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EEF NEWS (629) ============= d.d. August 26, '10 (I Peret 8)
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, Bulgaria, Israel (X) Exhibitions on Ancient Egypt USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Egypt, Italy, France, Israel, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Chili, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Mexico, Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway, Japan, Russia, China (XI) Courses and Trips 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: Sasha Renninger [(I) - USA (a)]; Lyn Green [(I) - Canada (a)]; Raymond Betz [(II) - Germany (q)]; Kat Newkirk [(I) - USA (k); (II) - USA (d), UK (d)]; Bjorn Koopmans [(II) - UK (d)]; Michael Tilgner [(I) - Germany (h)] ========================================================================== +++ (I) NEW: LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS --USA-- a) ARCE/Pennsylvania Chapter * "Tutankhamun’s Father", by Dr. James Allen (Brown University) date: September 11, 2010; 3:30pm place: Classroom 2, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, PA costs: $5 for the general public, $3 for museum members, free to ARCE-PA members info: email k) St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church 2100 E. Pleasant Valley Rd., Seven Hills, Ohio 44131 * 27th Annual Egyptian Festival With Egyptian bazaar (foods and crafts), music, and tours of the church (icons). date: August 27, 28 and 29, 2010. --CANADA-- a) Society for the Study for Egyptian Antiquities * 36th Annual Symposium: "Egypt's Sun King, Amenhotep III" date: November 6, 2010; 9:00-17:00 place: Earth Sciences Auditorium, rm. 1050, 5 Bancroft Ave, Toronto costs: $90 for general public, $80 for ROM and SSEA members $40 for students. Registration with programs@rom.on.ca info: email info: programme at URL --SSEA Toronto Chapter-- * "Tut's Final Journey: The decoration progamme in Tutankhamun's Burial Chamber", by Prof. R. J. Leprohon (University of Toronto) date: Friday, September 10, 2010; 7:00 pm place: Room 142, 5 Bancroft Ave, basement of Earth Sciences Complex, Toronto costs: free, all welcome info: email --THE NETHERLANDS-- b) Ex Oriente Lux / Chapter 's-Hertogenbosch * "Koningin Hatsjepsoet en de expeditie naar het verre Punt", by Dr Marcel Zitman date: September 22, 2010; 20:00 place: Orangerie, WZC Nieuwehagen, Gervenstraat 2, 5211 PD, Den Bosch costs: members free, others EUR 2 info: 073-6133336 * "Alexanders Erfenis - Grieken in Egypte", by Dr K.C. Innemee date: October 20, 2010; 20:00 place: Orangerie, WZC Nieuwehagen, Gervenstraat 2, 5211 PD, Den Bosch costs: members free, others EUR 2 info: 073-6133336 --GERMANY-- h) Liebieghaus Schaumainkai 71, D-60596 Frankfurt am Main * "Liebieghaus Positionen" -- "Vortrag zur Sahure-Ausstellung und zu neusten Forschungsergebnissen" by Zahi Hawass date: September 10, 2010; 7 pm place: Hotel InterContinental Frankfurt, Wilhelm-Leuschner- Strasse 43, 60329 Frankfurt am Main costs: no fee, but reservation is recommended: 069-65 00 49-110 or email info: The lecture will be in English. URL --BELGIUM -- a) KULeuven Faculteit Letteren, Onderzoeksgroep Egyptologie, Blijde Inkomststraat 21 bus 3318, 3000 Leuven * 38e Nederlands-Vlaamse Egyptologendag date: October 23, 2010 info: email ---- For previously listed lectures and conferences, see section IX below. +++ (II) NEW: EXHIBITIONS --USA-- [update] b) Denver Art Museum 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204 * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: June 29, 2010 - January 9, 2011 [new] info: press report at URL With six photos. [update] d) The Franklin Institute Science Museum 222 North 20th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 tel.: +1 215 448 1200 * "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" date: June 5, 2010 - January 2, 2011 [new] info: press report at URL --UK-- [update] d) The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TS * “Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt” date: June 18, 2010 - January 18, 2012 Exhibition of 80 of the finest pieces of the Myers collection (Eton). info: press report at URL "(..) The collection was assembled by Major William Myers, who served in Egypt and bequeathed his antiquities to Eton College in 1899. Eton, Britain’s most exclusive independent school, located in Windsor, has been unable to display the objects in recent years. In an unusual arrangement, it is lending most of the 2,500 antiquities to two institutions, the Barber Institute (part of the University of Birmingham) and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, which will catalogue, scan, conserve and display them. Most of the items on show at the Barber Institute will go to Johns Hopkins after the exhibition, although 500 will remain behind in Birmingham for study. (..) The Myers display opens at Johns Hopkins in October." --GERMANY-- [update] 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 - August 28, 2010 [new] info: press report at URL "Die Tutanchamun-Schau schließt am Sonntag - mehr als 450 000 Besucher haben sie in Hamburg gesehen" [update] q) Expo XXI Gladbacher Wall 5, D-50670 Köln * "Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze" [Tutankhamun - his tomb and the treasures] date: September 24, 2010 - March 20, 2011 The exhibition of replicas that earlier was in Zurich, Munich, and Hamburg (Oct. 1, 2009 - Aug. 28, 2010). [new] info: tickets are already available online (cf German section) at URL ------ 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.] --OBITUARIES-- [Submitted by James Allen] * Michèle Broze (Professeur d'Egyptologie à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles) announced this sad news: "J'ai le regret de vous annoncer le décès, dans un accident de la route, de notre collègue Jean-Marie Kruchten, professeur émérite de langue et littérature égyptienne à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles. Il n'avait que 66 ans, et encore, sans doute, beaucoup d'articles à écrire." * On Monday 16th August, Dr John Alexander died, aged 88. Among many functions he was Director of the Egypt Exploration Society excavations at Qasr Ibrim, in Egyptian Nubia, Vice-Chairman of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society, and Council member of the Egypt Exploration Society. URL +++ (IV) READ ON THE WEB --NEWSPAPER REPORTS ONLINE--- * (&) The American-Egyptian mission from Yale University has found the remains of a substantial MK/SIP settlement at the Umm Mawagir area in Kharga Oasis: -- SCA Press Release: URL -- Article in the Yale Alumni Magazine: URL [Submitted by Kat Newkirk and Bjorn Koopmans] * Press report: "Ashmolean unveils second big revamp" URL "A £5M redevelopment is being planned at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum to showcase the museum’s world famous collections from ancient Egypt. Only eight months after the new Ashmolean was opened by the Queen following a £61m extension scheme, the museum has submitted plans to refurbish its Egyptian galleries. The work would focus on part of the ground floor in the original Ashmolean building in Beaumont Street which was largely untouched by the major expansion. (..) The four existing Egyptian galleries will be refurbished and a fifth gallery created by transforming the Ruskin Gallery, now occupied by the Ashmolean shop which will move to the lower ground floor, next to the cafe. (..) If planning approval is granted work would begin in October. The Egyptian galleries would be closed completely from January, reopening late next year. " [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Press report: "A Montepulciano i protagonisti dell'Egitto dei Faraoni " URL "A Montepulciano si è chiuso con successo il convegno internazionale del Comitato per l'Egittologia (CIPEG) dell'International Council Of Museums. Quranta tra i massimi studiosi mondiali di egittologia si sono dati appuntamento nella città poliziana per confrontarsi sulle principali novità del collezionismo museale." * Some Egyptomania items [submitted by Ann Wuyts (1), Kat Newkirk (1)(2)(3)(4), and Bjorn Koopmans (3)]: -- Some sceptical locals react to Uri Geller's claim that there would be an ancient Egyptian treasure on Lamb Island in Scotland: URL "(..) "A wee bit of bulls— doesn't hurt anybody," says Dougie Ferguson, a 52-year-old skipper. (..)" -- Luxor Las Vegas said it plans to sell an "Egypt-inspired" phone, made from 18-carat gold with black diamonds, costing $1 million: URL -- Lake Oswego's Gallery Without Walls welcomes 15 new sculptures, including a statue called "Bastet" by artist Bob Foster: URL "(..) Foster created "Bastet," which sits with ears raised high, after seeing an exhibit of Egyptian treasures at the Portland Art Museum. "I really wanted one," he said. Then he realized he could create one himself. (..)" With photo of "Bastet" statue -- Suggestions on how to give your room an Egyptian Gothic theme: URL "(..) Anne Rice surely wasn't the first to link traditional Gothic to the intriguing mysteries of Egypt. The ankh has long been a Goth favorite, and the dark tombs of pharaohs somehow seem suited to the gothic temperament. (..)" --Follow-ups-- [Submitted by Kat Newkirk] * Pressreport: "CT scan peers inside Anniston mummy" URL "Anniston Museum of Natural History employees anxiously sat in the CT imaging lobby at Regional Medical Center Wednesday evening –- as if waiting for a friend or relative in the examining room. (..) The patient in question was Tasherytpamenekh (pronounced Ta-SHER-eet-pa-MEN-eck), one of the museum’s two 2,000- year-old Egyptian mummies. (..) The preliminary scan, which produced a three-dimensional image of the mummy ’s skeleton, revealed that the ancient woman was likely in her mid-30s or late 20s when she died but could have been as young as 17 years old. Doctors who had taken x-rays of the mummy in the 1970s had concluded she was probably in her late 30s when she died. (..) “Her bone structure was very good,” said radiologist Dr. Robert Garner. “We don’t see a lot of degeneration in her hips and spine. I think she lived a very comfortable life.” The scan also revealed that all of her organs had been removed, including the heart, which surprised curator Don Spaulding as well. (..)" With video & link to download the scan. --MISCELLANEOUS-- * Some 1,800 photographs of Egypt and Sudan taken by Reginald St. Alban Heathcote between 1922 and 1933 can now be seen online on the Griffith Institute's website. The photographs are of considerable interest to Egyptologists as well as anthropologists. Go to URL * On OsirisNet, the tomb TT38 of Djeserkaseneb, who occupied the functions of accountant of the grain of Amon, and steward of the Second Prophet of Amon during dyn. 18, has been added: URL [Submitted by Jan Bailey] * Ancient World Dimensions: a website of the BBC that explores the scale of Ancient World monuments and historic journeys, e.g., by overlaying ancient towns on modern sites: URL What if the Pyramids of Giza or the Great Library of Alexandria had been built in London? +++ (V) BOOK CORNER ---NEW (PAPER) BOOK RELEASES--- * Dolinska, Monika / Beinlich, Horst (eds); 8. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: Interconnections between Temples. Harrasowitz Publishers, 2010. Pb, 237 pp. ISBN: 978-3-447-06238-1. 68,00 Eur. Table of Contents at URL * Ali, Mohamed S / Aguizy, Ola El-; Echoes of Eternity. Studies presented to Gaballa Aly Gaballa. Harrasowitz Publishers, 2010. Pb, 244 pp. ISBN: 978-3-447-06215-2. 58,00 Eur Table of Contents at: URL * Kunze, Max (ed.), Erinnerung Ägypten: Frühe Photographien, Lithographien, Stiche und Karten aus der Sammlung Dan Kyram, Jerusalem. Harrasowitz Publishers, 2010. PB, 173 pp, 162 ill. ISBN: 978-3-447-06297-8. 38,00 Eur URL * Bernhauer, Edith; Innovationen in der Privatplastik. Die 18. Dynastie und ihre Entwicklung. Harrasowitz Publishers, 2010. Pb, 341 pp. ISBN: 978-3-447-05712-7. 68,00 Eur URL ---DIGITIZED BOOKS AND ONLINE DISSERTATIONS--- * Traianos Gagos (ed.), Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology: Ann Arbor, July 29 - August 4, 2007. Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2010 URL The volume can be downloaded as a whole or you can download the 80 papers individually (see under TOC). There's also a paper version (ISBN: 978-1-60785-205-6) available. * John S. Nolan, Mud Sealings and Fourth Dynasty Administration at Giza. A Dissertation Presented to The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Chicago, Illinois; June, 2010. PDF, 14.8 MB URL "In the Spring of 2005 while working at a site previously identified as "Area A" at Giza, the Giza Plateau Mapping Project directed by Mark Lehner recovered and registered 1,199 pieces of sealing clay from just one small excavation area called Pottery Mound. 1,039 of these pieces proved to be sealings with seal impressions. " [Next two items submitted by Michael Tilgner] [update] * New additions to "Ägyptologische Literatur - digital" of the University of Heidelberg -- Ludwig Borchardt, Das Grabdenkmal des Königs S'ahu-Re', Band I: Der Bau, Leipzig, 1910 (Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Abusir 1902-1908, VI = 14. Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft) . - 162 pp., 16 pls.. - pdf-file (38 MB) URL "Welchen wissenschaftlichen Wert konnte aber die Freilegung eines dritten Totentempels der gleichen Zeit haben, nachdem soeben zwei anscheinend gleiche Anlagen ausreichend untersucht worden waren? ... So deutete also alles darauf hin, daß wir im S'ahu-Re'- Tempel endlich ein normal angelegtes Grabdenkmal der fünften Dynastie finden würden ... Das Grabdenkmal des Königs S'ahu-Re' ist heute das erwünschte Musterbeispiel für diese Bauten aus der fünften Dynastie, für Lehrzwecke wird es wohl für immer das einzig heranzuziehende Demonstrationsobjekt bleiben." -- Ludwig Borchardt, Das Grabdenkmal des Königs S'ahu-Re', Band II: Die Wandbilder. Text, Leipzig, 1913 (Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Abusir 1902-1908, VII = 26. Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Orient- Gesellschaft) .- VII, 196 pp. - df-file (44 MB) URL "Die Wandbilder, die einst den durch die Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in den Jahren 1907/08 bei Abusir freigelegten Totentempel vor der Pyramide des Königs S'ahu-re' sowie den zu ihm führenden Aufgang und den Torbau davor schmückten, haben wohl an 10 000 qm der inneren Wandflächen dieser Bauten bedeckt. Allein im Aufgang müssen rund 2000 qm Bilder gesessen haben. ... Wenn wir auch im Laufe der Ausgrabung unzählige Bruchstücke der Bilder fanden, so haben wir damit doch nur einen ganz kleinen Rest des Bilderschmucks gerettet. Rechnen wir alles zusammen, so sind es keine 150 qm, also 1 bis allerhöchstens 2 % dessen, was einmal vorhanden war. Aus diesem geringen Prozentsatz sind es wieder nur wenige, höchstens 15 Bilder, die man, wenn auch aus vielen Fragmenten zusammengesetzt, doch als ganze Bilder bezeichnen kann. Und von diesen sind es wiederum nur einige wenige, deren Platz im Bau man mit voller Sicherheit nachweisen konnte." -- Ludwig Borchardt, Das Grabdenkmal des Königs S'ahu-Re', Band II: Die Wandbilder. Abbildungsblätter, Leipzig, 1913 (Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Abusir 1902-1908, VII = 26. Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft) . - 74 pls. - pdf-file (13 MB) URL * New addition to "Ägyptologische Literatur - digital" of the University of Heidelberg -- U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, Monuments pour servir à l'étude du culte d'Atonou en Égypte, tome premier: Les tombes du Khouitatonou, Le Caire, 1903 (MIFAO, vol. 8). - IV, 133 pp., 65 pls. - pdf-file (29 MB) URL "Les documents réunis dans ce volume ont été recueillis dans la nécropole de Tell el-Amarna, au cours d'une campagne exécutée de 1893 à 1894, par MM. U. Bouriant, G. Legrain et G. Jéquier ... Le titre sous lequel cet ouvrage avait été annoncé, Tell el-Amarna, a été modifié pour les raisons suivantes : M. Legrain ayant réuni une certaine quantité de documents relatifs aux conceptions religieuses qui prévalurent sous le règne d'Amenothès IV, qu'il compte rassembler dans une sorte de Corpus des textes se rapportant au culte d'Atonou en Egypte, il nous a semblé préférable de faire entrer dans cette série les tombes de Tell el-Amarna, qui formeront le premier volume du recueil projeté. Une autre raison m'a également guidé dans le choix du nouveau titre : M. N. de G. Davies m'ayant annoncé l'apparition prochaine d'une édition de ces mêmes tombeaux, qu'il a entreprise pour le compte de l'Archaeological Survey of Egypt, j'ai pensé qu'il serait utile pour les citations bibliographiques de donner à la publication faite par l'Institut français du Caire un nom qui la distinguât de l'autre." [Submitted by Raymond Betz] * eBook from Project Gutenberg: -- Myer, Isaac; Scarabs: the history, manufacture and religious symbolism of the scarabaeus in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. ; also remarks on the learning, philosophy, arts, ethics, psychology, ideas as to the immortality of the soul, etc. of the ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, etc.. - London : Nutt, 1894. - XXVII, 177 pp. URL --NEW ISSUES OF JOURNALS & MAGAZINES-- * The TOC of the latest issue of Rosetta: Papers of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, no. 8 (Spring/Summer 2010), may be found here: URL The articles can be downloaded for *free*, including two that are related to ancient Egypt: -- Caroline Hubschmann, "Igai: a little-known deity of Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt." -- Marsia Sfakianou Bealby, "Conference Report: CRE XI: 'Current Research in Egyptology' Eleven" * The TOC of the latest issue of KMT, A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, vol. 21 no. 3 (Fall 2010), is now online at: URL * The TOC of the latest issue of Egyptian Archaeology: The Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society (EA), no. 37 (Autumn 2010), has appeared at: URL * The TOC of the latest issue of Antike Welt, Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte, no. 4/2010, may be found at URL There's this relevant article (not for free): -- "Ägyptens Arm nach Afrika. Qubbet el-Hawa: Eine Nekropole der lokalen Elite und ihre abwechslungsreiche Geschichte." [Submitted by Ann Wuyts] * The TOC of the latest issue of National Geographic Magazine, September 2010, is online at URL The issue contains an article about "Tut's Family Secrets. DNA sheds new light on the boy king's life and death", for which there's a free online feature, namely an interactive lineage: URL ---DIGITIZED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND ONLINE PAPERS--- [Submitted by Marie Parsons] * Egyptologist Dr Jacobus van Dijk has posted more than a dozen of his articles online; some in Dutch, but most in English: URL See also the section Varia for press reports/interviews. [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Digitized books from the Internet Archive - Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes (RecTrav), vols. 1-39 (1870-1921); some vols. are missing -- vol. 1 (1870) URL -- vol. 2 (1880) URL -- vol. 3 (1882) URL -- vol. 4 (1883) URL -- vol. 5 (1884) URL -- vol. 6 (1885) URL -- vol. 7 (1886) URL -- vol. 8 (1886) URL -- vol. 9 (1887) URL -- vol. 10 (1888) URL -- vol. 11 (1889) URL -- vol. 12 (1892) URL -- vol. 16 (1894) URL -- vol. 17 [N.S. 1] (1895) URL -- vol. 18 [N.S. 2] (1896) URL -- vol. 19 [N.S. 3] (1897) -- vol. 20 [N.S. 4] (1898) -- vol. 21 [N.S. 5] (1899) [bound together] URL -- vol. 22 [N.S. 6] (1900) URL -- vol. 23 [N.S. 7] (1901) URL -- vol. 24 [N.S. 8] (1902) URL -- vol. 25 [N.S. 9] (1903) URL -- vol. 26 [N.S. 10] (1904) URL -- vol. 27 [N.S. 11] (1905) URL -- vol. 28 [N.S. 12] (1906) URL -- vol. 29 [N.S. 13] (1907) URL -- vol. 30 [N.S. 14] (1908) URL -- vol. 32 [N.S. 16] (1910) URL -- vol. 33 [3ème série 1] (1911) URL -- vol. 34 [3ème série 2] (1912) URL -- vol. 35 [3ème série 3] (1913) URL -- vol. 36 [3ème série 4] (1914) URL -- vol. 37 [3ème série 5] (1915) URL -- vol. 38 [3ème série 6] (1916-1917) URL -- vol. 39 [3ème série 7] (1921) URL [cf. URL for other vols. of this journal] --MISCELLANEOUS-- [Submitted by Kat Newkirk] * BMCR book review (in French) of: Typhaine Haziza, Le kaléidoscope hérodotéen. Images, imaginaire et représentations de l’Égypte à travers le livre II d’Hérodote. Études Anciennes 142. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009. Pp. 393. ISBN 9782251326702. € 45.00 (pb). 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.] [New announcements are placed on top of the list.] * (&) The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is looking for Associate Curator of Ancient Art, with a broad understanding of the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world with a strong concentration in either Egyptian or Classical art. (..) The Egyptian and Classical collections are relatively small but active (..) A Ph.D. in Egyptian or Classical art history or archaeology is required. (..) Candidates should have a minimum of three years curatorial experience in an art museum (..). Deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, October 1, 2010. (#). * (&) The Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (KMKG)/ Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (MRAH), Brussels, have a vacancy for an "assistent-stagiair/assistant stagiaire" (vacancy no. HRM S1003). The position is charged with the management of the Egyptian collection and related duties (registration, conservation, publication). A degree of master/licentia(a)t(e) or doctor with an Egyptological specialisation is required. Closing date: 15 September 2010. Full info in Dutch and French at: URL See the 2nd job opening under KMKG, or directly at: URL [PDF] * (&) The Ashmolean Museum is looking for a Project Curator (Redevelopment of Egypt and Sudan Galleries) who will work closely with colleagues to develop the interpretive scheme and design of the new Egyptian and Nubian Galleries. A postgraduate university degree in Egyptology is among the requirements. Applications are due before 6th September 2010. Full info: URL * (&) The Griffith Institute is seeking to appoint, from October 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter, a Coordinating Editor for the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB). (..) Further particulars, including details on how to apply, should be obtained from the website at URL URL Applications not later than 20 August 2010. * (&) The Grand Egyptian Museum is seeking a team of Egyptologists to review and oversee the scenario and write exhibition text in six levels for the Grand Egyptian Museum. [#; full announcement was on the forum]. ---GRANTS & AWARDS--- [# = You may request from the editor the often longer announcement on which the below summaries were based.] * (&) The AIA's Best Practices in Site Preservation Award ($5,000 grant) is presented to groups or projects recognized by their peers for doing exemplary work. Please nominate deserving projects on the AIA's website before Sept 30, 2010. URL * (&) Information on the Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants offered by the Archaeological Institute of America may be found 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 (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-- * Tell Timai, Egypt June 9, 2011 - July 15, 2011 Prof. Robert Littman and Dr. Jay Silverstein, University of Hawaii Application Deadline: November 15, 2010 URL +++ (VII) (MULTI)MEDIA --TV-- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * German TV: -- Phoenix, August 28, 2010, 00:45-01:30 "Abenteuer Ägypten (2): Mit Dietmar Ossenberg unterwegs: Mumien, Metropole und Minarette" --DVDs & CDROMS-- * TBA --ONLINE VIDEO & AUDIO-- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Dancing like an Egyptian: -- "Egyptian sand dance: Wilson, Keppel and Betty" (1933) [2:45 mins.] URL "Wilson, Keppel and Betty were a popular British music hall act in the middle decades of the 20th century who capitalised on the trend for Egyptian imagery following the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Their stage act, called the "sand dance", was a parody of Egyptian postures, combined with references to Arabic costume." URL -- "Jonathan Richman Egyptian Reggae" (1977) [2:21 mins.] URL -- "Fusion Egyptian Dance King Tutankhamen in a Modern Vision" [3:48 mns.] URL "... incredible Choreography, inspirated from statues of Egypt." * For previously listed online videos, see the website Videos and Audio Files. --SOFTWARE-- * (&) On AEL, Serge Rosmorduc announced that a new version of his free hieroglyphic editor, JSesh 4.0, is available. URL --MUSIC & THEATRE-- [Next two items submitted by Kat Newkirk] * Marin Shakespeare Company will perform Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" between Aug. 28 to Sept. 25, at Dominican University's Forest Meadows Amphitheater, 1475 Grand Ave., San Rafael (http://www.marinshakespeare.org). Press report (with photos) about custome design for the show: URL --FICTION (NOVELS, GAMES & MOVIES)-- * TBA +++ (VIII) WEBSITES * The Cuming Museum Collection, Southwark URL Photos of over 70 artefacts from Ancient Egypt: URL [Submitted by Raymond Betz] * Le mastaba d’Akhethetep – Louvre Museum (in French) URL Two books are linked to this website: - Le Mastaba d’Akhethetep – une chapelle funéraire de l’Ancien Empire – Christiane Ziegler - Paris 1993 – ISBN 2-7118-2469-1 - (only second hand) - Le Mastaba d’Akhethetep – Christiane Ziegler – Peeters, Leuven (B) and Musée du Louvre Éditions, Paris – 2007 - ISBN 978-90-429-1922-8 (80 €) +++ (IX) LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS [On July 1, 2010, I have cleaned up this section, so that only societies that regularly submit events maintained their fixed spot ('TBA').] --USA-- a) ARCE/Pennsylvania Chapter URL * TBA date: ..., 2010; 3:30pm place: Classroom 2, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, PA costs: $5 for the general public, $3 for museum members, free to ARCE-PA members info: email b) ARCE/New York Chapter * TBA date: .., 2010; 6:00 p.m. place: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 5 East 84th Street (between 5th and Madison Avenues), New York, N.Y. 10028 costs: free to the public, but R.S.V.P. is required; please reply to email info: email c) ARCE Oregon Chapter * TBA date: ..., 2010; 7:30 pm place: Room 236, Smith Memorial Union, Portland State University costs: free info: email d) North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics * NACAL 39 Papers on linguistic topics relevant to the languages of the Afroasiatic phylum (Chadic, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian, Semitic) are invited; deadline for abstracts is November 15, 2010. date: February 12-13, 2011 place: University of Texas at Austin, TX info: email info: URL e) ARCE / Chicago Chapter * "Tell Edfu: The Discoveries of the 2009 Season", by Nadine Moeller (Assistant Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Director, University of Chicago Tell Edfu Project) date: Saturday July 10, 2010; 5:00 pm place: LaSalle Bank Room, The Oriental Institute, 1155 East 58^th Street, Chicago costs: free and open to the public info: tel. 773 702 1062; URL f) Hawaii International Conferences P.O. Box 75036, Honolulu, Hawaii 96836 * 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities. Papers from all areas of Arts and Humanities are invited, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, linguistics, religion, etc. Submission/Proposal Deadline: August 21st, 2010. date: January 9-12, 2011 place: the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Beach Resort & Spa in Honolulu, Hawaii. info: URL; email g) Scientific Committee of the 'Origin of the State' Conferences * Fourth International Conference on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: "Origin of the State" The closing date for submitting abstracts is September 30, 2010. date: July 26-30, 2011 place: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave, New York info: email h) ARCE/NT URL * "ARCE's Luxor Projects", by John Shearman (ARCE Cairo) date: August 21, 2010; 7:00pm for a 7:30pm start 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 * "Thutmose III, King with Wings", by Tom Hardwick (Brooklyn Museum) date: September 18, 2010; 7:00pm for a 7:30pm start 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 i) AAAS Pacific Division * 92nd Annual Meeting, including the 7th World Congress on Mummy Studies date: June 12 - 16, 2011 place: University of San Diego info: URL info: email j) ARCE/Northern California * "Ask the God: Oracles in Pharaonic Egypt", by Dr. Terry Moore (University of California) date: Sunday, August 29, 2010; 2:30 p.m. place: 20 Barrows Hall, UC Campus, Berkeley info: email --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: ..., 2010; 7:00 pm place: Room 142, basement of Earth Sciences Complex, 5 Bancroft Ave, Toronto costs: free to current SSEA members; $5 to non-members. info: email, URL -- SEEA Chapitre de Montréal / SSEA Montreal Chapter-- society website * TBA date: ...; 18:00 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 --SSEA / Vancouver Chapter--- * TB date: ...., 2010; 18:00-20:30 place: Buchanan Tower, rm. 208, University of British Columbia Campus, 1873 East Mall V6T 1Z1, Vancouver, BC costs: free admission, all welcome. info: email, URL --UNITED KINGDOM--- a) Egyptian Embassy, London, Education & Culture Bureau 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London W1. tel: 020 7491 7720; email * TBA date: ..., 2010; 6:45 pm b) Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT * TBA date: ..., 2010 costs: ... info: URL info: email* TBA --- Friends of the Petrie Museum -- society's website * TBA c) The Egypt Exploration Society 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG society's website --EES London-- * The Third British Egyptology Congress (BEC3) Cosponsored by the Egypt Exploration Society, The Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum, and University College London. Keynote lecture on the evening of Saturday 11 September will be given by Dr Mark Lehner. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 5 pm, Monday 1 February 2010. date: Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September 2010 place: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1N 3BG info: email info: programme and abstracts are now available online at URL --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 --EES North-- * Study Day: "Landscape Development and Climate Change in Ancient Egypt: The Delta and the Valley" Speakers: Ian Shawm Penny Wilson, Angus Graham, David Jeffreys, and Judith Bunbury. date: Saturday 23rd October 2010; 2-5 pm place: Manchester Conference Centre/Days Inn Hotel, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB, UK costs: £20 / £23 (members / non-members), £12 / £15 (student members / student non-members); for tickets, contact email info: URL d) Egypt Society of Bristol. society's website * TBA date: ..., 2010; 18:45 place: Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, 43 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol 8 (map link: URL) costs: all welcome; admission £2.00 for non members and free for members. info: URL, URL e) The Southampton Ancient Egypt Society (SAES) Society's website * TBA date: ..., 2010; 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 f) The Friends of the Egypt Centre, Wales, Swansea society's website * "Beyond Isis and Osiris: Alternative Sexualities in Ancient Egypt", by John J. Johnston The lecture is preceded by the AGM at 6.30pm. date: Wednesday, 29th September 2010; 7.00pm place: 'Fulton House 2' Lecture room, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP costs: free for members, £3.00 non-members info: tel. 01792 295960 g) Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society URL * TBA date: ..., 2010; 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 h) Conference on Near and Middle Eastern Archaeomusicology * ICONEA 2010 The theme will be on the musical exchanges between the Near East and Egypt during, before and after the Hyksos kings [was: during the XV and XVI Hyksos dynasties...]