Abydos: A
place with many ancient stories to tell
A painted limestone fragment of a relief from the Ahmose pyramid temple
may be part of a battle scene, showing the royal ship of King Ahmose
with a royal vulture perched atop the stern of the ship. The fragment
may derive from depictions of the historical battles against the Hykos
invaders. Underthe leadership of Egyptologist Stephen Harvey, a team of
archaeologists from the University's Oriental Institute will soon begin
to excavate recently discovered buildings from a critical era in ancient
Egyptian history.
Earlier this year, the team discovered three new buildings in Abydos, a
rich and important archaeological site near Egypt's last royal pyramid.
Also among their findings were walls and related buildings near another
pyramid, engraved bricks with the names of people responsible for the
construction of the buildings, fragments of decorated limestone temple
reliefs, parts of statues, and small inscribed stone slabs used as part
of worship that are known as votive stelae. The discoveries are part of
a collection of artifactual documentation that pushes back the date of
complex artistic representation of warfare in Egypt. The site has
yielded the earliest known paintings of horses and chariots used in
battle as well as the earliest known representation of a practice that
later became common in battle documentation: paintings of collections of
the severed hands of enemies.
But Abydos has other stories to tell, such as those suggesting some
women held extraordinary levels of power within their communities. One
of the buildings the team discovered earlier this year is a temple that
likely was dedicated to Ahmose Nefertary, the wife and sister of the
Pharaoh Ahmose, who ruled from about 1550 to 1525 B.C. and built Egypt's
last pyramid. The team also excavated at a pyramid dedicated to another
important woman, Queen Tetisheri, grandmother of Ahmose and his wife.
"Abydos spans the entire history of ancient Egypt," said
Harvey, Assistant Professor in the Oriental Institute. "It has
pre-dynastic sites with the earliest evidence of hieroglyphic writing,
buildings from the first dynasties, and material from the Middle Kingdom
period, the New Kingdom period, the Roman era and everything in
between."
Harvey and his team are exploring in the southern part of Abydos, a site
between Luxor and Cairo on the west bank of the Nile. At the turn of the
century, British archaeologists explored southern Abydos and then
abandoned it after discovering a pyramid built for Ahmose, some carved
reliefs and a stela from the Amarna period, which came about 200 years
after the pyramid construction. Harvey, who received a Ph.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania, began his work at the site in 1993,
while a graduate student. He discovered after a few weeks of excavation
that the British had not unearthed a vast area of the site, which is
anchored by a 35-foot tall mound of sand. The mound marks the site of
Egypt's last royal pyramid, also known as Ahmose's pyramid. "The
vista from the top of Ahmose's pyramid is a commanding one, as it looks
over the nearby cultivated fields at the ends of the Nile floodplain, as
well as the limestone cliffs more than a kilometer away that mark the
start of the plateau of the Sahara desert," he said. The mound of
sand marking Egypt's last pyramid indicates that pyramid building was
being done "on the cheap," before the practice went out of
style. Instead of being built as colossal structures of limestone, the
later pyramids often had cores of rubble and were capped with stone or
brick.
The stone of Ahmose's pyramid as well as the brick of his grandmother's
pyramid was taken for other building projects sometime in antiquity.
Likewise, the nearby structures were torn down for other building needs.
Only foundations and remnants of walls, including reliefs, remain, along
with scattered broken limestone and broken artifacts. But evidence of
Ahmose's value survived the destruction. Among the painted reliefs found
early in Harvey's excavation is a pictorial representation of his
conquest of the Hykos, Canaanite rulers who overran the Nile Delta and
split apart Egypt around1650 B.C. Ahmose used chariots and horses to
push back the foreigners and eventually conquered Palestine to the
northeast and Nubia to the south. These conquests are what make Ahmose
such a pivotal figure in Egyptian history. His reign ushered in the New
Kingdom, which was a time for imperial expansion and remarkable
prosperity under rulers such as Amenhotep III, Tutankhamun and Ramesses
the Great. It was the era of building the fabulous tombs in the Valley
of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens on the west bank of the Nile,
across the river from the temples of Luxor. Another pivotal change
during the period of Ahmose occurred in burial customs. Before Ahmose,
pharaohs were buried in pyramids; after Ahmose, they were buried in
tombs carved into mountains. But, what about Ahmose? Although a mummy
identified as that of Ahmose was found in a cache of royal mummies,
"No tomb has been found," said Harvey. "It could be in
the pyramid," he added.
