs: free info: email c) Japan Egyptology Society in Cairo * TBA date: ...; 7:00pm place: Embassy of Japan (Information & Culture Center), 3rd Floor, Cairo Center Bldg., 106 Kasr Al-Aini St., Garden City, Cairo costs: free and open to all info: Yukinori Kawae at yukinegy@soficom.com.eg d) l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire * Conference: "Ermitages d'Égypte au premier millénaire" L'objectif premier de ce colloque est d'intégrer la totalité des établissements érémitiques connus à la carte du monachisme égyptien et, par là-même, de reconstituer, autant que l'état des recherches actuelles le permet, l'étendue et la diversité de ce type d'installations monastiques. date: January 24-26, 2009 info: URL info: email e) University of Sohag * Conference: "The Asyut Project: Seven Seasons of Egyptian-German Cooperation in Archaeological Fieldwork" date: Saturday, October 10, 2009; 9:00 am - 8:00 pm The conference will feature about ten papers and presentations on recently completed and ongoing studies of the Asyut Project conducted by researchers from Egyptian and German university institutions. info: participants please contact email The programme was on the forum (#; April 27) f) Supreme Council of Antiquities 3 el-Adel Abu Bakr Street, Zamalek, Cairo phone: +2/02 736-5645; fax: 735-7239 * TBA date: ..., 2009; 6:00 PM place: Ahmad Pasha Kamal Hall, SCA Building, Zamalek info: email g) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo URL * "Recent geo-archaeological research at Naga (Sudan)", by Dipl.-Geogr. Jonas Berking date: Thursday, March 19, 2009; 6 pm place: 31, Sharia Abu el-Feda, 11211 Cairo-Zamalek info: email h) International Workshop for African Archaeobotany * IWAA 6, Cairo 2009 Deadline for abstracts of papers is the end of December 2008. Pre-registration (via a form) is requested as soon as possible. date: June 13-15, 2009 place: Helwan University, Cairo info: URL info: first circular (in PDF) at URL info: email --ITALY-- a) Centro Italiano Studi Egittologici (CISE) piazza Gramsci, 21, 40026 Imola tel. 349 1858983; CISE info website * TBA date: ...; 18:00h -- For all lectures is valid: place: Sala delle Stagioni, via Emilia 25, Imola. b) Associazione Napoletana di Studi Egittologici * TBA info: URL c) Associazione Collaboratori Museo Egizio (ACME) c/o Museo Egizio di Torino, via Accademia delle Scienze 6, 10123 Turin, Italy * TBA date: ...; 18:00 (6 pm) place: Centro Congressi dell'Unione Industriale, via Fanti 17, Turin costs: free for ACME members; non-members should contact ACME in advance. info: on Saturday mornings only - phone: +39-011-5617776 d) European Academy Bolzano (EURAC) Institute for Mummies and the Iceman URL * First Bolzano Mummy Congress - "Mummies and Life Sciences" On the application of biomedical sciences in mummy studies. Deadline for registration is February 28, 2009. date: March 19-21, 2009 info: email info: the programme is now available at URL e) Istituto Italiano per la Civiltà Egizia Via Massena 52/a, I-10128 Torino tel.: +39 011599813, fax: +39 011599813 * TBA date: ... place: Università degli Studi, Palermo f) Centro Studi Archeologia Africana (CSAA) * "Magia di stato e magia privata in Età amarniana", by Daniele Salvoldi date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009; 18:00 place: main hall of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Corso Venezia 55, Milano info: email g) - h) - i) Associazione Culturale Seshat International of Turin, Italy * TBA date: .....; 18:00 (6 pm) site: Aula Magna "Giovanni Agnelli", Politecnico, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Turin costs: free info: mobile: +39-347-9445090 - e-mail: info@seshat.it --FRANCE-- a) Musee du Louvre F-75058 Paris Cedex 01, France tel. : +33 1 40 20 50 50; fax : +33 1 40 20 54 42; email * TBA b) Centre culturel d'Egypte 111, boulevard Saint-Michel, F-75005 Paris tel.: +33 1 46 33 75 67, fax: +33 1 43 26 18 83 e-mail: centre-culturel@egypt.edu * TBA date: ...; 06:30 pm info: URL c) Association Rennes Egyptologie * TBA date: ...; 20h30 place : La Maison du Champ de Mars 6, Cours des Alliers, 35000 Rennes info: rennes.egyptologie@wanadoo.fr (Henri Doranlo) d) Societe francaise d'Egyptologie Cabinet d'egyptologie, College de France place Marcelin-Berthelot, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 tel./fax: +33 1 40 46 94 31, e-mail: sfe@egypt.edu * TBA date: ...; 05:30 pm place: grand amphithéâtre de l'université de Paris IV, 108 boulevard Malesherbes, F-75017 Paris e) Association France-Égypte Secretariat: 41 rue Joseph-de Maistre, F-75018 Paris tel.: +33 1 42 29 22 70, e-mail: france.egypte@egypt.edu * TBA date: ...; 6:45 pm place: Centre Asiem, 6 rue Albert-de-Lapparent, F-75007 Paris f) Collège de France, Paris. La chaire d'égyptologie, Collège de France place Marcelin-Berthelot, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 * TBA g) L'Association Dauphinoise D'Egyptologie CHAMPOLLION (ADEC) c/o Musée Dauphinois 30, rue Maurice Gignoux, F-38031 Grenoble Cedex 1 website: URL * TBA date: ...; 3 pm place: Archives Départementales de l'Isère, 2 rue Auguste Prudhomme, Grenoble info: URL h) Rencontres Egyptologiques de Strasbourg * "Le jubilé d’Amenhotep III. Nouveaux documents de Karnak (Haute-Egypte)", by Mme Susanne Bickel date: March 26, 2009; 18h45 (doors open at 18h15) place: Maison des Associations de Strasbourg, 1A place des Orphelins, 67000 Strasbourg costs: RES members EUR 2, non-members EUR 6 (students EUR 3) info: tel. 03 88 30 14 60; email i) Association Égyptologique du Gard (Nîmes) * TBA date: ...; 9:00-18:00 place: Hôtel ATRIA Novotel, 5 Boulevard de Pragues, Nîmes info: URL j) L'Association Provence Égyptologie * TBA date: ...; 9:30 - 17:30 info: URL info: email k) - l) Archéo-Nil c/o Cabinet d'Égyptologie, Collège de France 11 place Marcelin-Berthelot, F-75005 Paris adresse administrative: M. Alain Fortier, abs institut Khéops 16, rue Albert-Bayet, F-75013 Paris email * TBA date: ..; 4:30 pm place: L'école du Louvre, palais du Louvre, place du Carroussel, dans l'amphithéâtre Cézanne info: URL --PORTUGAL-- a) - --BELGIUM-- a) Egyptologica a.s.b.l. 42, Av. Hansen-Soulie, B-1040 Bruxelles tel./fax: +32 2 736 93 31, e-mail : fdoyen@ulb.ac.be website: URL * TBA date: ...; 2 pm place: Salle Jean Capart au 1er étage de la Maison communale de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, 93 Av. Charles Thielemans, 1150 Bruxelles info: URL b) Egyptologica Vlaanderen * TBA date: ....; 20.00 u. place: Justus Lipsiuszaal (8th floor of the Erasmushuis), Blijde Inkomst-straat 21, 3000 Leuven place: Mgr. Sencie Instituut, Erasmusplein 2, 3000 Leuven (behind the Centrale Bibliotheek of the KUL) c) Association égyptologique néo-louvaniste * TBA date: ...; 20:00h info: 0474/451149 or egyptelln@hotmail.com info: URL d) Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (MRAH) Parc du Cinquantenaire, 10, 1000 Bruxelles * TBA date: ...; 10:30 am place: Auditorium info: URL e) - f) - g) Ptah-hotep a.s.b.l. Association d'égyptologie belge Chemin des Postes, 234, CP 1410 Waterloo tel.: 0495.896.148 * TBA date: ...; 3 pm place: Salle Jules Bastin de la maison communale de Waterloo, 26, rue François Libert, 1410 Waterloo info: URL --SPAIN-- a) Instituto de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto, Madrid URL email: antiguoegipto@telefonica.net tel: 00 34 91 576 57 95 * TBA date: ... place: Jaime Ferrer, 3., Palma de Mallorca. info: programme at URL info: antiguoegipto@telefonica.net; info@fundacionsophia.com b) Asociacion Espanola de Egiptologia (AEDE) URL * TBA date: ...; 19:00h place: Aula Magna del CSIC, C/Serrano 117, Madrid info: aedeweb@arrakis.es c) Asociacion Andaluza de Egiptologia (ASADE) email address: asade@supercable.es * TBA date: ...; 18:00-19:30h place: Sala de Conferencias del Museo Arqueologico de Sevilla. place: Paraninfo de la Universidad de Sevilla. costs: free info: asade@supercable.es --AUSTRALIA-- a) Egyptology Society of Victoria society's website * TBA date: ...; 8.00pm place: Lecture Theatre E7 (Building 72; Melways Map No.475 near Engineering), Clayton Campus, Monash University info: Colin.Hope@arts.monash.edu.au info: URL b) Rundle Foundation for Egyptian Archaeology * TBA date: ...; 7.30-9.00pm place: W5A Theatre 2, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney costs: tickets $11 per person, incl. GST info: tel. (02) 9850 8848 c) Australian Centre for Egyptology Division of Humanities, Macquarie University, Sydney tel. (02) 9850 8848; egyptology@hmn.mq.edu.au * TBA d) The West Australian Museum Centre for Ancient Egyptian Studies * TBA date: ... place: The Tunnel, West Australian Museum, Perth Cultural Centre, James St, Perth. info: rsvp to email e) Ancient Egypt Society of Western Australia * TBA date: ...; 7.00 pm for 7.15 pm start place: Institution of Engineers, Murray St, West Perth, W.A. costs: members $A 3.00, non-members $A 5 00c info: vydenhall@bigpond.com or (08) 9795 7023 --GREECE-- a) - --SWITZERLAND-- a) - b) Aegyptologie der Universitaet Zuerich Orientalisches Seminar, Wiesenstrasse 9, CH-8008 Zuerich tel.: +41 1 634 07 31, fax: +41 1 634 36 92 e-mail: orient@oriental.unizh.ch * TBA date: ... c) - d) Ägyptologisches Seminar Bernoullistrasse 32, CH-4056 Basel tel.: +41 61 267 30 62, fax: +41 61 267 31 94 e-mail: aegyptologie@unibas.ch * TBA date: ... place: BildungsZentrum 21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4055 Basel info: URL e) Basler Forum für Ägyptologie URL * TBA date: ...; 19:15 place: Bildungszentrum 21 (Basler Mission), Missionsstrasse 21, Basel --RUSSIA-- a) Association of Ancient Egypt Studies "MAAT" society's website * TBA date: ... place: State Library for Foreign Cultures and Literature Exhibition Center, Nikoloyamskaya str, 1, Moscow. costs: free admission. info: info@maat.ru b) The Center for Egyptological Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences * Conference: "Achievements and Problems of Modern Egyptology" The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 31, 2009. Registration procedure is open till August 31, 2009. date: September 29 – October 4, 2009. place: Moscow info: URL --AUSTRIA-- a) - --HUNGARY-- a) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest H-1146, Budapest (Pest), Dózsa György út 41. & The Hungarian-Egyptian Friendship Society * TBA b) Byblos Foundation Pasaréti út 66/b, Budapest * Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists: "Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt” Abstracts of papers are due before March 31, 2009. date: September 25-27, 2009 place: Budapest, Hungary. info: URL info: email (also for registration) info: press report at URL --BRAZIL-- a) UERJ - IFCH: Núcleo de Estudos da Antiguidade Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, 9º andar, sala 9030 A, Maracanã CEP20550-020 phone : 55 21-2587-7162 / 2587-7295; fax: 55 21- 2284-0547 website * TBA date: ...; 08:30-11:30 am place: Nucleo de Estudos da Antiguidade - NEA-UERJ (Ancient Research Center) from Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ (State University from Rio de Janeiro Brazil) info: jorphil@uol.com.br or egisto@bol.com.br --CHINA-- a) The Institute of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Peking University, Beijing * TBA --CZECH REPUBLIC-- a) Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts Czech Institute of Egyptology Celetná 20, CZ-110 00 Prague 1 tel.: +420 224491394, fax: +420 224491628 URL * International Workshop "Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millennium BCE" Registration and abstracts for papers are due by April 30th, 2009. date: September 1-4, 2009 place: Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, at Nám. Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1. info: Call for papers (in English) at: URL --POLAND-- a) Pultusk Academy of Humanities Al. Polonii 1/3, 06-100 Pultusk, Poland. * Vth Central European Conference of Egyptologists "Egypt 2009: Perspectives of Research" The deadline for abstract submission is March 31, 2009. All topics concerned with Ancient Egypt are welcome, including Ptolemaic and Roman periods. date: June 22-24, 2009 info: abstracts to email info: general inquiries with Dr JoannavPopielska-Grzybowska at email info: fees etc at email info: press report at URL --DENMARK-- a) Carsten Niebuhr Section of Near Eastern Studies, Institute of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen * TBA --ISRAEL-- a) University of Haifa * Conference: "Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism and Ideology from the third to the first millennium BCE" date: May 3 - 7, 2009 costs: 250$ info: URL info: email b) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva * Irene Levi-Sala Annual Research Seminar: "Recent Developments in Nubian Archaeology". date: Thursday, May 21, 2009; 9:00-17:00 place: W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall, Marcus Family Campus, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva Guest speaker is Prof. Stuart Tyson Smith, followed by a panel discussion (Dr. D. Ben-Tor, Dr. A. David, Dr. Y. Mizrachy, Dr. D. Kahn). info: email c) The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem Tu B'Shvat 5770, Jerusalem * Conference: "Living the Lunar Calendar: Time, Text and Tradition" date: January 30, 2010 - February 1, 2010 The conference will investigate the place of lunar calendar reckoning in human society and culture, with sessions covering the cuneiform Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient Israel, the Greco-Roman World, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Far East, Africa, and Mesoamerica. Papers are invited before 31st July, 2009. (#) info: email +++ (X) EXHIBITIONS Most info in this section was collected by Michael Tilgner. Great work, Michael! --USA-- a) - b) The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky Rose Street and Euclid Avenue, Lexington, KY 40506-0241 tel. (859) 257-5716. * "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London" date: March 22, 2009 - June 14, 2009 The exhibition features more than 200 antiquities from the Petrie Museum of Egyptology, University College, London. The artifacts are accompanied by archival photos, photomurals, documents and text panels that tell the story of William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942). Travelling exhibition that has been travelling the USA since 2005. info: URL info: press reports at URL URL info: press reports at URL Description of some of the pieces on display. With multiple photos. "With 221 artifacts ranging from exotic golden funeral masks to a stone rat trap." URL URL info: press report with a link to a 8 page PDF: URL info: press report (with photo of golden toe-covers) at URL c) Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of West Virginia One Clay Square, Charleston, West Virginia 25301 URL * "Lost Kingdoms of the Nile: Nubian Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston" date: September 12, 2009 - April 11, 2010 info: press report at URL d) Indianapolis Children's Museum 3000 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46208-4716 URL * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: June 27, 2009 - October 25, 2009 Featuring more than 130 treasures: more than 50 from the tomb of the boy-king and more than 70 objects from other periods (OK-LP). Will travel to other USA venues; before Indianapolis it will be in the Atlanta Civic Center (Nov 15, 2008 - May 22, 2009). This is the "Tutankhamun und die Welt der Pharaonen" exhibition that is at the Museum für Völkerkunde Wien (March 9, 2008 - September 28, 2008). It is of the same organizers (and with the same set-up) as that *other* (still touring) exhibition, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs". info: two press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL "Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday [April 27]". URL "In the first few hours after the museum opened ticket sales, the museum has sold more than 19,000 tickets." info: URL info: press report with video at URL info: press report at URL info: press reports about the arrival of a 25-foot (modern) statue of Anubis that will pave the way for the exhibition: URL (has a slideshow) URL (has link to video) info: press report at URL "Four galleries devoted to King Tut will correspond to the four rooms of his nearly intact tomb (..)" info: press report at URL A mother's report on a visit to the exhibition with her kids. e) - f) High Museum of Art 1280 Peachtree Street, NE Atlanta, Georgia 30309 highmuseum@woodruffcenter.org URL * "The Louvre and the Masterpiece" date: October 12, 2008 - September 6, 2009 Features works of art drawn from all eight of the Musée du Louvre's departments, including a 3,000-year-old Egyptian portrait head and a forgery of one. The exhibition will also be at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (October 18, 2009 - January 10. 2010). info: URL info: press report at URL g) Rollstone Studio 633 Main St., Fitchburg, Mass. URL * “Visions of Egypt” date: June 4-30, 2009 (Thursday to Sunday) Photos by Margaret Smith from journeys (2007/2008) to Cairo, Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula, and the villages and antiquities of Upper Egypt. info: press report (with photos, video) at URL h) - i) The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 tel.: 410 547 9000, e-mail: info@thewalters.org * "Mummified" date: November 15, 2008 - November 8, 2009 The exhibition focusses on a female mummy nicknamed Mery, her cartonnage, and a recent CT scan done of the mummy. But also other ancient Egyptian objects are on display, some 20, like X-rayed animal mummies. There's also a section devoted to the "Mummimania" of the 17th-20th centuries. info: URL info: press report (with info on the mummy) at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL The mummy of 'Mery' is the centerpiece of the exhibition. "(..) Deep abscesses, broken teeth and intensely infected gums filled Mery’s mouth, leading researchers to believe she died from blood poisoning stemming from multiple infections. (..)" With photo of X Ray of mummy in profile superimposed over her coffin. info: press report at URL j) The Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605-2496 http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ * "Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of Civilization" date: February 13, 2009 - July 5, 2009 Exhibition will feature more than 150 artifacts from renowned collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum and the Israel Museum. The jewelry is intended to illuminate the culture and customs of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant, Persia and the Islamic Middle East. Last year the exhibition was in New York's Forbes Galleries, in 2010 it will move to the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL "(..) Additionally, several key pieces from The Field Museum’s collection will be on display complementing the exhibition (..)" URL k) Discovery Times Square Exposition 226 West 44th Street, New York URL * "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" date: Spring 2010. The touring exhibition of more than 130 Egyptian antiquities. info: source - URL URL "(..) The new Times Square space will also allow exhibitors to avoid the restrictions of museums. The King Tut exhibition was turned down by many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, because its organizers wanted to charge additional admission fees.(..)" info: press reports at URL URL URL l) M.H. de Young Memorial Museum Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 * "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" date: June 27, 2009 - March 28, 2010 The travelling exhibition with 130 artefacts that was at several venues in the USA, then in London, and now in Dallas (Oct 3, 2008 - May 17, 2009). info: URL info: press reports at URL URL URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL (Includes a photo of the sculpted head of an Amarna princess) "(..) One of the highlights of the exhibit is a wooden torso of Tutankhamun that focuses on his roundish, still-developing facial features (..)" URL URL (With 3 image photo gallery) URL (With video) "(..) See ABC7's special broadcast on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 7 p.m. on Channel 7, "Tutankhamun: New Details of The Boy King." (..)" * “Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb: The Harry Burton date: June 27, 2009 - March 28, 2010 Feature 38 prints from Harry Burton, the photographer who documented Carter's discoveries in Tutankhamun's tomb. m) The Oriental Institute Museum 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, Illinois URL * "The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt" date: February 10, 2009 - December 6, 2009 "Visitors will be able to come face to face with a newly drawn image of an ancient Egyptian singer-priestess named Meresamun in a new exhibition that will show how Meresamun lived and what sorts of musical instruments she used. Details about her health, as revealed in CT scans using the latest equipment, help tell her life story." The exhibit includes 72 artifacts (coffin, musical instruments, written (legal) documents, pottery, stelae, jewelry and ritual objects). info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL Several nice photos of artefacts. info: press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL With two photos, one of coffin, one of woman-shaped jar in pose like the Venus of Willendorf. n) Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Lincoln Park 34th Avenue & Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121 URL * "Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine" date: October 31, 2009 - TBA. info: press report at URL o) Columbus Museum of Art * "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From the Brooklyn Museum" date: February 13, 2009 - June 7, 2009 Ca. 107 pieces from the Brooklyn Museum's vast collection of Egyptian monuments and objects, dating between 1185 B.C. and A.D. 100, that illustrate Egyptian strategies for defeating death and achieving eternal life, The exhibition was earlier at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (July 20, 2008 - September 7, 2008) and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (October 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009), and will later travel to the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Joslyn Art Museum, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Frist Center for Visual Arts, with additional venues to be announced (in total more than 10 venues in the USA, till fall 2011). info: Brooklyn Museum press release at URL info: press report at URL info: URL info: press report at URL With many very good photos of items in exhibit. info: press report at URL With photos of Isis Lactans and a pyramidion of a woman. info: press report at URL p) - q) Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052 tel. : (718) 638-5000 * "Magic in Ancient Egypt: Image, Word, and Reality" date: December 22, 2006 - October 30, 2009 [was: till September 28, 2008] "How the early Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's world-famous collection. " info: URL info: press report (interview with Edward Bleiberg) at URL [With photos of a Ptolemaic Lion Gargoyle and 'Isis as a Magician' LP bronze.] * "Coptic Sculpture in the Brooklyn Museum" date: November 7, 2008 - September 27, 2009 "This small installation presents some late antique Egyptian sculptures (A.D. 395-642) from the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection, along with modern replicas of the period." This exhibition is