. It will include all aspects of archaeomusicology, organology and replication of instruments, philology, hymnology, history, iconography, etc. Abstracts of papers are invited before November 15, 2010 at email date: December 15-17, 2010 [was: 9-11], 2010 place: Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, University of London [was: BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum] costs: open to the general public info: URL i) Ancient World Tours * Ancient World Conference & Reunion A joint venture of AWT and The Friends of the Petrie Museum. Speakers include Mansoor Boraik (Director of the Egyptology for Upper Egypt), Adam Lowe (who is working on the Factum Arte reproduction of the tomb of Tutankhamun), Ian Mathieson, Jaromir Malek, Elizabeth Bloxham, Nick Jackson, Dylan Bickerstaffe, Sam Nixon, Glen Godenho, and Sally-Ann Ashton. date: August 21-22, 2010 place: Cruciform Theatre, University College London costs: £165. info: email or call 020 7917 9494. info: URL j) Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham * Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Cultural Memory and Religion in the Ancient City" The first day will explore new research by postgraduates currently working on cultural memory in the context of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian societies; the second day will be focussed on Rome as a case-study for cultural memory places with papers given by invited specialists. Some of the papers are of Egyptological interest, including an evening lecture given by Dr Martin Bommas, on "The Iseum Campense as a lieu de mémoire". date: July 5-6, 2010 info: programme at URL k) The British Association of Near Eastern Archaeologists URL * BANEA 2011 Annual Conference "Artistry, Artisanship and Divisions of Labour in the Ancient Near East" date: January 6-8, 2011 place: School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia info: URL ---BANEA South-East/The London Centre for the Ancient Near East--- URL * TBA date: .., 2010: 18.00 place: Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St, London WC1. info: email l) Current Research in Egyptology * Conference CRE 2011 date: March 23-26, 2011 place: Durham University info: email m) Merton College, Oxford * "Eleventh International Congress of Demotic Studies" date: 30 August - 3 September, 2011 info: email n) International Society for Nubian Studies * "12th International Conference for Nubian Studies" date: August 1 - 6, 2010 place: The British Museum, London info: provisional programme at URL --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) URL * TBA date: ..., 2010; 14:45 for a 15:00 start place: filmzaal, 2nd floor, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, Leiden costs: open to all info: email --GERMANY-- a) Universität Bonn - Abteilung für Ägyptologie Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, D-53113 Bonn tel. : 0228 / 73-5733, fax: 0228 / 73-7360 e-mail: aegyptologisches.seminar@uni-bonn.de * "42. Ständige Ägyptologen-Konferenz" (SÄK 2010) date: July 16-18, 2010 info: URL 1. Rundbrief, including preliminary program - 3 pp. - pdf-file (45 KB): URL Anmeldeformular - pdf-file (54 KB): URL info: 2. Rundbrief - 2 pp. - pdf-file (79 KB): URL info: press release at URL b) 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 * Gedenkvortrag für Karl-Heinz Braun -- "Lange vor Tutanchamun - Howard Carter als Zeichner in Ägypten," by Susanne Martinssen-von Falck date: November 16, 2010, 6:30 pm * Lecture -- "Dra Abu el-Naga. Zur sozialen Stratigraphie einer komplexen thebanischen Nekropole," by Daniel Polz date: November 23, 2010, 7:00 pm * Lecture series "Die Spätzeit" -- "'Denn ich bin ein König, der die Maat liebt!' - Königtum im saitenzeitlichen Ägypten," by Anke Ilona Blöbaum date: December 9, 2010, 6:30 pm -- "'Ausländer' im spätzeitlichen Ägypten zwischen Abgrenzung und Anpassung," by Günther Vittmann date: December 16, 2010, 6:30 pm -- For all lectures is valid: place: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstr. 116, D-20249 Hamburg info: URL c) Aegypten-Forum-Berlin e.V. URL * "Ein vorderasiatischer Palast und Keilschriftdiplomatie in der Hyksoszeit Ägyptens", by Professor Dr. Manfred Bietak (Obmann der Kommission für Ägypten und Levante, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien) Organized by Aegypten Forum Berlin e.V., Institut für Archäologie, and Lehrbereich Ägyptologie und Archäologie Nordostafrikas. date: July 08, 2010; 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 d) Freundeskreis Ägyptologie e.V.: URL * "Neue Quellen zu Imhotep und seiner Verehrung", by Prof. Dr. Joachim F. Quack (Universität Heidelberg): date: November 3, 2010; 18:30 place: Philosophicum, Hörsaal P 1, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz e) Universität Hamburg Archäologisches Institut Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel West, 20146 Hamburg * Conference: "Persönliche Frömmigkeit. Funktion und Bedeutung individueller Gotteskontakte im interdisziplinären Dialog" Abstracts of papers are due by June 1, 2010. date: November 25-27, 2010 info: URL info: email f) Französische Botschaft in Deutschland Pariser Platz 5, D-10117 Berlin * "Les disciplines archéométriques au service de l¹Égyptologie" by Hélène Guichard (Musée du Louvre) date: July 8, 2010; 18.30 costs: free, but booking is necessary, at this address: email language: French, with simultaneous translation in German info: URL * "La pluridisciplinarité au service de l'étude d'un site archéologique: Le cas du Ramesseum de Thèbes" by Christian Leblanc (Mission Archéologique Française de Thébes-Ouest) date: July 9, 2010; 18.30 costs: free, but booking is necessary, at this address: email language: French, with simultaneous translation in German info: URL g) Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften Ägyptologisches Seminar Freie Universität Berlin * "Tracing the 'Stundenwachen rites' back to the Old Kingdom: the priestly texts of Nut" by Antonio J. Morales (University of Pennsylvania & Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz) date: Monday, July 5, 2010; 4:00 PM c.t. place: Rost-/Silberlaube, Raum K 23/11, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem cost: free info: URL; email --SOUTH AFRICA-- a) - --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: ..., 2010; 5:30 pm for a 6 pm start info: URL b) EES Cairo C/O British Council, 192 Sharei el-Nil St. Agouza -Cairo. Cell.pho.:010/6797508 * TBA date: ..., 2010; 7:00 pm. place: British council, ‘Garden Room’ costs: free info: email c) l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire * Int. Colloquiuim: "Landscape Archaeology, Egypt and the Mediterranean World" Participants wishing to present a communication have to send their proposal before the 30th of March 2010 date: September 19-21, 2010 place: the French Cultural Centre (CFCC), Cairo info: URL d) Supreme Council of Antiquities 3 el-Adel Abu Bakr Street, Zamalek, Cairo phone: +2/02 736-5645; fax: 735-7239 * TBA date: ..., 2010; 6:00 PM info: email g) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo URL * TBA date: ..., March 9, 2010; 6 pm. place: 31, Sh. Abu el-Feda, 11211 Cairo-Zamalek info: email h) International Association of Egyptologists * XIth International Congress of Egyptologists place: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt date: TBA; between September 7 and September 21, 2012 i) Mummification Museum, Luxor * Three lectures in July (admission is free): -- "Striking Cobra, Spitting Fire: The cult of the snake in ancient Egypt", by Kasia Szpakowska date: July 17, 2010; 7 pm -- "Popular Worship at Luxor Temple: An Examination of the Rebus and So-Called 'People's Gate", by Ken Griffin date: July 24, 2010; 7 pm -- "The Tomb of Karakhamun (TT 223): Season 2010", by Elena Pischikova date: July 31, 2010; 7 pm j) Bibliotheca Alexandrina * Symposium: "Life in Egypt during the Coptic Period. Towns and Villages, Laymen and Clergy, Bishops and Dioceses" Abstracts are due end of May 2010. date: September 28-30, 2010 costs: free info: email info: URL --ITALY-- a) Comité International pour l'Égyptologie (CIPEG) * Annual Meeting of CIPEG: "News from Egyptian Collections and new Egyptian Collections" date: August 1923, 2010 place: Montepulciano info: email info: URL (PDF, schedule) b) Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Orientalistica via Giulia di Barolo 3/A, I-10124 Torino * "14th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics" date: June 15-17, 2011 Papers on the synchronic, diachronic or comparative analysis of any language or group of languages belonging to the Afro- Asiatic family (Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic) will be accepted -- registering and provisional titles of papers due by Oct 31, 2010, definitive titles and one-page abstracts are expected before April 30, 2011. costs: 50,- Euro / students: 30 Euro info: email --FRANCE-- a) Rencontres Egyptologiques de Strasbourg * TBA date: ..., 2010; 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 --PORTUGAL-- a) Instituto Oriental da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa * IV Iberian Congress of Egyptology Registration before October 31, 2009. date: September 13-17, 2010. place: Museu da Farmácia and Museu das Comunicações, Lisbon info: email info: URL --BELGIUM-- a) - --SPAIN-- a) Semmel Concerts Veranstaltungsservice GmbH * "My Discoveries," by Zahi Hawass date: Friday, September 24, 2010; 08.00 pm place: Palacio de Congresos Madrid, Paseo de la Castellana 99, 28046 Madrid costs: tickets (EUR 12.50) at tel: 902 585 125 or URL info: URL --AUSTRALIA-- a) The West Australian Museum, Perth Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Perth Western Australia 6000 http://www.museum.wa.gov.au * Public Lectures in Perth, West Australia, by Professor Salima Ikram: -- Thursday 22nd July Salima Ikram will be giving a talk on 'Exploring Egyptian Rock Art' at the University of Western Australia, Social Sciences Lecture Room 1 (G.28), in the Social Sciences Building from 4.00 - 5.00 pm. No charge for entry. -- Friday 23rd July Salima Ikram will be talking on 'Roman Remains in Egypt: Living at the Edges of the Empire' at Central TAFE in the Perth Lecture Theatre (entry from Francis St near William St) from 6.00 - 7.00 pm. Entry by gold coin donation. -- Saturday 24th July Salima Ikram will be giving two talks for the West Australian Museum. 'Mummies in Ancient Egypt' 1.30 - 2.30 pm and 'Sacred Creatures: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies 3.00 - 4.00 pm. Refreshments will be served between the lectures. Venue: the Great Southern Room, 4th Floor, State Library of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, James St, Perth. Members & Concessions $10; Non-members $15. info: email --GREECE-- a) - --SWITZERLAND-- a) International Association of Papyrologists * 26th International Congress of Papyrology date: August 16-21, 2010 place: l'Université de Genève info: URL info: provisional program available at URL --RUSSIA-- a) - --AUSTRIA-- a) - --HUNGARY-- a) - --BRAZIL-- a) - --CHINA-- a) - --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: "Egypt and the Near East - The Crossroads" The main objective of the workshop is to enhance our understanding of the historical processes and the development of the abundant and complex relation of Egypt with the Near East during the period defined by the end of Chalcolithic and the dawn of Iron Age. In light of this special attention will be given to the region of Syria-Palestine. date: September 1-3, 2010 place: Námestí Jana Palacha 2, 110 00 Prague 1 (room 104) info: registration forms at URL Registration and abstracts of papers are due before May 1st, 2010. info: email --POLAND-- a) - --BULGARIA-- a) New Bulgarian University Sofia * Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists: "Cult and Belief in Ancient Egypt" date: September 2012 info: email --ISRAEL-- a) - +++ (X) EXHIBITIONS Most info in this section was collected by Michael Tilgner. Great work, Michael! --USA-- a) Reading Public Museum Ancient Civilizations Gallery 500 Museum Road, West Reading URL * "Nefrina's World" date: through 2011. Forensic facial reconstruction of a 2000-year-old female Akhmimic mummy, the daughter of a priest around 250 B.C. info: URL Has a photo and video of the reconstruction. info: press report with photos at URL About the work of Dr. Jonathan Elias, director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium (AMSC), and with a description of the mummy and of the reconstruction process. b) Denver Art Museum 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204 * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: June 29, 2010 - January 9 [was: 2], 2011 [was: July 1, 2010 - January 2, 2011 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). Earlier this toruing exhibition was in the Atlanta Civic Center (Nov 15, 2008 - May 22, 2009), currently it is in Indianapolis (June 27, 2009 - October 25, 2009), and in between it will be at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (November 21, 2009 - April 18, 2010) info: URL info: press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL "(..) Tickets for the general public go on sale May 14.(..)" URL URL info: press reports at URL "(..) Tickets went on sale Friday. (..) The exhibition will be at the DAM through Jan. 9, 2009. (a slightly longer run schedule than originally announced). (..)" URL With photo and video. info: press reports at URL (met video) URL "On Wednesday, workers erected a 26-foot tall, seven-ton replica of Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead, adjacent to the main terminal. The statue is here to promote the upcoming King Tut exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. (..)" info: press reports at URL "'God of Dead' [Anubis statue] Creeps Out Denver Airport Travelers. It's 'bad voodoo,' says one bugged traveler. (..)" With 4 image slideshow. URL With slideshow. info: press report (with video and photo) at URL URL info: press reports at URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL With photo of gold sandals. URL "(..) The last time a pharaoh was in town, it was Ramses II at the Museum of Nature & Science in 1987. At a preview of the Tut exhibit Thursday, Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Council of Antiquities, remembered it well. He said Egypt made no money from the exhibition. And even worse, he remembered that a museum exec took him to dinner where they unceremoniously cut off his tie. Must have been the Trail Dust. "We didn't make any money, and they took my tie!" he said. Yup, we're sophisticated! (..)" URL Has links to photo gallery & video. info: press reports at URL Dr Hawass tells about the opening. URL URL "(..) In reconstructing the different rooms of Tut’s tomb — the Antechamber, the Annex, the Treasury and the Burial Chamber — the exhibit makes full use of the Denver Art Museum’s relatively new Frederic C. Hamilton Building. Combined with dramatic lighting effects and an audio guide with readings from Harrison Ford, the space’s odd angles and recessed spaces lend the collection a dramatic, transportive feel. (..)" URL URL URL URL With slideshow. info: press reports at URL With photo of funerary mask of Psusennes I. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(.) There are no mummies in the exhibition. But there are two coffins, or sarcophagi, the Inner Anthropoid Coffin of Queen Meritamun and a small ornately carved stone box that held the remains of Prince Thutmose's cat, a sign of both the lavishness of the royal life and the esteem in which felines were held in ancient Egypt. The cat coffin is across the way from a none-too-comfortable-looking stone toilet seat, the inclusion of which puts a little everyday grounding to the oft esoteric, romantic collection of objects and images. (..)" URL "(...) Numerous women are portrayed in the exhibit. One statue of Queen Nofret, wife of Senwosret II, originally had crystal and obsidian in its eyes. Nofret was a trend-setter, apparently: The heavy wig shown in the sculpture became a popular fashion choice. Another striking piece is the inner coffin of Queen Meritamun. Made of cedar, it is about 6 feet long and though some details are worn, the carved feathers are still visible and the colors remain bright. The eyes are made of glass. (..)" Has some practicle tips for visiting. URL "A chariot once owned by Egypt's King Tutankhamun more than 3,300 years ago will be on exhibit starting next week (..) The widely anticipated chariot was originally slated to be on exhibit in April, when the tour opened in New York, but a tour representative said that "bringing in antiquities is more complicated than just shipping them overseas." The chariot, along with the 130 other artifacts found in King Tut's tomb, will soon be permanently housed in the Grand Egyptian Museum (..)" info: press report at URL Tutankhamun's chariot arrived on Friday night, was unpacked and reassembled on Sunday night (under the supervision of Sanaa Ahmed Ali and Amany Emiel Nashed of the Luxor Museum) and was unveiled on Tuesday. "(..) When New York traffic officials reviewed the papers required for the oversize truck that would transport the chariot into Manhattan, they saw that the cargo inside was classified as a vehicle, and demanded its Vehicle Identification Number. (..)" info: press report at URL Has a lot of info on the chariot, plus slide show "(..) The wheels feature a real tire, made of a flexible wood rim, which adapts to soil irregularities. Moreover, the six-spoke wheels are made from elastic wood. This absorbs uniformly the loads transmitted by soil irregularity, so that the vibrations are damped by the wheel itself like the intelligent suspensions in modern cars," Rovetta said. The result is a remarkable level of softness and comfort. Even at speeds of about 25 miles per hour on Egypt's irregular soil, King Tut's chariots were efficient and pleasant to ride. (..)" c) Milwaukee Public Museum 800 West Wells Street Milwaukee, WI 53233 http://www.mpm.edu/ * "Mummies of the World" date: December 17, 2010 - May 30, 2011. "Mummies of the World is the largest exhibition of mummies and related artifacts ever assembled, featuring an astounding collection of 150 real human and animal mummies and objects from South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Egypt." Currently at the California Science Center, Los Angeles (July 1, 2010 - November 28, 2010). info: press report at URL info: press report at URL With photos of three human mummies and one cat. d) The Franklin Institute Science Museum 222 North 20th Street, PA 19103 tel.: +1 215 448 1200 URL * "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" date: June 5, 2010 - January 2, 2011 First stop in a traveling exhibition about the enigmatic Egyptian queen; four other US cities will follow. The exhibition will feature more than 250 artifacts, and takes visitors inside the present-day search for Cleopatra's tomb in Taposiris Magana and will display finds from Aboukir Bay. info: press reports at URL URL URL URL URL "(..) The exhibition will center on the search for Cleopatra's tomb, which is still going on. (..)" URL URL The latter report has the most details. info: press report at URL Interview with Troy Collins of the Franklin Insitute. info: press report at URL With three photos of Ptolemaic statues. "(...) The show's more than 250 objects, including gold coinage and stone sculptures (some 15 feet in height), evoke the ambience of Cleopatra's court and everyday life during her reign. (..)" [I wonder if the 'cleft chin face' will be present, and to which mission it will be attributed.....cf. EEF d.d. Nov. 22, '09. AKE] info: press report at URL URL URL "(..) The exhibition will travel to five North American cities. (..)" there's a chance to get free tickets when the box office opens on Wednesday:"If you are one of the first 25 people at our box office, dressed in Egyptian garb, you will receive a free ticket." [new] info: press report at URL URL info: press report at URL Lists some events surrounding the exhibition. info: press reports at URL Tickets have gone on sale. URL "(..) Installation began today with the two largest artifacts in the exhibition. Carved from red granite, the Colossal King and Queen statues represent rulers from the Ptolemaic era, the dynasty that included Cleopatra VII. At more than 16 feet tall and 5.5 tons, the king may have originally stood in a temple area. His double crown, uraeus cobra and kilt indicate his royal status. The king and the companion Colossal Queen statue, weighing in at 4 tons and standing about 16 feet tall, were pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea from the sunken ancient Egyptian city of Heracleion near Alexandria by Goddio's team in 2000. (..)" URL Includes interactive features, links to related items, photos, etc. info: press reports at URL URL info: press reports at URL "(..) Goddio has been mapping the ocean floor off the coast of Alexandria ever since he got permission from the Egyptian government 20 years ago. “I say to the Egyptian authority that I need four to five hundred years more of permits,” says Goddio. “After I will see what I will do.” (..) The exhibition organizer John Norman says new items will be added as they are found.