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EEF NEWS (703) =================== d.d. January 26, 2012 (II Shemu 11)
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, Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Danmark, Switzerland, Russia, Austria, Hungary, New Zealand, China, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Israel (X) Exhibitions on Ancient Egypt USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Egypt, Italy, France, Israel, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Mexico, Switzerland, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Brazil, Czech Republic, Danmark, Luxembourg, Japan, India, Taiwan, Venezuela, Finland, Chile, Korea (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: Irene el Khorazaty [(I) - Egypt (g)]; Richard Barritt [(I) - UK (o)]; Ingrid van Sprakelaar [(II) - USA (z)(zj), UK (b), Spain (l)]; Kat Newkirk [(II) - USA (n), UK (o)]; Bjorn Koopmans [(II) - USA (a)(i), UK (o)]; Michael Tilgner [(II) - France (f)] ========================================================================== +++ (I) NEW: LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS --UK-- o) University of London * Study Day: "The Writings of Ancient Egypt" A study day presented by Joyce Filer. date: Saturday, February 18, 2012; 11am - 5pm place: Hughes-Parry Hall (The Garden Halls), 19-26 Cartwright Gardens, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 9 EF costs: GBP 40; booking before February 3 info: (with link to booking form) URL info: email * Study Day: "Warfare in Ancient Egypt" A study day presented by Joyce Filer. date: Saturday, March 31, 2012; 11am - 5pm place: Hughes-Parry Hall (The Garden Halls), 19-26 Cartwright Gardens, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 9 EF costs: GBP 40; booking before March 15 info: (with link to booking form) URL info: email --EGYPT-- g) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo * "1001 Books: Ludwig Keimer's Oldest Travel Literature", by Isolde Lehnert (DAIK Librarian) . Lecture at the occassion of the re-opening (on Sunday, February 5, 2012) of the DAIK Library after 8 months of renovation work. Followed by a reception. date: Tuesday, February 7, 2012; 6 p.m. place: 31, Sh. Abu el-Feda, 11211 Cairo-Zamalek info: email info: URL ---- For previously listed lectures and conferences, see section IX below. +++ (II) NEW: EXHIBITIONS --USA-- [update] a) Reading Public Museum Ancient Civilizations Gallery 500 Museum Road, West Reading * "Nefrina's World" date: through January 2013 [new] info: press report at URL "(..) The University of Pennsylvania (..) bought the mummy, its coffin and the mask from an antiquities dealer in 1893. In 1930, it agreed to let the Reading museum borrow the mummy and coffin for display. But it insisted on keeping the mask, even after the museum bought the mummy outright in 1949. The museum has been trying to borrow the mask since 1993. (..) Lynn Grant, the university's head conservator (..) said she had to repair several tears in the hair, forehead and nose of the mask made of cartonnage - a mixture of linen, plaster, papyrus and other pliable materials - and covered in gold leaf. She also had to stabilize the paint, to keep it from flaking after more than 2,200 years. (..) Grant said the university plans to put it on exhibit in its own gallery when it returns from Reading. (..)" [update] i) The Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496 URL * "Opening the Vaults: Mummies" date: February 17, 2012 - April 22, 2012. [new] info: press report at URL [update] n) Joslyn Art Museum 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68102-1292 * "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum date: February 11, 2012 - June 3, 2012 [new] info: URL With two videos on mummies, plus event programme. [new] info: press report at URL [update] z) Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey, 434 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1390 * "Karanis Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt" date: September 16, 2011 - May 6, 2012 [new] info: URL [update] zj) California Science Center 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles CA 90037 * "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" [new] date: May 23 [was: 19], 2012 - December 31, 2012 [was: TBA] [new] info: URL With video. --UK-- [update] b) Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB * "Triumph, protection and dreams: The East African headrest in context" [new] date: September 20, 2011 - February 5, 2012 [prolongation; was: till January 21, 2012] info: URL [update] o) Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3DH *"Pharaoh: King of Egypt" [new] date: July 14 [was: 7], 2012 - October 14, 2012 [new] info: press report at URL --FRANCE-- f) Palais des sports Le Gosier, Guadeloupe * "Au temps de Pharaon" [In the times of the Pharaoh] date: February 3-19, 2012 This small exhibition consists of a replica of the tomb of Sennedjem, some 50 panels with information about mummification and Pharaonic medicine, mummies, ushebtis and canopic jars. info: URL info: press report at URL info: Dossier pédagogique - 10 pp. - pdf-file (2.2 MB) URL --SPAIN-- [update] b) Museu Egipci / Museo Egipcio de Barcelona València, 284, E-08007 Barcelona * "Moda y belleza en el Antiguo Egipto" [Fashion and Beauty in Ancient Egypt] date: October 20, 2011 - July 20, 2012 [new] info: press report at URL [update] l) CaixaForum Plaza de Weyler, 3, 07001 Palma de Mallorca * "Otro Egipto. Colecciones coptas del Museu del Louvre" [The Other Egypt: The Coptic Collections of the Louvre Museum] [new] date: February 16 [was:15], 2012 - May 6, 2012 [new] info: URL The opening lecture is on February 15. --JAPAN-- [update] c) Tempozan Special Gallery 1-5-10 Kaigan-Dori, Minato-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, 552-0002 URL * "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" date: March 17, 2012 - June 3, 2012 [new] info: English press report at URL "(..) During the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, Japan celebrated the arrival of the collection and the 150th anniversary of the first Samurai delegation to Egypt. (..)" ------ 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.] +++ (IV) READ ON THE WEB --NEWSPAPER REPORTS ONLINE-- * German press video with images (taped by Dr Susanne Bickel) of work inside KV64 and of the opening of the coffin: URL * Press report: "Czech archaeologists discover long-lost temple in Sudan" URL "Czech archaeologists have found a long lost temple from the Meroe period near the town of Vad Bon Naga in Sudan, Pavel Onderka, from Prague's Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures, told journalists yesterday. The large temple compound is situated 130 km northwards of Khartoum. European travellers saw the remains of the temple in the early 19th century but then the temple disappeared in the desert, said Onderka who leads the Czech archaeology expedition. He said the Czech expedition revealed a signet ring with a picture of Nubian Lion god Apede-mak, a statuette of the originally Egyptian god Osiris, a stone with a Meroe hieroglyphs and parts of sandstone blocks. (..) In the Meroe Kingdom period, from the 4th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D., the site hosted one of the ancient Nubia's biggest towns, Arabikeleb. Around the turn of the millennium, a big palace and at least five temples were built in the town with 25,000 inhabitants. (...)" * One more of the artefacts that were missing from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo since the January Revolution has been recovered: a statuette of Bastet! The Museum kindly confirmed that it indeed concerns JE 36598 on EMC's Missing Items List. The arrest of the suspects is reported in this Arabic press report: URL This means that 29 items are still missing. An updated list should soon appear at the SCA website: URL (Due to practical problems with the SCA website, it currently carries the List d.d. May 3, 2011, so still including the two items refound in August (JE 26083 and JE 31720) and the current recovery (JE 36598), but updated versions of the List had been sent by the Museum to INTERPOL, UNESCO, ICOM, the Egyptian police and army, etc.) [Submitted by Bjorn Koopmans and Kat Newkirk] * Press report: "Egyptians gave ibis birds a packed lunch for the afterlife" URL "Ancient Egyptians paid special attention to the organs of their dead, embalming them so they would continue to function in the afterlife. Now it seems they did the same for sacrificed ibis birds, and even packed their stomachs with food so they wouldn't go hungry. (..) Andrew Wade at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and his colleagues used a CT scanner to look inside two mummified adult ibises and one hatchling. This revealed that embalmers had removed their internal organs. The adult gizzards, complete with snail shells which may have come from the birds' last meals, were then replaced. The hatchling's body cavity had been stuffed with grain. Studies of human mummies show that ancient Egyptians often removed and embalmed the lungs and digestion organs before placing them back inside the body – perhaps so they might work in the afterlife. The ibis mummies suggest Egyptians believed that birds also travelled to the afterlife, says Wade. "It suggests the provision of an afterlife food source to the bird," he says, "and lends support to the idea that the viscera of ibises and humans alike were meant to continue their living function within the afterlife." " -- Another press report: URL -- The study is: Andrew D. Wadea, et al., "Foodstuff placement in ibis mummies and the role of viscera in embalming", online in advance of print at the Journal of Archaeological Science: URL The article is not for free, but you may find here the abstract as well as photos of CT scans showing the packets of snails and seeds. -- PS: Also in advance of print (abstract for free, and with some Supplementarty material online) on the same JAS website: Yoshinari Abe, etc al, "Transition in the use of cobalt-blue colorant in the New Kingdom of Egypt" URL Cobalt-blue colorant in glass and faiance of the 18th dyn. had as source cobaltiferous alum from the Western Oases of Egypt. Cobalt-blue glass was much more rare in the Ramesside Period (19th-20th dyn.) and had a different cobalt source. [Next two items submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Press report: "Ägyptische Tonkonserve" URL Interview with Susanne Bickel about the discovery of KV 64. * Press report: "Egypte ancienne : quand les trésoriers étaient chefs d'expéditions.." URL "Et si l'ancêtre des trésoriers avait grandi sur les bords du Nil ? L'égyptologue Pierre Tallet, maître de conférences à la Sorbonne, évoque pour New-cfo, un personnage extrêmement important dans l'administration des pharaons. Avec un rôle plutôt insolite : celui d'organiser de véritables expéditions pour aller, aux confins de l'Empire, extraire les matières précieuses et reconstituer, à intervalles réguliers, le Trésor !" Interview with Pierre Tallet. [Next two items submitted by Bob Bianchi] * Press report: "The Minister State of Antiquities visits the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir" URL "On his visit to check on the security procedures at the Egyptian Museum, Minister State of Antiquities (..) Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim says (..) that the museum may be re-opened for visitors tomorrow (Thursday), as it was closed for the third day on Wednesday 25th, if the situation was stable in Tahrir Square. The minister is following the current status in the sites all over Egypt and he is reassured that all museums, storages or sites are totally safe. " -- The Museum was closed for three days (23-25), for security measures, with an eye on the celebrations of the 1st anniversary of the January 25 Revolution: URL "(..) Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim explained that the museum was closed in order to tight security measures all over it during the gala ceremony held at the square to celebrate the anniversary of Egypt Revolution. “In case if any chaos had happened the museum would be better secured and protected,” Ibrahim pointed out. (..)" Cp this Arabic report: URL -- On the 25th, the Minister opened the new Suez National Museum: (press report in Arabic) URL * Press report: "Egypt's Plans for Luxor: Vegas on the Nile?" URL "(..) Adds Mansour Boraik, who oversees Upper Egypt for for the country's Supreme Council of Antiquities, "30% of world monuments lie in Luxor, and 70% of the monuments in Egypt are in Luxor." (..) The plan is to turn the city into an open air museum by the year 2030. "Luxor needs a pioneer project like this to preserve it for the new generation," says Boraik of the ongoing work. However, all this construction may be at the expense of the current generation of Egyptians living in Luxor. On the project's agenda is the creation of protective "buffer zones" between local communities and the ancient relics. That is, as some critics suggest, keeping the natives away from the treasures.(..). Many of Luxor's residents have watched the transformation with disgust. "Ninety percent of the people here are angry, but there is nothing they can do," says Abu Quzaifa, a shopkeeper. Much of the anger lately has swirled around the Avenue of the Sphinxes, where the mass displacement is currently focused. (..) Some experts say that many of the sphinxes were destroyed over the millennia, hacked to pieces or harvested for stone by the civilizations that followed the Pharaohs. "[Egyptian authorities] were told that by every archaeologist and Egyptologist: that if they found anything, it was going to be fragmentary," says the British archaeologist. The plan moved forward anyway." Says one Egyptologist: "There's nothing there." (..)" With examples and opinions. [Submitted by Jan Bailey, Bob Bianchi and Bjorn Koopmans] * New blog entry by Dr Zahi Hawass, about his current activities: URL "(..). I even agreed to travel to Australia and New Zealand at the end of May to give some public lectures. (..) In addition to giving talks, I have been writing a great deal - something that I love doing very much. I have written a new book about Tutankhamun which will be published in Japanese, and later will be published for the iPad. My book on antiquities and the 2011 Revolution is almost finished. I have just finished chapter 13, and I still need to write two more chapters. These two chapters will be the most important ones in the book. I will publish this book first in English, and then in Arabic. At the same time, I am working on a few scientific articles. (..)" [Submitted by Michael Tilgner (1) and Bob Bianchi (2)] * Some items on Egyptomania (ancient and modern): -- Stéphanie Briaud (Université de Montréal) tells about the scholarly discipline "isiacology": URL "(..) On définit alors comme isiaque le culte hors d'Égypte d'une douzaine de divinités appartenant à un même cercle mythique, cultuel et liturgique, originaires de la vallée du Nil, à savoir Horus, Hydreios, Isis, Osiris et Sarapis... (..)" -- We have cheerfully ignored them till now, those 'Bosnian pyramids', but this report gives a critical recap of the issue: URL [Submitted by Bjorn Koopmans (1), Kat Newkirk (1), Bob Bianchi (2), and Michael Tilgner (4)] * Some Travel/Tourism items: -- Report about a recent Tourism conference: URL "(....) Since revolution erupted on 25 January 2011, Egypt's tourism sector – which had been generating more than £8bn a year and was believed to employ one in eight of the workforce – has been decimated. The upshot, revealed Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, Egypt's tourism minister, on Saturday, has been a £2.5bn decrease fall in tourism revenue alongside 32% fewer visitors, with the capital – which has played host to most of the street fighting in recent months – taking the brunt. "We are living through an unprecedented crisis in the history of this sector," said the minister (..) Industry insiders believe the reality is worse than official claims. On Monday it emerged that officials have included Libyans fleeing war and Palestinians from Gaza taking advantage of relaxed border controls at Rafah in the tourist tally. Some experts say the actual decrease in holidaymakers is closer to 50%, though the ministry denies any discrepancies. (..) Assistant [hotel] director Tarek Lotfy [says:] "With supply far outstripping demand, everybody is forced to drop prices and compete aggressively for business. That means average revenue per tourist drops as well and, as a result, a huge range of industries – from farms, to retail shops, to factories – are affected. I can show you milk plants which are operating at 10% of their capacity because orders from hotels and cruise ships have dried up." (..)" -- Another press report on the decline in tourism: URL "(..) "My life is at the pyramids and my job is at the pyramids. My family eats because of the pyramids,” says Farag Abdul Hanima, a third-generation horse and camel tour operator in Giza. The slowdown in tourists has forced Hanima to sell all but six of the horses in his stable, which once held 35 animals. He refers to 2011 as a "black year" for business. (..)" -- And a Frence press report about the 2011 tourism stats: URL -- Audio report: "Steigende Preise und keine Touristen" [4:28 mins.] URL "Die Revolution in Ägypten hat die Wirtschaft zum Erliegen gebracht. Ein Jahr später kämpft Ägypten mit steigenden Preisen und ausbleibenden Touristen. (..)" --MISCELLANEOUS-- [Submitted by Bjorn Koopmans] * Some highlights of the Dig Diary of the Amara West mission in progress: -- Amara West 2012: a first Kerma period burial discovered URL "Excavation of tumulus G308 in cemetery D at Amara West revealed a grave roughly three metres in diameter, with an interior structure of a type typical of the Kerma period. The interior of the grave is circular, consisting of two steps leading down towards a smaller circular grave pit in the southwest corner. (..)" With photos. -- Amara West 2012: street life in the ancient town URL "(..) The street deposits are packed with small potsherds, eroded by foot traffic and exposure to the elements. There are also the likely remnants of animal manure and waste from craft production, including mall scattered spreads of red and white pigment around the door into house E13.4. The street functioned as something of an informal, small-scale rubbish dump. (..)" With photos. -- Amara West 2012: nice objects among archaeological puzzles URL "(..) Less common are fine faience artefacts, an example of which turned up this week – we recovered a small but very finely carved scarab which depicts a representation of the king as a sphinx, a classic symbol of pharaonic power, with the name Menkheperra before it. This was one of the names of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC), popular on amulets and scarabs long after his death. (...)" With large photo of scarab. * On the Manchester Museum blog: "A safe return from a voyage. to Venezuela!" URL "(..) Yesterday, conservators checked up on the condition of Sheri-ankh's mummy [priestess, early Ptolemaic Period] and her finely painted and gilded coffin. Both were given to the Manchester Museum by Salford Museum in 1979, and bear their original number: [Salford] EA7 . They have just returned from a loan to Caracas in Venezuela. Accompanied by conservator Jenny Discombe, the crated mummy and coffin landed in Caracas via Frankfurt in May 2011. (..)" With photos of coffin. [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * M. Betrò, Dra Abu el-Naga 2011. Rapporto preliminare della XI campagna di scavo dell'Università di Pisa / Preliminary Report of the University of Pisa 11th Field Season URL "The 11th field season of the Archaeological Expedition at Dra Abu el-Naga, in the area of Theban Tomb 14 and the tomb MIDAN.05, has been carried out by the University of Pisa between November 14 and 29, 2011 ... The 2011 campaign, though short, brought many interesting results, among which the discovery of new wall paintings in MIDAN.05, a second, not yet investigated shaft pertaining to this last tomb, in the forecourt, together with other structures and finds, among which two remarkable carved offering tables in stone." -- English report - 8 pp. - pdf-file (2.9 MB) URL +++ (V) BOOK CORNER ---NEW (PAPER) BOOK RELEASES--- [Submitted by André Veldmeijer] * The book "Tutankhamun's Footwear. Studies of Ancient Egyptian Footwear" is available again, as it is unrevised re-published by Sidestone Press, an Academic publisher (based in Leiden) that is specialised in archaeology. One can order it directly through their website (URL). Moreover, one can read the book online in Sidestone's e-library: URL. It will also be available through Oxbow in due course. * Huy Duong Bui, Imaging the Cheops Pyramid. Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, Vol. 182. Springer, 2012, 83 p. 51 illus., 39 in color. Hb, ISBN 978-94-007-2656-7. $129.00 URL "(..) In the Autumn of 1986, after the end of the operation on the King’s chamber conducted under the Technological and Scientific Sponsorship of EDF, to locate a cavity, the author was called to solve a mathematical inverse problem, to find the unknown tomb of the King and the density structure of the whole pyramid based on measurements of microgravity made inside and outside of the pyramid. This book recounts the various search operations on the pyramid of Cheops made at the request of the Egyptian and French authorities in 1986-1987. (..) In 2000, Jean-Pierre Houdin considered the author’s results of 1988 as a confirmation of his theory of the internal ramp tunnel. Since then the author has done additional research and found that classical theories of the construction based on degrees and the particular mode of stones filling can also report the same densitogram. (...)" ---DIGITIZED BOOKS AND ONLINE DISSERTATIONS--- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Digitized book from the Internet Archive -- Adolf Erman, Die Pluralbildung des Aegyptischen. Ein grammatischer Versuch, Leipzig, 1878. - VI, 47 pp. - pdf-file (2.3 MB) [pdf] URL "Ich hoffe, man sieht es dieser kleinen Arbeit nicht an, wieviel Mühe sie gekostet hat. Die Dunkelheit der meisten Texte, die Liederlichkeit mit der unsere Handschriften geschrieben sind, die plumpe Schrift die in den Schreibern jedes Gefühl für grammatische Form ersticken musste, der Gebrauch einer längst erloschnen Schriftsprache im neuen Reich - das alles macht eine gründliche Erforschung der aegyptischen Formenlehre fast zur Unmöglichkeit. Umsomehr darf ich bei diesem Versuch Nachsicht in Anspruch nehmen." - "Sogleich mit seinen ersten Veröffentlichungen (unter anderem Die Pluralbildung im Ägyptischen, 1878) führte Erman die Ägyptologie aus dem Stillstand nach der Entzifferung der Hieroglyphen zu der neuen Aufgabe systematischer Erforschung des Baus und der grammatikalischen Konstruktion der Sprache." (Hans Wolfgang Müller, "Erman, Jean Pierre Adolphe", in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, vol. 4, pp. 598-599 (1959)) URL --NEW ISSUES OF JOURNALS & MAGAZINES-- * The last issue of our electronic papyrus, i-Medjat n°8, February 2012, a special issue devoted to the Cameroonian Academic Workshop of Egyptologists and Historians of the University of Yaounde I, Ngok Lituba, is now available and may be downloaded free of charge at: URL * The latest issue of Archaeology Times, Issue 2 (Jan/Feb 2012), just went online (for free): URL With articles on Hatshepsut's temple in El-Deir El-Bahari, underwater archaeology at Alexandria, AE scribes, AE mariage, mycology and monuments, Hemiunu, Fayum Portraits, the Egyptian Museum during the Revolution, and other topics. NB. The Museum article has photos of the damaged Bastet statue that was recently returned, as well as photos of restoration results on other recovered items. * The TOC of volume 62 (2011) of Revue d'Égyptologie (RdE) is online at URL * The TOC of the January/February 2011 issue of Minerva Magazine is online at URL * In the latest issue of Eras Journal, edition 13, no. 1 (December 2011), URL two relevant book reviews can be downloaded for free: -- Caroline Hubschmann - Book review of: David O'Connor, Abydos. Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris (2011) -- Caroline Hubschmann - Book review of: Naguib Kanawati, Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I. (2003) * The TOC of the latest issue of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE), vol. 180(2011), is online at URL Among the articles (not for free): -- Collins, A. W., "Cleomenes of Naucratis, Heroonpolis, and the Revenue from Red Sea Trade under Alexander the Great" ---DIGITIZED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND ONLINE PAPERS--- * TBA --MISCELLANEOUS-- [Sibmitted by Michael Tilgner] * Book review: Bénédicte Savoy, Nofretete. Eine deutsch-französische Affäre 1912-1931, Köln, 2011 URL "Bénédicte Savoys Buch über die Causa Nofretete ist gut geschrieben, bietet prägnante Zitate zu den deutsch-französischen Aspekten und unerwartete Einblicke in die von der Forschung bisher übergangene Akte «Tête de Nefertiti. 1925-1931» aus Lacaus Altertümerverwaltung. Auch die kulturhistorische Einbettung kommt nicht zu kurz: ..." [Submitted by Brian Yare] * Yare Egyptology (URL) are pleased to announce that our January Sale is now on, and this year will last until 29th February. All of our old and out of copyright books are now available digitally, mostly as pdf files, at a 30% discount. Orders will be generally processed within 48 hours, as per normal. +++ (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 Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, will appoint two post-doctoral scholars for 2012-2013 in the fields of Archaeology, Ancient Israel Studies, or Ancient Near Eastern Cultures [including Egyptology]. (..) Last date for ap[plication is April 1, 2012. Info: URL * (&) Summer Position in Egyptology at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Terrace Research Associate in Egyptian Art, June - September 2012 Application deadline: March 15, 2012 Full info: URL * (&) The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the Georg August University Göttingen, Institute for Egyptology and Coptic Studies, is seeking applications for the non-tenure track position of Assistant Professor in Egyptology (Professorial Salary Scale W1) with a starting date of April 1, 2012 or later. The initial contract is for three years. (...) Closing date: 10.02.2012. Further information at URL * (&) The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is looking for a new Director: URL * (&) The Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham invites applications for a non-tenure track 1-year visiting teaching position (4:4) in Biological Anthropology, with the potential for renewal. Candidates will teach at both the undergraduate and graduate level beginning August 2012 and extending into May 2013. (..) Review of applications begins December 1, 2011 and is ongoing until the position is filled. (..) " (#) * (&) The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago invites applications for the Oriental Institute's Annual Post-Doctoral Scholar Conference program for the 2012--2013 academic year. This is a twelve-month, non-renewable appointment.The Post-Doctoral Scholar will organize and conduct a two-day conference at the Oriental Institute on key comparatively oriented theoretical or methodological issues in the field of ancient studies (archaeological, text-based, and/or art historical avenues of research).We encourage cross-disciplinary proposals that deal with the ancient Near East (including Egypt) or that compare the Near East with other cultural areas.(..) Deadline for completed applications is Friday, January 13th, 2012. (#) * (&) The Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan of the British Museum is looking to recruit a Project Curator for the Leverhulme Trust-funded Amara West project. (..) Closing date: December 2, 2011.(#) URL * (&) The Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University invites applications for a post-doctoral visiting assistant professorship in Assyriology, Egyptology, or the material culture of Egypt or Ancient Western Asia. (..) The successful candidate will be appointed for one year beginning on 1 July 2012. (..) Applications should preferably be submitted before 28 February 2012. (#) * (&) Nominations for the Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology are now being solicited: URL * (&) Zum nächst möglichen Zeitpunkt ist am Lehrstuhl für Ägyptologie der Universität Würzburg die Stelle einer wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin/eines wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters (TV-L E 13) zu besetzen. Die Stelle ist zunächst bis zum 31.10.2014 befristet. (..) Eine abgeschlossene Promotion im Fach Ägyptologie wird vorausgesetzt. (..) Bewerbungsschluß ist der 9. Januar 2012. (#) * (&) The Egyptology Program, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology (SAPE), at the American University in Cairo is seeking applications for a tenure-track position and open rank in Egyptology with a starting date in September 2012. While looking for candidates with a broad Egyptological background, we are looking in particular for people who have a research interest in all or most of the following fields: Egyptian history, cultural history, gender, and bioarchaeology. The candidate should also have competence in ancient Egyptian language. The duties of this position will entail extensive teaching of undergraduates of all levels, in addition to teaching graduates and participating in the life of the Unit. (..) Priority will be given to applications received by November 15th, 2011. Short-listed candidates will be interviewed by video-conference in December 2011. Info: URL (#) * (&) The Department of Art of The Ancient World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is looking for a Research Associate for Egyptian Expedition Archives, 14/week, one year position, Oct 3, 2011 - Oct. 2, 2012 (start date negotiable). (#) * (&) The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago invites applications for the Oriental Institute's Annual Post-Doctoral Scholar Conference program for the 2012--2013 academic year. This is a twelve-month, non-renewable appointment. The Post-Doctoral Scholar will organize and conduct a two-day conference at the Oriental Institute on key comparatively oriented theoretical or methodological issues in the field of ancient studies (archaeological, text-based, and/or art historical avenues of research). We encourage cross-disciplinary proposals that deal with the ancient Near East (including Egypt) or that compare the Near East with other cultural areas. (..) Deadline for completed applications is Friday, January 13th, 2012. Start date is September 1st, 2012. (#) * (&) The Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology Department (SAPE) of the American University in Cairo is seeking a specialist in Coptic Studies (Coptology). Priority will be given to applications received by October 20th, 2011. (#) info: URL * (&) The American Journal of Archaeology is looking for an Editor in Chief to begin July 1, 2013. Review of application materials begins November 15, 2011 and continues until the position is filled. Info: URL * (&) The University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute currently seeks applicants for the position of Curatorial Assistant, who reports to the Chief Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum. info: URL [posted till February 11, 2012] ---GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS--- [# = You may request from the editor the often longer announcement on which the below summaries were based.] * (&) The Archaeological Institute of America's Best Practices in Site Preservation Awards are presented to groups or projects recognized by their peers for doing exemplary work in the field of site preservation and conservation. A $5000 grant will be awarded to the winners to further their best practices in site preservation. (..) The deadline for this award is September 30, 2011 (..). Info: 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 --AWARDS-- (&) [Submitted by Patricia Spencer] * The Egypt Exploration Society has advertised the EES Centenary Awards for 2011. Full details and application forms can be found at: 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-- * TBA +++ (VII) (MULTI)MEDIA --TV & RADIO-- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * German TV: -- Phoenix, January 30, 2012, 21:00-21:45 "Metropolis - Die Macht der Städte: Alexandria - Das Zentrum des Wissens" --DVDs & CDROMS-- * TBA --ONLINE VIDEO & AUDIO-- * For previously listed online videos, see the website Videos and Audio Files. --SOFTWARE-- * TBA --MUSIC & THEATRE-- [Submitted by Kat Newkirk] * Review of a production of Handel’s opera 'Giulio Cesare in Egitto' by Opera North at the Grand Theatre in Leeds on January 14, 25, February 7, 10, 16 (then touring until March 16): URL [Next two items submitted by Bjorn Koopmans] * Starting Thursday, 26 January, Verdi's "Aida" will be performed at the Cairo Opera House: URL * Verdi's "Aida" will be performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, between February 23 and March 11. 2012: URL --FICTION (NOVELS, GAMES & MOVIES)-- * TBA +++ (VIII) WEBSITES * TBA +++ (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: ..., 2011; 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 * “The New York Obelisk: Trials and Tribulations”, by Dr. Bob Brier date: Thursday, December 8, 2011; 6:30 p.m place: Alston & Bird LLP, 90 Park Avenue, (between 39th and 40th Streets), N.Y., N.Y., 15th Floor Lecture Room (Note: Photo ID Required to enter Building) costs: free to the public, but R.S.V.P. is required; please reply to email c) ARCE/Oregon Chapter * "Recent Work at the Old Kingdom Necropolis and the Intact Tomb of Henu", by Dr. Marleen De Meyer (Co-Field Director Leuven University) date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011; 7:30pm place: Room 298, Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland State University costs: free admission and open to the public. info: email d) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU 15 East 84th Street New York, NY * Colloquium: "Liturgical Papyri in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt" In the Ptolemaic and Roman period, certain individuals were buried with one or several papyrus scrolls containing a selection of temple liturgies. Although originally conceived for use in the cult of Osiris, these liturgies had been adopted and adapted for private funerary use. date: Friday, May 6, 2011; 10:15am – 6pm place: Seminar Room, 2nd floor, ISAW costs: for reservations, please contact email info: programme at URL e) ARCE/Chicago Chapter * TBA date: .., 2011; 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 * 10th 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 19th, 2011. date: January 10-13, 2012 place: Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and the Hilton Waikiki Beach Hotel, Honolulu info: URL g) ARCE/ Northwest Chapter * "The City of the Builders of the Pyramids and Other AERA Projects", by Dr. Mark Lehner (AERA Director) date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011; 7 pm place: the Bungie Theater at the Bellevue Galleria, 550 106th Ave. NE, 2nd floor, Bellevue, WA costs: free and open to the public info: URL h) ARCE/Northern Texas Chapter URL * TBA date: ..., 2011; 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 Chapter * "Examining the Ancestry and Pathology of King Tutankhamen's Family: A Case Study of Molecular Biology", by Dr. Tiffany Vora (Stanford University) date: February 19, 2012; 2:30pm place: Near Eastern Studies Lounge, Room 254, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley Campus info: email k) Archaeological Institute of America, Westchester Society URL * "Symbols of Victory and Colours of Power: Egyptian Stones for the City of Rome", by Hazel Dodge After the Roman conquest of Egypt, obelisks were the first large-scale physical pieces of Egypt to be transported to the imperial capital, where they were erected both as victory monuments and symbols of imperial ideology. Other stones shared in this ideology, in particular two stones which the Romans quarried in the Eastern Desert of Egypt the grey granite from Mons Claudianus and the purple porphyry from Mons Porphyrites. This lecture will examine both the evidence from the quarries in Egypt and the effects of this phenomenon on the city of