about the unmasking of the forgeries in the Museum's collection (see recent press reports). info: press release (in PDF) at URL info: press report at URL * "Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments & Amulets" date: November 2009 - October 2011 Displays 35 sculptural fragments in a focus presentation that examines anatomical realism in Egyptian art. info: source - URL * "To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt date: February 12, 2010 - May 2, 2010 Displays 107 artifacts that describe mummification and tomb rituals practiced by the Egyptians in preparation for the afterlife. (This is surely the travelling exhibition, presently in the Columbus Museum of Art (February 13, 2009 - June 7, 2009).) info: source - URL r) - s) Arkansas Arts Center 501 East 9th Street, Little Rock, AR 72202 URL * "World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed" [was: Egyptian Masterpieces From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston] date: September 25, 2009 - July 5, 2010 [was: September 10, 2009 - June 27, 2010] Touring exhibition with 211 artefacts from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The Museum of Idaho is the first venue of this 4 year tour. Among the objects are "a royal decree carved in limestone ["Decree of Neferirkare"], a relief scene from the tomb of Qar and Idu, a sarcophagus lid, jewelry, amulets and a cat mummy. " info: URL With photo gallery, events, etc. info: press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL There will be Teacher Academies in July to Oct, with suggestions for lesson plans, classroom activities, etc. * "Exotic Lands: Europe Imagines Egypt and the East" date: September 25, 2009 – November 22, 2009 Explores a fascination for scenes from the Middle East and Northern Africa, known as Orientalism. [new] info: URL t) Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 * "The Louvre and the Masterpiece" date: October 18, 2009 - January 10, 2010 Features works of art drawn from all eight of the Musée du Louvre's departments, including a 3,000-year-old Egyptian portrait head. Will previously be at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (October 12, 2008 - September 6, 2009). info: URL info: press report at URL "To illustrate the difference between authentic masterpieces and fakes, curators also included a 20th century forgery of an Egyptian head." u) COSI Columbus 333.W.Broad St., Columbus, OH 43215 * "Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science" [was:"Trail of the Mummy"] date: May 30, 2009 - September 7, 2009 "Knowledge is the real treasure in this dramatic exhibition that blends modern-day science with the mysteries of ancient Egypt. Decipher hieroglyphs, learn the science behind the mummification process, and test your skills as an archaeologist." Traveling exhibition - interested museums may still rent this exhibition. "From its rich Egyptian collection, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (the Netherlands), has put together three identical exhibitions, which are made available to international museums and exhibition centres." info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "An interactive show featuring a human mummy, several animal mummies, forensic facial reconstructions and a life-size prototype of a human mummy." info: press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL v) - w) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 tel 617-267-9300 * "Secrets of the Tomb: Egypt 2000 B.C." date: October 18, 2009 - January 10, 2010 Exhibits the funerary equipment from the tomb of Djehutynacht, complemented by other artefacts. info: source - URL x) National Constitution Center 525 Arch St., Philadelphia URL * "Napoléon: An Intimate Portrait" date: May 29, 2009 - September 7, 2009 The exhibition emphasizes 12 aspects of Napoléon's life, including "The Egyptian Campaign," where you can see original exotic engravings that comprised the "Description of Egypt". info: URL info: press report at URL y) - z) - za) - zb) - zc) - zd) Goss Opera House and Gallery corner of Kemp Avenue and Maple Street, Watertown, South Dakota. tel. 605-882-9882 URL * “Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh's Tomb” date: November 28, 2008 - September 7, 2009 Exhibits "126 stunning and exact replicas of Tutankhamun's sacred and personal possessions, four original items from the dynasty, along with associated artifacts from the period surrounding Tutankhamun's reign.”. [The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, is currently (Oct 1, 2008 - Jan 31, 2009) showing, under the exact same title, also 126 replicas, so it seems to be the same set of replicas (in two copies).] info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(..) Real jewelry from 600 BC is also part of the exhibit. (..)" info: press report at URL info: press report with video link at URL --CANADA-- a) Musée canadien des civilizations / Canadian Museum of Civilization 100 Laurier Street, Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0M8 * "Tombes éternelles - L'Égypte ancienne et l'au-delà" / "Tombs of Eternity: The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt" [was: "World of the Pharaohs"] date: December 19 [was: November 11], 2008 - August 16, 2009 "Discover the life and beliefs of this fascinating culture through more than 200 beautiful artifacts from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition will cover 3,000 years of history, beginning with the end of the pre-Dynastic Neolithic Period and extending through the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, to the Ptolemaic Greek period and the Roman conquest." info: French press report at URL info: source - URL info: (in French) URL info: (in English) URL info: press report: URL info: press reports at URL URL About the scanning of the mummy of Hetep-Bastet. URL With photo of OK hunting relief of Qar and Idu. info: press report, including a video report and a slideshow, at URL info: press report (with tour) at URL info: press report (interview with exhibition curator Dr. Matthew Betts) at URL With photo of bead net dress, OK coffin fragment, and TIP coffin with mummy. info: press report at URL * "Fascinantes momies d'Égypte" [Fascinating mummies of Egypt] date: April 22, 2009 - April 5, 2010 Some 220 objects - mummies, coffins, amulets etc. - will lead the visitor into the fascinating world of the funerary rituals of AE. Major pieces are from the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: (in French) URL With photos of several artefacts. info: press release at URL "... l'exposition Fascinantes momies d'Egypte, qu'a inaugurée ce matin la directrice générale, madame Claire Simard, propose une incursion dans l'univers captivant des rituels funéraires en Egypte ancienne. Une coproduction du Musée de la civilisation et du Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Pays-Bas." info: press report, including some photographs, at URL b) Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queens' Park, Toronto URL * "Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries" date: October 2009 Sets real antiquities against forgeries, as well as genuine and fake versions of modern objects. Includes a real and a fake bronze statue of Sekhmet. info: press report at URL c) - d) Royal BC Museum 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, BC Canada V8W 9W2 tel: (250) 356-RBCM (7226); reception@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/ * "Treasures: The World's Culture from the British Museum" date: May 1, 2009 - September 30, 2009 With more than 300 artifacts from the British Museum, of many cultures and eras, including a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "The museum’s ancient Egypt exhibition attracted 13,923 visitors last week -- more than the museum saw in the whole of the previous month. " info: press report at URL "(..) Today, a team of conservators from the British Museum set into place the lid of an ancient Egyptian inner coffin. From Akhmim, Egypt and dated 305 - 30 BC, the wooden coffin is adorned with gold leaf and is a classic example of a human-shaped mummy-case made for a man of high-status.(..)" info: press reports at URL "(..) The treasures include a copy of the Rosetta Stone, Greek vases, Roman statuary, a 14th-century BC letter from the king of Babylon to the king of Egypt, Islamic art, and 2,000-year-old Egyptian jewelry. (..)" URL Lists some of the artefacts on show, e.g. "Wooden anthropoid inner coffin of Djeho (Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 BC)." e) Art Gallery of Ontario website * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: November 21, 2009 - April 18, 2010 Featuring more than 130 treasures: more than 50 from the tomb of the boy-king and more than 70 objects from other periods (OK-LP). This is the sole Canadian stop of this travelling exhibition that is currently at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta ( November 15, 2008 - May 25, 2009) and that will be at the Indianapolis Children's Museum (June 27, 2009 - Oct 25, 2009). info: URL info: English press reports at URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL info: English press reports at URL URL --UNITED KINGDOM-- a) Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London, Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT URL * "Craft in the Countryside: Photographs from Fayoum University" date: June 2, 2009 - August 29, 2009 Researcher Ibrahim Abd el Baset Ibrahim presents images from a 2007 university project to record villagers in their life and work around Fayoum province, south of Cairo. Twenty photographs from five villages are selected to surround the archaeological displays of finds from work by Flinders Petrie in the same part of Egypt a century ago. (NB: note the closure dates at URL) info: URL b) British Museum Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, WC1B 3DG * TBA c) - d) - e) Highclere Castle URL * "Wonderful Things" date: May 25, 2009 - September 3, 2009 [was: end of August] "Among the treasures on display are an Egyptian vase discovered behind a garden gnome in the castle 20 years ago, a 3000-year-old calcite jar, a black granite statue of the Egyptian god Amun-Re and his consort Mut, and an Egyptian coffin given to West Berkshire museum in 1911 by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon. The exhibition also includes photographs and cuttings from the Newbury Weekly News' archives. Also included is a reproduction of Tutankhamun's golden throne, model boats and the young Pharaoh's mummified remains, alongside original film of the discovery." info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "The centrepiece of the exhibition, based in the cellars of Highclere Castle, is a recreation of Tutankhamun’s tomb and contains replicas of his mummified body and various ornate artefacts." info: press report (with some pics) at URL "(..) The fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the man who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb with Howard Carter, (..) but after he died his son wanted nothing more to do with it. So whatever Egyptian artefacts remained at the castle was squirreled away behind plant pots, behind urns, garden gnomes and between rooms. When the sixth Earl died, his son and grandson decided to try and find all these hidden artefacts. "My husband and his father and family went on a treasure hunt because the butler Robert Taylor said 'Excuse me m'Lord I think there's a few Egyptian artefacts here. "They said 'rubbish!', but of course there were," says Lady Carnarvon. (..)" --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) - b) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW Leiden URL * TBA --GERMANY-- a) Internationales Keramik-Museum Luitpoldstr. 