(..)" URL With photos. "(..) Mr. Goddio has found stone pieces that nearly complete earlier finds (one of which was acquired by the Louvre in 1817). When fit together, as is shown here, they form a naos — a stone shrine or ark that once held the temple god. Their carvings contain what may also be the world’s first astrological chart, along with a creation myth not found elsewhere. (..)" URL Mentions some artefacts on display. URL "In a glass case at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute two fragments of papyrus feature the handwriting of Cleopatra (..) The document with the Greek inscription, "make it happen," refers to a tax break for a friend of her husband Mark Antony. (..)" With photo of the payrus [Papyrus Berolinensis 25 239 with an addendum said to be handwritten by Cleopatra: "genesthoi". AKE] URL URL "(..) Goddio said that BP has two offshore oil rigs drilling off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, and that the company wanted to lay a pipeline under the sea. Goddio showed the government his plans and let them know that BP could not dig in the areas where he is doing his research. Thanks heavens for Franck Goddio! (..)" URL URL URL "(..) "We have found less than 1 percent of what is there," Goddio said. (..)" URL URL URL URL URL URL URL "(..) So, how does an intractable subject like an ancient queen serve as a case study in an archaeology of sex and gender? Precisely as a case study of how modern attitudes about gender infect our attempts to understand the past. (..)" info: press reports at URL With video. URL URL URL URL URL URL The latter has several photos of artefacts. info: press report at URL With slideshow. info: press reports at URL With photos. URL "(..) Each gallery is populated with ancient artifacts including battle weapons, figurines of different gods such as Osiris, jewelry, coins, items of worship, pottery and household items; statues include a bust of Caesarion (Cleopatra’s son with Julius Caesar), an alabaster figure believed to be Cleopatra and a piece of granite head possibly of Mark Antony. There are rare coins depicting Cleopatra, maps and pictures showing what Alexandria may have looked like in its heyday, statues of the sphinx, an original papyrus document believed to be written by Cleopatra, and much more. Most impressive are two 16-foot tall figures of a Ptolemaic king and queen from the Temple of Amon at Heracleion (..)" info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL [new] info: press reports about a simultaneous lecture series: URL "A grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities is funding a free Camden County College lecture series on Cleopatra that runs concurrently with the world-premiere exhibition "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt"(..) CCC's Center for Civic Leadership and Responsibility will present its "Cleopatra's World" series in Civic Hall of the Connector Building on the Blackwood Campus in Gloucester Township throughout the fall. The 7 p.m. presentations are open to the public. There is no admission charge." Schedule included (Sept 15-Nov 10). URL e) Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052 URL * "Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments & Amulets" date: November 19, 2009 - October 2, 2011 Displays 35 sculptural fragments in a focus presentation that examines anatomical realism in Egyptian art. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL With two nice photos of objects. info: press report at URL With slideshow at: URL "(..) The fragments are presented by body part, grouped into clusters of hands, heads, torsos, feet, organs and facial elements. The items range in size from a hulking royal torso to a wee little heart valve amulet--a sort-of talisman that protects someone from harm or trouble. (..)" Some objects are described. f) Toledo Museum of Art 2445 Monroe Street, Toledo, OH 43620 http://www.toledomuseum.org/ * "Travelers Through Ancient Lands" date: September 10, 2010-February 6, 2011 Nineteenth century imagery of Northern Africa --primarily Egypt-- and the Middle East will be on display, with 103 watercolors by Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859), and photography by Francis Frith (1822-1898), Felix Bonfils (1831-1885), and Antonio Beato (about 1825-1900) among others. * "The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb" date: October 29, 2010 - TBA Specially built chapels and tomb-like spaces display more than 150 artifacts from the funeral ceremonies and final resting places of both royal and non-royal Egyptians. Also the Museum's two mummies are back on display along with results of forensic and radiological studies. info: URL info: press report at URL With nice large photo of the stela of Zezen-nakht. info: press report at URL "(..) Elegantly carved and painted sculptures, the coffin of the lady Ankh-Tesh, a boat model, canopic jars, shabtis, and beautiful yet heart-rending grave gifts are displayed in the dramatic series of galleries. (..)" g) Fort Worth Museum of Science and History 1600 Gendy St, Fort Worth, Texas 76107 http://www.fwmuseum.org/ * "Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science" date: October 24, 2010 - January 2, 2011 Through hands-on challenges, authentic artifacts and guidance from real archaeologists, visitors will experience how archaeologists use modern science and technology. This interactive exhibit features authentic artefacts, plus a human mummy and animal mummies, as well as scans, forensic facial reconstructions and a life-size rapid prototype of a mummy in a stage of "unwrapping." The exhibition was earlier at COSI Columbus (May 30, 2009 - September 7, 2009). info: URL h) Bass Museum of Art 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 33139 URL * "The Mummy Project" date: May 7, 2010 - TBA Spotlights a LP mummy and coffin of the museum, scan results of these artefacts, and objects on loan from the Brooklyn Museum. info: press reports at URL URL With photo of coffin. i) The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 tel.: 410 547 9000, e-mail: info@thewalters.org http://www.thewalters.org * "Mummified" date: November 15, 2008 - November 8, 2010 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 info: press report at URL "(..) [The exhibition] highlights the Walters Museum's very own well-preserved mummy, Mery, (..) who is about 4' 9'' tall and lived to be somewhere around 60. (..) She is placed on a "Mummy board" and is wrapped in linen and plaster. This casing is painted with images, in surprisingly vivid colors (..). Next to the body one finds four canopic jars (..) [and] several small, ornate amulets that were at one point sewn into Mery's fabric. (..) According to a CT-scan of the body, Mery suffered from osteoarthritis and had 16 dental abscesses that likely lead to her death. (..) Accompanying with Mery the Mummy are several other rather gruesomely tiny Mummies, one of which is even a young girl and the rest are cat mummies. (..)" j) The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1155 E. 58th St., Chicago http://oi.uchicago.edu/ * "Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919–1920” date: January 12, 2010 - August 29 [was: 31], 2010 On Jan. 12, the Institute celebrates its 90th anniversary with a temporary exhibit that illustrates the exploits of the institute's founding father James Henry Breasted in Egypt and Mesopotamia, with his own letters, photos taken by him and four companions, and hundreds of ancient artifacts he brought back. info: URL info: press reports at URL With an overview of Breasted's travels. URL Has some quotes from Breasted's letters. URL info: catalogue details at URL info: URL info: press report at URL With slideshow. k) Discovery Times Square Exposition 226 West 44th Street, New York URL * "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" date: April 23, 2010 - January 2, 2011 [was: April 1, 2010 - January 1, 2011] The touring exhibition of more than 130 Egyptian antiquities. that was at several venues in the USA, then in London, then in Dallas (Oct 3, 2008 - May 17, 2009) and San Francisco (June 27, 2009 - March 28, 2010). info: URL info: press reports at URL (With photo of alabaster lioness-topped perfume jar.) URL info: press reports at URL URL "(..) Anyone who signs up before the end of the year will have an opportunity to purchase tickets before they go on sale publicly next year, giving pre-registrants priority access to choice dates and times. Tickets will be designated for a specific date and time to avoid long entrance wait times. (..)" URL info: 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 info: press report at URL info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL " (..) The traveling special exhibition (..) will feature a new gallery that describes how recent DNA testing provided information about the ruler's cause of death and family history. " info: press report at URL "(..) a towering five-ton sculpture of the Egyptian god Anubis will sail into New York Harbor on March 23, 2010. There it will be juxtaposed for a time with the majestic Statue of Liberty. Hopefully the massive work, measuring 7.6 m (25 ft.) in height, will then take up temporary residence in Shubert Alley, directly opposite the traveling show's last and largest American venue (..)" info: press reports (all without much content, but some have photos) at URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL "(..) There will be gallery devoted to DNA testing that provides insights into how the boy pharaoh lived and died.(..)" With a video. info: press reports at URL With video. URL URL URL URL "The exhibition will include 50 of Tutankhamun's burial objects, including his royal diadem-the gold crown discovered encircling the head of his mummified body that he likely wore as king, and one of the gold and precious stone inlaid canopic coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs. More than 80 additional objects from tombs of 18th Dynasty royals, as well as several non-royal individuals, will also be exhibited." URL "(..) One of the new draws will arrive "within a month." It's Tut's chariot, one of six discovered by Howard Carter in the tomb, and it's never before been outside of Egypt. (..) " With photos. URL "(..) An Egyptian government antiquities official said a chariot found in Tut's tomb will be added within a month.(..)" URL "(..) And for the first time anywhere, an exact replica of King Tut's mummy is on view. Experts used the latest modeling technology to translate CT scans into 3-D form, something not possible in 1979. (..)" With video. URL info: press reports on the exhibition, but with some bits of info on other topics worth quoting: URL "(..) "Maybe in one month, by the end of May, we will be able to announce the rest of the family of Tutankhamun," Zahi Hawass, said Wednesday. (..)" [when speaking about a follow-up to the recent JAMA DNA-tests.] URL "(..) Hawass also announced that a set of four foundation deposits (..) and a limestone fragment with a text indicating a tomb was hidden nearby were recently discovered in the Valley of the Kings. (..)" info: press reports at URL With photo gallery. URL Two pages, with a photo of the model of Tutankhamun's mummy that is on display. URL With slideshow. "(...) Hawass told me that he expected to make an announcement next month that would shed new light on the status of Nefertiti, Akhenaten's principal wife, and her daughter Ankhesenamun. (..)" [This seems to refer to his hopes of finding their tombs? - see next entry. AKE] URL "(..) King Tut's chariot also is a new addition; it will be the first time that it will travel outside Egypt. Its arrival at the exhibition has been delayed by the volcanic ash that suspended flights from Europe. It will be installed in the next few weeks. (..) Hawass also announced that a set of four foundation deposits - similar to time capsules - and a limestone fragment with a text indicating a tomb was hidden nearby were recently discovered in the Valley of the Kings. He said this discovery gave him hope he would soon find the tombs of Ankhesamun, Tut's wife, and that of Nefertiti, his stepmother. (..)" URL URL URL Review of the show, with several photos of artefacts. URL Interview with Zahi Hawass, with some photos. This press report suggests that also the KV35YL mummy is on display in NY [??; surely not correct.] The rest of the interview is about a variety of issues, like reclaims and publicity. "(..) All the foreigners who excavate in Egypt run after the TV, all of them! I never in my life asked anyone for an interview. All of them, they do. But they don't have the charisma to make the people agree with them. That's not my problem. That's their problem. (..)" URL "(..) Dr. Zahi Hawass (..) told a press conference Wednesday that hosting the Tutankhamun's tomb at the Discover Time Square Exposition cheapened the exhibition. "This priceless artifact should be at the Met, not at this hole," Hawass said. In an embarrassing preview for the exhibition, Hawass called Arts and Exhibitions International President John Norman to the stage and demanded he "answer the question. Why is King Tut not at the Met?" (..) Hawass later continued to refer to the 30,000 square foot exposition, which opened in June 2009 and previously housed a Titanic exhibit, as the "Discovery Hole." (...) The exhibit includes the world debut of a new replica of King Tut's mummy, created using CT scans of Tut's mummy transformed into 3D form. (..)" info: press report at URL Dr Hawass with the Replica Mummy of King Tutankhamun that is on display. info: press report at URL info: press report, with 2 videos, at URL "(..) Towards the end of the museum is a replica of King Tut’s body with a video describing and retelling when the researchers in Cairo, Egypt, extracted DNA out of King Tut after doing a CT scan. (..) " info: press report, with image gallery, at URL info: press reports at URL With 15 photos. URL info: press report at URL Review that mentions several objects on display. info: press report at URL info: a video on how the 3D replica of Tutankhamun's mummy (that is on show at this venue) was made - URL l) Philbrook Museum of Art 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa OK 74114 http://www.philbrook.org/ * "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum" date: June 6, 2010 - September 12, 2010: Encompassing more than 100 objects from the Brooklyn Museum's world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art, "To Live" explores beliefs about life, death and the nature of the afterlife, including mummification, funerals and tombs. This is the travelling exhibition that was at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (July 13, 2008 - September 7, 2008), the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (October 17, 2008 - January 11, 2009), the Columbus Museum of Art (February 13, 2009 - June 7, 2009), the Chrysler Museum of Art (October 9, 2009 -January 3, 2010), and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (February 