Although his
work will be more difficult because of sand that has collapsed on
tunnels dug during previous excavations, Harvey intends to excavate the
pyramid and look for the tomb of Ahmose. Other areas around the pyramid
have proved easier to deal with, however. Inaddition to the temple he
believes was dedicated to Ahmose Nefertary, the team also found another
temple, which will be the focus of more work in January. They also will
excavate a large structure that measures 115 by 130 feet, and which may
have been an administrative or production center for a cult that
developed around Ahmose, who was considered a god. Located near what is
thought to have been a bakery, this administration building may provide
clues that underscore one of the site's fundamentalvalues: it contains
structures that are part of a working community. Scholars will learn
what role the temple played in the economy and social organization of
the community. In many past digs, much of the area outside a temple was
dug and dumped, with artifacts tossed out in the process. But although
only fragmentary evidence remains from the southern area of Abydos, it
is important information. Each brick, for instance, is stamped with a
name, so it is possible to learn who was in charge of a building's
construction phases.This information can be studied in relation to other
texts to gain a better view of life and power in ancient Egypt, Harvey
said.The Oriental Institute's new Ahmose and Tetisheri Project is being
carried out in collaboration with the University of
Pennsylvania-Yale-Institute ofFine Arts-New York University Expedition
to Abydos. http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031211/abydos.shtml
The kids of ancient Egypt
Colorful exhibit hints at what life was like for little ones 2,000 years
ago
Yellow. A yellow that yells, too: not some pale legal-pad shade. Step
into the august University of Michigan Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, a
dark Victorian pile of stone. Soon you're drawn down a glowing yellow
hall, where a neon-green pull-down panel asks, "What would your
name be like if you lived 2,000 years ago?"
A curious child - or adult at this bouncy, inviting new exhibit on
childhood in Egypt - can pop open the panel to find out. Pachom, if
you're Egyptian. Julius, if you're Roman. If you're Greek, Aphrodite. A
step further, you can peer at the magnified fibers of a yarn doll,
remarkably intact after 20 centuries. "Archaeologies of Childhood,
the first years of life in Roman Egypt" is a fresh departure for
the museum with its kid-friendly colors and curvy exhibit cases. But
don't cross it off as an outing if you're sans enfants. It's also adult
friendly, with papyrus texts describing ancient family life and slavery
practices, plus new revelations from CT scans about the museum's child
mummy. Curator Terry Wilfong and exhibit designer Scott Meier have put
on display some of the museum's choicest items related to childhood -
dolls, toy horses, protective amulets and revealing artifacts of life
and death in ancient times.
Meier worked with Wilfong for more than a year to plan and build the
exhibit. The yellow won out, though there were some skeptics at first.
"My thinking was, 'This is going to be up through the long winter
of Michigan, so let's have a fun, fanciful exhibit,"' Meier says.
Wilfong drew from hundreds of items of everyday life in Karanis, Egypt,
to depict what it was like to be a child there two millennia ago.
He hopes visitors will see "points of connection" by looking
at ancient childhood. "We tend to see Egyptians as remote people
who stand sideways and have no connection with us," he says.
At the end of the exhibit entry hall, you can't help but halt at a
scalloped, 8-foot-tall exhibit case staff call the red monolith. Inside,
bathed in light, are objects inviting you to head into the small room
beyond - yellow again - that holds the exhibit. There's a wooden toy
horse on wheels, a child's amulet worn to protect against scorpions and
snakes. They and most of the exhibit objects are from Karanis, a
Roman-era Egyptian village where U-M archaeologists led excavations in
the 1920s and 1930s. The most intriguing object in this first exhibit
case, at least to scholars and technophiles, may be the small
polymer-resin skull. It's one result of a late-night trip the museum's
child mummy made to the U-M Medical Center for a CT scan two years ago.