Rome. date: April 10, 2011; 2:00 PM place: Manhattanville College, The Castle, 2400 Purchase Street, Purchase l) Rock and Art Shop 36 Central St, Bangor, Maine URL * "Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt" by Dr Leonard Lesko and Dr Barbara Lesko date: Saturday, October 15th, 2011; 7pm costs: free, and all are welcome. info: email m) The Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago * International Conference: "Thera, Knossos and Egypt, 1500 BCE" date: October 20 and 22, 201 place: National Hellenic Museum, 333 S. Halsted, Chicago, and the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago info: URL URL (pdf) n) The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 * Conference: "Temple Topography, Ritual Practice, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World" date: March 2-3, 2012 info: URL o) ARCE / Tennessee Chapter * TBA date: ..., 2011; 7:30 p.m. place: View Room (350), University Center, University of Memphis costs: free, and open to the public. info: email p) North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics * 40th Annual Meeting of NACAL Abstracts of papers on linguistic topics relevant to the languages of the Afroasiatic phylum are invited before November 15, 2011 date: February 18-19, 2012. place: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ), info: URL ; email info: the programme is now online at URL q) ARCE / Arizona Chapter website * TBA date: ..., 2011; 5:30 p.m. place: University of Arizona Bookstore, 1209 E. University Blvd. Tucson, Arizona costs: free and open to all info: URL URL r) Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt * TBA date: .., 2011; 12-1 place: Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8298 info: URL s) The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University * The Fourth International Conference on Predynastic & Early Dynastic Egypt: "Egypt at its Origins" date: July 26-30, 2011 place: Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City info: URL info: the programme (and abstracts) is at URL t) Harvard University * Conference: "Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom: Perspectives on the Pyramid Age" date: April 26, 2012 info: email u) American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) URL * ARCE 63rd Annual Meeting date: April 27-29, 2012 place: Providence, Rhode Island v) The Toledo Museum of Art * Symposium: "Tombs of the Nobles" date: Saturday, October 22, 2011; 11:00am - 4:00pm place: Toledo Museum , 2445 Monroe Street, Toledo, OH 43620 costs: free and open to the public; banquet cost is $30 for members, $35 for nonmembers, reservations at 419-255-8000 ext. 7432. info: URL URL w) Middle Tennessee State University 1301 East Main Street, Murfreesboro, TN 37132-0001 * The 2011 Strickland Visiting Scholar Lecture in History: “Mendes: City of the Ram and Fish, Microcosm of Ancient Egypt," by Prof. Donald B. Redford date: October 20, 2011; 7 p.m. place: the State Farm Lecture Hall, Room S-102, of MTSU’s Business and Aerospace Building. costs: free and open to the public info: URL info: email info: press report at URL x) Yale University * Conference: "Double stories - Double lives: Reflecting on Textual Objects in the Pre-Print world" date: April 13-15, 2012 Papers are invited before the 15th of November 2011. (#) info: email y) Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions * Interdisciplinary Conference: "Religion in Pieces" Focus is on case studies in reconstructing religious practice in ancient Mediterranean religions (incl. Egypt) from fragmentary evidence, and the methodological challenges inherent in constructing religion from a paucity of sources. Papers are invited before January 28thth, 2012. date: Friday, April 27-29, 2012 place: Brown University, Providence, RI info: URL --CANADA-- a) La Société pour l'Étude de l'Égypte Ancienne Society for the Study for Egyptian Antiquities society website * Scholars' Colloquium - DAY 1 date Friday, November 4th, 2011; 9am to 5pm place: Royal Ontario Museum, Eaton Theatre, Toronto costs: free info: email ; URL * 37th Annual Symposium "Death along the Nile: Uncovering the Secrets of Egypt's Lost Tombs" This year's focus is on current archaeology of tombs and cemeteries, with reports presented from those working in the field in Egypt. Speakers: Prof. Suzanne Onstine (U Memphis), Dr. Otto Schaden and others to be confirmed date: November 5, 2011; 9am - 5pm place: 5 Bancroft Ave., Toronto costs: $95 general public; $50 for students (reduced rates for members and online registration) info: email ; URL URL * Scholars' Colloquium - DAY 2 date: Sunday, November 6th, 2011; 1pm to 5pm place: 5 Bancroft Ave, Toronto costs: free info: email ; URL --SSEA Toronto Chapter-- * "'So let it be written, so let it be done": Pleasing the Pharaoh Pepi II", by Zoe McQuinn (ROM/University of Toronto) date: July 13, 2011; 19:00 place: Room 142, basement Earth Sciences Complex, 5 Bancroft Ave., Toronto costs: free to members, $5 for non-members. info: email or email --SSEA Calgary Chapter-- * TBA date: ..., 2011; 7:30 pm place: Room 162, Earth Science Building, campus of the University of Calgary, Calgary costs: free, all welcome info: email or URL --SSEA Vancouver Chapter-- * "Tutankhamun: The Life and Death of a God King", by Dr. Lanny Bell (Brown University) date: Thursday, September 29, 2011; 7:00 PM place: Buchanan D217, University of British-Columbia, Vancouver, BC info: email or URL * TBA date: ..., 2011; 7:30 pm place: Buchanan Bldg B208, Campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver [To Be Confirmed] costs: free, all welcome info: email or URL -- SEEA Chapitre de Montréal / SSEA Montreal Chapter-- society website * TBA date: ..., 2011; 6:30 pm 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: ..., 2011; 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 b) Friends of Ancient Egypt http://www.rom.on.ca:80/members/fae.php * TBA date: .., 2011; 7 - 9 pm place: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queens' Park, Toronto costs: $20 General Public; $15 ROM members; $10 Students info: tel.: 416.586.5797; e-mail: email URL c) Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queens' Park Cres., Toronto M5S 2C6 * Symposium: "Ancient Nubia: Discoveries in the Middle Nile Valley" Speakers: Salah Eldin Mohamed Ahmed, Charles Bonnet, Julie Anderson, Jitse Dijkstra, Bogdan Zurawski, and Krzysztof Grzymski. date: September 25, 2011; 9:30 am - 4 pm info: URL d) Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre 33 Victoria St. N., Southampton, ON * "Tomb Robbery in Ancient Egypt", by Daniel Kolos date: November 10, 2011; 7:30 pm-8:30 pm info: URL * "Courtship, Love and Sex in Ancient Egypt", by Daniel Kolos date: November 24, 2011; 7:30 pm-8:30 pm info: URL --UNITED KINGDOM--- a) Egyptian Embassy, London, Education & Culture Bureau 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London W1. tel: 020 7491 7720; email * TBA date: ..., 2011; 6:45 pm b) Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT URL * TBA date: ..., 2011; 18.00 place: Petrie Museum costs: free but prebooking essential. 020 8679 4138, email ---Friends of the Petrie Museum--- URL * "Re-excavating the Royal Tomb of Horemheb in the Valley of the Kings", by Professor Geoffrey Martin date: Friday, January 27, 2012; 18.30 place: Lecture Theatre G6, Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Square, London WC1 info: email * Screening of the documentary 'Mummifying Alan' After the documentary (which shows a team of scientists attempt to mummify a specially-donated body in order to understand Ancient Egyptian mummification techniques) there will be a discussion and a Q&A with Stephen Buckley (York) lead pathologist on the documentary, Carole Reeves (UCL Wellcome History of Medicine Fellow) and Gilliam Moseley, an Executive Producer of the documentary. date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012; 18:30 - 20:00 place: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building UCL, Gower St, WC1E 6BT London costs: free but booking required info: URL c) The Egypt Exploration Society 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG society's website * Study Day: "The Ramesside Period" Speakers: Dr Karen Exell, Dr Morris Bierbrier, Dr Aidan Dodson, and Prof. Kenneth Kitchen date: October 29, 2011; 1-7 pm place: Manchester Conference Centre/Days Inn Hotel, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester cost: EES members GBP25, non-members GBP 30 info: programme at URL * "New Developments in Digital Documentation and Representation of Ancient Egyptian Material Culture: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)", by Dr Kathryn Piquette date: October 12, 2011; 6:30pm - 7.00pm place: The Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG. cost: free, but pre-booking essential at tel: 020 7242 1880 info: URL * Book Launch: "A Catalogue of Egyptian Cosmetic Palettes in the Manchester University Museum Collection", by Julie Patenaude and Dr Garry Shaw date: November 3, 2011; 6:30pm - 8.00pm place: The Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG. cost: free, but prebooking essential at tel: 020 7242 1880 info: URL info: book details - URL * Seminar: "The City of Naukratis: Multiculturalism in the Ancient World" Speakers: Dr Alexandra Villing, Dr Marianne Bergeron, Dr Patricia Spencer, Dr Ross Thomas. date: November 26, 2011; 11:00am - 4.00pm place: The Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG. costs: Members: £23.00, Non-members: £28.00 Student Members: £16.00, Student Non-members: £20.00 info: URL * Study Day: "Osiris, Isis, Horus and Seth" Speakers: Terence Duquesne, John J. Johnston, Dr Joanna Kyffin and Dr John Taylor. date: December 10, 2011; 9:30am- 2.00pm place: The Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. costs: Members: £27.00, Non-members: £32.00 Student Members: £18.00, Student Non-members:£22.00 info: URL d) Egypt Society of Bristol. society's website * TBA date: ..., 2011; 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 * "In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Old Kingdom Life at Giza", by Lucia Gahlin date: May 21, 2011; 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 * "What the Tourist Never Sees", by Carol Andrews date: June 18, 2011; 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 * Study Day: "The Wildlife of Ancient Egypt" by John Wyatt and Jackie Garner. date: Sunday, 17th July, 2011; 9.30 a.m to 5.00 p.m. place: Marwell Wildlife (Zoo), Thompson's Lane, Colden Common, Winchester, Hants SO21 1JH. cost: £25 inclusive of entry to the Park. info: URL or Anna Welch on 07973 203751. f) The Friends of the Egypt Centre, Wales, Swansea society's website * "Travel in Ancient Egypt", by Heidi Köpp date: Wednesday, February 15, 2012; 7.00pm place: 'Fulton House 2' Lecture Theatre, 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 * "Lost and forgotten archaeological landscapes in Egypt: rediscovering the Pharaohs’ ancient quarries", by Dr Elizabeth Bloxham (University College London) date: May 14, 2011; 13:30 for a 14:00 start place: Oakwood Centre, Woodley, Reading costs: TVAES members free, visitors £3 info: email * "The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt", by Dr Toby Wilkinson (Cambridge University) date: June 11, 2011; 13:30 for a 14:00 start place: Oakwood Centre, Woodley, Reading costs: TVAES members free, visitors £3 info: email h) Hunterian Museum The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE * " 'Lost in Time and Space'. Unrolling Egypt's ancient dead", by John J Johnston (University College London) date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011; 7pm costs: £5; booking required on 020 7869 6560. info: URL i) British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG website * Annual British Museum Colloquium: "Mariners and Traders - Connections between the Red Sea Littoral, Arabia and Beyond" date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011; 10.30 am - 5.15 pm. place: BP Lecture Theater cost: £30 (concessions £27) - combined tickets with the Sackler lecture: £45 (concessions £41); for booking, see: URL info: URL * Annual Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology 2011: "Egypt's Trade with Punt - New discoveries on the Red Sea Coast," by Prof. Rodolfo Fattovich (University of Naples 'L'Orientale' and the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient, Rome) date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011; 6 pm. place: BP Lecture Theater costs: £20 (concessions £18) info: URL "...Excavations on the Red Sea coast at Mersa Gawasis have confirmed its use as a harbor for seafaring expeditions to Punt in pharaonic times, and have provided archeological evidence concerning Punt's location..." j) Institute of Archaeology, University College London 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY * "Object of Egypt: outside the time frame", by Stephen Quirke date: Monday, January 23, 2012; 18.15 place: G6 Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq. , London costs: free, but you need to register for tickets at URL * TBA date: ..., 2011; 5 PM place: Room 612, UCL Institute of Archaeology costs: all welcome info: URL info: email k) The British Association of Near Eastern Archaeologists URL * TBA date: ..., 2011 ---BANEA South-East/The London Centre for the Ancient Near East--- URL * TBA date: .., 2011: 18.00 place: Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St, London WC1. info: email l) Essex Egyptology Group * TBA, by John Wyatt date: ..., 2011; 3pm place: Spring Lodge Community Centre, Witham, Essex info: email m) Merton College, Oxford * "Eleventh International Congress of Demotic Studies" Abstracts of papers on all topics related to Demotic are invited before May 15, 2011. date: August 30, 2011 - September 3, 2011 info: email info: URL info: URL info: the abstracts of papers are now available at URL n) Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QP URL * TBA date: ..., 2011; 7pm - 8.30pm cost: free; to book your place please call 02476 294774 or email * Day school: "Excavating Ancient Egypt - New finds by the Egypt Exploration Society" Speakers: Patricia Spencer, Penny Wilson, Chris Naunton, and Angus Graham. date: Saturday, May 28, 2011; 10.00am - 4.00pm info: £25 including lunch o) University of London * Study Day: "Excavating Tombs & Graves in Ancient Egypt" A study day presented by Joyce Filer. date: Saturday, October 22, 2011; 11am - 5pm place: Hughes-Parry Hall (The Garden Halls), 19-26 Cartwright Gardens, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 9 EF costs: GBP 40; booking before October 6 info: email * Study Day: "Forensic Aspects of Archaeology" A study day presented by Joyce Filer. date: Saturday, November 26; 11am - 5pm place: Hughes-Parry Hall (The Garden Halls), 19-26 Cartwright Gardens, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 9 EF costs: GBP 40; booking before November 8. info: email p) Leicestershire Ancient Egypt Society * Study Day: "Gateway to an Artistic Renaissance: South Asasif Conservation Project in context" Programme: 'The Kushite conquest and Thebes in the 25th Dynasty' by Dr Robert Morkot; 'South Asasif Project update - Overview and latest results from 2010 and 2011' by Dr Elena Pischikova; 'Looking back to Egypt's past and forwards to a new style' by Dr Robert Morkot; 'South Asasif Conservation Project - anatomy of an excavation' by Dr Elena Pischikova, John Billman and Trisha Mason. Website of the Project: URL date: March 3, 2012; 10:00- ca.17:00 place: Lord Mayors Room, New Walk Museum, Leicester, LE1 7EA costs: £25 or discounted to £20 for LAES members and South Asasif Conservation Friends/Patrons; for registration forms and info, please contact email q) Plymouth and District Egypt Society (PADES) * Study Day: "The Wildlife of Ancient Egypt" by John Wyatt. date: Saturday, 7th May, 2011; 9.45 a.m. to 4.15 p.m. place: Swarthmore Adult Education Centre, Mutley Plain, Plymouth PL4 6LF. cost: £10 to £20 depending on status/affiliations. info: email r) Dillington House * Residential Course: " Birds in Ancient Egypt" by John Wyatt dates: From tea on Tuesday, 30th August to lunch on Friday, 2nd September, 2011. place: Dillington House, Ilminster, Somerset TA19 9DT. cost: from £362 inclusive of accomodation/meals. (Dillington offers a wide range of en suite bedroom accomodation) info: URL, email or 01460 258613/258648. s) Egyptology Scotland * TBA date: ..., 2011; 2.30 place: Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL info: URL Note there's now also a Facebook group 'Scottish Egyptology' that you are invited to join. t) Norwich Castle Museum URL * Study day: "Unveiling the Norwich Shroud" date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011; 10am - 5pm A series of illustrated talks on how the shroud came to be at the castle, the work of the British Museum in conserving it, the results of scientific analysis and what has been discovered by translating the [BD] text on the shroud.? costs: booking is essential by calling 01603 495897. info: press report (with photos) at URL u) University of Manchester * Colloquium: "Graeco-Roman Egypt at Manchester" This colloquium will discuss and explore the Graeco-Roman collections held in the Manchester Museum and the John Rylands Library special collections. date: Friday, June 10, 2011; 9:45-17:30 place: John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester costs: no fee (lunch £15), but registartion before May 20 with email info: programme (PDF) at URL w) Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT URL * Conference: "Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) XIII" The second call for papers for CRE XIII is now available at URL (PDF). The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31st October 2011. date: March 27-30, 2012 info: URL info: email info: registration for this event is now open, please visit the website at URL of how to register. z) Mercia Egyptology Society * Day-School: "Recent Discoveries at Amarna", by Professor Barry Kemp Topics: Amarna one hundred years ago. The centenary of Major Paul Timme's survey of Amarna: how much has it changed since 1911? Whose was the North Palace? Harem politics and modern misreadings. The tomb industry at Amarna: royal tombs, rock tombs and workmen's villages. Learning from bones (animal and human). date: Saturday, September 24, 2011; 09:45 - 16:30 place: Xcel Centre, Coventry, England costs: £25.00 includes buffet lunch info: URL za) International Conference on Near and Middle Eastern Archaeomusicology (ICONEA) * Conference: "The Lute from Bronze Age to Iron Age in the Old World" Abstracts of papers on the iconography, philology (lute terminology), and organology (extant instruments and reconstructions) of the lute are invited. date: December 1-3, 2011 place: Senate House, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London info: email info: URL zb) Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) Swansea University * "Dancers, Donkeys & Dirt: New Discoveries from the Time of the Black Pharaohs from South Asasif, Egypt", by Dr Elena Pischikova, with results of geophysical survey by Dr Adam Booth and Dr Kasia Szpakowska date: Thursday, November 24, 2011; 6.15 pm reception, lecture at 7 place: Faraday Lecture Theatre, Swansea University, Wales, SA2 8PP costs: free, all welcome info: email or +44 (0)1792 295190 info: URL zc) KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology University of Manchester * Study Day: "Mummies and Medicine: Investigating Health in Ancient Egypt” Incorporates the 2012 Bob Partridge Memorial Lecture which will be given by Joyce Filer. Speakers: Joyce Tyldesley, Roger Forshaw, Professor Judith Adams. Professor Rosalie David will be introducing a film about her work. date: Saturday 11 February 2012; 9:30-c.16:30 place: Stopford Building, University of Manchester, M13 9PT cost: £30 info: email info: programme and booking details at URL zd) University of Liverpool Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology department * Conference: "Archaeology and the Bible at Liverpool" Day conference in honour of Professor Kenneth Kitchen. Speakers: Prof. Kenneth Kitchen, Dr Paul Lawrence, Dr Bruce Routledge, Prof. Alan Millard. date: Saturday, February 18, 2012; 9:00-ca. 17:00 place: Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool, L69 3DR costs: £30 info: email info: programme at URL --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) URL * TBA date: ..., 2011; 14:45 for a 15:00 start place: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, Leiden costs: open to all info: email b) Ex Oriente Lux / Chapter 's-Hertogenbosch * TBA date: ..., 2011; 20:00 place: Orangerie, WZC Nieuwehagen, Gervenstraat 2, 5211 PD, Den Bosch costs: members free, others EUR 2 info: 073-6133336 c) Het Huis van Horus * Lectures: -- "Goddelijke kronen - Hoofddeksels van het Egyptische pantheon", by Bjorn Koopmans date: April 20, 2011; 19:30 - ca. 20:45 -- For all lectures is valid: place: Leiden, Lipsius Gebouw costs: € 8 for members of Huis van Horus, EUR 10, non-members please RSVP at email or 06-52008364 info: URL d) RoMeO (Vriendenvereniging van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) * "Luxor en de sloophamers van het toerisme", by Dr. Christian Greco date: October 11, 2011; 20:00 place: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW Leiden costs: EUR5,00; RoMeO-members free info: URL e) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW Leiden URL * Symposum "Sites in the City" The central theme is the preservation of archaeological and historical heritage in the urban context and the effects of mass tourism, the political agendas of the authorities, and infrastructure on cities such as Luxor, Saqqara, Mecca, Rome, Athens, and Amsterdam. date: January 9, 2012. coststs: EUR 9 info: URL With link to the programme. Among the speakers: Mansour Boraik (Director General of Luxor Antiquities, Egypt) and Egyptologist Dr. Maarten Raven. --GERMANY-- a) Freie Universität Berlin * Colloquium: "Current Research in the Nile Delta" (Delta Research Day) In cooperation with the Egypt Exploration Society. date: Saturday, November 19, 2011; 9:00-17:00 place: TOPOI Haus, Free University, Hittorfstr 18, Berlin costs: open en free; registration with email info: programme (in PDF) 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 * Lecture series -- "Die Bestattung von Tutanchamun" by Marianne Eaton-Krauss date: December 8, 2011, 6:30 pm -- "Der Tempel im Grab: Architektur und Semantik des thebanischen Felsgrabes am Ende des Neuen Reiches" by Ute Rummel date: December 15, 2011, 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 * "Splitter einer pharaonischen Lebenswelt im Sudan: Neues zur Siedlung des Neuen Reiches von Saï Island", by Dr. Julia Budka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) date: June 23, 2011; 8.00 p.m. place: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, 1. Etage, Hörsaal 2091/92 info: URL * Study Day: "Bubastis-Tag" Organized by the Ägyptische Museum Berlin und Papyrussammlung, the Förderverein des Ägyptischen Museums Berlin, the Tell Basta- Project, and the Aegypten Forum Berlin e.V date: July 9, 2011; 14:00-18:00 place: Brugsch-Pascha-Saal, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2-8, 4. OG, 10117 Berlin info: programme at URL d) Freundeskreis Ägyptologie e.V.: URL * TBA date: ..., 2010; 18:30 place: Philosophicum, Hörsaal P 1, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz e) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Orient-Abteilung Peter-Lenné-Strasse 32, 14195 Berlin * International workshop: "Egypt and the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age: C14, Chronology, Connections" date: September 14-16, 2011 place: TOPOI Building Dahlem, Hittorfstrasse 18, 14195 Berlin info: URL f) Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie Abteilung für Ägyptologie Oxfordstr. 15, 53111 Bonn * "3rd International Colloquium for Book of the Dead Studies" date: February 28, 2012 - March 1, 2012 costs: free, but please register by e-mail at email (programme available; #) g) - h) Freie Universität Berlin Ägyptologisches Seminar - Anmeldebüro SÄK 2012 - Altensteinstr. 33, 14195 Berlin tel.: (030) 83 85 34 41 / (030) 83 85 34 40 * "44. Ständige Ägyptologen-Konferenz" (SÄK 2012) The subject of the conference will be "Wendepunkte". Speakers will be invited, there is no "call of papers" according to the 1. Rundbrief. date: July 13-15, 2012 info: email info: 1. Rundbrief - pdf-file (0.5 MB) at URL i) - j) Akademienvorhaben "Altägyptisches Wörterbuch" der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften / Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Die Junge Akademie an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina * Veranstaltungsreihe: "Karl Richard Lepsius. Der Begründer der deutschen Ägyptologie" -- "Die Entzifferung der Hieroglyphen und der Beitrag von K. R. Lepsius" by Wolfgang Schenkel date: January 11, 2011; 7 pm info: URL -- "Die erste Ordnung des Chaos - die altägyptische Religion" by Jan Assmann date: January 25, 2011; 7 pm -- "Freie Wahl und reiche Ernte - die Sammlung K. R. Lepsius" by Dietrich Wildung date: February 8, 2011; 7 pm -- "Pionier der Archäologie Ägyptens" by Stephan Seidlmayer date: February 22, 2011; 7 pm -- For all lectures (Jan-Feb) is valid: place: Einstein-Saal der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften -- "K. R. Lepsius als Historiker" by Joachim Quack date: March 8, 2011; 7 pm -- "Der Ausstellungs- und Museumsgestalter" by Friederike Seyfried date: March 22, 2011; 7 pm -- "Über Ägypten hinaus - die Archäologie Nubiens" by Angelika Lohwasser date: April 5, 2011; 7 pm -- For all lectures (March-April) is valid: place: Theodor-Wiegand-Saal des Pergamon-Museums info: flyer - pdf-file (207 KB) - at URL k) - l) - m) - n) Lehrstuhl der Ägyptologie der Universität Würzburg Residenzplatz 2, D-97070 Würzburg tel.: 0931/31-82818 * Internationale Tagung: "Das Fayum in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit. Fallstudien zu multikulturellem Leben in der Antike" Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). date: May 4-7, 2011 place: Kloster Bronnbach info: program & registration at URL --CYPRUS-- a) Radiocarbon and Archaeology Symposiums * 6th International Symposium "Radiocarbon and Archaeology" Abstracts of papers are invited before February 7, 2011. date: April 10-15, 2011 place: Pafos, Cyprus info: URL --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; institute's website * "Archaeology and Apprenticeship", by Dr Willeke Wendrich date: November 24, 2011; 5:30 pm for a 6 pm start info: URL * NVIC Cleveringa workshop 2011: "Archaeological Heritage Management (AHM) in Egypt" Organized in cooperation with the American University in Cairo. date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011; 8:30-17.00 info: preliminary programme at URL * Annual Cleveringa lecture: "Global Challenges for Archaeological Resource Management and the Crisis in World Heritage", by Prof. W.H. Willems date: November 22, 2011; 19.00 * First International Chariot Conference Topics can include chariot technology, production, reconstruction, uses, social significance, typology, as well as other chariot-related subjects concerning ancient Egypt and the Near East. Titles and abstracts of papers are due by March 1 2012 (email). date: December 1-2, 2012 info: URL b) EES Cairo C/O British Council, 192 Sharei el-Nil St. Agouza -Cairo. Cell.pho.:010/6797508 * TBA date: ..., 2011; 7:00 pm. place: British council, ‘Garden Room’ costs: free info: email c) l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire URL * "La XXVIe dynastie à Karnak: Des chapelles de la « voie de Ptah » aux édifices disparus de Naga Malgata", by Laurent Coulon (CNRS) date: November 23, 2011; 18h place: Lecture Hall, IFAO, 37 al-Cheikh Aly Youssef Str., Cairo costs: free info: URL * International Conference: "Toponymie et perception de l’espace en Egypte de l’Antiquité au Moyen-Âge" [Toponymy and perception of space in Egypt from Antiquity to the Middle Ages] date: November 30, 2011 place: Lecture Hall, IFAO, 37 al-Cheikh Aly Youssef Str., Cairo info: summary and complete programme at URL * Round table: "La céramique du désert occidental d'Égypte, de la fin du néolithique à l'époque arabe" [Ceramics of the Western desert from the end of the Neolithic to the Arab period : Marmaric, Wadi Natrun and the oasis of Siwa, Baharyia, Dakhla and Kharga] Organized by Sylvie Marchand. The objective of this round table is to explain our knowledge on the ceramics of the great oases and some territories of the Western Desert, in a chronological order. date: December 19-20, 2011 place: Lecture Hall, IFAO, 37 al-Cheikh Aly Youssef Str., Cairo costs: free info: URL d) Supreme Council of Antiquities 3 el-Adel Abu Bakr Street, Zamalek, Cairo phone: +2/02 736-5645; fax: 735-7239 * "Weary Wanderers: Exploring the Darb Ain Amur, Kharga Oasis", by Dr Salima Ikram (AUC) date: November 29, 2011; 6:00 pm place: Ahmad Pasha Kamal Hall info: email e) Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, * Fourth international conference "Siwa: Heritage & Development" date: April 11-14, 2011 info: email f) The Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO) * Second International Workshop on Prevention of Destruction, Looting and Theft of Cultural Heritage: "Heritage Management in Revolutionary Times" Abstracts of papers are welcome before February 1, 2012. date: September, TBA, 2012 place: TBA, Cairo info: URL info: email g) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo URL * "Papyrus archives of the Fayum", by Dr. Willy Clarysse date: Monday, November 14, 2011; 6 pm place: Ahmed Pasha Kamal Lecture Hall, SCA, 3, Adel Abu Bakr Street, Zamalek, Cairo info: email * TBA date: ..., 2011; 6 pm. place: 31, Sh. Abu el-Feda, 11211 Cairo-Zamalek info: email h) International Association of Egyptologists (IAE) * 11th International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE) The ICE 2012 will be organized by the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt (SCA). date: September 7-14, 2012 place: Mena House Oberoi at Giza, Egypt info: press release at URL info: questions should be sent to Dr. Ramadan B. Hussein, Coordinator of the ICE 2012 at: email i) Mummification Museum, Luxor * TBA date: ..., 2011; 7 pm costs: admission is free j) Italian Archaeological Centre 14 Champollion str. Midan El Tahrir * TBA date: .., 2011; 5.30 pm info: email k) The South Asasif Conservation Project URL * Conference: "Thebes in the First Millennium BC" Abstracts of papers on Theban (and other Egyptian) sites and monuments of the Kushite and Saite Periods are invited before March 31, 2012. (#) date: October 1-4, 2012. place: Mummification Museum, Luxor info: email l) International Association of Egyptologists * 11th International Congress of Egyptologists 2013 date: September 13-20, 2013. place: The Calligraphy Center in Alexandria info: URL --ITALY-- a) Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna and CISE, Imola * "Unseen Treasures from Egypt: the work of the Egyptian Mission 1990 - 2010", by Dr. Tarek El Hawady (Director General of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo) date: November 28, 2011; 18:00 place: Sala delle Stagioni, Via Emilia 25, Imola info: email * "Egyptian Museum - a witness to the revolution", by Dr. Tarek El Hawady (Director General of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo) date: November 29, 2011; 16:00 place: Sala del Risorgimento, Museo Civico Archeologico, Via dell'Archiginnasio 2, Bologna info: email 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 c) Gruppo Egittologico "Khentyimentyu" * TBA date: ..., 2011; 17.45 place: Cinema teatro Cappuccini, via Clelia 18 - Imola costs: free info: email info: URL URL d) International Association for Coptic Studies * Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies Papers are invited before April 30, 2012. date: September 17-22, 2012 place: Sapienza University and Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum and Vatican Library, Rome info: email info: URL --FRANCE-- a) Rencontres Egyptologiques de Strasbourg website * "Le complexe palatial d’Amenhotep III à Malqata (Thèbes Ouest)", by Aude Gräzer date: December 6, 2011; 18:45 place: Maison des Associations, 1A place des Orphelins 67000 Strasbourg costs: RES members EUR 2, non-members EUR 6 (students EUR 3) info: email --PORTUGAL-- a) - --BELGIUM-- a) - --SPAIN-- a) - --AUSTRALIA-- a) Australian Centre for Egyptology Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University * 2011 Annual Egyptology Conference Speakers: Prof. Tamas Bacs (Eotus Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary) and Prof. Karol Mysliwiec (University of Warsaw, Poland). They will present the results of their recent excavations in Egypt. date: August 13, 2011; 10:00am-5:00pm place: Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club Auditorium costs: members - $70, non-members - $80; special rates for students, pensioners, and school groups info: email info: URL b) Macquarie Ancient Cultures Research Centre Macquarie University North Ryde, Sydney, NSW 2109 * Conference: "Ptolemy I Soter and the Transformation of Egypt 404-282 BC" date: 28 September - 1 October 2011 The aim of this conference is to trace the movement from 'Persian Egypt' (a seldom-used term), via indigenous rule, to Egypt as part of a globalized and Macedonian-ruled empire, and to look at the interface between indigenous and exotic cultures in Egypt. Academic proceedings will be concentrated in the first three days (28-30 September), and 1 October will be a study day intended for the public and especially for high-school teachers. Abstracts of papers are invited by 31 May (extended deadline, was: 31 March). info: email info: (in PDF) URL --DANMARK-- a) Centre for Canon and Identity Formation, University of Copenhagen * Interdisciplinary Conference: "Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History" An interdisciplinary conference to discuss the general problem of how to describe, analyse, and understand cultural encounters in Near Eastern history (until c. AD 1000). date: May 10-11, 2012 place: Royal Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen info: URL --SWITZERLAND-- a) The Association for the Study of Ancient Egyptian Law (AIDEA) * Conference "Transport organisation in Ancient Egypt" Abstracts of papers on the theme of the transport organisation from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period are invited before February 4, 2012. (#) date: August 30 – September 2, 2012. place: University of Basel info: email --RUSSIA-- a) - --AUSTRIA-- a) Ägyptologisches Institut, Universität Wien Frankgasse 1, A-1090 Wien * Conference "Vienna II: Ancient Egyptian Ceramics in the 21st Century" The scope of the conference is Egyptian pottery from the Neolithic to the Late-Roman Period, in Egypt as well as in neighbouring countries (Sudan, Palestine etc.). The deadline for paper proposals is the 30th of October, 2011. date: May 14–19, 2012 place: TBA, Vienna info: URL --HUNGARY-- a) - --NEW ZEALAND-- a) University of Auckland * Australasian Egyptological Conference Abstracts of papers are due by January 14, 2011. date: July 21-23, 2011. info: email info: the programme is now online at URL --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 * TBA --POLAND-- a) University of Wroclaw * Workshop: "Alexander the Great and Egypt: History, Art, Tradition" The aim of this workshop is to examine both the Macedonian conquest of Egypt, its consequences and its reflection in literature and art. An area of particular importance is attitudes of the local population to Alexander. The organizing committee looks forward in particular to contributions making use of both classical and Egyptian sources and to those uniting multidisciplinary approach to the sources material and research questions. Abstracts (300 words or less) of papers (suitable for delivery in 20-30 minutes) are invited before May 30, 2011, as an attachment to Agnieszka Wojciechowska (email) . NB: Application deadline has been extended to October 15. date: November 18-19, 2011 place: Institute of History, University of Wroclaw, Szewska 49 street, Wroclaw info: URL b) Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University Cracow URL * VIth Central European Conference of Egyptologists: "Egypt 2012: Perspectives of Research" Abstracts of papers are invited before August 31, 2011. date: July 5-7, 2012 info: email (info); email (abstracts) info: URL c) Poznan Archaeological Museum Renaissance Górka Palace at 27, Wodna Street * "CIPEG Annual Meeting in Poznan" date: September 1 - 4, 2011 info: Polish press report at URL info: program in English - 5 pp. - pdf-file (230 KB): URL d) Pultusk Academy of Humanities 17, Daszynskiego st., 06-100 Pultusk * Second Interdisciplinary Conference: "Disasters, Catastrophes and the Ends of the World in Sources" Abstracts of papers on any topic concerned with a scholarly approach to the subject of disasters, catastrophes and the ends of the world in all its aspects and forms, including papers of ancient as well as contemporary times, are welcome before the 31st of December 2011. date: June 25-27, 2012 info: email e) University of Warsaw * "27th International Congress of Papyrology" Deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2013. date: 29 July - 3 August 2013 place: Congress Centre at the Collegium Novum, the old Library of the University of Warsaw, 26-28 Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street, Warsaw info: URL With First Circular. --BULGARIA-- a) New Bulgarian University Sofia * Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists [ICYE 2012]: "Cult and Belief in Ancient Egypt" date: September 22-25, 2012 info: URL info: URL info: email --ISRAEL-- a) - +++ (X) EXHIBITIONS Most info in this section was collected by Michael Tilgner and Ingrid van Sprakelaar. Ingrid maintains an exhibition calendar [in a complementary format, i.e. sorted by date (and country)] at the Dutch website of the Mehen Study Center. --USA-- a) Reading Public Museum Ancient Civilizations Gallery 500 Museum Road, West Reading URL * "Nefrina's World" date: through January 2013 [prolongation; was: till 31-12-2011] Forensic facial reconstruction of a 2000-year-old female Akhmimic mummy, the daughter of a priest around 250 B.C. The mummy and its mask have been united at the occassion. info: URL info: press release at URL info: press report at URL "The Reading Public Museum has announced that, after 82 years of separation, its popular mummy Nefrina will reunite with her funerary mask when it goes on display next week. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, which owns the mask, will lend it to the Reading museum for the next year. (..) Beginning Thursday [January 19, 2012], the mask will be displayed through next January as part of the "Nefrina's World" exhibition, which also contains her mummy, coffin, coffin lid, insights into the world in which she lived and a forensic facial reconstruction by artist Frank Bender unveiled in 2010. (..)" info: press report, with video about mummy and mask, at URL 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) The Oriental Institute Museum University of Chicago 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago IL 60637 URL * "Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East" date: February 6, 2012 - September 2, 2012 The exhibition presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, casts, models, photographs, and computer-aided reconstructions that show how the architecture, sites, and artifacts of the ancient Middle East have been documented. The show also examines how the publication of those images have shaped our perception of the ancient world, and how some of the more "imaginary" reconstructions have obscured our real understanding of the past. Among the objects are an elaborately decorated doorway from Medinet Habu, a replica of the bust of Queen Nefertiti, a series of facsimiles of Egyptian tomb and temple paintings from Thebes, Abydos, and Saqqara, a Romantic scene of Medinet Habu by David Roberts, James Henry Breasted's notebooks and camera, archival photos of the 1905 expedition to Nubia, and documentation of the work of the current Epigraphic Survey. info: URL * "Birds in Ancient Egypt" date: May 29, 2012 - October 21, 2012 info: source - URL info: press report at URL c) Milwaukee Public Museum 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233 URL * "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" date: October 14, 2011 - April 29, 2012 The exhibition uses ca. 150 artifacts and multimedia displays to tell the story of the queen. It showcases artifacts uncovered in two ongoing expeditions, namely Abu Qir Bay (team of Franck Goddio) and Taposiris Magna. This is a travelling exhibition earlier at the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia (June 5, 2010 - January 2, 2011) and the Cincinnati Museum Center (February 18, 2011 - September 10, 2011). info: URL info: URL info: press reports at URL Has a photo gallery (13 pics of artefacts). URL URL URL info: URL info: press reports at URL URL URL Milwaukee Museum Prepares For Cleopatra Exhibit URL info: press reports at URL URL URL URL info: press reports at URL URL With photo gallery. URL With video. info: press report (with 3 photos and video) at URL d) Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York 10028 URL * "The Dawn of Egyptian Art" date: April 10, 2012 - August 5, 2012 This exhibition brings together some 180 examples of the very earliest works of Egyptian art created between 4400 B.C. and 2649 B.C. Outstanding examples of sculpture, painting, and relief come from the collections of the Metropolitan and 12 other museums in the United States and Europe. The art includes vessels with depictions of landscapes, objects in the form of different animals-grouped by habitat (river, air, or desert)-and human figurines. Certain groupings reflect the important themes of fertility and renewal and chaos versus order. info: URL info: URL info: press release at URL info: URL e) Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052 URL * "Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments & Amulets" date: November 19, 2009 - June 30, 2013 [prolongation; was: till October 2, 2011] Features thirty-five representations of individual body parts from the Brooklyn Museum's ancient Egyptian collection, many of which are displayed for the first time. This exhibition uses fragments of sculptures and objects created as distinct elements to illuminate the very realistic depiction of individual body parts in canonical Egyptian sculpture. info: URL * “Work of Art: Kymia Nawabi” date: December 22, 2011 - February 5, 2012. Features 12 paintings and two sculptures of modern artist Kymia Nawabi, inspired by the Egyptian deity Thoth. info: URL info: press report at URL * “Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt” date: postponed (for at least a year) [was: November 4, 2011 - November 4, 2012] The exhibition explores the role of felines in everyday ancient Egyptian life, religion, mythology, and kingship. Among the objects are a gold-gilded statue of a Leonine Goddess from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, a large wooden statue of a cat, a selection of bronze and stone depictions of felines, and furniture and luxury items decorated with feline features. info: source - URL (PDF) * "Mummies" (TBA) date: 2013 (TBA) info: source - URL f) - g) - h) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 N. Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia 23220 URL * “Mummy: The Inside Story” date: November 19, 2011 – March 11, 2012 The exhibition uses state of the art scanning and projection technology to take visitors on a 3D immersive experience into the coffin and mummy of the priest Nesperennub. Also on display are 80 objects from the British Museum. info: source - URL idem - URL info: URL "With more than 100 artifacts, including 4 human mummies, 2 animal mummies, gold masks, jewelry, canopic chests, massive sarcophagi, statuary and tomb lintels, the exhibition immerses the visitor in the life and death of one of the mummies, Nesperennub, a temple priest. A new accompanying 3-D film presentation – narrated by Sir Ian McKellan – uses the most advanced scanning technology to take the spectator on a journey that unwraps the mummy of Nesperennub in vivid detail and reveals the secrets of life and death in ancient Egypt." info: press report (with three photos) at URL "(..) "Mummy" presents 111 ancient Egyptian objects from London's British Museum. (..) It offers four human mummies and two animal mummies (a kitten and an ibis), but the mummy of a temple priest, Nesperennub, who lived 3,000 years ago, is the indisputable star of the show. (..) "We chose Nesperennub because we knew his coffin had never been opened, so whatever was inside had never been touched," John Taylor says. (..) "We wanted to show different methods of mummifying and different kinds of coffins," Taylor said of his choice of six mummies for the show. "One of the mummies is of a girl who is 10 to 12 years old. She was a singer in temple and was very carefully mummified." (..) "Mummy" will travel to Australia when it closes here March 11. (..)" info: URL With slide-show. info: press reports at URL Interview with John Taylor (BM), about the CT scanning of the mummy of Nesperennub (with image). URL With photo of 26th dyn. BD scene. info: press report at URL With video. i) The Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496 URL * "Opening the Vaults: Mummies" date: February 17, 2012 - April 22, 2012. More than 20 mummies from Egypt and Peru that are in The Field Museum's collection will go on display next month, along with the detailed scanned images made of some of the mummies. info:URL info: press reports at URL URL URL URL j) Washington State Historical Society 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402 URL * "Mason and the Mummy" date: October 20, 2011 - November 30, 2012 Features the story of noted Tacoma businessman Allen C. Mason and his purchase of the Egyptian mummy Ankh-Wennefer. Mason set out on a 6-month around-the-world journey to Egypt in 1890 with the intention of finding and bringing home a mummy. He succeeded, and later donated Ankh-Wennefer's mummy to the Historical Society in 1897. info: URL k) Hudson River Museum 511 Warburton Avenue, NY 10701 URL * "Elihu Vedder: Voyage on the Nile" date: October 5, 2011 - January 8, 2012 In an Egyptian winter, from December 1889 to April 1890, the American artist Elihu Vedder produced nearly 200 drawings and a diary to record the passing scenery during his Nile crouse and the places he stopped to sketch. A selection is on view. With 16 photos of paintings at the website. info: URL l) Robert W. Fullerton Art Museum California State University San Bernadino 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397 URL * "Treasures from Ancient Egypt: Selection from the Permanent Collection" date: September 30, 2011 - July 31, 2012 This is the same exhibition that was already shown in October 12, 2010 - July 31, 2011, but it will be organized again for the new course season. The Museum is closed August 1-Sept 15, 2011. info: URL m) Lora Robins Gallery of Design From Nature Boatwright Library, Richmond Way University of Richmond, VA 23173 URL * "Ti Ameny Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyptian Woman and Modern Science" date: February 24, 2012 - June 29, 2012. Small exhibition about recent research on the mummy of Ti Ameny Net (DNA and bone samples, CAT scans and X-rays). A handful of other Egyptians objects from the University of of Richmond's Ancient World Gallery and the Lora Robins Gallery will be included as well. info: URL info: press report at URL "(..) Ti Ameny Net (..) who lived in Egypt between 950 and 730 B.C. She stood a little over 5 feet tall and died childless between the ages of 30 and 40. A cause of death was not determined. (..) "We discovered that there were no amulets in the wrappings. The new research confirmed that she died in her early 30s. We still don't know what she died of, but she had scoliosis and degenerative changes on her vertebrae."(..)" With photo of the coffin of Ti Ameny Net. n) Joslyn Art Museum 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68102-1292 URL * "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum date: February 11, 2012 - June 3, 2012 The exhibition encompassing more than 100 objects drawn from the Brooklyn Museum's world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art explores the Egyptians' beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife; the process of mummification; the conduct of a funeral; and the different types of tombs-answering questions at the core of the public's fascination with ancient Egypt. This travelling exhibition was in many cities since 2008, and currently in the Nevada Museum of Art (June 11, 2011 - September 4, 2011). info: URL o) Museum of Fine Arts 465 Hurlington Street, Massachusetts 02115 URL * "Jewels, Gems and Treasures: Ancient to Modern" date: July 19, 2011 - November 25, 2012 Features approximately 75 works from the MFA's jewelry collection, as well as select loans. Among the jewelry (ancient and modern) displayed are ancient Egyptian pectoral from an elite burial and several Nubian hard-stone pendants from the burial of a Kushite queen. info: URL info: (in PDF) URL With photo of a Hathor-headed crystal pendant, Napatan Period, reign of King Piye (743-712 BC), from el-Kurru. p) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet at Main Houston, Texas 77005 URL * “Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs” date: October 16 [was: 13], 2011 - April 15, 2012 The travelling exhibition that features ca 50 artifacts from the tomb of the boy king and more than 70 objects from other periods (OK-LP) of Egyptian history. . info: URL info: press reports at URL URL URL info: press report at URL Early tickets sales begin September 13. info: press reports at URL "(..) A 25-foot tall, 7-ton statue of the Egyptian god Anubis was installed in front of the Museum of Fine Arts' Caroline Weiss Law Building. (..) Tickets for the exhibit are on sale starting today. (..)" URL "The white gloves came out Thursday morning at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston as expert handlers from Egypt installed the first item — a canopic stopper (..)." With slideshow. URL info: press reports at URL URL URL With slide-show. URL Lecture programme (Oct-Dec) connected with the exhibition. With slideshow. URL URL URL info: press reports at URL URL URL With video. info: press reports at URL With slide-show. URL URL URL URL info: press reports at URL With slideshow of 25 pics. URL With slideshow of 14 pics. "(..) Afterward, students in Alisca Bailey's class said friends who had not seen the exhibit probably would most enjoy the mummy, the stomach container, the map of gold mines and the huge earring. (..) And everyone agreed there should be more mummies." info: press report at URL "(..) Exhibition curator and University of Pennsylvania professor David Silverman says Carter’s discovery of King Tut’s tomb was no accident. In fact, Carter’s search methods in the Valley of the Kings were spot-on and sensible. “He had laid out a systematic plan for excavation before he began, leaving the least likely locations at the end of the list. When all of the more likely areas of interest had proved unfruitful, Carter had to tackle what he had at the end of the list,” Silverman says. That unlikely end led him near the floor of the Valley, which was covered with ancient huts of workmen. Carter and his crew would go on to remove the mud brick structures, which would reveal the first step of the 16 leading to the entrance of the young king's tomb. The location was surprising as well, because it was an unlikely place for a royal burial of the 18th dynasty. (..)" info: press report at URL * “Egyptomania” date: March 18, 2012 - July 29, 2012. The exhibit will explore the Egyptian Revivals of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries through objects from across the museum’s collections, including Georgian garden sphinxes, 19th-century “Aegyptian” furniture and Art Deco perfume bottles with pharaoh-head stoppers. info: press report at URL q) Pacific Science Center 200 Second Avenue North,| Seattle, WA 98109 URL * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: May 24, 2012 - January 6, 2013 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 touring exhibition was at the Atlanta Civic Center (Nov 15, 2008 - May 22, 2009), in Indianapolis (June 27, 2009 - October 25, 2009), the Art Gallery of Ontario Canada (November 21, 2009 - April 18, 2010), the Denver Art Museum (June 29, 2010 - January 9, 2011), the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul (February 18, 2011 - September 5, 2011), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (October 16, 2011 - April 15, 2012). info: URL info: URL info: press reports at URL URL (with video) URL URL info: press report at URL r) Spurlock Museum 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL 61801 URL * "A World of Shoes" date: September 4, 2012 - February 10, 2013 From ancient Egyptian sandals to modern designer stilettos. info: URL s) Wilbur D. May Museum Rancho San Rafael Regional Park 1595 N. Sierra Street, Reno, Nevada URL * "King Tut: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh's Tomb" date: January 26, 2012 - May 23, 2012 The travelling exhibition with 130 replicas of artifacts discovered in KV62. info: URL info: press report at URL An employee called Linda Schwartz will paint murals with AE themes for the coming exhibition. t) Museum of Fine Arts 255 Beach Dr. N.E., St. Petersburg, FL 33701 URL * "Ancient Egypt—Art and Magic: Treasures from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art" date: December 17, 2011 - April 29, 2012 Some 100 objects, ranging from mummy cases and sacred works in diverse media, tomb and temple reliefs, papyrus fragments, alabaster vessels, and rare objects comprised of precious stones. E.g., a red granite torso of Rameses the Great, a large stela commemorating his son Rameses III, a tomb relief of the nobleman Nefer-Hotep, a relief from the Amarna Period from a temple, and a fragment from a temple relief paying tribute to Alexander the Great. info: press release at URL Some nice photos at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL With photo of coffin. info: press report at URL "Mummy cases, papyrus fragments and alabaster vessels are part of an unusual exhibit on Ancient Egypt (...). Highlightiing the exhibit is what musuem officials describe as a "magnificent red granite torso" of Rameses the Great. There will be 100 works in all (..) Guest curator for the exhibition is Egyptologist Dr. Robert Steven Bianchi. (..) Other key works include: Tomb relief of the nobleman Nefer-Hotep; Relief from the Amarna Period from a temple erected during the reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti; Fragment from a temple relief paying tribute to Alexander the Great; Limestone sphinx, with the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion; Mummy cases or sarcophagi, which are the largest works in the exhibition. (..)" info: press report at URL "(..) The majority of these photographs, donated from The Ludmila Dandrew and Chitranee Drapkin Collection, are mainly European. Many spotlight ancient monuments and sites. Antonio Beato (1825- 1903), for example, was born in Italy and became a British citizen. He maintained studios in Cairo and Luxor from 1862-1900 and became one of the most accomplished photographers of Egypt. Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) moved his family from France to Beirut, Lebanon and produced a staggering 15,000 prints of Egypt and the Near East. His wife Lydie also fell in love with the region. The exhibition also includes the work of such little-known artists as G. Lekegian, an Armenian active in Egypt between 1860 and 1890. His images of tombs and temples, his landscapes, and his portraits are windows on history and culture. (..)" info: press reports at URL "(..) The exhibit's theme — art and magic — explores the decorative, or artistic, as well as the symbolic, or magical, meaning of 4,000 years of Egyptian art. (...). Dr. Robert Steven Bianchi, the exhibit's guest curator and the curator for the antiquities division of the Foundation Gandur, from which all the works came, [says:] (..) "We're looking at the entire object in terms of how it functioned in elite Egyptian society of the time, which represented maybe 10 percent of the population. (..) I went out of my way to choose aesthetic, superior works of art." Dr. Bob's selections were based on strict criteria developed by him in cooperation with the museum, criteria that had to do with the quality of the piece and its ability to tell a story. (..)" URL Includes a video and slides-how. URL "(...) The exhibition also includes a tomb relief of the nobleman Nefer-Hotep, a relief from the Amarna Period found at a temple built during the reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti as well as a fragment from a temple relief paying tribute to Alexander the Great. Another must-see work is a red granite torso of Rameses the Great (...) Rounding out the collection’s highlights are a limestone sphinx. (..)" URL info: video, focussing on the Ramesses II torso and on a mummy-board, at: URL info: press report at URL * "Forever in a Moment: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt" date: November 19, 2011 - April 10, 2012 This photographic exhibition contains the work of such well-known photographers as Antonio Beato and Félix Bonfils, Europeans who established studios in the region and photographed monumental sites - including Giza, Karnak, and Philae - to satisfy the bourgeoning demand for travel photographs and albums. Also included are images by Pascal Sébah and Armenian photographer G. Lekegian, who provided different perspectives on nineteenth-century Egypt. info: URL info: press report at URL With more than 40 images. "(..) The exhibition is the third in a series unveiling the magnanimous gifts of photography from Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew and Chitranee and Dr. Robert L. Drapkin. Additional works have been lent by The Drapkin Collection, Timothy Welsh, and another private collector. (..) Fourteen images are by Antonio Beato (1825-1903), who was born in Italy and became a British citizen. He maintained studios in Cairo and Luxor from 1862-1900 and became one of the most accomplished photographers of Egypt. Beato is represented by some of the earliest photographs of the ruins of the Ramseum (..). Other photographs by Beato capture the ruins at Karnak (..), and those of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. (..) Frequently, figures were included to show scale. (..)" info: Spanish press report at URL u) - v) The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201 URL * “Secrets of the Universe: The Egyptian Book of the Faiyum" (working title) date: Fall, 2013 - Spring, 2014 This exhibition on the Egyptian belief system will focus on an exquisitely illustrated Greco-Roman-period papyrus—the Book of the Faiyum— that describes the creation of the universe and depicts the daily journey of the sun god. This will be the first time in more than 150 years that t he manuscript, which was divided up for sale in the 19th century, will be reunited. Will travel to the Roemer- und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, in Summer 2014. info: URL w) San Diego Museum of Man 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101 URL * "Modern Day Mummy: The Art and Science of Mummification" date: June 11, 2011 - March 4, 2012 [was: June 10, 2012] The highlight of the exhibit will be "Mumab," a modern day mummy made by Dr. Bob Brier. It will further showcase various types of mummies and current research performed on them. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "(..) will describe the natural and artificial ways mummies are preserved, how scientists conduct mummy research in remote locations, and how CT and MRI science can be used to look underneath the mummies' wrapping. The exhibit also includes an Egyptian sarcophagus, ritualistic artifacts, a mummified hawk, shrunken heads, bugs that help in the decomposition process and a diorama of mummy restoration in Papua, New Guinea." info: press report (with slide-show) at URL info: press report at URL x) The Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology University of California at Berkeley Bancroft Way at College Avenue. URL * "The Conservator's Art: Preserving Egypt's Past" date: April 29, 2010 - December 31, 2011 [was: till May 11, 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. (..)" "The Conservator's Art: Preserving Egypt's Past" info: URL info: press report at URL info: source of prolongation date - URL y) Discovery Place 301 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202 URL * "Mummies of the World" date: November 11, 2011 - April 8, 2012 The travelling exhibition of ca. 45 human and animal mummies and ca. 95 funeral artifacts from many cultures, incl. Egypt. Earlier in the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (June 18, 2011 - October 23, 2011). info: URL info: URL with slideshow (8 pics) info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL URL Slideshow: URL info: press reports at URL Interviews Emily Teeter, David Silverman, and Janet Monge. URL info: exhibit preview video at URL info: press report at URL z) Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey, 434 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1390 URL * "Karanis Revealed: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt" date: September 16, 2011 - May 6, 2012 The exhibition illuminates the historical records of Karanis, a single village community in the Egyptian countryside during the Graeco- Roman period, and explores the story of the site's excavation, initiated by the University of Michigan in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as subsequent and upcoming research on the recovered material and its context. It will be presented in two phases, with all but a few displays changing in the second portion -- Part I (Sept.16 - Dec. 18, 2011) on the Ptolemaic period, Part II (Jan. 27 - May 6, 2012) on the Roman period. info: URL info: press reports at URL URL The mummy in the exhibition is nicknamed “Annie” . "(..) she was about 17 years old when she died, during a period of Egyptian turmoil (..) and she was buried with considerable ceremony, with a gilded mask and an elaborately painted sarcophagus.(..) A mummified crocodile will also be on display, along with a mummified cat (..). [The show] includes more than 60 ancient artifacts and various kid-friendly displays (..)" info: URL * "Dominated and Demeaned: Representations of the Other" date: October 21, 2011 - January 16, 2012 The show places images illustrating ancient Egyptian tropes of the enemy Other in dialogue with a display of household artifacts produced for White America in the early to mid-20th century which legitimized demeaning characterizations of African-Americans. By juxtaposing these recent items with ancient images, the installation suggests varying ways in which image saturation and the deployment of images of Otherness on objects of "daily life" may operate. info: URL za) Museum of Science 1 Science park, Boston MA02114 URL * Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science date: May 27, 2012 - TBA 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 artefacts are on loan from the Brooklyn Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences. Thetravelling exhibition was earlier at COSI Columbus (May 30, 2009 - September 7, 2009), Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (October 24, 2010 - January 2, 2011), and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) (January 29, 2011 - May 1, 2011), and the the Mayborn Museum (May 28, 2011 - September 5, 2011). info: URL zb) Phoenix Ancient Art 47 East 66th Street, New York, NY 10021 URL * "Faiences" date: December 6-30, 2011. Ca 100 ancient art works of faience from the private collection of the Aboutaam family. The exhibition will be traveling to BRAFA (57th Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair, Tour & Taxis), January 21- 29, 2012, and Phoenix Ancient Art in Geneva, Spring 2012. info: press release at URL "(..) Fans of "William," the well-loved Egyptian faience hippopotamus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be pleased to see that there are three other examples of blue-green hippopotami in the show that are among the stars of the exhibition. Two date from the Middle Kingdom (dynasty 11-13); one is from the Late Period (6th-4th century B.C.), (..) Other highlights from this 100 plus piece collection include an Egyptian New Kingdom light green figure of a seated antelope (c. 1570-1294 B.C.); an Egyptian pectoral with a military scene representing Ramses II (13th century B.C.); a Greek aryballos (small globular vase) in the form of a hedgehog from the mid-6th century B.C.; a Late Period Egyptian dish decorated with a pair of lions (5th-4th century B.C.); and an Egyptian amphora from the Hellenistic period decorated with a gold leaf wreath (3rd c B.C.)." zc) - zd) - ze) Smithsonian Natural History Museum 10th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington URL * "Eternal Life after Death in Ancient Egypt" date: November 17, 2011 - permanent [was: TBA] Large exhibition that will focus on Smithsonian science and what museum experts have learned about burial practices, health, disease and demographics from studying mummies. Includes a large amount of mummies, some of which have never been on display. info: URL info: press release at URL "The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will officially debut its largest exhibition of ancient Egyptian mummies and artifacts in "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" Nov. 17. The opening follows a preview in the spring of three cases on Egyptian burial rights. With the completion of the new hall, the Smithsonian will offer the largest public presentation of mummies in its history. T he expanded exhibition is permanent and will include an additional eight cases focusing on the science behind studying mummies. A combination of rare artifacts and cutting-edge research tools will illuminate how Smithsonian scientists have pieced together the lives of ancient Egyptians through their burial practices and rituals in preparation for their eternal life. Many of the objects going on display will be on view for the first time. (..)" Describes the new cases. info: press report, with video, at URL About animal mummies. "(..) Egypt in the 7th Century BC was not a healthy place to be if you were a cat or a dog. Puppy farms and other animal breeding programmes were a huge industry - not to produce pets, but to provide a stock of animals to be killed and mummified. (...) "It's easier to say which animals the Egyptians didn't mummify," says Prof Ikram, who helped curate the Smithsonian's largest mummy exhibition to date. "There are no mummified pigs as far as we know, no mummified hippos, and I thik that's about it - because almost every other creature at some time or another has been mummified." (..)" info: press report, with video, at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL " “Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt” now shows four human mummies (double the previous display) and, in 11 newly designed cases, explains what the museum’s scientists have learned about the artifacts and Egyptian burial practices. Before, there were three rather musty cases in an outdated exhibit hall. (..)" info: press report, with 15 photo slideshow, at: URL info: press reports about the facial reconstruction of one of the mummies URL URL (photos of the head) info: blog entry with two photos at URL With some background info provided by Dr Lana Troy and Dr Salima Ikram. zf) - zg) Science Center of Iowa 401 W Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, Des Moines, IA 50309 URL * "Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science" date: November 25, 2011 - April 29, 2012 The travelling exhibition with artifacts that are on loan from the Brooklyn Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences. It features a human mummy and animal mummies, as well as scans, forensic facial reconstructions, a re-creation of an Egyptian tomb, and authentic art and artifacts. The exhibition was earlier at COSI Columbus (May 30, 2009 - September 7, 2009), Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (October 24, 2010 - January 2, 2011), the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) (January 29, 2011 - May 1, 2011), the Mayborn Museum (May 28, 2011 - September 5, 2011), and in future will go to the Museum of Science, Boston (May 27, 2012 - TBA). info: press reports at URL URL With photo of mummy. URL With slideshow and trailer. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report (with video) at URL info: URL info: press report at URL zh) - zi) Museum of Idaho 200 N. Eastern Ave., Idaho Falls, ID 83402 URL * "Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh's Tomb" date: June 15, 2012 - November 24, 2012 The travelling exhibition of 130 authorized replicas of KV62 artefacts. info: source - URL zj) California Science Center 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles CA 90037 URL * "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" date: May 23 [was: 19], 2012 - TBA The exhibition uses more than 150 artifacts and multimedia displays to tell the story of the queen. It showcases artifacts uncovered in two ongoing expeditions, namely Abu Qir Bay (team of Franck Goddio) and Taposiris Magna. This is a travelling exhibition earlier at the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia (June 5, 2010 - January 2, 2011) and the Cincinnati Museum Center (February 18, 2011 - September 10, 2011) and the Milwaukee Public Museum (October 14, 2011 - April 29, 2012). info: URL info: press reports at URL URL URL info: source - URL zk) Museum of Science & Industry 4801 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33617 URL * "Mummies of the world" date: April 27, 2012 - September 2012 [was: April 2012 - TBA] The travelling exhibition of ca. 45 human and animal mummies and ca. 95 funeral artifacts from many cultures, incl. Egypt. Currently at the Discovery Place, Charlotte, NC (November 11, 2011 - April 8, 2012). info: URL info: source - URL info: press report at URL --CANADA-- a) - --UNITED KINGDOM-- a) Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London, Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT URL * "Luxor: People & Places" date: January 7, 2012 - March 31, 2012 A collection of drawings and paintings by artist Adele Wagstaff made during her recent visits to Luxor. info: URL info: press release by artist (with two pics) at URL b) Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB URL * "Triumph, protection and dreams: The East African headrest in context" date: September 20, 2011 - January 21, 2012 The exhibition aims to look at the function, design and development of headrests across cultural and chronological boundaries (apparently incl. ancient Egypt). info: URL c) - d) The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TS URL * "Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt: date: June 18, 2010 - January 18, 2012 This exhibition (in the Coin Gallery) features ca. 80 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 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." info: video (6:36 min) in which Dr Martin Bommas talks about the Eton Myers Collection: URL e) - f) Ashmolean Museum Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH URL * "Unwrapped: The Story of a Child Mummy" date: November 26, 2011 - March 4, 2012 Artist Angela Palmer has created an installation offering visitors a unique and intimate glimpse beneath the wrappings of an Egyptian child mummy. The child has been recreated in three dimensions based on over 2,500 CT scans taken at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. info: URL "The artist went in search of his burial site in Hawara in the Faiyum from which she made a film of his homeland, a cast of his head, and recreated linen bales dyed using ancient Egyptian methods. " info: URL info: URL g) - h) Manchester Museum Oxford Road, Manchester URL * "Unearthed: Ancient Egypt" date: September 30, 2011 - September 6, 2012 info: URL info: URL The current Ancient Egypt and Archaeology galleries will be closed and replaced by new Ancient Worlds galleries, opening late 2012. Hence part of the Ancient Egypt gallery, namely the section "Daily Life", is now closed. "But most of our mummies and our archaeology collection will stay on display until Feb 2012. " info: press report at URL info: press report at URL * "Grave Secrets: Tales of the ancient Nubians" date: November 19, 2011 - March 4, 2012 [was: October 22, 2011 - January 22, 2012] Exhibition, presented in conjunction with the KNH-Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, about the work of Grafton Elliot Smith on the human remains from the Survey