25, D-92637 Weiden tel./fax: +49 961 3 20 30, fax:+49 961 3 39 41 * "Aegyptische Keramik aus der Staatlichen Sammlung Aegyptischer Kunst Muenchen" [Egyptian ceramics from the State Collection of Egyptian Art, Munich] date: 1990 - The Staatliche Sammlung Aegyptischer Kunst of Munich presents in the Weiden ceramic Museum a special exhibition on ancient ceramics, the largest of its kind ever organized. On display are 500 objects from the Staatliche Sammlung and others from museums of Toronto, Berlin, Brussels, as well as from private collectors. Together they demonstrate practically all aspects of life from the prehistory to the early Christian period. - Catalog not yet available. info: URL b) Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst Hofgartenstraße, 80333 München * "Last Exit München" date: March 17, 2009 - August 30, 2009 50 masterpieces [except the bust of Nefertiti] of the Egyptian Museum Berlin will be put together with objects of the Munich collection. Royal portraits of the MK will meet the statues of the same Pharaohs from Berlin. Sylvia Schoske, director of the Egyptian Museum in Munich called it "a small sensation" and a "musée imaginaire" which will unite different kinds of art-historical segments for a general experience. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "... werden ... ein halbes Jahr lang mehr als 50 Leihgaben von der Berliner Museumsinsel nach München ins Staatliche Museum Ägyptischer Kunst in der Münchner Residenz wandern." Similar press reports: URL URL * "Den Hieroglyphen auf der Spur - Särge, Stelen und Gelehrte" [On the trail of hieroglyphs - coffins, stelae and scholars] date: March 28, 2009 - October 31, 2009 The exhibition will show a selection of objects from the collection of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. info: URL info: URL c) - d) Museum Schloss Seefeld Zweigmuseum des Staatlichen Museums Ägyptischer Kunst München D-82229 Seefeld / Obb. tel.: +49 8152 / 70652; +49 8152 / 79394 * "Freunde - Feinde - Fremde. Das alte Ägypten und seine Nachbarn" [Friends - enemies - foreigners. AE and its neighbours] date: April 5, 2009 - November 30, 2009 [was: TBA] info: URL info: URL e) - f) Olympiapark München GmbH Spiridon-Louis-Ring 21, D-80809 München tel.: +49 89 30 67-0, fax: +49 89 30 67-22 22 e-mail: infoolympiapark-muenchen.de * "Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze" [Tutankhamun - his tomb and the treasures] date: April 9 - August 30, 2009 [was: April 2009 - TBA] The exhibition of replicas that earlier was in Zurich, Switzerland, and will later be in Hamburg. info: press report at URL info: URL info: press report at URL "Beschwörung des magischen Augenblicks: Die Pharao-Ausstellung in München zeigt ausschließlich Nachbildungen. Über Original und Fälschung im Zeitalter der Eventprotzerei." info: press report at URL "Für die Ausstellung ... sind schon jetzt 25.000 Karten reserviert!" info: press report at URL "Als wenn sie selbst die jahrtausendealte Grabkammer in Ägypten öffnen würden - so sollen sich Besucher einer neuen Ausstellung über den Herrscher Tutanchamun fühlen." Includes a slide-show of 30 photographs. info: slide-show at URL info: video report at URL info: audio report at URL info: audio report at URL info: English video report at URL info: press report at URL "Die aktuelle Tutanchamun-Ausstellung in München ist mit großem Brimborium angekündigt worden. Die altägyptische Hochkultur will eine Sensation sein - aber anders, als der angelockte Gast gedacht hat. Denn kein Ausstellungsstück ist ein Original. So geht der Schau jegliche Aura ab." info: press report at URL "... um den Informationsanspruch eines stetig wachsenden Publikums abzudecken, sind Repliken notwendig." An interview with Wilfried Seipel (director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna); includes a video (1:17 mins.), a "fast track" through the exhibition. g) - h) Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach Otto-Glenz-Straße 1, D-64711 Erbach tel.: +49 60 62 9 19 99-0 / 94 33 13, fax: +49 60 62 9 19 99 21 / 64 12 e-mail: elfenbeinmuseum@erbach.de * "Echnaton und Nofretete - Herrscher im göttlichen Licht" [Akhnaten and Nefertiti - Rulers in divine light] [was: Exhibition about Amarna] date: April 3 [was: 2], 2009 - August 9, 2009 The Egyptian Museum Berlin will show ca. 70 objects mostly of the Amarna time in the Ivory Museum Erbach. info: URL info: source - URL info: pdf-file (90 KB) of the museum - URL info: press report at URL "Einzigartige Werke aus dem ägyptischen Altertum sind von Berlin nach Erbach gekommen, singuläre Ausstellungstücke aus der Zeit von Tell el-Armana, die nur so lange währte wie die Regentschaft von Amenophis IV., der sich alsbald Echnaton nannte ... Spektakuläre Inszenierungen, gewaltige Aufbauten, illusionistische Nachbildungen von Gräbern mit Sarkophagen oder dergleichen darf man nicht erwarten ... Stattdessen gibt es eine erlesene Auswahl von Statuen, Reliefs, Siegelringen, Skarabäen, Tongefäßen zu sehen, die das Publikum unaufdringlich, aber um so intensiver in den Bann ziehen." info: press report at URL "Die Sonderausstellung ... entwickelt sich zum Besuchermagneten. Im ersten Monat April seien schon 10 400 Interessierte gekommen, mehr als erwartet, gaben die Veranstalter heute bekannt." i) - j) Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier Weimarer Allee 1, D-54290 Trier tel.: 0651 9774 - 0, fax: 0651/9774-222 e-mail: info@landesmuseum-trier.de * "Schönheit im Alten Ägypten - Sehnsucht nach Vollkommenheit" [Beauty in AE. Longing for perfection] date: March 19, 2009 - October 25, 2009 info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "Die gerade eröffnete Ausstellung ... zeigt, wie das Schönheitsideal der nördlichen Nilbewohner vor vielen Tausend Jahren aussah. Seit gestern können sich die Besucher davon überzeugen, dass damals jedoch auch schon das Innere zählte - zum Beispiel von Sarkophagen." k) Alte Postdirektion Eingang Dammtorwall 4, D-20354 Hamburg * "Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze" [Tutankhamun - his tomb and the treasures] date: October 1, 2009 - January 31, 2010 The exhibition of replicas that earlier was in Zurich and Munich. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report, including a slide-show, at URL "Die berühmte Goldmaske von Tutanchamun, die Schreine und die meisten anderen Fundstücke aus seiner Grabkammer sind so wertvoll, dass sie Ägypten nicht mehr verlassen dürfen. Aber die in der Ausstellung zu sehenden Repliken sind von ägyptischen Handwerkern so täuschend echt nachgebaut worden, dass es bei der Ausfuhr prompt Ärger mit dem Zoll gab." info: press report in general about this travelling exhibition, at URL "Interaktive Grafik zum Tutanchamun-Grab, Wissenstest übers alte Ägypten sowie eine Reportage über die letzten Geheimnisse der Archäologie." l) - m) Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Am Lustgarten, D-10178 Berlin tel.: +49 (0)30 20 90 51 08, fax: +49 (0)30 - 2090 5109 e-mail: aemp@smb.spk-berlin.de * Closing of the permanent Egyptian exhibition: February 22, 2009 info: source - URL n) Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim Am Steine 1-2, D-31134 Hildesheim tel.: +49 5121 9369-21, fax: +49 5121 35283 e-mail: info@rpmuseum.de * "Berliner Größen. Meisterwerke ägyptischer Kunst zu Gast in Hildesheim" [Important figures from Berlin. Masterpieces of Egyptian art staying in Hildesheim] Six monumental sculptures from the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin will be on loan at Hildesheim. date: August 27, 2005 - 2009 (expected) info: URL info: URL o) - p) - q) - r) Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Obenmarspforten, D-50667 Köln tel.: +49 221-221/2 11 19, e-mail: wallraf@museenkoeln.de * "Mit Napoleon in Ägypten. Die Zeichnungen des Jean-Baptiste Lépère" [With Napoleon in Egypt. The drawings of Jean-Baptiste Lépère] date: October 2, 2009 - January 10, 2010 info: source - URL --SWEDEN-- a) - --EGYPT-- a) The Egyptian Museum Maydan El Tahrir, Cairo tel: +20 2 5742681, 5754319/10; fax: +20 2 5795133 * "120 Years of Spanish Archaeology in Egypt" date: April 6, 2009 - June 6, 2009 Special exhibition in room 44 with 137 objects found by Spanish archaeologist in Egypt from the late 19th to the present day. The inauguration takes place on April 6, 2009 at 6:30 pm (#). info: Spanish press report, about the exhibition and the opening ceremony at URL "-- España participa actualmente en los cinco grandes proyectos arqueológicos en el país -- El Ministerio de Cultura colabora en cuatro de ellos mediante sus programas de ayudas a proyectos en el exterior" info: other Spanish press report at URL info: Italian press report at URL info: English press report at URL Includes some info on the new Spanish Archaeology Institute in Cairo and the signing of the cooperation agreement between the Spanish National Library and the Library of Alexandria. info: Spanish press report at URL info: English press report about the inauguration, by Zahi Hawass, at URL URL [new] info: Spanish press report at URL "La exposición, que lleva un desarrollo cronológico y muestra 130 piezas descubiertas por españoles, es una forma de rendir homenaje a todos esos arqueólogos, científicos españoles que durante 120 años han realizado (y por suerte siguen), un estupendo trabajo, aportando luz sobre la Egiptología." info: English press report at URL Report on the opening. "(..) Artefacts which have never been on display before are also exhibited, among them are three false doors, three offering tables, four sets of canopic jars and several ushabti (votive) figurines collected from the Herakleopolis Magna gallery. There are also items from excavations conducted in the tombs of Djehuty and Hery at Draa Abul-Naga on Luxor's west bank. These are small funerary objects, a limestone sarcophagus, amulets and a glass jar. Cartouches on mud bricks from Senenmut's tomb are also on show, along with other funerary objects from Kom Al-Khamasin and Beni Sweif Museum. (..)" info: Spanish press report at URL * "Europe-Egypt: A Long-Lasting Archaeological Cooperation" date: June 4 - July 30, 2009 "The exhibition ... redraws in image some of the shared projects operated by European and Egyptian researchers. About forty photos presented by 16 European countries are organized around six subjects illustrating the main aspects of European activities in the field of archaeology: background, training, cooperation, excavations, restoration and valorisation." This exhibition is organized by the Ministry of Culture, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, the Delegation of the European Commission in Egypt, the European embassies and institutes. info: URL info: catalog of this exhibition - 124 pp., ills. - pdf-file (3.1 MB) URL info: English press report at URL info: French press reports at URL URL info: English press report at URL --ITALY-- a) Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum Via Museo /Museumstraße 43, I-39100 Bolzano/Bozen tel. +39 0471 320100, fax +39 0471 320122 email * "Mumien - Der Traum vom ewigen Leben" [Mummies - the dream of eternal life] date: March 10, 2009 - October 25, 2009 70 mummies from all cultures, all continents and all periods. The exhibition, now in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany (September 30, 2007 - May 18, 2008), will be adapted and enlarged by the mummy of the iceman ("Ötzi"). info: German press release at URL info: Italian press release at URL info: press report at URL info: in German - URL info: in Italian - URL info: in English - URL info: press report at URL The museum will be closed from February 23 till March 9 in preparation of the exhibition. info: English press reports at URL "Features more than 60 mummies from Egypt, Asia, Europe and South America, assembled from 27 museums. They include animals as well as humans, and [150] artefacts