U-M engineering student Grant Martin thought up the unusual project as a
way to learn about burial rituals and how the child died. He later made
the skull from the scan images using 3-D computer modeling and
prototyping techniques. Martin is aboutto graduate as a semiconductor
physicist with a minor in classical archaeology. He's excited about the
exhibit, which officially reveals the project's findings. "I didn't
think it would be carried this far," he says. "Everyone in my
engineering department is just tickled. Posters (for the exhibit) are up
on North Campus."
Visitors can learn more about what the medical imaging revealed in
another display in the exhibit. Wilfong, who oversaw the scanning, won't
forget the moment the scans revealed one of the small boy's hands had
six fingers. That abnormality occurs when gene pools are restricted in
close-kin marriages, he says. He hopes further study of the scan data
will shed more light on the ancientEgyptian custom of close-kin
marriage, practiced by about a quarter of the population. Asvisitors
walk from case to case in the exhibit room, there's plenty that's
charming, plenty to ponder. There are images of the god Harpocrates, a
childhood form of the god Horus "who pays attention to the needs of
children," Wilfong says. Ancient Egyptians sought protection and
reassurance in a time when many children died early on. There are small
homemade farm animals, miniature tools and several simple cloth and wood
dolls. The museum's dolls were recently written up in the magazine
"Doll News." They're a mystery to scholars, Wilfong says. Some
may have been ritual objects, ratherthan children's playthings. http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/features-0/1069170276233590.xml
Marbles
and mosaics on display Britons are glued to
their TV screens to watch a new series which has fuelled a fixation on
ancient Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/669/he1.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/669/he3.htm
A visit to Luxor
By Zahi Hawass
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/669/he2.htm
The Mouseion revisited
The grand new Bibliotheca Alexandrina reminds us of the glory of the
famous ancient Library of Alexandria, which was much more than a
repository for books but a university and teaching hospital
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/668/he1.htm
Ode on an Egyptian vase
An unusual vase featuring three warriors in military uniform has been
restored a decade after its discovery
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/668/he2.htm
Beginning of the ball
The Ancient Egyptians, history tells, are not only the inventors of
sports, but as Nevine El-Aref uncovers, of ball itself
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/669/sp4.htm
What Lies Beneath
As rescue archaeologists race against time to document our ancient cities,
modern construction threatens to bury them forever
http://www.egypttoday.com/issues/0312/79F3/031279F3.asp
The 40 days' nightmare
It spelled lucrative trade for some and despair for others. Jenny Jobbins
traces the steps of those who trod the Darb Al-Arba'in
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/664/he1.htm
Stations on the Darb Al-Arba'in
It spelled lucrative trade for some and despair for others. Jenny Jobbins
traces the steps of those who trod the Darb Al-Arba'in
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/664/he2.htm
Dig days:
Antiquities for sale
By Zahi Hawass
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/664/he3.htm
'A
philosophy of colours'
Alexandria's long-awaited National Museum is open
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/662/heritage.htm
Return of the king
The 3000-year-old mummy of 19th Dynasty King Ramses I made its way back to
Egypt last week.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/662/eg3.htm
Thebes revisited
Since the ancient Greeks made their first journey to Thebes, Luxor has
always been an unforgettable experience. Rehab Saad and photographer Ayman
Ibrahim walk you through their own three-day venture http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/661/tr1.htm
Biographie
und Identität. Studien zur Geschichte, Entwicklung und Soziologie altägyptischer
Beamtenbiographien
Bettina, Hackländer-von
der Way
http://www.dissertation.de/buch.php3?buch=957
Traveller's notes
Today's Luxor is actually three distinct areas nestled into one nook of
the Nile Valley -- the town of Luxor itself, the village of Karnak...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/661/tr2.htm
A class of their own
The small non-star family-run hotels of old Gurna have always been the
choice of travellers, mostly those on a tight budget, who like to spend an
untraditional vacation in the midst of the Theban necropolis surrounded by
authentic rural life, lush green fields and mountains
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/661/tr3.htm
A fabulous oasis
From swimming, rowing and fishing, to desert hiking, birdwatching and
sightseeing, Rasha Sadek discovers that Fayoum's richness of activities
makes it the perfect place for an unforgettable winter escape
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/661/tr4.htmhttp://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/661/tr4.htm
Guidelines: Travel information
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/661/tr6.htm
Dig
days: Against all odds
By Zahi Hawass
As you know, I am appalled by Joan Fletcher's announcement that she had
found the mummy of Nefertiti...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/660/he2.htm
Dig
days: In response to Fletcher's theory
By Zahi Hawass
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/658/he2.htm
Smugglers ring broken
Switzerland has helped Egypt crack on an international smuggling ring and
bring its members to trial.
