... in the wake of the decipherment of hieroglyphs and the unfolding of the science of Egyptology. During the last decades of the 19th century, displays of artefacts brought ... first actual step in the long process of establishing Egyptology as an academic discipline in Hungary was pushed forward with ... of Al-Hibe where the Graeco-Roman of Ankyronpolis is to be found. Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes

... of semi-scholarly types (and crackpots) that hang around the fringes of Egyptology -- and are, of course, much attracted by such things as the Book of the Dead. Among the latter, I would include those that want to see in the Book of ... in Melanges Mapero and elsewhere: Prof. Thausing is the professor of Egyptology at Vienna, but her views on Egyptian religion are not exactly in the mainstream of ...

"Off the top of my melon, Erik Hornung, Professor of Egyptology at Basel University" Can you provide a quote in which he voices support for Massey's Horus/Jesus ... I am completely ready to re-evaluate my view of Massey if Hornung does indeed support his Horus/Jesus theory.Egyptology simply isn't my field and I will gladly defer to Hornung on this issue. I am happy to admit when ...

... from it, the period in which Jane Austen was writing was also the period in which modern Egyptology was developing as a science, casting off its roots as glorified grave-robbers to actually study the artifacts ... as they had long been able to read ancient Greek and Roman documents. But Egyptology wasn't that far removed from its grave-robbing cousins yet. Artifacts were regularly removed from ...

... written in hieratic, a script related to hieroglyphic. Unfortunately it was transported to a Museum of Egyptology at Turin, Italy with inadequate care so it was unpacked in tiny pieces, many ... . (Original source.) After hours of discussion was Elvira D'Amicone, Egyptology from the ministry, who had the right intuition: if the papyrus fragments had come to the museum, the missing parts should ...

... statements, especially when you look at the general quality of senior officials in Egypt. That being said, I have only a distant and frankly quite faint interest in Egyptology. In fact my interest in Egyptology is much more about the enthusiasm the field generates, its “discovery” in the 19th century and some of its colorful characters than the actual ancient history and archeology. ...

... includes a comprehensive bibliography. About the Author Simon Cox was the founding editor-in-chief of Phenomena magazine, a U.S. based newsstand publication launched in 2003. Having studied Egyptology at University College London, he went on to work as a research assistant for some of the biggest names in the alternative history game, including Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, and David Rohl. He ...

Ok, now I moved on to Caesarion's kilt. An egyptology-student-friend, Barry Burnett, visited Denderah last month and I finally got detailed enough photos to see what was depicted on the kilt. And this brought a bit of a dilemma - putting in all those details might make the overall "painting" look suffer a bit. Still - considering who might be interested in this kind of a painting, I ...

... one shot at it.” The resulting copious data set can be accessed on demand to produce exquisitely detailed visualizations of, say, a hand or foot or head should somebody ask for it. This has applications beyond Egyptology for use in anatomical training: It’s difficult to obtain this kind of high-resolution image from a live person’s body, because the radiation would damage living ...

... Gothics, the Pre-Raphaelites, Aestheticism, the Decadence and the Symbolists. We’ll also be discussing certain trends and tendencies in 19th century society. Areas like spiritualism, Egyptology, Rosicrucianism, magick and its influence on art and literature, the Celtic Twilight, Victorian attitudes towards homosexuality, women in Victorian society, the way women were depicted in the art and ...

... heart diseases in mummies dating as far back as 1530 BCE, more than 3,500 years ago. And the condition seemed to be fairly widespread too, ScienceNow reports. Cairo University Egyptology Professor Abdel Nureldin says that many mummies were found to be suffering from heart conditions. The ancient Egyptians ate mostly salted fish, cheese and bread. The richer classes, including the pharaohs, ...

... and cheese like everyone else, but they also dined on rich foods such as cow, sheep, and goat meat, as well as honey and cakes with butter, says Abdel Nureldin, a professor of Egyptology at Cairo University, who worked on the investigation. At the same time, virtually no one in ancient times was sedentary, and that may have helped counteract their fatty diets. Still, the researchers found, 16 of ...

... . And I am reluctant to go through that. On to better news! I am currently reading Storm Cycle by Iris Johansen. The premise sounded interesting and I am pretty fascinated by anything with Egyptology in it. *G* So far I'm only a few chapters into it, but it is pretty good. I don't remember reading anything by this author before, but I feel as though I have years ago. Tomorrow is another ...

... journal with the answers to the questions. • Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. j_apollo asked me these questions: 1. What is your ideal career? Archaeology (Egyptology to be precise) I'm working on my degree at the moment, but have to do a masters before I actually qualify as an archaeologist. I would love to be the next Howard Carter (I'm ...

... documents dating from the immediate post-Revolutionary War period, was enjoyable but did not engage me the way my courses in ancient history did. The next spring, then, I approached my former professor of Egyptology, Dr. Mentor, to ask if he could take me on at his Digital Archaeological Archive Project. He and I applied for, and were awarded, a My U Summer Scholars grant that funded my summer ...