connected with them." URL b) - c) Palazzo Bricherasio Via Lagrange, 20 - 10123 Torino tel. (+39) 011.5711811; info@palazzobricherasio.it http://www.palazzobricherasio.it * "Akhenaton - Faraone del Sole" date: February 27, 2009 - June 14, 2009 "La mostra ripercorre le vicende storico-culturali dell'Egitto tra i regni di Amenofi III e Ramesse II, incentrandosi sulla figura di Akhenaton." This is the "Akhenaton et Nefertiti: Soleil et Ombres des pharaons" exhibition that is in the Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (Switzerland) (17.10.2008 - 01.02.2009) info: source - URL URL info: press report at URL "L'esposizione raccoglie circa 200 reperti, per lo più provenienti dal Museo Egizio di Berlino, che comprendono dalla grande statuaria agli oggetti domestici e personali, che documentano la vita della famiglia reale e dei sudditi, dai più alti funzionari agli operai, che seguirono Akhenaton nella nuova capitale del regno." info: press report at URL "Qui était vraiment Akhenaton, le pharaon qui institua le culte d'Aton, le disque solaire? Quel fut son impact politique, religieux et culturel sur la société égyptienne? L'exposition au Palazzo Bricherasio essaie de répondre à ces questions passionnantes à la lumière des dernières découvertes et des interprétations les plus récentes." [new] info: press report at URL "Attraverso i reperti proposti, la mostra sottolinea il carattere innovativo del regno di Akhenaton, che emerge soprattutto nel ridimensionamento dello strapotere della chiesa a favore della centralità del ruolo del sovrano, intermediario tra l'umano e il divino." d) Museo Civico Archeologico di Chianciano Terme Viale Dante, I-53042 Chianciano Terme (SI) * "Tutte le anime della mummia. La vita oltre la morte ai tempi di Sety I'' [All souls of the mummy. Life after death in the time of Sethos I] date: June 20, 2009 - January 6, 2010 About 100 objects from Egyptian collections in Italy and a reconstruction of the tomb of Sethos I will be on display to illustrate the funerary ritual in the Ramesside era. info: press reports (in Italian) at URL URL (with photo of blue figurine) URL (with photo of stela) e) Castello di Miradolo Via Cardonata 2, I-10060 San Secondo di Pinerolo (Torino) tel.: +39 0121 376545 (info), e-mail: info@fondazionecosso.it URL * "Egitto nascosto. Collezioni e collezionisti dai musei piemontesi" [Hidden Egypt. Collections and collectors of Piemontese museums] date: March 21, 2009 - July 5, 2009 The exhibition will present about 180 artefacts coming from all the "minor" Egyptian collections in Piedmont (17 museums), some of them not open to the public at present. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "L'esposizione presenta al pubblico un'ampia selezione di reperti provenienti da 15 musei del territorio piemontese, che conservano collezioni egizie formatesi grazie all'attività di celebri collezionisti, appassionati viaggiatori, grandi studiosi, lungimiranti scienziati o anonimi mercanti e missionari." f) Castello del Buonconsiglio Via Bernardo Clesio, 5, Trento * "Egitto mai visto" [Egypt, never seen] date: May 30 - November 8, 2009 The exhibition will consist of two parts: Objects from the Egyptian Museum, Turin, especially from the tomb of Kha, and objects from the collection of the Castello del Buonconsiglio. The important Egyptian collection of Buonconsiglio Castle in Trento, which has long been in storage, will be shown together with extraordinary artefacts discovered during excavations by Ernesto Schiaparelli between 1905 and 1920 in the necropolises of Gebelein and Asyut. The exhibition will include hundreds of remarkable finds that have never before been shown, including sarcophagi, funeral artefacts, human and animal mummies, steles, funeral masks, figurines and amulets. info: press release at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "Egitto mai visto nella mostra 'Collezioni inedite dal Museo Egizio di Torino e dal Castello del Buonconsiglio di Trento' in programma dal 30 Maggio al prossimo 8 Novembre 2009. In questi giorni le anteprime" info: English press report at URL With info on two human mummies (plus sarcophagi) that are on show and on a cat mummy. info: English press report at URL info: Italian press report, including slideshow, at URL "800 reperti riuniti insieme con cura filologica saranno visibili fino all'8 novembre prossimo. I sarcofagi completi di corredi funebri vengono da Torino: poggiatesta, specchi, sandali, vasellame, archi, frecce, modellinidi attività agricole e di navigazione. Dalla collezione Tonelli provengono invece amuleti: pezzi curiosi estravaganti, pregni di valenze magiche e religiose: scarabei del cuore, modellini di servitori ushabty, e una splendida maschera funeraria in foglia d'oro. Colpisce, per esempio, un gatto imbalsamato e avvolto in una raffinatissima veste funebre." [new] info: Italian press report at URL "E' stata inaugurata a Trento la nuova sezione egizia del Castello del Buonconsiglio, di cui la nostra concittadina, Sabina Malgora è curatore.. In anteprima mondiale, a oltre 100 anni dalle scoperte, l'esposizione permette di ammirare oltre 800 affascinanti ritrovamenti che fanno parte di due sorprendenti collezioni inedite, diverse tra loro, quella del Castello del Buonconsiglio e quella della Soprintendenza del Museo Egizio di Torino." g) - h) Museo di Antropologia e Etnografia Via Accademia Albertina, 17, I-10123 Torino * "Mummy 4000 anni a.C. La donna dell'antico Egitto nella collezione di mummie del Marro" [4000 BC. The woman of AE in the collection of mummies of Marro] date: April 16 - August 31, 2009 info: URL i) Museo Civico Archeologico delle Acque Via Dante, I-53042 Chianciano Terme (SI) tel.: 0578 30471, e-mail: museoetrusco@libero.it * "Tutte le anime della mummia. La vita oltre la morte ai tempi di Sety I" [All the souls of the mummies. Life after death in the time of Sethos I] date: June 20, 2009 - January 6, 2010 info: URL j) Museo Archeologico nazionale Via Della Colonna 38, I- Firenze * "Paolo Renier. Il Tempio di Osiride Svelato" [Paolo Renier. The temple of Osiris unveiled] date: May 24 - June 29, 2009 Exhibition of photographs from Paolo Renier, dedicated to the archaeological site of Abydos, in collaboration with the Museo Egizio, Florence. info: press reports at URL URL --FRANCE-- a) Musee du Louvre F-75058 Paris Cedex 01, France tel. : +33 1 40 20 50 50; fax : +33 1 40 20 54 42 * "Les Portes du Ciel » : visions du monde dans l'Égypte ancienne" [Gates of heaven: visions of the world in AE] date: March 6, 2009 - June 29, 2009 Containing about 350 artefacts spanning three millennia, from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period, the exhibition endeavours to place everyday objects in their social, religious and artistic context. info: URL info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "Enfin une exposition qui ne montre pas l'Égypte sous l'angle d'un catalogue d'ouvres ! Celles-ci d'ailleurs, pour être magnifiques, ne viennent ni d'Égypte ni des États-Unis, mais des collections du Louvre et de musées d'Europe, notamment du British. La surprise tient à l'originalité de cet itinéraire entre ciel et terre. Clairement expliqué, avec des vitrines détaillées sur la création de l'Univers, la momification ou le coût de celle-ci, cette traversée du sacré vaut autant par l'émotion qu'elle suscite que par la foule de détails précis qu'elle délivre." info: URL info: PDF download at URL info: press report at URL "In the ancient Egyptian language, “gates of heaven” referred to the doors on a sacred shrine holding the statue of a god. Opening these doors brought the divine world into contact with the human one (..). Egyptians felt that certain places acted, in a way, as replicas of these shrines containing divine statues. These places were therefore endowed with doors—actual or false— which represented the transition between physical and mental realities. This exhibition focuses on four of these realities: the ordered Universe, the Beyond, the tomb chapel, and the temple forecourt. (..)" info: press report at URL "Im Louvre beginnt eine außergewöhnliche Ausstellung mit ägyptischen Schätzen des Museums: Welches Bild von Himmel und Erde hatten die Ägypter? Getrennt waren beide Seiten von Pforten. Der Louvre und seine Sponsoren versuchen, mit der Ausstellung auch Jugendliche aus den Vorstädten ins Museum zu locken." With audio report at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "Au-delà. L'Egypte ressuscite au Louvre. Une fabuleuse traversée dans les souterrains de la mort." info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(..) this is one exhibition of ancient Egyptian artifacts that confirmed devotees and slightly bewildered amateurs can visit with probably almost equal pleasure." info: URL Examples from the book edited by the exhibition curator, Marc Etienne. b) Musée de l'Armée Hôtel national des Invalides 129 rue de Grenelle, F-75007 Paris * "La Description de l'Égypte" date: June 17, 2009 - September 19, 2009 "This exhibition celebrates the bicentenary of the publication of _La Description de l'Égypte_, the first volumes of which came out in 1809 .... What better place than the Army Museum to present this huge achievement and the personality of the man who ordered its publication: Napoleon?" info: (in French) URL info: (in English) URL c) - d) - e) - f) Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras 22, rue Paul Doumer, F- 62000 Arras tel.: 03 21 71 26 43, fax: 03 21 23 19 26 e-mail : musee.arras@ville-arras.fr * "Bonaparte et l'Egypte. Ombres et lumières" [Bonaparte and Egypt. Shadows and Lights] date: May 16, 2009 - October 19, 2009 Exhibition about Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, which will be shown earlier in the Institut du monde arabe, Paris (October 14, 2008 - March 29, 2009). info: source - URL info: press report at URL "À quelques jours de l'ouverture de ce qui est présenté comme l'événement culturel de l'année, la bataille des animations, en marge de ce rendez-vous, a commencé. Des films, des ateliers, des spectacles, des conférences et des expositions gravitent déjà autour des 360 pièces installées au palais Saint-Vaast." info: press reports at URL "À partir d'aujourd'hui et jusqu'au 18 octobre, le musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras accueille « Bonaparte et l'Égypte : feu et lumières ». Cette collaboration entre l'Institut du monde arabe (IMA) de Paris et le conseil régional, comme pour « Pharaon » à Valenciennes en 2008, permet à la préfecture du Pas-de-Calais d'héberger la plus grande exposition culturelle de son histoire." URL (Another report: « L'exposition Bonaparte et l'Égypte est plus grandeà Arras qu'à Paris ! ») --ISRAEL-- a) Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem Museum Row, 25 Granot Street, P.O Box 4670, Jerusalem 91046 tel: 972-2-5611066 * "Echoes of Egypt" date: March 22, 2009 - "The exhibition displays an impressive collection of photos, paintings, maps and prints of Egypt's magnificent monuments and daily life in the 19th century. The collection includes photos from 1857 by Francis Frith, paintings from 1838 by David Roberts and more works of art by famous painters and photographers who were among the first westerners to document Egypt's mysteries and wonders." info: press reports at URL URL --BELGIUM-- a) CEDARC/Musée du Malgré-Tout 28 rue de la Gare, B-5670 Treignes tel.: 00-32-60/39 02 43 * "Aux origines de Pharaon" [To the origins of the Pharaohs] date: April 5, 2009 - November 8, 2009 "While the history of Egypt under the pharaohs is well known, the same cannot be said about prehistory. The 'Origins of the pharaoh' exhibit invites you to discover how the first farming communities developed and laid the foundations of Egyptian society." info: (in French) URL info: (in English) URL --SPAIN-- a) MUSEU MARÍTIM / Museo Marítimo Av. de les Drassanes s/n, ES-08001 Barcelona tel.: 933 429 920, fax 933 187 876 e-mail: m.maritim@diba.cat * "Tutankhamon. La tumba y sus tesoros" [Tutankhamun - his tomb and the treasures] date: June 6, 2009 - September 6, 2009 Travelling exhibition with replicas; apparently parallel with the one of the same title that's now in Muenich and later in Hamburg. info: press report at URL info: Spanish press report at URL info: Spanish press report at URL "La exposición ... tiene un evidente valor pedagógico ya que permite al público contemplar piezas que sólo podría ver en el Museo del Cairo." info: English press report at URL info: Italian press report, including a Spanish video report (1:32 mins.), at URL --AUSTRALIA-- a) Nicholson Museum Quadrangle A14, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 URL * "Egyptians, Gods and Mummies" date: July 12, 2009 - TBA. info: source - URL --FINLAND-- a) The Loviisa Town Museum Puistokatu 2, 07900 Loviisa tel. +358 (0)19 555 357 * "EGYPT! The 40th Anniversary Exhibition of The Finnish Egyptological Society" date: May 15, 2009 - September 13, 2009 (Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., closed on Midsummer June 19th-21st). costs: entrance 8 EUR/adult, 6 EUR/student, 4 EUR/child (7-17 years). info: URL ---SWITZERLAND--- a) - b) - c) Kulturama, Museum des Menschen Englischviertelstr. 