(Más sobre la red internacional de tráfico de antigüedades egipcias
descubierta. Con fotografía de parte de los objeos incautados)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/659/eg6.htm
Y más sobre el mismo tema en Aljazeera:
Egypt busts antique smugglers
Thursday 02 October 2003, 22:11 Makka Time, 19:11 GMT
An international ring of antique smugglers peddling in priceless artefacts
has been busted in Egypt. State prosecutor Maher Abdel Wahed said on
Thursday that the gang had smuggled at least 300 Pharaonic and other
artefacts to Europe before Egyptian investigators caught up with them.
While 15 Egyptians and one Lebanese have been arrested, the authorities
were looking for 12 others, including two Swiss, two Germans, a Canadian
and a Kenyan. In an investigation that ran for six-months, the authorities
learnt that the gang smuggled valuable artefacts from the Pharaonic,
Islamic and Coptic Christian periods to Switzerland and France. Wahed said
the Swiss authorities have informed Egypt that they will return some 300
artefacts.
Fuente: Aljazeera
Shards
of a golden age
(Sobre la historia el Imperialismo británico y las expediciones de los
ingleses a Egipto así como sus descubrimientos)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1053846,00.html
The Many
Faces of Ramesses the Great
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/bswbao0605f2.html
Egypt:
Limestone sculptures haunt White Desert
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o060923z.htm
Dig days: No discrimination
Questions resulting from the identification by Dr Joann Fletcher of the
so-called mummy of Queen Nefertiti in the tomb of Amenhotep II in the
Valley of the Kings has caused repercussions in the British press...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/656/hr2.htm
Fish, ostriches and granite
(Sobre la futura apertura al público de las canteras de Asuán).
Preparations
to turn the site of the granite quarries of Aswan into an outdoor museum
have brought to light new information on an area in use from ancient to
modern times, as Nevine El-Aref reports
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/656/hr1.htm
Greeks 'borrowed Egyptian numbers'
The astronomers, physicists and mathematicians of ancient Greece were true
innovators.
Ancient Greeks used letters and extra symbols to represent digits. But one
thing it seems the ancient Greeks did not invent was the counting system
on which many of their greatest thinkers based their pioneering
calculations. New research suggests the Greeks borrowed their system known
as alphabetic numerals from the Egyptians, and did not develop it
themselves as was long believed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3109806.stm
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030915-024433-4182r.htm
Late is great
(Destinos
perfectos para unas vacaciones en Egipto pasado el verano).
Sinai: off
the beaten track (Lo que ofrece el Sinaí al viajero)
Traveller's notes (Sobre las guías de viajes a Egipto)
Weekend retreats: More than just a beach (Ras Sudr, en el Sinai sur: más
que una playa).
Guidelines (Más vuelos para llegar a Egipto)
Holiday FAQs (Preguntas frecuentes cuando se va a hacer un viaje a Egipto)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/653/travel.htm
Egyptian treasures look hauntingly familiar
(Sobre las estatuas de Sesostris III)
Though it may appear alien, ancient art resonates today. He looks so
familiar, the square-chinned man who's staring straight ahead as he has
for nearly 3,900 years, his eyes heavy, his firm mouth slightly turned
down. Sesostris III, king of Egypt, neither young nor old, has the bearing
worthy of his office. He looks irrefutably royal, powerful in every way,
including the musculature of his chest.
http://www.sunspot.net/features/arts/bal-as.keeper21sep21,0,2964191.story?coll=bal-artslife-society
Wrestling in Ancient Nubia
El autor conecta las representaciones de antiguos luchadores nubios con la
cultura de lucha moderna en Nubia.
