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I went to a lecture a couple of weeks back at the Herbet museum in Coventry 'Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation by Jamoir Malek'.
The Griffith institue website is well worth a look at....
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I guess they were no too big on this Save the Planet and recycling back in those days then :lol: :lol:
Seems they had forgotten all about Tut when it came to emptying the tombs when leaving Thebes,...
As the situation in Egypt continues to unfold do you think Zahi Hawass is going to disappear following resignation or will he rebound to the forefront? How tenacious do you think Zahi is going to be...
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One of Gaddafi's son's must be influential enough to have the coalition forces bomb his house and kill him and his 3 children.
So much for the coalition forces bombing military installations and...
Many of the animals were offered to the gods when they were just hours old
A labyrinth of sacred tunnels packed with the mummified remains of millions of dogs has been excavated under the Egyptian...
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Temple Priests Addes to the list Horus :)
Along with Politicians, and Authority in general.. Call me cynical.
The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of...
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And the 'tot' was quite a generous measure so much so that it was used as a kind of currency to repay any favours.
It was a common gesture to give a mate a 'wet' or sip from your tot as a thank you...
So just to finish off the story, here are a few of the old pictures of the British Cleopatra’s Needle being encased and then launched into the harbour ready for its...
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Thankyou Horus - WOW - the first one was a work of genius - making a sea-going vessel of it - wonder if they could manage that again today - doubtful as the rest of the world cant even get a stranded...
Have you ever wondered about Cleopatra’s Needle?
Well there are actually three, so depending upon where you live in the world you may have one of them near to you. Although none actually have any...
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Bump! ;)
Just to bring this to the top again and to say that I have just posted Part 2 for anyone interested :D
The political unrest in Egypt has now forced the suspension of fieldwork at Amarna as a precautionary measure, but we are pleased to report that there...
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In answer to your question Bill, there are always plenty of people with money prepared to buy these things, even within Egypt ;)
And I posted a picture on here taken when he was re-intered and he...
I recently started a thread on Waterwheels, but a more basic method of raising water to irrigate the fields was the Shaduf.
These are very basic devices that rely on a counterweighted beam that is...
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I suppose with enough people, anything is possible, I certainly wouldn't like a job like that though. :lol:
There again, with enough receptacles and people you could set up a chain gang, and just...
Hopkins in Egypt today site has been updated with photos etc. Well worth checking it out through out the dig season. The archive is also well worth a look.
A few old B&W photographs of Philae, Temple of Isis near Aswan, prior to it being relocated to the nearby Aglika Island to save it from being fully submerged after the construction of the second...
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Agreed Horus. :) ( I did some googling today in work)
The face is very similar, but the top of the head and the hair is all wrong.
I see that she has been victim of the vandals in the first...
I have just been doing a bit of historical research at my local library and came across an interesting snippet. I was researching my local evening newspaper from February 1st 1924 onwards a few weeks...
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I did go back, but not to persue that particular item, I was too engrossed in my own discoveries. The problem with these type of records is that you have to choose a particular year and all of the...
Just in case anyone lives near Coventry and is interested in visiting, here is the link for some talks at the Museum in Coventry. Btw, if you are visiting and want to meet up...just let me know....
OK this is a bit of a fantasy thread, you are allowed ask a simple question of any person from ancient Egypt or someone having a connection to it, so for example you may ask a question of say Khufu...
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I have to disagree - Carter was certainly a grafter - it took him 10 years or so to record and remove everything from the tomb, after virtually completely excavating much of the Valley. Most of the...
How do you think we're going to be seen by future generations? What history are we making now and how do you think we'll be viewed?
I kinda have a notion that the ancient Egyptians were, at least, a...
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I don't have a crystal ball LLL but I can see the possibility of some kind of major evolution or global catastrophe that would change the earth and its inhabitants for such a long time that it might...
From the Guardian today,
Archaeologists in Egypt unearth 57 ornate ancient tombs
Associated Press in Cairo
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 23 May 2010 18.25 BST
Article history
Archaeologists have...
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Thanks for the infor very interesting and the licks to the pics were great
Egyptian archaeologists discovered an intricately carved plaster sarcophagus portraying a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic in a newly uncovered complex of tombs at a remote desert oasis, Egypt's...
While most Egyptian pottery was undecorated, during the New Kingdom—Egypt’s Golden Age—a variety of pottery was elegantly decorated in a distinctive pale blue.
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