9, CH-8032 Zürich tel.: 044 260 60 44, fax 044 260 60 38 E-Mail: mail@kulturama.ch * "Mumien. Ägyptische Grabschätze und Mumien aus der Schweiz" [Mummies. Egyptian tomb treasures and mummies from Switzerland] date: March 6, 2009 - TBA Mummies from the Museum für Völkerkunde in Burgdorf, and objects from other private Swiss collections. info: URL --POLAND-- a) Muzeum Archeologiczne w Poznaniu [Poznan Archaeological Museum] Poznan Archaeological Museum ul. Wodna 27, 61-781 Poznan email: muzarp@man.poznan.pl ; tel/fax: +48 61 852 82 51 * "Smierc i zycie w starozytnym Egipcie" [Death and Life in Ancient Egypt] date: October 9, 1998 - [English info:] at least 2002 [Polish info:] 2010 A long-term loan of exhibits from the Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin. info: (in Polish) - URL info: (in English) - URL info: (in Polish) - including photographs - URL b) Palac Kazimierzowski ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, Warszawa * "Swiatynia Totmesa III w Deir el-Bahari i jej odkrywcy" [The temple of Thutmosis III in Deir el-Bahari and its discoverers] date: June 15-30, 2009 Exhibition about the results of the work of Polish archaeologists in this temple. info: Polish press report at URL --DANMARK-- a) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Dantes Plads 7, 1556 Kbh. V tel. (+ 45) 33 41 81 41, fax: (+ 45) 33 91 20 58 info@glyptoteket.dk * TBA b) Nationalmuseet Ny Vestergade 10, Copenhagen tel.: +45 3313 4411 * "AEgyptiske amuletter" [Egyptian amulets] date: April 4 - September 13, 2009 "For the Ancient Egyptians amulets were a serious matter. They wore them close to the body where they gave strength and protection against the forces of evil. Take a discovery tour in the exhibition and experience the world of the amulets - a miniature world of great magic power." info: (in Danish) URL info: (in Danish), including photographs - 5 pp. - pdf-file (700 KB) URL info: (in English) URL ---HUNGARY--- a) - --AUSTRIA-- a) - --CZECH REPUBLIC-- a) Náprstkovo muzeum asijských, afrických a amerických kultur [Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures] Betlémské námestí 1, 110 00, Praha 1 [Prague] * TBA --MEXICO-- a) Museo Regional de Guerrero Plaza Cívica Primer Congreso de Anáhuac s. núm., Centro, CP 39000, Chilpancingo, Guerrero * "El papel de lo divino. El uso del papiro en el antiguo Egipto" [The paper of the divine. Use of papyrus in AE] date: March 13 - June 21, 2009 A collection of 40 copies of papyri donated by the Egyptian Government will be displayed. info: press release at URL --ANDORRA-- a) Centro de Arte de Escaldes-Engordany Avinguda Carlemany, 30, 700 Escaldes-Engordany tel.: +376 802 255 * "Egipto: el paso a la eternidad" [Egypt: the transition to eternity] date: June 5 - September 27, 2009 80 objects (sarcophagi, mummies, funerary objects, masks) from the Museo Egipcio of Barcelona are on display. There is also a photographic exhibition of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter in 1922. info: URL info: press report at URL --JAPAN--- a) Pacifico Yokohama 1-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama URL * "Egypt's Sunken Treasures" date: June 27, 2009 - September 23, 2009 This is the Japanese stop-over of the by now internationally famous travelling exhibition (earlier in Berlin, Paris, Bonn, Milan, and Torino) that features the findings (ca 500 artefacts) of Franck Goddio's expeditions under the sea near Alexandria, Heraklion and Canopus. info: (in English) URL info: (in English) some info on a VR production that will be on display: URL b) Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 8-36 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo URL * "Ancient Egypt in Torino" date: August 1, 2009 - October 4, 2009 Organized by Asahi Shinbun, TOEI and Fuji Television, this exhibition will highlight the Torino Museum's collection by exhibiting for the first time in Japan 150 items. Tokyo will be the first stop-over. The next venues will be: Sendai (17th October - 20 December 2009), Fukuoka (5th January - 7th March, 2010), Kobe (20th March - 30th May, 2010), Shizuoka (12th June - 22nd August, 2010). Various related seminars - but not directly connected with the organization of the event - will be held during the exhibition's presence in Japan. info: (in Japanese) URL ---RUSSIA--- a) Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts [in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences] ul. Volkhonka, 12, 121019 Moscow * "Obrazy Drevnego Egipta. Iz Kairskogo museya i Tajnika tsarkikh mumij" [Images of AE. From the Cairo Museum and the Cache of Royal Mummies] date: September 7, 2009 - November 15, 2009 The exhibition is expected to include ca. 150 objects from the TT 320 cache. After Moscow it will travel to museums in Germany, France and Britain. info: URL info: English press report at URL info: Russian press report at URL This exhibition will be the first in Russia with objects from foreign museums since 1973, when the travelling exhibition of Tutankhamun's treasures was in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. b) The State Hermitage Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 34, 190000 St Petersburg * "'Prekasnaya prishla'. Shedervy portreta iz Egipetskogo museya v Berline" [The Beautiful One has come". Masterpieces of Egyptian portrait. From the Egyptian Museum in Berlin] date: June 16, 2009 - September 20, 2009 info: URL info: (in Russian) URL info: (in English) URL ---SOUTH KOREA--- a) The National Museum of Korea 135 Seobinggo ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea, 140-026 tel: 82-2-2077-9000 URL * "The Egypt Civilization" / "5,000 Years of Egyptian Legend" date: April 28, 2009 - August 30, 2009 Will feature 232 ancient Egyptian relics, including mummies from Vienna's Art History Museum in Austria info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(..) The exhibition will feature a total of 231 top-quality original works carefully chosen from "Egypt-Oriental Collection" from Kunsthistorisches Museum of Austria. (..)" info: press report at URL With photos of seated AIII Sekhmet and coffin of Neschonsu. info: English press reports at URL URL The latter has photos of sarcophagus & x-ray, ibis figurine, and a false door. (XI) COURSES AND TRIPS --COURSES--- * The Xth International Course of Classical Archaeology at Baelo Claudia will take place between 6th and 26th of September 2009 at the "Archaeological Ensemble of Baelo Claudia" (Tarifa, Spain), with 4 places for foreign university students, and the International Seminar "Learning Archaeology". International Course and Seminar are offered by the "Área Arqueología-Curso Internacional de Arqueología Clásica" of the "Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Filosofía" of the University of Cadiz (UCA); Directors: Prof. Dr. Alicia Arévalo González, Prof. Dr. Darío Bernal Casasola and D. Ángel Muñoz Vicente URL Here is the complete info and the preinscription form: "X Curso de Arqueología Clásica en Baelo Claudia" URL Seminario Internacional "Aprendiendo Arqueología": URL * The KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, Manchester University, offers this distant (e-)learning programme: Certificate in Egyptology: a 3 year online study (starting Oct 1, 2009) with as tutor Dr Joyce Tyldesley. (The Certificate is apparently equivalent to 1st year full-time Undergraduate study.) URL * News from Bloomsbury Summer School: -- This year our summer courses held at UCL in London will be: Technology in Ancient Egypt with Dr Ian Shaw and Dr Paul Nicholson. Fauna of Ancient Egypt with John Wyatt. Hieroglyphs for Beginners with Dr José-Ramon Perez-Accino. From Tanis to Alexandria: the last millennium of pharaonic history with George Hart. Ancient Egypt and Nubia: a dynamic relationship with Dr Robert Morkot. Beyond Words and Images: reading and writing Egyptian literature with Dr José-Ramon Perez-Accino. Flinders Petrie and his Heritage: exploring the Petrie Museum II with Jan Picton. Discovering the Peoples of the Levant: Canaanites, Israelites and Philistines with Dr Rachael Sparks. -- Our Bloomsbury Summer School in Egypt course this year will be: Exploring Amarna: Akhenaten's Abandoned City with Professor Barry Kemp.This course will be taught in Minya; lectures will be combined with visits to archaeological sites in Middle Egypt. -- For further information: bloomsbury@egyptology-uk.com URL +44 (0)207 679 3622 * The House of Horus & Mehen (Netherlands) has published its programme of new courses until spring 2010 on its website. See: URL -- Among the courses: "Narmer - the first king of Egypt?" Course in four meetings, discussing the recent archaeological discoveries on the predynastic era and their consequences for the position of Narmer and our views on the unification of pharaonic Egypt. Speaker: dr. Marcel Zitman Dates: Sunday: May 10th, 17th, 24th, 31th Location: National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (R.M.O.) Start: 14.30 - 16.00 h. Fee: E 75,-- (donateurs) or E 80,-- (niet-donateurs) Note: fee excludes admission to the Museum Subscription: info@huisvanhorus.nl Link to the course description in Dutch: URL * Courses for the Public, The University of Manchester (URL cce.reception@manchester.ac.uk), is organizing the following event on Saturday 13th June, 2009: "Mummies, Science & Egyptology: Meeting the ancient Egyptians - How modern scientific investigations and archaeological research is helping to reveal more about the lives of the inhabitants of the Nile Valley." Presented by Natalie McCreesh and Roger Forshaw, KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, The University of Manchester Topics: Hesyre: the first dentist in history; Khnum-Nakht & Nakht-Ankh: two brothers?; Nesy-Amun: the Leeds mummy; Perenbast: an unusual burial; Nesperennub: a priest from Thebes; Asru: chantress of Amun. * Birkbeck College Egyptology Summer School 2009: "Trade, Travel and Transport in Ancient Egypt" Monday 22nd June to Friday 26th June 2009 10.00 am-5.00 pm Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London info: URL info: URL * (&) Upcoming activities by Bloomsbury Summer School: -- In London (UCL): URL Several courses with well-known speakers, between July 6-31, 2009. -- In Egypt: Summer school at Tell el-Amarna, with Prof Barry Kemp - November 30 - December 7, 2009. URL * (&) Summer Seminars in Papyrology Papyrological Institute at the University of Michigan 1 July- 31 July 2009 URL "In