Journal of
Sport History Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 1988):
http://www.aafla.com/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1988/JSH1502/jsh1502b.pdf
03/09/03
£400,000 target for Tut's sister.
(Sobre una posible escultura de la hemana de Tutanjamon, cedida por un
particular al museo de Bolton).
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/stories/Detail_LinkStory=66481.html
Israelites Found in Egypt. Four-Room House Identified in Medinet Habu
"A
sharp-eyed excavator notes something striking on an old Egyptian dig
report-a house plan long associated with the Israelites in Canaan."
Manfred Bietak
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/bswbba2905f2.html
A fruitful season
Archaeological expeditions unearthed treasure-troves in Alexandria, Siwa
and
Minya during the spring-summer season
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/653/he1.htm
Spinning Nefertiti
A British Egyptologist who claims to have identified the mummy of the
legendary Queen Nefertiti is accused of breaking the Supreme Council of
Antiquities' protocol.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/653/eg8.htm
Dig Days: A curse of monumental proportions
By Zahi Hawass
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/653/he2.htm
Scholars Perform Autopsy on Ancient Writing Systems: Cause of Death
Related to Lack Of Accessibility
By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40010-2003Aug24.html
Stirring
Up the Past
Zahi Hawass raises international tensions in the quiet antiquities
community as he fights to recover Egypt's plundered treasures.
http://www.egypttoday.com/issues/0309/880D/0309880D.asp
Who
Built the Pyramids?
(¿Quién construyó las pirámides de Egipto?)
Not slaves. Archeaologist Mark Lehner digging deeper, discovers a city of
privileged workers.
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070391.html
Más información sobre el tema:
http://www.egiptomania.com/piramides/
Older than Egypt is Ethiopia
(Sobre Etiopía y su antigüedad en relación con Egipto)
From distant past to the dawn of Islam, Gamal Nkrumah looks at the history
of this African nation
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/652/heritage.htm
Who
built the capital of Ramses II
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html1/aug.htm
The battle for the Rosetta Stone
By Zahi Hawass
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/651/he2.htm
Celebrating
Alexandria's youth
The fabled city of Alexandria is getting its very own national museum
(Sobre
el nuevo Museo Nacional de Alejandría).
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/650/eg2.htm
Cléopâtre
au palais d'hiver
La Russie aussi n'a pas manqué de subir la passion de l'Egypte Ancienne.
Le pavillon égyptien du musée de l'Ermitage à Saint-Pétersbourg en témoigne.
(Sobre la colección egipcia del Museo de l´Ermitage, en San Petersburgo,
Rusia)
http://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/arab/ahram/2003/8/6/patri2.htm
Archaeology to the rescue: It's a Race-Against-the-Clock to Preserve
Parts of Ancient Egypt.
(Entrevista con el arqueólogo Jean Yves Empereur sobre las excavaciones
en Alejandría y el problema del desarrollo urbanístico)
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/projects/empereur.html
Tampering with Nefertiti
By Zahi Hawass
(Sobre lo ocurrido en el Museo de Berlín con el busto de Nefertiti y
las relaciones con las expediciones extranjeras en Egipto)
In the last few weeks I have received many e-mails from art historians
in the United States expressing outrage at the Berlin Museum's
astonishing insolence in briefly fusing the beautiful painted bust of
Nefertiti to a modern bronze nude body. One scholar, highly respected in
his field, wrote passionately about this "disgusting, ugly and
unscientific" synthesis, an affront to one of our most treasured
masterpieces.
Nefertiti
always and forever
Has the mummy of the beautiful Ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti,
wife of the
Pharaoh Akhenaten, really been identified?
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/644/he1.htm
Famous lives
The Saqqara tomb of a scribe in Akhenaten's reign and a colossal
statue of
one of Ramses II's wives at Zagazig have shed more light on two famous
Pharaohs
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/622/he2.htm
Holding their ground
The Human Touch
(Guías digitales y guías humanos en el Museo Egipcio de El Cairo)
The Egyptian Museum's convenient new handheld digital guides offer
useful information - and are a cause of concern for the traditional
human guides.