of Nubia carried out in the 1960s. info: URL info: URL (PDF) info: source - URL info: source - URL "(..) "We want to show how a collection of skeletal material like that of Nubia can be used to explore the lifestyle of a particular group of ancient people. The exhibition will look at the people as people, and put flesh on the bones." (..)" info: URL "An exhibition of bone specimens and artefacts excavated during the Archaeological Survey of Nubia (1907-1911), revealing the lives of the inhabitants of ancient Nubia, Egypt's southern neighbour. The anatomical study of these remains was co-ordinated by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (...). The exhibition features specimens from the Elliot Smith collection housed in the Natural History Museum, London, material from the KNH Centre for Biomedical and Forensic Egyptology at The University of Manchester, displayed alongside excavation photos and some of the artefacts found with the bodies from collections of The Manchester Museum." info: press report (with 4 photos) at URL i) - j) Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery Museum Street, Blackburn BB1 7AJ URL * "From Egypt's Sands to Northern Hills: John Garstang's Excavations in Egypt" date: October 22, 2011 - April 21, 2012 Exhibition of objects from the excavations of John Garstang; it will tour local museums that own the artefacs. It was earlier at Kendal Museum (April 1, 2011 - September 30, 2011) and will move to Towneley Hall Museum (TBA - July 13, 2012). info: URL k) Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Castle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 8TP URL * "Secret Egypt: Unravelling Truth from Myth" date: March 10, 2012 - June 10, 2012 With around 200 artefacts on loan from major Egyptology collections throughout the UK including Manchester Museum, the Ashmolean and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. This travelling exhibition was ealier in the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (February 11, 2011 - June 5, 2011) and Torquay Museum (July 1, 2011 - October 25, 2011). info: URL l) National Museum of Scotland Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF URL * "Fascinating Mummies" date: February 11, 2012 - May 27, 2012 Will explore the complex rituals surrounding death and afterlife in Ancient Egypt, and will feature treasures from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden in the Netherlands, plus mummies owned by the National Museum of Scotland. info: press release at URL info: press reports at URL URL info: URL "(..) One of the exhibition's central stories is that of Ankhhor, a high priest of Thebes who lived 650 years before Christ. The Ankhhor mummy and its three coffins became part of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden collection in 1828. Unusually for that time, the museum experts did not unwrap the mummy. Although much had been learned from hieroglyphs and symbols on his three sarcophagi, it is only recently that we have come to learn about Ankhhor and his secrets. A CT scan gave an insight into his anatomy, age and general health and showed how Ankhhor was mummified. (..)" info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL URL URL m) Dorset County Museum High West Street,, Dorchester DT1 1XA URL * "Pharaoh: King of Egypt" date: October 15, 2011 - January 22, 2012 The travelling exhibition with 130 tems from the British Museum that will focus on aspects of Egyptian kingship. Looks at the three main roles of the pharaoh in ancient Egypt – as head of state, as chief priest and as commander of the army. It explores life as a King in Ancient Egypt, from the religious ideology of the Pharaohs to festivals and real life in the royal court.The exhibition will tour from summer 2011 and into 2013; recently it was at the Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne (July 16, 2011 - September 25, 2011), and it will go to the Dorset County Museum. the Leeds City Museum, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. info: URL info: photos of all objects, by exhibition theme, at URL info: press report at URL "(..) Alongside monumental statues and beautifully carved stone reliefs from ancient temples, and glittering gold jewellery, this exhibition also features some more unusual objects. These include colourful inlays used to decorate a pharoah’s palace, diplomatic letters to Egypt’s allies inscribed on clay tablets, the wooden bowl which belonged to one of the king’s troop commanders, and an ancient water clock decorated for a Greek king on the throne of Egypt. (..)" info: press reports at URL "(..) The exhibition will include a life-sized royal tomb guardian from the Valley of the Pharaohs, intricate gold jewellery, granite statues and even 5,500-year-old bread. (..)" URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(..) Initial figures show that Pharaoh: King of Egypt has already had a significant impact. DCM director Jon Murden said that provisional visitor numbers for October have more than tripled on the previous year, while visitor income for the period is up by 90% to £12,233. Hosting the exhibition has also enabled DCM to attract capital investment from both the council and private funders towards a significant upgrade of the museum's facilities.(..)" info: press report at URL "(..) There were more than 11,000 visitors during the first six weeks of the display, four times more than the number of visitors for the equivalent period last year. (..)" n) Leeds City Museum Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH URL * "Pharaoh: King of Egypt" date: February 11 [was 10], 2012 - June 17, 2012 The travelling exhibition with 130 tems from the British Museum that will focus on aspects of Egyptian kingship. info: press release at URL With photo of 'Sandstone head of Mentuhotep II'. info: URL info: press report at URL o) Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3DH URL *"Pharaoh: King of Egypt" date: July 7, 2012 - October 14, 2012 p) Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AG URL * "Pharaoh: King of Egypt" date: November 3, 2012 - February 24, 2013 q) Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RL URL * "Pharaoh: King of Egypt" date: March 15, 2013 - June 9. 2013 --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, Amsterdam URL * TBA b) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW Leiden URL * "Sites in the City" date: September 30, 2011 - February 5, 2012 Photos made by Sue Lezon and Yarko Kobylecky (Chicago House) illustrate the destruction of Qurna and parts of Luxor since 2006 due to large-scale development projects, and document the heritage (churches, mosques, mansions, etc) that now has been lost. info: (in Dutch, with 7 photos of the demolitions) URL * "Tuinen van de Farao's" [Gardens of the Pharaohs] date: April 26, 2012 - September 2, 2012 About the flora of ancient Egypt, with specimens of dried plant remnains and artistic representations of plants and trees (on reliefs, coffins, jewelry, amulettes, drinking bowls). info: URL With 4 photos. * "De Gloed van Lapis Lazuli" [The Glow of Lapis Lazuli] date: January 20, 2012 - March 11, 2012 Modern artist Jeroen Spijker exhibits 7 sculptures and 12 photos that reflect his impressions and modern interpretations of the funerary customs of the ancient Egyptians. info: URL c) Museum Het Valkhof Kelfkensbos 59, 6511 TB Nijmegen URL * "Waarom godinnen zo mooi zijn: liefde en schoonheid in de oudheid" [Why goddesses are so pretty: Love and beauty in Antiquity] date: March 24, 2012 - August 12, 2012 Via ca. 320 artefacts, the exhibition explores several aspects of love and beauty in the cultures of ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and the Ancient Near East. info: URL d) - e) Kunsthal Westzeedijk 341, 3015 AA Rotterdam URL * "Mummies! The Secret Unravelled" date: October 1, 2011 - January 29, 2012 With over 225 ancient Egyptian objects; highlights include the mummy and tomb [A.S.1] of Anchhor, and the replica of Sennedjem's burial chamber. The exhibition also focuses extensively on past, current and future technological research into mummies. Travelling exhibition ("Fascinating Egyptian Mummies") that has been in Canada en the USA and most recently in Japan (Okayama Orient Museum, July 2, 2011 - August 31, 2011). With objects from the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden. Will travel to Edinburgh and Barcelona. info: URL info: press report (in Dutch) at URL info: press report (in Dutch) at URL --GERMANY-- a) Frankfurter Westend Galerie Arndtstraße 12, 60325 Frankfurt am Main URL " 'Impronte egiziane' [Egyptian Impressions]: Sandro Vannini, Ausgewählte Fotografien" date: January 21, 2012 - March 2, 2012 info: press report at URL b) Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Bonn Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, 53113 Bonn URL * "Zwischen den Welten. Grabfunde von Ägyptens Südgrenze" [was: "GrenzGänger. Ägyptens Arm nach Afrika"] date: September 1, 2011 - April 1, 2012 [was: August 18, 2011 - TBA] Exhibition of finds from excavations in Qubbet el-Hawa on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the museum. info: URL info: URL info: press release at URL info: press report at URL "Die Herzen der Ägyptologen dürften höher schlagen angesichts der vielen Tongefäße mit Weiheinschriften, die ihnen einzigartige Informationen über die Bestatteten und die Trauergemeinde liefern. Und der Laie? Nun, die Goldmaske von Pharao Tut sucht man hier vergeblich, aber andere Preziosen aus dem Alten, Neuen und Späten Reich lohnen durchaus einen Besuch des Ägyptischen Museums. Wie wäre es mit der Goldmaske des Priesters Pen-ta-hut-hetep? Die vergoldete und bemalte Kartonage zeigt das Antlitz eines Mannes, der um die 60 Jahre alt wurde und im Späten Reich unter den Ptolemäern lebte und wirkte. Direkt daneben schaut man auf die Goldmaske, die die Dame Pi-heri-netjer zeigt." * "Grenzen des Totenbuchs" [Beyond the Book of the Dead] [was: “Totenbuch” (working title)] [new] date: March 1, 2012 - TBA [was: Spring 2012] info: source - URL info: source - URL Also a Study Day and a lecture series about the Book of the Dead are being planned. * „Schriftgeschichte“ (working title) date: 2012 info: source - URL c) Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt Karmelitergasse 1, D-60311 Frankfurt am Main tel.: 069/212-35896, fax: 069/212-30700 email * "Reise in die Unsterblichkeit. Ägyptische Mumien und das ewige Leben" [Voyage to immortality. Egyptian mummies and eternal life] date: November 5, 2011 - February 26, 2012 Exhibition about the AE funerary cult (afterlife concepts, mummification, sarcophagi, funerary rituals and gifts), with artefacts on loan from the Egyptian Museum in Florence. info: URL info: press report at URL "Präsentiert werden ... grausig anmutende Praktiken der Mumifizierung und Einbalsamierung, fremdartige tiergestaltige Gottheiten, prächtige Sarkophage und Amulette. Die Exponate sind Originalfunde und Leihgaben des Ägyptischen Museums Florenz. Viele sind erstmals außerhalb Italiens zu sehen." info: press reports at URL URL "Erstmals außerhalb von Italien gezeigte Funde aus dem Archäologischen Museum Florenz geben Einblicke in die Jenseitsvorstellungen des alten Pharaonenlandes. Mumien, Götterbilder und Grabbeilagen zeugen vom tiefen Glauben der Menschen an ein Weiterleben nach dem Tod." info: press report at URL "Diese 'Reise in die Unsterblichkeit' bietet in nur einem Saal einen Crash-Kurs in Sachen Glauben, Mumien und Grabbeigaben der alten Ägypter, deren Totenkult über immerhin drei Jahrtausende hinweg ihre Weltkultur geprägt hat." info: press report at URL "'In diesem Umfang waren Stücke aus der Florentiner Sammlung noch nie außerhalb Italiens zu sehen', sagt der Leiter des Frankfurter Archäologiemuseums, Egon Wamers. Bis zum 26. Februar 2012 stellt sein Institut Begräbnisrituale und Techniken der Mumifizierung im alten Ägypten in den Mittelpunkt der Sonderschau." info: press report at URL "Die Schau 'Reise in die Unsterblichkeit' ist eine der schönsten Ausstellungen, die das Archäologische Museum jemals vorgestellt hat." d) Archäologisches Museum Colombischlössle Rotteckring 5, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau URL * “Leben am Nil. Eine Kinderausstellung zum Alten Ägypten” [Life at the Nile. An Exhibiton for Children about Ancient Egypt] date: March 17, 2011 - February 26, 2012 [prolongation; was: till October 16, 2011] Via real artefacts (e.g., a sarcophagus, writing tools, jewelry, cosmetics, musical instruments) as examples, children can learn how to be a scribe and how to dress-up like an Egyptian. Includes a Playmobil-model of scenes from the Nile Valley. info: URL info: (in German) URL info: press report at URL "Die neue Ausstellung ... ermöglicht Kindern eine spannende Zeitreise ins Alte Ägypten." info: press report at URL "Das Archäologische Museum Colombischlössle wird seit der Eröffnung der Ausstellung 'Leben am Nil' von Kindern, Familien und Schulklassen gestürmt. Nach nur sechs Wochen haben bereits 4000 Personen die Ausstellung zum Alten Ägypten gesehen." info: press report "Ein Perlengewebe aus einem Mumiensarg der altägyptischen Spätzeit" at URL (with photo of restored 'mummy net') e) Brandenburg-Preußen Museum Eichenallee 7a, 16818 Wustrau URL * "Preußen in Ägypten" date: August 28, 2011 - January 8, 2012 Exhibition at the occassion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Lepsius (December 23, 1810), about the Prussian expedition to Egypt and Ethiopia in 1842-1845, led by Lepsius. info: URL info: press report at URL "Dem 200. Geburtstag von Richard Lepsius widmete sich das Wustrauer Brandenburg-Preußen-Museum mit der Sonderausstellung. Seit Ende August gab es dort zudem Vorträge über Lepsius und Ägypten. Die Schlussveranstaltung zeigte den Film über eine Reise ins Land der Pyramiden - gut 150 Jahre später war ein Team des Ägyptischen Museums nach Afrika gereist und den Spuren der preußischen Expedition gefolgt." f) Martin von Wagner Museum Residenzplatz 2 A, D-97070 Würzburg URL * "KultOrte. Mythen, Wissenschaft und Alltag in den Tempeln Ägyptens" [Places of Worship. Myths, Science and Everyday Life in the Temples of Egypt] date: October 20, 2011 - February 11, 2012 The many aspects and functions of an ancient Egyptian temple will be explained with the help of original objects from the collections of Berlin, Stuttgart, Tübingen, and Würzburg. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press release at URL "Erstmals in Deutschland befasst sich nun eine Ausstellung mit den riesigen Tempelanlagen des Landes am Nil - im Martin-von-Wagner- Museum der Universität in der Würzburger Residenz." URL g) Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Neue Bahnhofstraße 9, D-59065 Hamm tel.: +49 2381 17 57 14, fax: +49 2381 17 29 89 email * "Von der Mumienmaske zur Moderne. Glanzstücke aus den Schenkungen des Museumsvereins Hamm" date: November 12, 2011 - April 15, 2012 At the occassion of the 125th jubilee of the Museumsverein Hamm, highlights among its donations are spotlighted, among them a gilded mummy mask (300 BC), a model of a funerary barque (dyn. 11), and the coffin of Sat-Sobek (dyn. 12). info: URL h) Archäologisches Museum Colombischlössle Rotteckring 5, D-79098 Freiburg im Breisgau * "Leben am Nil. Eine Kinderausstellung zum Alten Ägypten" [Life at the Nile. An Exhibition for Children about Ancient Egypt] date: March 17, 2011 - February 26, 2012 [prolongation; was: till October 16, 2011] An exhibition where children can take part in various activities, as scribe pupils, taking on clothes, putting makeup on etc. A Playmobil model shows the life in AE. info: URL i) Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst Residenz, Hofgartenstraße, 80333 München URL * “Gottes - Bilder. Religion im alten Ägypten" date: September 30, 2011 - March 31, 2012 With ca. 150 objects, incl. statues and figures of gods and priests, steale and reliefs, cult devices, amulets and papyri from the collection of the Museum, some of which haven't been displayed before. info: URL info: press report at URL "Die Ägyptische Staatssammlung überbrückt die Zwischenzeit bis zum Umzug mit einer gelungenen, kleinen Ausstellung ... In der Gabelsbergerstraße neben der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen wartet der Neubau auf Bezug. Die Räume wären fertig und scheinbar jederzeit zu bestücken. Leider geht das aber nicht so schnell. Denn die Ägyptische Staatssammlung mit ihren Jahrtausende alten Objekte ist ein diffiziler Kunde. Alles muss passen, wenn denn die kostbaren Hinterlassenschaften der alten Pharaonen endlich um- und einziehen dürfen: Temperatur, Luftfeuchtigkeit müssen möglichst schwankungsfrei sein. Und das in einem Neubau aus Beton, dessen frisch gegossene Wände noch lange brauchen werden, um auszudünsten. Sommer 2013 ist deshalb der derzeit anvisierte Eröffnungstermin für das neue Museum." j) Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Museumstraße 1, 38100 Braunschweig URL * "Altägypten in Braunschweig" date: Spring 2012 - TBA Exhibition of 460 ancient Egyptian objects from the Museum's storerooms. Includes the only known statue of king Philippos III Arrhidaios (323 - 317 BC). info: URL With photo of Philippos statue. k) Knauf-Museum Iphofen Am Marktplatz, 97343 Iphofen URL * "Theatrum Hieroglyphicum. Ägyptisierende Bildwerke im Geiste des Barock" date: March 27, 2011 – January 22, 2012 [prolongation; was: till November 6, 2011] Exhibition of egyptianising statues (2nd half of 18th c) from the Pantheon in Wörlitz and the Königlichen Antiquarium der Münchener Residenz. info: URL l) Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Thüringens Humboldtstrasse 11, 99423 Weimar URL * "Ägypten. Unbekannte Schätze aus Thüringer Sammlungen" date: first part of 2012 With objects from the Thüringisches Landesamt für Archäologie, the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and some other collections. info: source - URL m) Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Bodestr 1, D-10178 Berlin tel.: +49(0)30 266 42-4242, fax: +49(0)30 266 42-2290 email * "Materialimitation im alten Ägypten" date: September 9, 2011 - December 31, 2011 place: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung im Neuen Museum Berlin, Sonderausstellungsbereich, Ebene 0, Saal 004, Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin * "Nofretete - 100 Jahre Amarna" [Nefertiti - 100 years Amarna] date: December 6, 2012 - April 13, 2013 info: source - Presseinformation der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - pdf-file (0.4 MB) URL info: English press report at URL info: press report at URL "Das Projekt ist Teil der Kooperation zwischen den Staatlichen Museen und der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, die am Mittwoch bekanntgegeben wurde. Über die Fördersumme vereinbarten die Museen Stillschweigen." 