12, 2010 - May 2, 2010), and that will travel to the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (June 6-September 12, 2010), San Antonio Museum of Art (October 15, 2010-January 9, 2011), Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (February 12- May 8, 2011), Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (June 11-September 4, 2011), Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee (October 6- January 7, 2012). info: URL info: press report (with photos) at URL info: press reports at URL Lists some related events. URL With photo of the mummy of Demetrios. URL With photo of the anthropoid coffin of Teti (dyn. 18). m) The Oriental Institute Museum 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, Illinois URL * "Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920" date: January 12, 2010 - August 31, 2010 "The exhibit follows Illinois native James Henry Breasted's daring travels through Egypt and Mesopotamia in the unstable aftermath of World War I ... Breasted's story is told by never-before-exhibited photos, artifacts, letters, and archival documents including his elaborate passport and even the wind-torn American flag that he carried on the trip ... The story of the expedition is told in two voices. The first is Breasted's own, excerpted from his detailed letters. The events of the expedition are paired with the second voice - a modern commentary that considers changes in attitudes, laws, and archaeology over the past ninety years." info: URL info: press report at URL 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 - October 31, 2010 [was: summer 2010] info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "The mummy that has been a part of Stockton lore for 65 years is going away. Iret-net Hor-irw ("The eye of Horus is upon you") on extended loan to the Haggin Museum from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, will return to be part of an exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in the city. (..)" info: press report at URL info: press report at URL About the scans of the mummy of Iret-net-Hor-irw. info: press report (with 3 scan photos) at URL "A 2,500-year-old priest named Irethorrou [Iret-net Hor-iw], will be teaching anatomy to all comers in an exhibition beginning Oct. 31. The mummified remains of this onetime inhabitant of a Middle Egyptian city will be on display in his coffin at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, along with a reconstruction of Irethorrou’s head. (..)" Includes an interview with Jonathan Elias, PhD, director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium in Harrisburg, Pa., and with several of the experts consulted during the scanning. "(..) Based on his teeth and bones, the Stanford scientists conclude that Irethorrou was perhaps 35 to 45 years old. His skeleton showed only a few traces of arthritis. He doesn’t seem to have lived a harsh life of hard labor. The cause of Irethorrou’s death remains unknown. But the scan showed bumps on his back that were later determined, on extensive data analysis, to be lesions beneath the skin (..) leading to speculation that an infectious disease such as a pox could have been the culprit. (..)" info: press report at URL Overview of types (cost classes) of mummification. info: press reports at URL URL "(..).The scans show Irethorrou had his wisdom teeth, establishing a minimum age of 25 for his death. But his teeth showed signs of wear, leaving Elias to estimate he was older than 25 when he died. Spine curvature and fractures in the lower back suggest he was as old as 45, Elias noted. A more curious discovery is that one of Irethorrou's wisdom teeth didn't grow in, allowing the one above it to grow farther down. It's a feature Irethorrou shared with his father, Ankh-Wennefer, another mummy studied by Elias. Ankh-Wennefer, whose mummified remains are owned by the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma, Wash., had the same abnormality. (..)" info: press report (with photo) at URL "(..) A reconstruction of the mummy's head based on an extremely accurate reproduction of the skull sits in the exhibition room side by side with the head of the mummy's daddy [called Ankh-Wennefer, also an Akhmim-dwelling priest], who is spending his eternal life in another museum in Tacoma. The museum has also posted a behind-the-scenes photo set on Flickr.(..)" URL info: URL o) Southwest Florida Museum of History 2031 Jackson St., Fort Myers, Florida * “King Tut: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh’s Tomb” date: January 16, 2010 - August 15, 2010 [prolongation; was: till June 19, 2010]. info: press report, with video, at URL "An outstanding audio tour narrated by Egyptologist, Professor Adrian Kerr, allows guests to immerse themselves in the 18th Dynasty." p) Kentucky Center for African American Heritage 315 W. Guthrie Green, Suite 400 Louisville, Kentucky 40202 http://www.kcaah.org/site/index.htm * "Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh's Tomb" A touring exhibit featuring 125 replicas of the treasures of Tutanchamun, but also does include three ancient necklaces. date: March 9, 2010 - August 29, 2010 A touring exhibit featuring 125 replicas of the treasures of Tutanchamun, but also does include three ancient necklaces. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL q) Pacific Science Center 200 Second Avenue North,| Seattle, WA 98109 http://www.pacsci.org/ * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: May 24, 2012 - January 6, 2013 The exhibition features 50 artifacts from the tomb of the boy king and dozens of artifacts from 2,000 years of Egyptian history. This travellinge exhibit is currently at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. info: press reports at URL URL (with video) URL URL info: press report at URL s) Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402 http://www.wshs.org/wshm/ * "Wrapped! The Search for the Essential Mummy" date: January 2010 - July 3, 2011. The exhibition will contain three mummies, their facial reconstructions, and ca 100 artifacts (animal mummies, scarabs, necklaces, amulets, vessels, figurines and headdresses, etc). Earlier in the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA (June 19, 2010 - October 31, 2010). info: source - press reports at URL URL The coffins of Ankhwennefer will also be on display. t) Berkshire Museum 39 South Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201-6169 http://www.berkshiremuseum.org/ * "Wrapped! The Search for the Essential Mummy" date: June 19, 2010 - October 31, 2010 The exhibition will contain three mummies that originated from Akhmim: the mummy of Peshed from Westminster College [info on it at URL], the mummy of Pahat of the Berkshire Museum, and a mummy from Vasser College. Moreover, there are about 100 artifacts from Westminster College (animal mummies, scarabs, necklaces, amulets, vessels, figurines and headdresses, etc). info: URL info: press report at URL u) The California Science Center 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles. * "Mummies of the World" date: July 1, 2010 - November 28, 2010 More than 150 objects and artifacts from all over the world, incl. mummies, with much attention to state-of-the-art mummy studies. info: URL info: press reports at URL "(..) the world-debut of (..) the largest traveling exhibition of mummies ever assembled.(..)" URL info: press report at URL "(..) The treasures presented in Mummies of the World include Egyptian animal mummies (..) The Egyptian cat mummies in this exhibition date to the Ptolemic period (..)." info: press report at URL "(..) [The exhibition will be] traveling for three years in the USA (..) [and contains] more than 90 funeral artifacts along with 40 partial and complete human and animal mummies from Egypt, of course, but also from Oceania, Asia, Europe and South America. info: press reports at URL URL info: press reports at URL URL URL info: video at URL info: press reports at URL "(..) 45 mummies and 959 artifacts from 15 museums in seven countries including Egypt being are showcased. (..) The three-year traveling exhibition will tour all the United States. " URL "(...) The exhibition also places emphasis on the techniques used to glean information on mummies, such as genetic analysis, carbon dating, magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) scans. (...)" URL URL URL URL With photos. info: press report, with slideshow, at URL v) Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal 1301 Western Avenue - Cincinnati, OH 45203-1130 URL * "Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science" date: October 3, 2009 - TBA "I Lost Egypt, visitors will see a real human mummy, animal mummies, scans of human and animal mummies, forensic facial reconstructions and a life-size rapid prototype of a mummy in a stage of “unwrapping.” Visitors also will be able to interact with some of the world’s foremost authorities on Egyptology through video interviews and photographs from the field." The exhibition was earlier in COSI Columbus (May 30, 2009 - September 7, 2009) info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL "(..) In Egypt, sometime during the Roman period of the first and second centuries A.D., a boy died when he was just 3 or 4 years old. He wasn't royalty, but his grieving parents spent a considerable amount of money - more than most Egyptian families had - to mummify his remains with amulets that they believed would ensure that his soul would be reunited with his body in the afterlife, and adorn the strips of linen that wrapped his body with brightly painted hieroglyphs symbolizing protection and resurrection. (..) The mummy of the young boy will appear only at the exhibit's stop at the Museum Center, which received it as a gift from the Cincinnati Art Museum earlier this month. Museum Center officials believe Lost Egypt will mark the first time the mummy has been on exhibit. With no hieroglyphs to indicate his real name on the linen wrappings, they have named him Umi, which is pronounced "OO-me" and means "life." (..)" History and description of the mummy are provided. URL Events at the exhibition's opening. w) - x) The Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology University of California at Berkeley Bancroft Way at College Avenue. http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/ * "The Conservator's Art: Preserving Egypt's Past" date: April 29, 2010 - Spring, 2011 The exhibition provides a look into how museums blend technology and the humanities to conserve and understand ancient objects. On display are exceptional artifacts from the Hearst Museum's vast Egyptian collection - including crocodile mummies, mummy portraits, statuary, amulets and unusual "reserve heads" used in Egyptian burial practices. The exhibit is a memorial to the late Cathleen "Candy" Keller, a UC Berkeley associate professor of Egyptology who was its original curator. info: press release (with some images) at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(..) It shows 65 objects from the 17,000 ancient Egyptian items in its collection (a small fraction of the over 4 million objects in total, scattered over four buildings in Berkeley and Richmond). (..)" You’ll learn, in fact, not just about what conservators do, but what their work costs. A tiny bronze forked butt required $5,080 worth of work: 44 hours by a conservator ($4,180), $100 for X-ray fluorescence analysis of the metal, and $800 for four uses of X-ray diffraction analysis. The museum is also maintaining a conservators’ blog for the exhibition. You can find out all you’d want to know about doing a CT scan of a crocodile mummy, for example. (..)" info: press report at URL "(..) The exhibition not only displays mummy cases, statuettes, hieroglyphs and other artifacts usually locked away in Berkeley's trove of Egyptian treasures. It also describes, for example, the crocodile mummies' journey to the Stanford University School of Medicine in February for $12,000 worth of rides through CT scanners normally used for humans. The tests revealed that one mummy, which has never been unwrapped, contained jumbled bones from more than one animal. Most striking about the other, unwrapped crocodile are the 30 baby crocodiles on its back. They'd been attached to the once-sticky embalming mixture, which was shown in tests at the University of Bristol in England to match the ingredients and quality of that used for humans, thus undermining the idea that crocodile mummification was accorded less care or expense. (...) Among the treasures is an extraordinarily well-preserved, 46-century-old slab stele from Giza, a limestone slab from the side of a tomb depicting the tomb's occupant, a king's son named Wepemnofret, and listing provisions considered essential in his afterlife, including 1,000 bowls each of figs and sweet wine. (..)" y) - z) The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028-0198 tel.: +1 212 535 7710 (recorded information) http://www.metmuseum.org/ * "Tutankhamun's Funeral" date: March 16, 2010 - September 6, 2010 The exhibition will explore the materials and rituals associated with the burial of the pharaoh, and will include some 60 objects, primarily from the Metropolitan's own collection (jars, lids, bowls, floral collars, linen sheets, and bandages). Also ncluded willl be a sculpted head of the youthful Tutankhamun and photographs by Harry Burton. info: press reports at URL URL URL info: press reports (with photos) at URL "Pottery containers of mummification material dating from the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutan-khamun, ca. 1336-1327 BC, are on display (..). The largest pot (photo centre, back) contained leftovers from Tutankhamun's mummification, the second largest (left) contained beer or wine offered at Tutankhamun's funeral. The two smaller vessels (right) contained the leftovers from the embalming of Yuya and Tuya, possibly Tutankhamun's great-grandparents." URL info: press report (with a review) at URL info: press report (with photo) at URL "(..) The [KV 54] cache Davis discovered contained many of the items used at Tutankhamun’s funeral (..) The Met acquired some 40-odd artifacts from the cache, and this is what is currently on display. (..) Originally meant to house the boy king’s glorious artifacts, the Met refused to charge visitors a required, extra fee to see the exhibit, so the show (Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs) was sent instead to Times Square. As a concession, it seems, the museum has arranged Tutankhamun’s Funeral.(..)" info: press report (with 20 image slideshow) at URL * "Horemhab. The General Who Became King" date: November 10, 2010 - TBA More than 40 artefacts illustrate the reign of Horemab. As the focus of this exhibition is the statue 'Haremhab as a Scribe', the exhibition also looks at other scribe statues and at the role of the scribe in ancient Egypt. info: URL info: press report at URL With photo of artefact. za) Norton Museum of Art 1451 S. Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach, FL 33401 http://www.norton.org/ * "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum," date: February 12, 2011 - May 8, 2011. info: press report at URL --CANADA-- a) - --UNITED KINGDOM-- a) Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London, Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT * "Makes Me Think of Egypt" date: June 29, 2010 - September 4, 2010 An exhibition of photographs of the finalists of the photography competition organized by the British Egyptian Society. info: source - URL b) British Museum Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, WC1B 3DG * "Journey Through the Afterlife: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" date: November 4, 2010 - March 6, 2011 info: press report at URL "[The exhibition] traces the [BD] spells' development over time through numerous papyrus and linen scrolls, (..) [including] the complete 37-meter Papyrus of Hunefer (ca. 1285 B.C.), the longest Book of the Dead in existence (..)" info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL "The star item is likely to be the Greenfield Papyrus, which the London museum called the world's longest Book of the Dead at 37 meters. It has never been shown publicly in its entirety before." URL URL "The Book of the Dead of Hunefer, a 5.5m-long papyrus, will be among the 192 items on display." Provides an explanation of one of the vignettes in this papyrus. URL "The exhibition will include pieces from museums in France and the US in what its curator said was the first international exhibition of such manuscripts. (...) Some of the papyrus scrolls may never be shown at the museum again, Dr John Taylor warned today [for reasons of conservation, as some pigments fade quickly]." URL "The incredible number of Books of the Dead makes them a major resource for the study of many aspects of Egyptian culture – one research project at Bonn University has collected more than 3,500 and none looks exactly like any other." URL URL c) Hall Place and Gardens, Bourne Road, Bexley Kent. DA5 1PQ URL * "Ancient Egypt: Pottery from the Nile" date: December 3, 2009 - November 30, 2010 Exhibition with predynastic pottery, mummified human remains, mummy bandages and shabtis, ancient pottery and beads and a mummified cat. info: press reports at URL URL d) The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TS http://www.barber.org.uk/index.html * "Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt: date: June 18, 2010 - January 18, 2012 This exhibition (in the Coin Gallery) features AE artefacts from the Myers Eton College Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, next to the Barber Institute's own Egyptian collection of coins from Roman and Byzantine Alexandria. info: URL e) Dick Institute 1 Elmbank Avenue, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire KA1 3BU URL * "The Journey Beyond - Ancient Egypt and Prehistoric Ayrshire" date: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010 With important loans from National Museums Scotland, and East Ayrshire Council's Arts and Museums own collections, the exhibition looks at aspects of life and death in the cultures of Ayrshire thousands of years ago and of those in Ancient Egypt. It includes real Ancient Egyptian coffins, a genuine mummy (namely of the priest Iufenamun), and other artefacts together with Neolithic, Iron Age and Bronze Age weapons and tools from the South-West of Scotland. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(..) Some people have become so wrapped up with the Ancient Egyptian vibe in Ayrshire that yarn-bombers (aka "y-bombers") left three yarn surprises on the steps of the Dick; knitted pyramids of Giza [with photo]. What is yarn bombing? Started in America, it's a guerrilla style art form, which involves leaving knitted treats on objects such as buses and trees. (..)" f) Ely Museum The Old Gaol, Market Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4LS http://www.elymuseum.org.uk/ * "Something Borrowed: An Egyptian Cat in Ely" date: August 4, 2010 - October 31, 2010 The exhibition is based around the mummy of an Egyptian cat, on loan from the British Museum, and tells the story from its discovery to the results of recent high-tech investigations using X-rays and CT scans. info: press report (with photos) at URL --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, Amsterdam http://www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl/english/ * "Alexander's Legacy - Greeks in Egypt" date: September 17, 2010 - March 20, 2011. Shows the impact Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) made on Egypt. info: URL b) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW Leiden http://www.rmo.nl/english * "Egyptian Magic" date: October 16, 2010 - March 13th, 2011 About the magical practices of the ancient Egyptians, with objects from the Rijksmuseum, the Louvre, British Museum and Allard Pierson Museum: amulets, scarabs, magical images and writing, magic knives or wands, pictures of deities and enchantments on papyrus. info: URL --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) Ägyptischen Museum der Universität Bonn Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, D-53113 Bonn tel.: 0228-739710, fax: 0228-737360 E-mail: aegyptisches-museum(at)uni-bonn.de * "Alfred Wiedemann - Die Anfänge der Ägyptologie in Bonn" [Alfred Wiedemann - The origins of Egyptology in Bonn] date: July 16 - September 19, 2010 Exhibition with Egyptian objects and other personal matters from Wiedemann's private collection. info: source - press release for the SÄK 2010 URL c) Museum August Kestner Trammplatz 3, D-30159 Hannover e-mail: museum-august-kestner@hannver-stadt.de URL * "84 Years After Tutankhamun: The Latest Discovery in the Valley of the Kings and the “Egyptological Art” of Susan Osgood" date: July 15, 2010 - October 2010 Susan Osgood works as an artist for the University of Chicago’s Epigraphic Survey, drawing the reliefs of ancient temples in Luxor, Egypt, and she has also been called on to draw new finds, like the coffins found in the newly discovered KV 63 tomb. The exhibition was earlier at the Ägyptisches Museum, Bonner Sammlung von Aegyptiaca, Bonn (November 27, 2009 - May 30, 2010) info: URL (info on artist) d) Liebieghaus Schaumainkai 71, D-60596 Frankfurt am Main tel.: 069-650049-0, fax: 069-650049-150 e-mail: info@liebieghaus.de * "Sahure - Leben und Tod eines großen Pharao" [Sahure - life and death of a great Pharaoh] date: June 24 [was: 26] - November 28, 2010 Sculptures, reliefs and other architectural elements as well as models and computer animations will show the beauty and splendor of the OK. In addition diaries and drawings of the excavator Ludwig Borchardt will give some insight into the history of their discovery. info: press release at URL info: source - URL URL info: URL info: press report with slideshow at URL "Borchardt ... brachte im Zuge der damals üblichen Fundteilungspraxis auch Teile der Sahure-Reliefs außer Landes - manches nach Berlin, anderes ins Liebieghaus nach Frankfurt ... Diese Reliefs, eine Statue des Anch-Userkaf und eine Scheintür bilden die Keimzelle der großen Sahure-Ausstellung im Liebieghaus vom 24. Juni an." info: press report at URL "Der Pharao Sahure ist fast nur den Archäologen ein Begriff. Doch seine Grabstätte markiert den Höhepunkt altägyptischen Kunstschaffens. Neue Funde erzählen vom üppigen Leben in den königlichen Tempelanlagen." info: press and video report [0:40 min.] at URL The statue of Sahure arrived in Frankfurt. Includes a slideshow. [new] info: press report: at URL "Der heutige Pharao der ägyptischen Altertümer, Zawi Hawass, der auch selbst in Abusir grub und gräbt, preist im Katalog Borchardts Arbeit: 'Lässt man einmal seine Rolle bei der Ausfuhr der Nofretete-Büste aus Ägypten beiseite, war Borchardt einer der bedeutendsten Archäologen des 20. Jahrhunderts.' 'Sahure - Tod und Leben eines großen Pharao' ist eine einzartige Ausstellung geworden. Vor allem natürlich wegen der Pracht der ausgestellten Stücke. Vor allem die Reliefs, auf denen Opferszenen, Auszahlung der Schiffsmannschaften, Götterprozessionen und Ähnliches zu sehen sind, sind von einer nur selten in der Geschichte der Bildhauerkunst erreichten Feinheit." info: English press report at URL "(..) With high-caliber originals – reliefs, architectural elements, sculptures, vases, and valuable papyruses – from international museums such as the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the show gives evidence of the worship this great Egyptian pharaoh enjoyed. A special chapter of the exhibition will be dedicated to the scientist and explorer Ludwig Borchardt, who discovered Sahure’s pyramid complex in the early twentieth century and from whose excavations important reliefs from Sahure’s temple complex came into the possession of the Liebieghaus in the course of the finds’ distribution. Historical documents, diaries, and drawings convey a comprehensive picture of the fascinating excavation history of Sahure’s pyramid temple which began more than one hundred years ago and still continues today. (..)" The article has a lot of information on Sahure's building projects and Ludwig Borchardt's work. info: English press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL "Dem bedeutendsten Herrscher der fünften Dynastie gilt eine hinreißenden Ausstellung im Frankfurter Liebieghaus ... was gezeigt wird, ist von hinreißender Qualität. Ergänzt von Leihgaben aus Paris, Berlin, Wien, Kairo und New York, präsentieren sich Statuen, Prunkgefäße, Architekturfragmente und die berühmten Abusir-Reliefs des Liebieghauses ... Dann sind da noch einige hölzerne Transportkisten. Eine gibt den Blick frei auf eine in Holzwolle steckende Kopie der Nofretete-Büste. Sie ist nicht dreckverschmiert, wie Borchardt das Original fand, sondern sauber - und so knallbunt, wie er sie in einem ersten flüchtigen Fundbericht beschrieb. Noch erfüllt von der Magie der eben gesehenen Kunst des Alten Reichs, teilt man für einen Moment das einstige Fehlurteil." info: video report [4:57 mins.] at URL e) Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg Rothenbaumchaussee 64, D-20148 Hamburg e-mail: info@mvhamburg.de * "A Secret Voyage" date: March 21 - August 22, 2010 [prolongation; was: till June 6, 2010] A photo exhibition with photos from the book of Zahi Hawass and Sandro Vannini with the same title. info: press release at URL Lecture "My Discoveries" by Zahi Hawass on March 26, 2010 on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, which consists of photographs of Sandro Vannini. Hawass will also sign his new book "A Secret Voyage" [cf. EEF News (593), December 17, 2009]. Place of the lecture: CCH Hamburg. info: press report at URL "Seit 1997 dokumentiert der italienische Fotograf Sandro Vannini die Kostbarkeiten altägyptischer Kunst. Ab dem 21. März sind im Hamburger Museum für Völkerkunde seine wandfüllenden, gestochen scharfen Aufnahmen zu sehen." info: press report at URL "Am 26. März ist dabei Zahi Hawass, Chef der ägyptischen Altertümerverwaltung, in Hamburg zu Gast. In einem etwa 90-minütigen multimedialen Vortrag wird er auf die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse zu Tutanchamun eingehen ... Der Auftritt in Hamburg wird der erste öffentliche Vortrag des 62-jährigen Ägypters in Deutschland sein." info: URL info: press report at URL "Die Fotoausstellung bildet das Highlight des hochkarätigen Rahmenprogramms zu 'Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze'. Bis zum 6. Juni 2010 zeigt sie die beeindruckende Sammlung von Großfotografien des italienischen Künstlers Sandro Vannini, der mit gestochen scharfen Aufnahmen die Schätze altägyptischer Grabmäler dokumentiert. (..)" info: press report at URL "Mit modernster Digitaltechnik fotografierte er [Sandro Vannini] die Gräber mit ihren Ausmalungen, aber auch die Schätze im Ägyptischen Museum, und holte dabei Details ans Licht, die dem Betrachter gewöhnlich leider verborgen bleiben ... Eine Auswahl von 60 seiner ein bis drei Meter großen Farbfotografien sind jetzt in der Ausstellung ... zu sehen ... Bei so viel Ägypten-Begeisterung [in Hamburg] wirkt die drohende Abschaffung des renommierten Fachbereichs Ägyptologie an der Hamburger Universität umso unverständlicher. Über 10 000 Ausstellungsbesucher haben dagegen protestiert und Zahi Hawass schloss sich ihnen mit folgenden Worten an 'Hamburg ist eine Stadt der Ägyptologie! Bitte lassen Sie nicht zu, dass es zu dieser Schließung kommt!'" info: URL f) Winckelmann-Museum Winckelmannstr. 36-38, D-39576 Stendal tel.: 03931 - 215226, fax: 03931 - 215227 e-mail: info@winckelmann-gesellschaft.de * "Erinnerung Ägypten. Frühe Photographien, Lithographien, Stiche und Karten aus der Sammlung Dan Kyram, Jerusalem" [Memory of Egypt. Early photographs, lithographs, engravings, and maps from the collection of Dan Kyram, Jerusalem] date: June 26 - September 5, 2010 info: URL info: press report at URL "Wer die Räumlichkeiten des Winckelmann-Museums betritt, taucht in eine vergangene, faszinierende Welt ein. 100 Fotografien sowie Lithografien, Stiche und Karten aus der Sammlung Dan Kyram ( Jerusalem ) nehmen den Betrachter mit in das Land am Nil des 19. Jahrhunderts." g) Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Neue Bahnhofstraße 9, D-59065 Hamm tel.: +49 2381 17 57 14, fax: +49 2381 17 29 89 e-mail: Gustav-Luebcke-Museum@stadt.hamm.de * "Echnaton und Amarna. Alltagsleben im Alten Ägypten" [Akhnaten and Amarna. Daily life in AE] date: September 26, 2010 - January 30, 2011 The exhibition will look into the vision and the claim of the new concept of a city developed by Akhenaton by means of models and original objects. info: source - URL info: press report at URL "Die Ausstellung versucht, der Vision und dem Anspruch der neuen Stadtgründung [Achet-Aton (heute: Amarna)] in Modellen und originalen Zeugnissen der Amarnazeit nachzuspüren ... Eigens für die Ausstellung gefertigte Modelle vermitteln einen Eindruck vom Aussehen der Tempel, Paläste und Grabanlagen. Es werden rund 140 Exponate aus zahlreichen bedeutenden nationalen und internationalen Sammlungen präsentiert." h) Museum für Kunst und Technik, Kulturhaus LA8 Lichtentaler Allee 8, D-76530 Baden-Baden * "Die Pyramide von innen. Die Entdeckung des Alten Ägypten im 19. Jahrhundert" [The pyramid from inside. The discovery of AE in the 19th century] date: March 27 - August 15, 2010 A small exhibition based on the collection of Wilhelm Dieudonné Stieler (1888-1912) who visited Egypt in 1908-09. info: URL info: German press report at URL Also as an audio report [4:18 mins.]: URL i) Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst Hofgarten, München tel.: 089 / 298546 * "Isisblut & Steinbockhorn - Amulett und Talisman in Altägypten und im Alpenraum" [Isis Blood (= Isis Knot) & Ibex Horn - Amulet and Talisman in Ancient Egypt and in the Alpine Region] date: July 22, 2010 - January 9, 2011 The exhibition shows some 450 objects: amulets, papyri, stelae, statues, jewellery, and other small objects to illustrate the magical practices in AE - and the continuity of these ideas till today. info: URL info: press report, including audio report [6:49 mins.], at URL info: press report (slideshow) at URL j) 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 - August 28, 2010 [2nd prolongation; was: till April 18, 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." info: press report, including two slide-shows, at URL "Die ersten Exponate der Ausstellung 'Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze' sind in Hamburg eingetroffen." info: press report at URL "Von den rund 1000 Exponaten der Ausstellung, ausgewählt aus den mehr als 4000, die Carter dereinst zu Tage förderte, ist keines ein Original ... In mehrjähriger Arbeit wurden von ägyptischen Kunsthandwerkern die Fundstücke nachgebaut, oft aus den gleichen Materialien, die vor 3300 Jahren benutzt wurden ... In der sogenannten Allee der Schreine und Sarkophage zeitigt der Aufwand tatsächlich seine Wirkung. Ähnlich nahe kommt man im ägyptischen Museum von Kairo keinem Exponat ... Der Wiener Ägyptologe Wolfgang Wettengel, er ist wissenschaftlicher Leiter der Ausstellung, sagt kluge Worte: 'Natürlich fehlt den Exponaten die Aura des Originals. Das schmälert aber nicht die Wirkung dieser gesamtheitlichen Kollektion, und vor allem schmälert es nicht die didaktischen Qualitäten dieser Ausstellung.'" info: another press report at URL info: video report [2:10 mins.] at URL info: press report at URL "Tutanchamun ist einer der prominentesten Pharaonen Ägyptens. Eine Repliken-Ausstellung in Hamburg lässt den Mythos wieder auferstehen - und gibt den Besuchern das Gefühl, an der Entdeckung seines Grabes teilzuhaben. So wird 'Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und seine Schätze' eine archäologische Erlebnis-Show." info: press report at URL "Schon 50 000 Besucher bei Tutanchamun" info: press report at URL "... so wird nächste Woche bereits der 100.000. Besucher in Hamburg erwartet, der sich in der Ausstellung ... die goldenen Statuen, die großen Schreine und vor allem die legendäre Maske anguckt ... Deshalb, so Scholz, sei eine Verlängerung der Ausstellung bis April (ursprünglich war bis Januar 2010 geplant) in Vorbereitung." info: press report at URL "Karina Amberg (60) ... war die 100 000. Besucherin der ... Ausstellung." info: press report at URL "'Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze' wird bis zum 18. April 2010 verlängert. Schon 125.000 Besucher sahen die Ausstellung." info: press report at URL "Mehr als 230 000 Besucher haben bisher die Ausstellung ... besucht. Die Schau mit mehr als 1000 kostbaren Grabbeigaben verlängert aufgrund des anhaltenden Besucherandrangs ihre Öffnungszeiten zwischen dem 8. März und dem 9. April ..." info: German press report at URL l) - m) Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Bodestr 1, D-10178 Berlin tel.: +49(0)30 266 42-4242, fax: +49(0)30 266 42-2290 e-mail: service@smb.museum * "Wegbereiter der Ägyptologie. Carl Richard Lepsius. 1810-1884" [Pioneer of Egyptology. Carl Richard Lepsius. 1810-1884] date: December 3, 2010 - March 20, 2011 Exhibition on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Richard Lepsius. info: URL n) Stadtmuseum Hohe Lilie Markt 18, D-06618 Naumburg tel.: 03445-703503 oder 200648 * "Karl Richard Lepsius zum 200. Geburtstag" [Karl Richard Lepsius - for his 200th birthday] date: TBA The first exhibition after reopening in autumn 2010 will be about Richard Lepsius; in cooperation with the Egyptian Institute / Egyptian Museum Leipzig and the Egyptian Museum, Berlin. info: URL n) - o-p) - q) Expo XXI Gladbacher Wall 5, D-50670 Köln * "Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze" [Tutankhamun - his tomb and the treasures] date: September 24, 2010 - March 20, 2011 The exhibition of replicas, now in Hamburg, will go to Köln. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press release at URL info: German press report at URL "Die Ausstellung stellt uns damit Fragen, die kaum zu beantworten sind: Worin liegt die Aura des Originals? Und ist die Begegnung mit der Nachahmung von geringerem Schauwert? Wird unser Staunen kleiner? Kommt Wissen abhanden? Was macht die Replik mit uns? Oder ist unsere Ergriffenheit beim Betrachten eines Originals vielleicht nur ein Fall von Selbstbetrug?" r) Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig in der Bibliotheca Albertina Beethovenstr. 