Do
we have the mummy of Nefertiti?
By
Marianne Luban ©1999
(Sobre
la identificación de Nefertiti con "La Mujer Joven").
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3102/do_we_have_.htm
Qur'an
in Dublin
(Sobre dos de las conferencias en las que ha sido estos días ponente en
Dublín)
By Zahi Hawass
On a recent journey to Dublin I gave two lectures, one at Trinity
College on the Valley of the Golden Mummies, the other at the National
Museum, about the secrets of the Great Pyramid.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/639/hr3.htm
Coptic studies hold key to legacy
(Sobre
la conferencia seguida en relación con la creación del Chair of Coptic
Studies at the American University in Cairo (AUC) - Departamento de
Estudios Coptos de la AUC )
The fourth-century Monastery of St Apollo at Bawit is today largely
covered with desert sand.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/639/hr1.htm
(Sobre
la exposición "The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient
Egypt" en el Kimbell Art Museum en Fort Worth, Texas).
The world's first Pharaonic blockbuster exhibition was of Tutankhamon in
1972, attracting 1.75 million visitors to the British Museum. However, a
new tour of Pharaonic treasures in the United States, "The Quest
for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt", could beat that
record.
New
Discovery from Dynasty 1
Zahi Hawass
(Sobre
el descubrimiento de una gran mastaba de la Dinastía I en Saqqara).
http://www.guardians.net/hawass/articles/new_discovery_from_dynasty_1.htm
One
Hundred Years of the Cairo Museum
Zahi Hawass
(Sobre
el Centenario del Museo de El Cairo y las piezas expuestas)
http://www.guardians.net/hawass/articles/a_celebration_of_100_Years_of_the_Egyptian_Museum.htm
Poles
paved the way
(Sobre
la concesión de Kom Al-Dikka a la Misión Polaca y los trabajos que
llevan a cabo en otras zonas).
Poland
was the first of the eastern block countries to excavate in Egypt. Jill
Kamil talks to the director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean
Archaeology in Cairo
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/637/he1.htm
The
curse and the dwarf
Zahi
Hawass en un artículo sobre los objetos descubiertos más relevantes en
sus excavaciones.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/625/he2.htm
Luxor's
military dimension
(Sobre
las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en la zona este del Templo de Luxor,
entre el muro construido a mediados del siglo XX y el propio templo).
The
area east of Luxor temple is being released from urban encroachment and, a
Roman military encampment is being revealed
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/626/he2.htm
Thrills
at Thebes
(Sobre
el sarcófago hallado por el Proyecto Dyehuty en Dra Abu el-Naga)
A
mystery sarcophagus found in the tomb of the overseer of works during the
reign of Queen Hatshepsut was opened on the Theban necropolis last week.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/626/he1.htm
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o170223k.htm
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o200223b.htm
"Speculations
about the Scorpion King".
"Did
the Egyptians practice human sacrifice, like most of thenations around
them?"
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/Stories/0,1413,209~22484~1157840,00.html
"Ancient
Egyptian Magic"
Dr
Geraldine Pinch:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/magic_01.shtml
Famous
lives
(Extenso artículo sobre la nueva tumba descubierta en Saqqara)
The Saqqara tomb of a scribe in Akhenaten's reign and a colossal statue of
one of Ramses II's wives at Zagazig have shed more light on two famous
Pharaohs, as Nevine El-Aref reports
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/622/he2.htm
The writing on the rocks
(Sobre los antiguos Nabateos y sus inscripciones)
The ancient Nabataeans are chiefly remembered for their breathtaking
rock-carved capital of Petra in southern Jordan. Jane Taylor traces their
fascinating story, from absurd theory to identification and decipherment
of their inscriptions in Sinai.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/620/heritage.htm
Journeys to ancient Egypt
(Sobre el nuevo objetivo del renovado Museo Egipcio de El Cairo: Hacer
conocedores a todos los egipcios de su historia antigua). This week the
Egyptian Museum launched a programme to teach Egyptians about their
ancient history.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/620/fe1.htm