July 2009, the Department of Classical Studies and the Graduate Library at the University of Michigan will host a Papyrological Institute for advanced graduate students and junior faculty in Ancient History, Classics, Egyptology, Byzantine Studies and related disciplines. (..)" Application deadline is 15 February 2009. * (&) Dayschool at Dillington House (Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 9DT) on Saturday 13th September: "Palaces to Slums: housing in ancient Egypt" Taught by Lucia Gahlin The day costs £37 but includes a fabulous home-cooked 3 course lunch and delicious afternoon tea. For further information, see URL info: email * (&) On-line course - Ancient Egyptian Religion (20 classes) and correspondence courses in Hieroglyphs (Beg, Int, Advanced) 10 classes each. Tutor: Charlotte Booth. By post, and email. For evening/day classes and other private classes please see URL * (&) Correspondence course: "Religious beliefs and funerary practices" 10 chapters. By email or post. Enquiries: Suzanne Bojtos --TRIPS AND TOURS-- * (&) EES Cairo Office Open Day Trips: -- 4th April 4, 2009: visit to the EES mission digging at Sa-El Hagar (Sais). Leave Cairo at 7:00 am from font of the British Council, back approx, at 5:00pm. Price: members 145 LE, non-members 165 LE For more details contact: 0106797508 Dead line for reservation 29th March 2009 -- 24th & 25th April, 2009: visit to the two Monasteries of St, Bula&St.Atony, and the geological Galala Plateau and Wadi Araba . The lecturer of the trip is Prof . Dr. Mohamed Hamdan. Price: members 920 LE, non-members 950 LE For more details contact: 0106797508 Dead line for reservation 23rd March, with a copy of your ID or passport. info: email --FIELD SCHOOLS-- * (&) New York University's Archaeology and History Program in Egypt will have a field school at Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in Dakhleh Oasis, as part of its semester program offered each year from January to March for advanced undergraduates. Info: URL (XII) Digital Media * Video footage of the tomb of Ramesses VI (K.V.9) , approx '2 min's 30 sec' . URL To the right of the page, scroll down and many more video footages related to AE can be viewed. * Discovering Khufu's Boats (8:44 mins.) URL "In 1954 King Khufu's first boat was discovered and after re-building it has been on display in its own museum. In 1988 his second boat was found. It has never been put on display but kept in its pit. It has been filmed as this video shows." * Ancient Egypt, Virtual Reality Video (4:28 mins.) URL * "The Mummy Strikes" (1943) (7:42 mins.) URL "This stylish Max Fleischer Superman Technicolor cartoon involves an ancient Egyptian Mummy's curse and the murdered dead body of a distinguished scientist discovered in a tomb of Mummies ... The ancient Mummies who guard the tomb are awakened, of course, and have a few bones to pick with the intruders. Only Superman can handle this much bad Karma and produce the predictable Happy Ending." -- see also Wikipedia entry URL * Miles Davis, Nefertiti (1967) (7:55 mins.) URL "The fourth album by Miles Davis' second classic quintet, _Nefertiti_ is best known for the unusual title track, on which the horn section repeats the melody numerous times without individual solos while the rhythm section improvises underneath, reversing the traditional role of a rhythm section.."(Wikipedia) I don't know why it's called "Nefertiti", but it sounds good.... [MT] * "Bert and Ernie Explore a Pyramid" (5:03 mins.) URL (Full unedited version) * Video on the scanning of two mummies from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: URL * France Gall, "Néfertiti" (1967) (3:32 mins.) URL The lyrics are also on this website (look to the right bottom). "I don't know if Serge Gainsbourg fantasized about France being an Egyptian queen, but I do! The goal of this project was to create as much animation as possible using still pictures." * Audio interview with Chip Brown (author of “The She-King of Egypt,” the cover story in the current issue of National Geographic [see New Journals section]) and Dr Zahi Hawass, about Hatshepsut: URL * Audio examples of different languages spoken in Egypt URL "The sound clips below, and on the pages on this website linked underneath, are offered as an experiment both in the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian, and in raising awareness of Egyptian as a human language and its literature." * "Alain Robert climbing up to the top of the obelisk on the Place de la Concorde" (2:48 mins.) URL "Without warning, in 2000 [December 31, 1999] French urban climber Alain 'Spiderman' Robert, using only his bare hands and climbing shoes on his feet and with no safety devices, scaled the obelisk all the way to the top." (Wikipedia) * "Kadesh" (21:53 mins.) URL - Another version: -- part 1: URL -- part 2: URL -- part 3: URL - Additional information: -- James Henry Breasted, The Battle of Kadesh. A Study in the Earliest Known Military Strategy, in: The University of Chicago, The Decennial Publications, vol. 5, Chicago, 1903, pp. 81-127, 7 pls. - Unfortunately the plates haven't been scanned properly. - pdf-file (14 MB) URL -- K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translated & Annotated. Notes and Comments, vol. II, Oxford, 1999, section: "The Battle of Qadesh, Year 5", pp. 3-55 [only readable online] URL * Steve Martin, "King Tut" (Live 1979) (2:39 mins.) URL -- Version of the "Saturday Night Show" (1978) URL -- Lyrics: URL "In 1978, Steve Martin's single 'King Tut' made light of the hype surrounding the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibit that toured seven U.S. cities from 1976 to 1979. The comedian originally performed the song on 'Saturday Night Live' in April 1978 and released it on the album 'A Wild and Crazy Guy.'" -- Steve Martin, "The King and I", in: The New York Times, December 5, 2004 URL * "The Egyptian Book Of The Dead" (01:30:29 hours) URL -- French version: "Le Livre des Morts des égyptiens" URL -- Additional information: The film script is based on Budge's own account in "By Nile and Tigris", vol. 1, pp. 128-145 --- E. A. Wallis Budge, By Nile and Tigris. A Narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum Between the Years 1886 and 1913, 2 vols., London, 1920. - ix, 456 pp.; viii, 456 pp. vol. 1 - pdf-file (11.4 MB) URL vol. 2 - pdf-file (11.9 MB) URL --- See also: E. A. Wallis Budge, The Papyrus of Ani. A Reproduction in Facsimile, Edited with Hieroglyphic Transcript, Translation and Introduction, 3 vols., London / New York, 1913. vol. 1: vi, 337 pp. - pdf-file (20 MB) URL vol. 2: viii, pp. 339-704 - pdf-file (23 MB) URL vol. 3: 37 col. pls. - pdf-file (4.8 MB) URL [cf. EEF News (526), September 4, 2008 for another digitized version] * The Trumpet of Tutankhamun (14 secs.) "In 1939 a famous recording was made of the silver trumpet being played by a military bandsman which unfortunately shattered the instrument." URL -- originally the information and the audiofile was provided by CCER URL -- Letters to The Times, December, 2007 URL * Constantine P. Cavafy, Kaisarion (1918) -- Greek text, read by 3 different reciters (audio files) URL -- English translation URL "Partly to throw light on a certain period, partly to kill an hour or two, last night I picked up and read a volume of inscriptions about the Ptolemies ..." -- Another English translation URL -- Some years ago Kaisarion's head of a statue was found in the underwater region of Alexandria URL * Video Presentation: "Social Programming A Pyramid" (1h 30min.) (2008) URL Mark Lehner talks about ancient Egyptian cultures as seen through the discoveries made on the Giza Plateau (city of the pyramid workers). * "Tomb 33: An Egyptian Mystery" = TT 33 4 parts (ca. 50 mins.): URL URL URL URL -- French version: "La tombe 33, un mystère égyptien" 3 parties (ca. 52 mins.): URL URL URL -- Dutch version (45 mins.) URL * Video: Zahi Hawass talks about archaeology URL * Papyrus Rhind, problem no. 79, explained by professor Robin Wilson, Gresham College URL - Additional information: -- Léon Rodet, Les prétendus problèmes d'algèbre du manuel du calculateur égyptien (Papyrus Rhind), in: Journal asiatique, série 7, vol. 18, pp.184-232, 390-459 (1881); problem no. 79 is discussed as "Appendice", pp. 450-459. He proposed the interpretation, adapted from Leonardo Pisano's "Liber abaci", citing the original Latin text; you'll find also the Hieratic inscription of this problem URL -- L. E. Sigler, Fibonacci's Liber Abaci: A Translation Into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano's Book of Calculation, 2003, p. 438 URL -- Marshall Clagett, Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book, vol. 3: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1999, pp. 58-60 (discussion): URL p. 179 (translation): URL p. 376 (Hieratic facsimile, hieroglyphic transcription): URL -- Recreational Mathematics in Ancient Egypt, in: Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights, Princeton, 2002, pp. 11-14, with Hieratic inscription and hieroglyphic text - pdf-file (240 KB) URL -- On the nursery rhyme: C. B. Williams, "As I was Going to St Ives", in: Folklore, vol. 86, pp. 133-135 (1975) - only the first page is shown URL -- There is also an Italian version of this riddle: "Per una strada che mena a Camogli ..." URL -- As in the video the relation of pRhind no. 79 and the nursery rhyme is often cited in a pedagogical manner, here one example only URL * Opera "Akhnaten" by Philip Glass (1983) -- Libretto URL -- Act I, Prelude, verses 1 and 2 (10:55 mins.) URL -- Act I, Scene 1: Funeral of Amenhotep III (9 mins.), used as music for "The Mummy Remix", an edited version of the movie "The Mummy" (1932) URL -- Act I, Scene 3: "The Window of Appearances" (4:34 mins.), used as music for a scene of the Australian science-fiction movie "Alien Visitor" URL -- Act II, Scene 2: "Akhnaten and Nefertiti" (10:01 mins.) URL -- Act II, Scene 3: "Dance" (5:35 mins.) URL -- Act II, Scene 4: "Hymn to the Aten" (6:12 mins.) sung by Paul Esswood, illustrated by paintings of Claude Monet URL -- Act III, Scene 4: "Epilogue" (4:19 mins.) URL [cf. EEF News (490), December 27, 2007 and EEF News (544), January 8, 2009 for earlier listings of some of these links] -- see also: John Richardson, Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten, Hanover & London, 1999 (only online readable) URL * Mark Millmore's Discovering Egypt Newsletter no. 14 has a section with online videos he has added recently: The Real Cleopatra, Alexander the Great’s lost tomb, the Screaming Mummy, the Real Scorpion King, and The workers who built the Great Pyramid. URL * Howard Carter and Tutankhamun's Tomb (3:59 mins.) URL Archival footing; with voices of Alan H. Gardiner and Howard Carter -- also: "Tutankhamen tomb discovered" (2:53 mins.) URL Contemporary scenes at Tutankhamun's tomb (silent film) * Podcast of an interview with Bob Brier about his book that details how the Great Pyramid was built. URL * A scene from the Polish film "Faraon" (1966), based on a novel by Boleslaw Prus. Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz, music: Adam Walacinski URL "The scene shown here presents the procession of the pharaoh." * A 3 minute 58 seconds long movie by the British "Telegraph" newspaper about the recently opened Nebamun gallery, commented on by Richard Parkinson, curator of the British Museum. URL (Adobe Flashplayer required). * A podcast with free lectures, available on Apple - ITunes, from Manchester University, featuring some of the work of the KNH Centre: URL * Documentary: "The Tomb of Perneb" The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a video available on iTunes. The 20 minute documentary features Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in charge Dorothea Arnold, Egyptologist and Curator James Allen and Chief Designer Jeffrey L. Daly. URL * "Unas Slayer Of The Gods" by Nile, a death metal band -- Lyrics [adapted from PT 273-274 "Cannibal Hymn"] URL -- From the album "In Their Darkened Shrines", 2002 (10 mins.) URL -- Live in Prague (2008) Part 1: URL Part 2: URL -- and more songs from Nile at Youtube * "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818) -- Lyrics URL -- Recitation by Ben Kingsley (1:05 mins.) URL -- Animation set to music (4:30 mins.) URL -- and more: search Youtube * YouTube: "The Mummy Remix" -- An edited version of the film "The Mummy" (1932) with music from the opera "Akhnaten" by Philip Glass (1983) (9 mins.) URL * Charles E. Nichols has put 12 introductory lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphs on his YouTube channel. They are from 6 to 9 minutes in lenght. URL * YouTube: "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel -- "... played to scenes of ancient Egypt." URL -- "The legendary french military and scientific expedition in Egypt (1798-1801)" URL * ForaTV: "Archaeologist Zahi Hawass Unlocks the Secrets of Egypt" A half hour video of a lecture by Zahi Hawass at The Entertainment Gathering 2008, Monterey, CA, Dec 12th, 2008 URL "Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass discusses his work using "science to reconstruct history" in uncovering the mysteries of the pyramids [GP shafts etc], identifying mummies [CT scans] and excavating the Valley of the Kings [Central Area dig]." * Mark Millmore has added a new section called "Free Videos" to his Discovering Egypt website: URL There are now 52 free videos which you can watch full screen on your computer or TV if you are using Windows Media OS and have a broadband connection. The stress is on the 1980s documentaries of John Romer, but also includes Mark's own computer generated fly through reconstructions of temples. * Rossella Lorenzi (Archaeology Correspondent, Discovery Channel News) has started an archaeology podcast series called "Archaeorama Podcast", in which some of the world's top archaeologists discuss their latest findings and projects: URL The first item in the series ("Puzzle of the Pyramid Boats", lenght 00:07:03) is an interview with Zahi Hawass and Cheryl Ward, who talk about the boats buried beside the Great Pyramid of Khufu. (Rosella regularly has items relating to ancient Egypt on her blog, like recently a video about Nadia Lokma, General Director of Conservation, Head of GEM Conservation Center, Egypt, SCA - see URL) * (&) The Carlos Museum website hold a series of podcasts called 'Carlos Conversations', which use works of art in the Carlos Collection to spark conversations between distinguished members of Emory's faculty: URL Among them: "Die Like an Egyptian" "A false door from an Old Kingdom Egyptian tomb sparks a lively conversation about death, burial, and Egyptomania in America. Peter Lacovara, Curator of Egyptian Art, Professor of Religion Gary Laderman, and Kevin Kuharic from Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery, discuss how the influence of the ancient Egyptians can be seen in the burial traditions of 19th century America." * On Spanish Public Television (TVE) website - URL Djehuty Project: Short documentary on the current works at the XVIII dynasty tomb of Djehuty, in Dra Abu el-Naga (TT11), and the discovery of the intact XI dynasty tomb of Iqer. For the video, please check in "Videoteca" section, under the title "Arqueologos entre Faraones" * The Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project; Scots Egyptologist and archaeologist, Ian Mathieson, has made remarkable discoveries in more than a decade of work as director of the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project. Several available slideshows and background information on URL Film footage of the survey and excavation work at Saqqara: Saqqara movie 1, excavation, with sound (QuickTime file, file size 11MB) URL Saqqara movie 2, surveying, with sound (QuickTime file, file size 8MB) URL Saqqara movie 3, surveying, with sound (QuickTime file, file size 16MB) URL Saqqara movie 4, surveying, with sound (QuickTime file, file size 16MB) URL * Mummy Cartonnage Conservation - A Video (20 min.) URL Video in English: URL Video in German: URL * Archeology Channel online videos: -- "Egypt - Gift of the Nile": 22 minute video URL "Through images of common everyday activities and stunning ancient monuments, this video describes the natural environment of Egypt and how it shaped the way of life of Egyptian civilization through its classical period." -- "Egypt - Trial of a Mummy": 23 minute video URL This is the fictional story of Khonso-Imhep, Head Musician of the Pharaoh's court during the 18th Dynasty, as he passes from life into the afterworld, complete with a trial that determines his fate. Through re-enactments and imagery on wall paintings, this film depicts the ancient Egyptian mummification process and the religious rituals involved in preparing a dead body. This story displays the unique funeral ceremonies surrounding the preparation of a mummy and portrays the religious beliefs involved, as well as the mummy's discovery by archaeologists." -- "Egypt - Magic in Ancient Egypt": 22 minute video URL "In this made-for-TAC video, television personality Fred Lewis and Field Museum Egyptologist Thomas Mudloff visit sacred and secret sites of ancient Egypt and reveal the mystery and magic of temples, pyramids, and tombs." * National Gallery of Art, USA, online streaming videos and streaming slideshows: -- "The Quest for Immortality" URL * New York Times Video on demand: -- The Times's John Noble Wilford explains theories about a mysterious Egyptian crypt - were the two men entombed there brothers, lovers or conjoined twins? (About Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep) (Producer: Craig Duff) URL * NBC video reports: -- Nov. 4, 2007: Unveiling the face of ancient Egypt. In an effort to preserve the body of King Tutankhamen, Egyptian archeologists are moving him into a climate controlled glass case. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports. URL * Germany's ZDF regularly adds recent, excellent documentaries to their on-line media-player: -- "ZDF Expedition, Terra X: Kleopatras schwarze Schwestern" [About Kush] URL -- "ZDF Expedition, Terra X: Weihrauch für den Pharao" [About Punt] URL -- Older documentaries, news items and photo's can be found in the "ZDF mediathek" using the searchword "Ägypten". URL -- "ZDF Expedition, Auf den Spuren der Seevölker" "Vor 3000 Jahren tauchen an den Küsten des Mittelmeeres unbekannte Krieger auf. Ihr Vorstoß kommt schnell und unerbittlich. Wo sie anlegen, verbreiten sie Furcht und Schrecken." URL About 25 minutes into the documentary the story about the Sea Peoples and Ramses III's campaign against them gets told. -- Abenteuer Wissen, 16.01.2008 "Das Geheimnis der Mumien" Ägyptische Mumiensärge aus "recyceltem Altpapier" liefern wertvolle Hinweise auf den Alltag der frühen Ägypter. Mit modernsten Methoden entschlüsseln Forscher die alten Papyri der Kartonagen URL * On your very own pc-screen; 24 hours a day: URL This website of Dutch broadcaster AVRO gives you access to (parts of) their cutural productions, which you can search by keyword (which gives you results from all their programs, see link above), by province (handy for the Dutch) or by museum. -- The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden; URL -- The Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam; URL All video's are in Dutch, but depending on your interests the footage alone is very interesting. * The documentary "De verborgen schatten van het Egyptisch Museum" ["Hidden treasures of the Egyptian Museum", i.e. 'excavating' in the Museum's basement] which showed on Dutch tv (mentioned in the EEF NEWS 502) is now available for watching online. Even when you don't happen to speak Dutch it's still very worthwhile to watch, those basements are truely amazing! URL (Interviews in original languages, subtitled in Dutch. Voice-over commentary in Dutch). * WGBH Forum Network Live and Archived Webcasts of Free Public Lectures in Partnership with Boston's Leading Cultural and Educational Organizations. Presented by WGBH in association with the Lowell Institute. URL -- Boston Athenaeum, Thursday, October 6, 2005 "William John Bankes: The Exiled Collector", by Anne Sebba, writer, former reporter, Reuters URL (audio & video) "William John Bankes was a former Tory MP, pioneer Egyptologist, renowned traveler, and consummate collector. (..) Ms. Sebba recants the dramatic events in William Bankes' life, using previously unpublished archives, and examining the psychology of collecting as well as the pain and creativity of exile." -- Boston Athenaeum, Thursday, March 10, 2005 "100 Years of Egyptian Art at the MFA", by Rita E. Freed, chair, MFA's Art in Ancient World Department URL (audio & video) "This lecture examines how Boston became interested in ancient Egypt, when the first objects arrived on Boston shores, and how the collection developed to its present size and quality. Using archival photographs, Dr Freed focuses on behind-the-scenes stories of the early years and the Department's pioneering archaeological excavations in Egypt." -- Museum of Science, Boston, Friday, December 6, 2002 "Art, Gender and Politics in Egypt: Queen Hapshepsut", by Chahinda Karim, professor, American University, Cairo URL (audio & video) "The story of Pharaoh Hatshepsut is told through archeological evidence, including mummy markings, pottery and hieroglyphic inscriptions." -- Museum of Science, Boston, Friday, February 1, 2002 "In Search of Our Ancestors: What Mummies Tell Us", by Heather Pringle, writer, editor, Discover magazine URL (audio) "From the child mummies of northern Peru to the 'bog men' of northern Europe, ancient Egyptian mummified pets to today's mummification services available on the Internet, these vestiges of the past are a wealth of biological, cultural, and spiritual information." * National Geographic online video: -- "Treasure Beneath My Home" URL "Egyptian homeowners who find ancient artifacts buried on their land sometimes sell them to smugglers. Lisa Ling goes undercover to show how it's done." * Napoleon, Egypt and the beginnings of archaeology [audio 55min] Source: The Book Guys #0805 (2-3-08) Audio link: URL URL "The Book Guys -- book appraiser Allan Stypeck and Washington DC radio host Mike Cuthbert -- interview Nina Burleigh, author of Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt." * Broadcast (in French) of a lecture by Karine Gadré about "L'astro-égyptologie", at the Canal Académie site: URL Karine Gadré (who has just finished writing her doctorate thesis at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes - Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées) explains about her work on archaeo-astronomy relating to ancient Egypt: the formation of an archaeological and stellar database, the conception of models for the visibility of stars with the naked eye, the application of astronomical and Egyptological criteria -- as well as the results obtained in regards to chronology, stellar cartography, and the orientation of pyramids and temples. Information about her thesis: URL Website of Karine (in French and English): URL URL +++ ==================================================================== Please send any contributions to: Aayko Eyma This list is not meant for distribution to any other public channel than the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum. It is always wise to contact the organizers of lectures e.d. for confirmation, in case of (last minute) changes. Also note that registration for conferences/symposiums often is months in advance. Students will need an I.D. to get any discounts offered. ====================================================================