6, D-04107 Leipzig tel.: +49(0) 341 97 30577, fax: +49(0) 341 97 30596 * Papyrusschätze in Leipzig. Vergraben - Verloren - Gefunden - Erforscht" [Papyrus Treasures in Leipzig. Buried - Lost - Found - Studied] date: June 18 - September 26, 2010 Papyri and ostraca will be displayed, among them the famous pEbers. info: URL --AUSTRIA-- a) Papyrusmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Heldenplatz, New Hofburg, 1010 Wien * "Stimmen aus dem Wüstensand. Briefkultur im griechisch-römischen Ägypten" [Voices from the Desert Sand. The Art of Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Egypt] date: June 10, 2010 - January 15, 2011 Exceptional, amusing or moving letters from the 3rd century BC till the 9th century AD, of private or official kind, are presented. info: URL info: press report at URL --EGYPT-- a) The Egyptian Museum Maydan El Tahrir, Cairo tel: +20 2 5742681, 5754319/10; fax: +20 2 5795133 * "Coins through the Ages. Selected Collections from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo" date: August 10, 2010 - TBA The exhibition contains a collection of coins dating back to different historical periods and some other antiques. place: Hall 44 info: press report (with slideshow) at URL info: English press report at URL Basically a brief history of coins in Egypt. info: English press report at URL info: French press report at URL Lists the artefacts on display (includes Ptolemaic coins). b) Mawlawi Dervishes Shary Es Siyufiyah, 31 Helmiah - Cairo * "Abu Simbel. Il salvataggio dei templi, l'uomo e la tecnologia" [Abu Simbel. The Salvage of the Temples: Man and Technology] date: February 1, 2010 - TBA Not only looks at the natural historical and archaeological aspects of the salvage project, but specifically focusses also on the anthropological aspects (the men, methods, and machinery used). Organized by the Scientific Office of the Embassy of Italy in Egypt, the Italian Archaeological Centre in Caro, e.a. Opening on February 1, 2010, at 7:30 pm. The exhibition was earlier at Castello del Valentino, Torino (October 28, 2009 - November 7, 2009) e.a. info: (in many languages) URL info: press reports (in English and Italian resp.) at URL URL info: English press report at URL With information about the salvaging of Nubian monuments in the 1960s and 70s, the role of Italian scholars in that project, the temples of Abu Simbel, the rock-cut temple of Al-Lessiya (offered to Italy as thanks), and Qasr Ibrim (the only Nubian site still in situ and threatened by the rising water level at Lake Nasser). info: English press report at URL info: Italian press report at URL "E' una mostra fotografica apparentemente come tante altre, quella riaperta nei giorni scorsi nei locali della restaurata Sama'Khana, scuola medioevale e teatro dei dervisci mevlevi, nel cuore del Cairo islamico. Ma sono i contenuti storici ed emotivi che ne costituiscono la singolarita' e l'unicita': i lavori per salvare dalle acque del lago Nasser, che salivano inesorabilmente dopo la costruzione della diga di Assuan, i due templi di Abu Simbel, fatti costruire in fondo all'Egitto dal faraone Ramesse II intorno al 1250 avanti Cristo." --ITALY-- a) Blu. Palazzo d'Arte e Cultura [Palazzo Blu] Lungarno Gambacorti, 9, I-56125 Pisa tel: +39 050 500 197, e-mail: info@palazzoblu.org URL * "Lungo il Nilo. Ippolito Rosellini e la spedizione franco-toscana in Egitto (1828-1829)" [Along the Nile. Ippolito Rosellini and the Franco-Tuscan expedition to Egypt (1828-1829)] date: April 28, 2010 - July 25, 2010 Some 300 objects are on display, namely original drawings plus Egyptian artefacts brought to Italy by the Franco-Tuscan expedition to Egypt (1828-1829) (i.e., more than one hundred pieces now in the collections of the Museo Egizio in Florence and other smaller collections in Pisa). The exhibition is under the supervision of Marilina Betrò, University of Pisa. info: (in Italian) URL info: press report (in two parts) at URL and URL info: press report at URL The latter includes a slideshow of drawings of the Franco-Tuscan expedition to Egypt by Champollion and Rosellini in 1828-1829. info: English press report at URL "Funded by Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II and Charles X of France, the 1828-29 voyage was led by Europe's first Egyptology professor, Ippolito Rosellini, and the French philologist who had recently deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Jean-Francois Champollion. (..) The Pisa show concentrates on the experiences of Rosellini and six fellow Tuscans who took part in the expedition - not all of whom made it back alive. Around 200 priceless statues, bas-reliefs and other antiquities that the men brought back are on display at the city's Palazzo Blu, but the real focus of the exhibition is on the diaries, letters and paintings made by expedition members that give a first-hand account of their voyage.(..)" info: video report [8:29 mins.] at URL "Nel video le immagini della conferenza stampa del 27.04.2010 a Palazzo Blu, alcune immagini delle Opere e le interviste del Presidente della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa Cosimo Bracci Torsi, dell'Assessore alla Cultura del Comune di Pisa Silvia Panichi e della Curatrice della Mostra Marilina Betrò." info: video report [6:41 mins.] at URL " Ippolito Rosellini e la spedizione franco-toscana in Egitto (1828-29). Video della mostra a Palazzo BLU (Pisa)" b) Florence Archaeological Museum * "Abu Simbel. Il salvataggio dei templi, l'uomo e la tecnologia" [Abu Simbel. The Salvage of the Temples: Man and Technology] date: April, 2010 - TBA Not only looks at the natural historical and archaeological aspects of the salvage project, but specifically focusses also on the anthropological aspects (the men, methods, and machinery used). Organized by the Scientific Office of the Embassy of Italy in Egypt, the Italian Archaeological Centre in Caro, e.a. The exhibition was earlier at Castello del Valentino, Torino (October 28, 2009 - November 7, 2009) and is currently at Mawlawi Dervishes, Cairo (February 1, 2010 - TBA). info: (in many languages) URL info: press report at URL c) Musei San Domenico Piazza Guido da Montefeltro, 12, I-47121 Forlì FC * "Egitto mai visto - Le dimore eterne di Assiut e Gebelein" [Egypt, never seen - The eternal dwelling places of Assiut and Gebelein] date: September 9, 2010 - January 9, 2011 info: press report at URL d-e) - f) Museo Faina Piazza del Duomo 29, I-05018 Orvieto (TR) * "Alla scoperta dell'Antico Egitto. Giochi, tuniche, parrucche e trucchi al tempo dei faraoni" [Discovering AE. Games, gowns, wigs, and make-up at the times of the Pharaohs] date: April 15 - July 25, 2010 info: press report at 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 * "Méroé, un empire sur le Nil" [Meroe, an empire at the Nile] date: March 24 - September 6, 2010 "The Louvre hosts its first exhibition reserved exclusively for Meroe, the capital of a majestic and enigmatic civilization that developed on the banks of the Nile between 270 BC and AD 350. The 200 works on show reveal the multicultural character of this ancient African civilization." info: (in French) URL info: (in English) URL (go to page 5) info: (in English) URL info: (English) press report at URL "(..) Many of the pieces on display are loans from the Museum of Khartoum, such as a gilt-bronze statue of an archer-king, while other works of art have come from the British Museum, London and museums in Munich, and Berlin. The main themes of the exhibition are everyday life, artisans and art, kings and their insignia of power, the role of warrior queens (“candaces”) and the religious practices combining the Egyptian god Amun with the Greek god Dionysus. (..)" info: French press report at URL "(..) Cette exposition vise à dévoiler la créativité du plus ancien empire d'Afrique noire. Guillemette Andreu-Lanoë, directrice du département des antiquités égyptiennes du Louvre, veut montrer que Méroé 'n'est pas l'Egypte pharaonique, mais l'antiquité kouchique, qu'il faut apprécier à sa juste valeur, avec ce côté très rude, très violent, d'influence africaine'. Une civilisation qui invente une écriture que 'l'on sait lire, prononcer, mais que l'on ne comprend pas encore'. (..)" info: French press report at URL "L'empire soudanais de Méroé est au Louvre, avec de nombreux prêts du musée de Khartoum." info: press report at URL "C'est une première. D'abord parce qu'en France le nom de ce royaume n'est guère connu. Ensuite, parce que les quelque 200 pièces réunies à l'occasion de cette exposition (bijoux, statues, stèles...) n'ont jamais été vues. Elles proviennent pour la moitié du Soudan, le reste étant prêté par de grands musées internationaux." info: video report [2:09 mins.] at URL "À loccasion de cette première exposition consacrée à Méroé, capitale d'un empire puissant installé sur les rives du Nil, deux cents oeuvres illustrent la majesté de cette civilisation antique où se mêlent des influences africaines, égyptiennes et gréco-romaines." info: English press report at URL info: English press report at URL With outlines of the history and culture of Meroe. info: English press report at URL Overview of the past misisons to Meroe, and info on Meroitic art and culture. * "Art contemporain - William Kentridge" date: July 1 - August 30, 2010 info: URL "Le thème de l'Egypte ancienne apparaît dans l'ouvre de William Kentridge dès 2004 alors qu'il travaille à l'élaboration de la mise en scène pour l'opéra de la Flute enchantée. Cette invitation du Louvre permet à l'artiste d'invoquer de nouveau l'univers de l'Egypte ancienne mais également de s'intéresser aux campagnes napoléoniennes menées à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Une vidéo, conçue spécialement pour le musée à partir des dessins exposés dans la salle d'actualité du département des Arts graphiques, sera projetée dans la salle 26 du département des Antiquités égyptiennes." info: English press report at URL b) Parc Technologique La Pardieu 11 avenue Léonard-de-Vinci, F-63063 Clermont-Fd Cedex 1 * "Foire Internationale de Clermont-Cournon" date: September 4 - 13, 2010 There are some 1000 replicas of the tomb of Tutankhamun in one section of this trade fair. info: URL info: French press report at URL c) Château de Gordes Parc naturel régional du Luberon, département de Vaucluse, région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. * "Égypte. Grandes expéditions aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles" date: June 25, 2010 - September 26, 2010 Exhibition for the occasion of the bicentennial anniversary of the “Description de l’Égypte”; it has essentially three parts: the first will present the Egypt Campaign of Napoleon, the second will show the important, often large books published following this military action (Description de l’Égypte, Vivant Denon’s Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte, Monuments de l’Égypte et la Nubie of Champollion and Rosellini, as well as books from Lepsius and Prisse d’Avennes), and the third part will be a walk-through of Egypt, visiting the most important sites shown in the Description de l’Égypte. In this part, one will also be able to see a 3D virtual restitution of the Amarna region. The exhibition will also present for the first time in France the drawings of the French Jean-Baptiste Lepère, member of the Napoleon expedition. These documents have been forgotten during the last 200 years, and have been revealed for the first time at the Wallraf-Richartz- Museum of Cologne, during an exhibition held there from Oct. 10, 2009 until Januari 10, 2010. info: French press reports at URL URL info: the catalogue will be published as a collector's issue of the Egyptology magazine “Egypt, Afrique et Orient”, June 2010 (168 p. - 16 €) with texts from Thierry-Louis Bergerot, Sydney H. Aufrère, comte Jean-Louis Morand, Eric Gady, Françoise Labrique, Florence Saragoza, Jean-Luc Bovot, Yohann Thibaudault and Christian E. Loeben. URL d) Musée Champollion - Les Écritures du Monde Place Champollion, 46100 Figeac tél. : 05 65 50 31 08 http://www.ville-figeac.fr/Culture/Musee/culture_musee_intro.htm * "Champollion en personne" date: June 17, 2010 - October 31, 2010 About the work, person and private life of Jean-François Champollion. info: URL URL URL --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) Musée royal de Mariemont Chaussée de Mariemont, 100, 7140 Morlanwelz tel.: + 32 (0)64 21 21 93; info@musee-mariemont.be URL * "Mémoires d'Orient - Du Hainaut à Héliopolis" date: May 7, 2010 - October 15, 2010 The exhibition will link ancient traditions of the Province of Hainaut (Mithra, Isis) through Orientalists, leading to the foundation, at the beginning of the 20th century, of Heliopolis by baron Empain. It will present his influence and other Belgian companies' influences in Egypt (tramways, bridges, metallic constructions). A catalogue of 350 pages, written by more than 20 authors, will detail all these topics. info: some French info on Empain and modern Heliopolis may be found at URL --SPAIN-- a) Casa de Campo Pabellón XII Av. de Portugal s/n, 28042 Madrid * "Tutankhamon. La tumba y sus tesoros" [Tutankhamun - the tomb and its treasures] date: May 21, 2010 - October 17, 2010 Travelling exhibition with replicas that earlier was at the Museo Marítimo, Barcelona (June 6 - October 4, 2009). info: URL info: Spanish press report at URL info: English press report at URL "(..) The exhibition began in 2008 in Zurich and Brno and was then duplicated in 2009 so that it can run simultaneously in different cities. At the moment it can be seen in Madrid and Hamburg. (..)" b) Museu Egipci / Museo Egipcio de Barcelona València, 284, E-08007 Barcelona tel.: (34) 93 488 01 88, fax: (34) 93 487 80 60 http://www.museuegipci.com/ * "Los Secretos del Museu Egipci de Barcelona" [The Secrets of the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona] date: July 20, 2010 - December 30, 2010 On display are more than 180 objects from the Colección Arqueológica Egipcia Jordi Clos, inlcuding 19th c. photographs and books, AE jewelry and cosmetics, and canopes. info: Spanish press reports (among many) at URL URL info: Spanish press report with slideshow/photo gallery at URL c) - d) Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Alicante (MARQ) Plza. Dr. Gómez Ulla, s/n. 03013 Alicante http://www.marqalicante.com/ * "Seramón. El enigma de la momia y sus amuletos. El rito funerario en el antiguo Egipto [Seramon. The riddle of the mummy and his amulets. Funerary rites in ancient Egypt] date: March 26, 2010 - October 17, 2010 Ca. 260 objects from several museums will illustrate the funerary cult of the Ancient Egyptians. Highlights will be the mummies of the priest Seramon and Ankhpakhered and their sarcophagi. info: (in Spanish) URL URL info: (in Catalan) URL info: press report, including a slideshow, at URL "... los visitantes del museo alicantino podrán apreciar más de 250 piezas y esculturas con más de mil años de antigüedad ... La muestra está dividida en tres secciones en las que se representan la vida y la muerte, la momificación y el viaje hacia el más allá (Osiris, Ankhpakhered y Seramon). Los objetos más preciados del recorrido son los sepulcros de Ankhpakhered y Seramon ... La exposición se complementa con objetos egipcios hallados en la provincia de Alicante." info: another press report at URL info: URL info: English press report at URL info: Spanish press reports at URL "Unas 200 piezas llegaron en la tarde noche del jueves a Alicante procedentes del museo del Louvre de París y del de Besançon. Y las estrellas son las momias de Seramon y Ankhpakhered, restauradas para la ocasión." URL info: Spanish press report at URL info: French press report at URL "Grâce à une mise en scène originale et des ressources interactives, le MARQ fait revivre l'histoire de Seramon et Ankhpakhered et se penche sur les questions de la momification, du sens de la symbolique de l'embaumement et de la représentation de l'au-delà dans l'Egypte Ancienne. L'exposition s'oriente autour de trois grands thèmes : le monde des vivants, la momification et l'enterrement, et le temps du défunt et le voyage vers l'au-delà." * "Objetos egipcios en Alicante" [Egyptian objects in Alicante] date: March - October, 2010 Exhibition of Egyptian objects in Alicante accompanying the exhibition "Elenigma de la momia". info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL One third of the pieces are from Villajoyosa Museum. "One of the pieces loaned is a Phoenician medallion in gold with Pharaonic symbols (..) Another example is an Egyptian water bottle from the new year, made 600 years BC in Sais, the Egyptian capital during the dynasty XXVI; a unique piece in the Iberian peninsula. Also the Villajoyosa museum gave another necropolis piece from Poble Nou and Casetes-Creueta (an example of an amulet that would be placed with a dead person to ensure eternal life). Antonio Espinosa explained that amongst the pieces given is a sphinx with wings, with the head of Bes and feathers (..)" e) Museu Arqueologic de Catalunya Passeig de Santa Madrona, 39-41 Barcelona * "El proyecto Monthemhat: Las momias olvidadas" [Project Monthemhat: The forgotten mummies] date: March 5, 2010 - September 5, 2010 About the research done on the 18 TIP mummies that were found to be stored in the tomb of governor Monthemhat in Luxor. info: English press report at URL info: Spanish press report (with lecture programme) at URL --AUSTRALIA-- a) Nicholson Museum Quadrangle A14, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 URL * "Egyptians, Gods & Mummies: Travels with Herodotus" date: August 26, 2009 - end of 2010 [was: July 12, 2009 - TBA] info: press report at URL "(..) will feature Egyptian artefacts including centuries-old mummified bodies, cats, birds and a crocodile. It will also feature a 4-tonne 4000-year-old granite column capital of the goddess Hathor from the Temple of Bastet in Bubastis. (..) The exhibition will only use the words of Herodutus to describe aspects of the Egypt of this time. (..) The exhibition will also feature ground-breaking colour 3-D CT-scanned images recently taken on a 2000-year-old Nicholson child mummy --CHILE-- a) Estación de Metro Quinta Normal Santiago de Chile * "Panubis, del antiguo Egipto a la eternidad" [Panubis, from AE to eternity] date: May 27 - August 28, 2010 Coffins, mummies and other objects of AE will be displayed in the Metro station "Quinta Normal". This exhibition was in the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN) in Santiago, Chile, last year. info: URL, URL info: press report at URL info: video report about the exhibition in the MNHN [1:25 mins.] URL ---SWITZERLAND--- a) - b) Museum Rietberg Gablerstrasse 15, CH-8002 Zürich tel.: +41 (0)44 206 31 31, fax: +41 (0)44 206 31 32 * "Falken, Katzen, Krokodile - Tiere im Alten Ägypten" [Falcons, Cats, Crocodiles - Animals in AE] date: June 24 - November 17, 2010 About 100 representations of animals in AE from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Egyptian Museum, Cairo can be seen in this exhibition. info: URL info: press report with photographs at URL info: press reports at URL "Le Metropolitan Museum de New York et le Musée égyptien du Caire ont conçu une exposition très réussie, faite de petits objets." URL Has photos of artefacts. info: German press report at URL "Vor fünfzehn Jahren präsentierte das New Yorker Metropolitan Museum of Art die Ausstellung «An Ancient Egyptian Bestiary: Animals in Egyptian Art» aus den Beständen der eigenen Sammlung. Im Museum Rietberg ist diese Schau nun erneut zu sehen, erweitert durch Werke aus dem ägyptischen Museum in Kairo." c) Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum Museumstrasse 50, CH-9000 St.Gallen tel: +41 (0)71 242 06 42, fax +41 (0)71 242 06 44 * "Im Banne Ägyptens. Begegnungen mit der Ewigkeit" [Spellbound by Egypt. Encounters with Eternity] date: June 19 - September 17, 2010 This exhibition will show Egyptian treasures from Swiss museums and collections, including a large sarcophagus and a mummified crocodile. info: press report at URL --POLAND-- a) - --HUNGARY-- a) - ---SERBIA--- a) TBA, Belgrade * "Pharaoh's Treasure" date: TBA, 2010 Exhibition with 63 objects from the Egyptian Museum. info: press report at URL --MEXICO-- 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 b) Prague Castle's Riding School Hall * TBA date: Spring to Autumn 2012 Some 200 top-value artifacts from Cairo Museum, complemented by exhibits from European collections of Egyptian art. Organized by Charles University's Egyptology Institute in cooperation with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo info: press report at URL --SWEDEN-- a) - --NORWAY-- a) - --JAPAN--- a) Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum 3-1-1 Omoromachi, Naha City, Okinawa 900-0006 tel.: 098.941.8200, fax: 098.941.2392 * "Mummies' Mystery of the Ancient Egypt" date: June 25 - August 20, 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. This exhibition was shown under the title "Fascinantes momies d'Égypte" in Quebec (April 22, 2009 - April 5, 2010). It will now travel through Japan: Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art (September 19, 2010 -), Takasaki City Gallery (April 20, 2011 -), Okayama Orient Museum (July 2 - August 31, 2011). It will then go to Europe (Rotterdam, Edinburg, Barcelona). info: (in Japanese) URL info: French press report at URL info: English press report at URL b) Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art 53-2, Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka City 422-8002 Shizuoka Pref. * "Ancient Egypt in Torino" date: June 12 - August 22, 2010 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. Previous venues were Tokyo, Sendai, Fukuoka, and Kobe (2009-2010). info: (in Japanese) URL info: (in English) URL info: Japanese website about the travelling exhibition at URL --RUSSIA-- a) - ---CHINA--- a) Expo 2010 Shanghai China http://en.expo2010.cn/ * "Shanghai World Expo: Egypt Pavillion" date: May 1 - October 31, 2010 info: URL info: press report at URL Eight priceless pieces of ancient Egyptian antiquities will be on display, like the Gold Broad Collar of Ahhotep with Hawak End-Pieces, the Gold Mask of Sheshonq, the limestone Dayed Statue of Nebneheh and Bakyarti, and the Limestone Block Statue of Amenmessu with a small Figure of Sobek. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(..) Nearly 14,000 people were visiting the show per day. (..)" info: English press report at URL info: press report at URL "For the sake of protecting the relics, only thirty visitors will be allowed in at one time." info: English press report with slideshow at URL info: French slideshow at URL info: English press report at URL "The Egyptian Museum of Shanghai World Expo held its opening ceremony in the evening of May 11th . The Egypt center plans to display eight treasures, of which seven have already appeared in the Egyptian Museum. These include: the gold eagle collar-shaped fastener of the queen He Tepu [read: Ahhotep]; the Nibeilehe and Bake Na' double statue [read: Nebneheh and Bakyarti]; the column of the god of love, inscribed with the name Apries; the enormous statue of the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV wearing a striped scarf and the feather of Aeolus Pharaoh Hugh [duh]; the brick statue of Pharaoh Amen Maisu [read: Amenmessu] with the decoration of Sobek pattern; the statue of Pasal minister, who kneeled and held the ram head of the altar and the statue of the secretary decorated with the name of Pharaoh Merenptah." With photo of gold collar. info: French press reports, that describe the Egyptian pavillion in some detail, at URL URL URL info: press report at URL "(..) Egypt’s 1,000-square-meter pavilion (..) looks like some lost spaceship which had landed in Shanghai by mistake and was now trying to avoid notice by disguising itself as a pavilion. While I am not a big fan of our pavilion’s design, I do think anything that is not Ancient Egyptian kitsch is huge progress. I was excited to see there was no Tutankhamun or other notable pharaohs outside to welcome visitors. The excitement was short-lived. (..) Other than the antiquities, the pavilion’s major attraction was the gift shop sponsored by the Luxor governorate. (..) Our Pharaonic past has no need for further promotion. I was hoping that Egypt would promote something future-oriented that would fit better with the expo’s theme, such as opportunities for clean energy, medical tourism, the nation’s growing economy and investment opportunities, or its booming ICT industry. (..)" info: press report "Journée du pavillon d'Egypte" at URL "La République arabe d'Egypte se dévoile aux visiteurs à l'occasion de la journée de son pavillon national à l'Expo universelle de Shanghaï ce vendredi." [new] info: press report "Egypte ancienne et hiéroglyphes" at URL "Lorsque vous visiterez le pavillon égyptien à l'Expo universelle de Shanghaï, ne soyez pas complètement distraits par les huit anciennes reliques. Sur place, vous pourrez également apprécier une démonstration de calligraphie des anciens caractères du pays, datant d'il y a plus de 5000 ans ..." (XI) COURSES AND TRIPS --COURSES--- * "Ancient Egyptian History. Let's start from the beginning" Following the course at the British Museum this year I would like to offer a course on ancient Egyptian history covering the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom period. The offices of Egypt Exploration Society at Doughty Mews, which is easily accessible from Russell Square Underground station, are prepared to rent a room for the purpose of the course. This would be an excellent venue, as we will be able to use their extensive library and their facilities to make tea/coffee. The course will include Egyptological exercises on a variety of topics prepared by me with the aim to be interactive. I have my own slide projector and laptop to show slides and will be able to facilitate the Internet when necessary. We will visit both the Petrie and British Museum when the need arises. I hope you will find this of interest and will want to enrol. The course will cost GBP180 and run for 20 weeks on Tuesdays 11.00 -12.45, commencing 5th October 2010. For further information: email * "Emergence of Egyptian Civilisation: from Predynastic to Early Dynastic" tutor: Lucia Gahlin. dates: six Friday evenings, October 1-November 5, 2010, 7:30-9pm venue: Bristol Grammar School info: email costs: ca. GBP27-GBP44 (depending on amount of students) * ACCES (the Association of Curators of collections for Egypt and the Sudan, UK) will be running free practical workshops for non-specialist curators in three areas of Egyptian/Sudanese collections, in November 2010 (London), January 2011 (Liverpool), and May 2011 (Norwich). Information: URL * A new Egyptology course offered this summer by UC Berkeley extension, and taught by Dr. Teresa Moore: "Horizons of Eternity: The Theban Royal Necropoleis" URL Berkeley, June 19 to July 31, 10 am-1 pm, 6 meetings * A new Egyptology course offered this summer by Stanford Continuing Studies, and taught by Dr. Patrick Hunt: "Egyptian Art and Archaeology (ARC 14)" URL Wednesdays, June 23 - July 28, 7:00 - 8:50 pm, 6 weeks [Submitted by John Sarr] * A summer course in Portland, Oregon, USA: "Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs" (Course Number: 33263) Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, SCB 201 Mondays, 21 June 2010 - 16 August 2010, 6:30 PM-8:30 PM Text: "How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs" by Collier and Manley Tuition: $99.00 Info: email [Submitted by Lucia Gahlin] * News from Bloomsbury Summer School: stimulating 5-day courses exploring Ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean World, combining lectures, visits and social events. You can now peruse our course timetables on our website: URL [Submitted by Suzanne Bojtos] * The third annual Birkbeck Summer School will deal with Egypt's interactions with other nations of the Ancient Near East and Africa: "Ancient Egypt and her Neighbours" Monday 21st June to Friday 25th June 2010, 10.00 am-5.00 pm Birkbeck College, Malet Street Tutors: Rosalind Janssen, Diana Stein, Suzanne Lax-Bojtos, Carol Andrews, Frans van Koppen, Frances Welsh, Carol Downer, Joseph Clayton, Lorna Oakes, Mary Bywater, Silvie Zamazalova, George Hart. Fee: £200 / £230.00 Enrolment info: URL For the programme, contact email [Submitted by Glenn Meyer] * A new Egyptology course offered this summer by UC Berkeley extension, and taught by Dr. Teresa Moore. "Horizons of Eternity: The Theban Royal Necropoleis" 6 meetings, June 19 to July 31,2010, $325 URL [Submitted by Lucia Gahlin] * News from Bloomsbury Summer School: -- This year our summer courses held in July 2010 at UCL in London will be: "Living in Lahun: Private Life in Ancient Egypt" with Kasia Szpakowska "Hieroglyphs: the Next Step" with José-Ramon Pérez-Accino "Ancient Egyptian Religion: Myths, Beliefs and Rituals" with George Hart "Ancient Egyptian Literature: Expressing an Ordered World" with José-Ramon Pérez-Accino "Exploring the Petrie Museum III: Technology and the Presentation of the Individual in Ancient Egypt" with Jan Picton and Janet Johnstone "Digging Up Egypt's Past: Archaeologists and our Understanding of Ancient Egypt" with Chris Naunton "Crime and Punishment in Ancient Egypt" with Karen Exell "Entrepreneurs and Empires: Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age" with Thomas Kiely -- Our BSS in Egypt course in November this year will be: "This is How One Lives at Thebes!" The Life and Works of the Theban Royal Tomb Makers with John Romer. This course will be taught in Luxor; lectures will be combined with site visits. -- For further information : URL email +44 (0)207 679 3622 [Submitted by Glenn Godenho] * The School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) is pleased to announce its Summer School Programme for 2010 (26th July to 6th August). This year, summer school courses will be available in two subject areas: Classics and Egyptology. -- Classics Summer School (Latin and Greek Language) The Classics summer school will provide participants with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the language of their choice (Greek or Latin). The summer school will be run over two weeks: the first week’s teaching will be at Beginner level, and the second week at Intermediate level. -- Egyptology Summer School The Egyptology Summer School will comprise two parts, focussing on the language and culture of ancient Egypt, with particular emphasis on Ramesside Egypt. In the first week, participants will learn about the art, history and religion under the rule of the Ramesses Pharaohs through a series of lectures and interactive seminars. The second week’s teaching will be language based: the course will introduce the hieroglyphic script and the ancient Egyptian language at Beginner level and will allow participants to read from a selection of ancient Egyptian funerary texts. -- Participants are welcome to sign up for either or both parts of the courses. The Summer School will be taught throughout by staff and scholars from the University of Liverpool who are experts on Greek/Latin, and at the cutting edge of research on Ramesside Egypt. For prices, booking forms and any further details, please contact the organisers: Tel. 0151 794 2475, email * ICCROM announces that the 14th International Course on Wood Conservation Technology - ICWCT 2010 will be held in Oslo, Norway from 24 May - 2 July 2010. One of the main objectives of the course is to give participants the theoretical and practical knowledge essential for diagnosing the causes of deterioration and for selecting the most appropriate methods of conservation and restoration of wood. Applications should reach ICCROM by the 29 January 2010, Participation is free of charge for the selected participants. Applicants should be mid-career professionals with a minimum of three years work experience in wood conservation. (#) info: URL * 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-- * Info on a trip that is being run for ARCE Orange County: URL The trip has no fewer than 16 special permits on it for opening closed tombs and sites and also includes participation by a great array of experts. The tour will be raising money for sites in Egypt. * The Archaeological Institute of America organizes the following 15 days tour: "Egyptian Odyssey", October 3-17, 2009, with Egyptologist Edwin (Ted) Brock. URL --FIELD SCHOOLS-- * (&) Tell el-Amarna Field Program in Archaeological Geophysics Program Dates: Jan 08, 2011 - Feb 18, 2011 The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas are excited to announce the Tell el-Amarna Field Program in Archaeological Geophyics. As part of this program, students will use the latest in ground-based remote sensing technologies to reveal the secrets of the sacred city built by Pharaoh Akhenaten for the sun-god. Students will spend six weeks at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, the once great capital city of Egypt located halfway between Cairo and Luxor where they will explore the well-preserved ruins of this great city and receive hands-on experience using non-invasive archaeological techniques including surface survey and near-surface geophysical prospection. Work will concentrate on the North City, where they will map buried archaeological features using magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar. The course is worth 12 units of UCLA credit. Scholarships are available! Visit the sites below for more information Cotsen Institute at UCLA site - URL University of Arkansas site - URL * (&) Archaeology Field School (Ethnoarchaeology) in Egypt: "Ceramic Analysis in Fayum Project" 2010-10-10 to 2010-11-06 Directors and Instructors: Dr. Hans Barnard and Ms. Sonali Gupta-Agarwal info: URL * (&) 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 +++ ==================================================================== Please send any contributions to: A. K. 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. 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