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: Spring 2012 [was: 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. The exhibition planned for autumn 2010 was postponed to 2012. info: URL info: source - URL o) Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Rotunde im Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin * "Triangulations" date: December 2, 2011 - March 2, 2012 Artist Tinka Bechert, a descendant of Richard Lepsius, shows an installation inspired by Lepsius's expedition to Egypt in 1842. info: URL info: (in English) - including a slideshow: URL info: press report at URL "Nach Ägypten! Eine Rauminstallation auf Lepsius' Spuren (...) Über fünf Geschosse der Treppenrotunde hinweg spannt sie kreuz und quer rote Baumwollseile - und verbindet damit Textschnipsel rund um Ägypten und den Ägyptologen Lepsius, die sie zusammengestellt und ins Treppengeländer eingelassen hat." p) Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank Budapester Str. 35, D-10787 Berlin * "Königsstadt Naga - Ausgrabungen in der Wüste des Sudan" [Royal city Naga - Excavations in the Desert of Sudan] date: August 31, 2011 - January 15, 2012 [was: till December 18, 2011] Exhibition about the work of the Ägyptischen Museums Berlin, Naga Projekt [website of the mission: URL]. With 130 artefacts from these excavations in Sudan, plus ceramics from the Münchner Staatliches Museum, plus the gold treasure of queen Amanishakheto (who is attested via objects in Naga). Earlier in the Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, München (April 15, 2011 - July 31, 2011). info: URL info: flyer of the catalogue (with color photographs, 19,90 €) at URL info: source - Presseinformation der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - pdf-file (0.4 MB) URL info: URL info: press report at URL "Tatsächlich zeugen die Ruinen, die seit 1995 von einem Team des Berliner Ägyptischen Museums aus dem Wüstensand des Sudan gegraben werden und heute den Namen Naga tragen, von einer 'Brückenkultur'. Und wie weltoffen die war, kann nun in einer Ausstellung im Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank staunend zur Kenntnis genommen werden, welche die Archäologen Dietrich Wildung und Karla Kröper eingerichtet haben." info: press report, includes a slideshow and a video report [5:09 mins.], at URL info: another press report at URL "In 15-jähriger Ausgrabungsarbeit haben Wissenschaftler des Ägyptischen Museums in Berlin, namentlich deren einstiger Direktor Prof. Dietrich Wildung und Dr. Karla Kröper, fünf Prozent des gesamten Areals ausgegraben und dabei erstaunliche Funde zutage gefördert. Hier ist für die Archäologen kommender Jahrzehnte noch eine riesige Arbeit zu leisten, bevor annähernd abgeschätzt werden kann, welchen Anteil die antiken Kulturen des Sudan an der Entwicklung und am Reichtum menschlicher Zivilisation gehabt haben. Aber jetzt schon, im Juni dieses Jahres, hat die UNESCO Naga als Weltkulturerbe anerkannt." info: press report at URL "Davon träumt jeder Archäologe: eine versunkene Stadt auszugraben, die Jahrtausende lang unberührt geblieben war. Dem ehemaligen Direktor des Berliner Ägyptischen Museums, Dietrich Wildung, ist das gelungen. Sein Forscherteam hat ab 1995 Teile der Königsstadt Naga im Sudan freigelegt, die sich 130 Kilometer nordöstlich der Hauptstadt Khartum befindet. Nach Abschluss der Grabungen sind die spektakulärsten Funde nun im Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank zu sehen." info: URL q) Kirche St. Stephan Neubaustraße. 97070 Würzburg * "Gott weiblich" date: May 5, 2012 - August 25, 2012 With more than 300 objects to document the ways in which the divine has been embodied in feminine form - from Isis to the Virgin Mary. With statues of goddesses and female figures from the Ancient Near East and Egypt, from the collections of the BIBEL+ORIENT museum of the University of Freiburg, complemented with contemporary art. info: URL info: URL URL Mentions among the objects (with photo): Erotische Figur in einer Kapelle, Ägypten, um 1300 v. Chr. Statue einer ägyptischen Klagefrau, um 2000 v. Chr. Stillende Isis, Ägypten, 306-30 vor Chr. r) Museum DKM Güntherstr. 13-15, 47051 Duisburg tel.: +49 203 9355547 0 URL * "Ägypten. Die Kunst Ägyptens in der Sammlung DKM" [Egypt. The art of Egypt in the collection of DKM] date: September 30, 2011 - April 9, 2012 Artefacts (pottery, reliefs, statues) and travel photographs (19th c and modern). info: source - URL info: press reports at URL URL URL With photo gallery of 7 artefacts, info: press report at URL "... in einer hochkarätigen Ausstellung ägyptischer Kunst, die man in der Ruhrregion in solcher Qualität kaum je erleben konnte. 50 Skulpturen, Fragmente von Statuen, Reliefs, Masken und Gefäße haben der Bauunternehmer Maas und der Vermögensverwalter Dirk Krämer für das nach ihren Initialen benannte Duisburger Privatmuseum DKM zusammengetragen." s) Neanderthal Museum Talstrasse 300, 40822 Mettmann URL * "LEGO Zeitreise" date: November 19, 2011 - March 18, 2012 Scenes from Prehistory to the Modern Age reconstructed in LEGO stones. With large scale models of Cheops' Pyramid, the Nile Valley, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. info: URL t) Wolfgang-Bonhage-Museum Kirchplatz 2, D-34497 Korbach URL * "Das alte Ägypten" date: December 2011 - May 2012 Exhibition presented by students of the Alten Landesschule (ALS). It will also spotlight a former ALS-student, Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen (1791-1860), author of 'Ägyptens Stelle in der Weltgeschichte'. info: URL u) Winckelmann-Museum Winckelmannstraße 36, 39576 Stendal URL * "Ägypten, Nubien und die Cyrenaika. Die imaginäre Reise des Norbert Bittner (1786 - 1851)" date: July 7, 2012 - October 16, 2012 In a series of water-colors, Norbert Bittner reconstructed a fictitious voyage to Egypt - without ever having been there. He based his watercolors on contemporary travel accounts, among them Vivant Denon's "Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte" and the "Description de l'Egypte". The exhibition will travel to Kupferstich- kabinett der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien (January 20, 2012 - February 26, 2012), the Residenzgalerie Salzburg (May 4, 2012 - July 1, 2012), the Winckelmann-Museum in Stendal (July 7, 2012 - October 16, 2012), and the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum (Spring 2013). info: source - URL v) Wolfgang-Bonhage-Museum Korbach Kirchplatz 2, 34497 Korbach tel.: 05631 53 289 * "Das Alte Ägypten. Eine Ausstellung zum Anfassen und Spielen" [Ancient Egypt. An exhibition for touching and playing] date: December 18, 2011 - April 29, 2012 The exhibition was prepared by pupils of the Alte Landesschule, Korbach. info: (including a flyer for download) URL info: about the Geschichtswerkstatt of the Alte Landesschule and how the exhibition was prepared - URL "Schüler und Schülerinnen entwickeln unter fachkundiger Begleitung ein Ausstellungskonzept, arbeiten an der methodischen Umsetzung, setzen inhaltliche Schwerpunkte, besuchen anderen Museen (u.a. in Hildesheim, Kassel etc.), informieren und qualifizieren sich, übernehmen die Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, verfassen Texte, bemühen sich um Leihgaben, unterhalten Kontakte zu anderen Museen, gestalten und entwickeln eigenständig ein umfassendes Begleitprogramm mit Vortragsabenden, Filmstunden, Workshops, Spielen und sonstigen Attraktionen (z. B. in Kooperation mit dem Waldeckischen Geschichtsverein - Bezirksgruppe Korbach). Auch führen Geschichtswerkstättler neben Museumspädagogen interessierte Jugendgruppen und Schulklassen durch die Ausstellung." info: press report, including a video report [0:58 mins.], at URL w) Kölnisches Stadtmuseum Zeughausstraße 1, 50667 Köln URL * "Ägypten, Nubien und die Cyrenaika. Die imaginäre Reise des Norbert Bittner (1786 - 1851)" date: Spring 2013 See Germany (u). info: source - URL x) Marktkeller Marktplatz 2-4, D-65183 Wiesbaden URL * "Tutanchamun - Ägypten-Ausstellung" date: June 16, 2011 - March 31, 2012 [prolongation; was: till December 31, 2011] Exhibition of more than 200 replicas of (notably) KV62 artefacts. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "Die Totenmaske Tutanchamuns, des legendären ägyptischen Pharaos, und sein Grabschatz werden als Replikate im Wiesbadener Marktkeller ausgestellt." info: press report at URL "Seit 2005 präsentierte El Awdan in Ulm, Stuttgart und Kassel Teile seiner Sammlung, vor allem begleitend zu Messen. In Wiesbaden ist nun erstmals eine ganz eigene Schau zu sehen ... Und um diese auch handwerklich gut gemachten Kopien in einen wissenschaftlichen Zusammenhang zu stellen, hat der Ägyptologe Dr. Christian Bayer ein Konzept mit fünf Sektionen entwickelt - von der Götterwelt über die Aufgabe des Pharao als Bewahrer der göttlichen Weltordnung bis hin zum Totenkult ... 'Unser Ziel ist es, dass die Besucher eine genaue Vorstellung von den Objekten bekommen, das ist wie ein dreidimensionales Bilderbuch der Pharaonenzeit', sagt Christian Bayer. Ein Bilderbuch allerdings, das zu recht happigen Eintrittspreisen anzusehen ist." info: press report at URL "Nun bekommt seine Wiesbadener Ägyptenschau um den Pharao mit der weltweit bekannten und bewunderten Goldmaske und mit mehr als 200 anderen Exponaten, die noch bis Ende Dezember im Marktkeller laufen soll, Konkurrenz direkt im Rhein-Gebiet. Die Goldmaske des Tutanchamun kommt nun auch nach Frankfurt, eine weitere von x-Repliken, die von der Beliebtheit des Pharao künden. 40 Kilometer von Wiesbaden entfernt soll im November die Ausstellung 'Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze' starten ... El Awdan berichtet, dass ihm bei der Eröffnung der Wiesbadener Ausstellung auch die Pläne für Frankfurt bekannt waren. Er habe jedoch ein anderes Konzept. El Awdan räumt ein, dass es Versuche gegeben hat, den jeweils anderen Spielort im Rhein-Main-Gebiet untersagen zu lassen - wechselseitig. Rechtsanwälte waren eingeschaltet. 'Doch', sagt El Awdan, 'das Rhein-Main-Gebiet verträgt auch zweimal den goldenen Pharao'." Two exhibitions with Tutankhamun replicas in the same region! info: press report at URL "Der Wiesbadener Marktkeller ist seit dem Jahr 2009 als Ausstellungs- raum wiederbelebt. Begrüßenswert finden das alle. Uneinigkeit herrscht indes, ob die kommerzielle Nutzung durch Ausstellungen wie 'Tutanchamun' dem Gewölbe angemessen sind, oder ob er ein Hort der regionalen Kultur sein sollte." Includes a video report about the exhibition [2:35 mins.]. y) Mobile Kunsthalle Mainzer Landstraße 124 / Ecke Güterplatz 60327 Frankfurt am Main * “Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze” [Tuntankhamun - his Tomb and the Treasures] date: November 19, 2011 - April 29 [was: August 19], 2012 The traveling exhibition of replicas from the tomb of Tutankhamun will move to a mobile hall in Frankfurt. Previous venue was Expo XXI, Köln (September 24, 2010 - June 18, 2011), and earlier it was in Zurich, Munich, and Hamburg. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "Das Ganze hat viel von virtuellen Architekturbegehungen im Internet, von Edutainment. Da in Ägypten noch jüngst Originale aus Tuts Grab Schaden nahmen und die endgültige Entlassung von Zahi Hawass als Minister für Altertümer vor wenigen Tagen die unruhige Lage anzeigt, gilt das Schutzmotiv hier kaum minder. Mit ihrem perfekten Simulacron der Grabfunde passt die Ausstellung zudem in unsere Zeit der Virtualisierung, auch wenn Puristen den 'Verfall der Aura' durch Reproduzierbarkeit (Walter Benjamin) bedauern mögen." info: press report at URL About additional special exhibitions, lectures and films supporting the exhibition. info: press report at URL "Ihm sei bei der Gestaltung der Ausstellung am wichtigsten gewesen, 'dass die Besucher die Zusammenhänge verstehen und sehen, welche Beigaben aus seinem Leben stammten und welche ihm nur für das Jenseits ins Grab gelegt wurden', sagt Verbizh. Dass die Schau ausschließlich mit Replikaten auskommt, sieht er dabei als Vorteil." info: English press report at URL info: press reports at URL "Die Schätze des Tutanchamun kommen nach Frankfurt. Sie zeigen das legendäre Grab des Pharao, doch unsere Autorin vermisst das Flair der Echtheit. Schön anzusehen sind die vergoldeten Objekte trotzdem." URL "Eine Antikenausstellung, ausschließlich bestückt mit Repliken! Aber wer hinter 'Tutanchamun' in Frankfurt ein Windei mutmaßt, wird überrascht.." info: press report at URL "Seit der Eröffnung der Ausstellung in Frankfurt am 19. November haben bereits 60 000 Menschen die Ausstellung besucht ... Mit 300 000 Besuchern bis zum Ende der Ausstellung im April 2012 rechnet die Veranstalterin Semmel Concerts Veranstaltungsservice GmbH ... Ein Erfolg also für die privatwirtschaftlich organisierte Attrappen-Attraktion." * “A Festival of Egyptian Culture” date: November 19, 2011 - April 29, 2012 Besides the KV62 replicas (above), the exhibition space will also show contemporary Egyptian culture — music, art, book readings, movies, theater performances, comedy. info: English press report at URL Overview of additional exhibitions and activities, with full programme at URL info: English press report at URL info: English press report at URL "(..) The oldest entry of the program is Shadi Abdel Salam’s “Al-Mummia” (The Mummy/The Night of Counting the Years, 1973) (..) recently restored by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation. (..)." z) Historisches Museum der Pfalz Domplatz, Speyer D-67346 URL * "Ägyptens Schätze entdecken: Meisterwerke aus dem Ägyptischen Museum Turin“ [Discovering the treasures of Egypt. Master-works from the Egyptian Museum of Turin] date: March 11, 2012 - September 2, 2012 info: URL info: URL info: source - URL za) Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, 14195 Berlin URL * "Georg Schweinfurth. Unveröffentlichte botanische Zeichnungen" date: December 1, 2011 - March 4, 2012 At the occassion of the 175th birthday of Georg Schweinfurth (1836 - 1925), 78 original botanical drawings of this explorer are on display. His journeys concentrated on NE Africa, i.e. Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, NE Congo, and his work was of importance for Egyptology. info: URL URL zb) SCHENCK Technologie- und Industriepark Landwehrstrasse 55 / Foyer Bau 98 / 99, 64293 Darmstadt URL * "Kleinplastik aus Ägypten" date: February 15, 2012 [was: February, 2012] - TBA Exhibition of artefacts (ushabties, scarabs, statuettes of gods, etc) from the collection of the Hessische Landesmuseum Darmstadt. info: URL info: press release (PDF) at URL Guided tours: February 22 & 29, March 7 & 14, 18:00 URL --AUSTRIA-- a) Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna URL * "Ägypten, Nubien und die Cyrenaika. Die imaginäre Reise des Norbert Bittner (1786 - 1851)" date: January 20, 2012 - February 26, 2012 In a series of water-colors, Norbert Bittner reconstructed a fictitious voyage to Egypt - without ever having been there. He based his watercolors on contemporary travel accounts, among them Vivant Denon's "Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte" and the "Description de l'Egypte". The exhibition will travel to the Residenzgalerie Salzburg (May 4, 2012 - July 1, 2012), the Winckelmann-Museum in Stendal (July 7, 2012 - October 16, 2012), and the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum (Spring 2013). info: URL With some photos. "(..) Es ist daher anzunehmen, dass die Aquarelle, die aus folgenden Publikationen dreier Orient-Expeditionen schöpften (..): Die Napoleon-Expedition von der Landung in Alexandria bis zum ersten Nil-Katarakt von 1798-1801 (..), Die Nubienreise von 1818-1820 des Kölners Franz Christian Gau, (..) Die Expedition des Jean Raymond Pacho (..) in das antike Libyen bis zur großen Syrte von 1824-1825 b) Residenzgalerie Salzburg Residenzplatz 1, 5010 Salzburg URL * "Ägypten, Nubien und die Cyrenaika. Die imaginäre Reise des Norbert Bittner (1786 - 1851)" date: May 4, 2012 - July 1, 2012 info: URL c) - d) Papyrus Museum Hofburg, Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna URL * "Die Legionäre des Kaisers. Soldatenleben im römischen Ägypten" [The Emperor's Legionaries. The Life of Soldiers in Roman Egypt] date: June 17, 2011 - January 14, 2012 Looks at life in Egypt through the eyes of Roman soldiers, documented via more than 60 papyri on display. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "In der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek wird ... der Soldatenalltag zur Zeit der Imperium Romanum lebendig." info: press report at URL --EGYPT-- a) The Egyptian Museum Maydan El Tahrir, Cairo tel: +20 2 5742681, 5754319/10; fax: +20 2 5795133 * TBA --ITALY-- a) Palazzo Ducale Piazza San Marco 1, Venice URL * "Venezia e l'Egitto" [Venice and Egypt] date: October 1, 2011 - January 22, 2012 An exhibition on the theme of the relationship and the ties between Venice and Egypt across almost two thousand years, from classical times up to the opening of the Suez Canal. With more than 300 works gathered from national and international collections. info: URL info: Italian press report at URL info: English press report at URL Tour through the exhibition and detailed historical background on the relationship between Venice and Egypt. info: English press report (review) at URL b) Museo Egizio di Firenze Piazza Santissima Annunziata, 9/B tel.: 055-23575, fax: 055-242213, e-mail: museoarcheologico@tabloidcoop.it * "Il fascino eterno dell'antico Egitto" [The eternal fascination of Ancient Egypt] date: September 24, 2011 - TBA Photographic exhibiton on the occasion of the re-opening of the Ptolemaic and Roman-Coptic rooms. info: press report at URL c) Castello di Miradolo Via Cardonata 2, 10060 San Secondo di Pinerolo (TO) * "Viaggio in Egitto. L'Ottocento riscopre la terra dei faraoni" [Journey in Egypt. The 19th c. rediscovers the land of the Pharaohs] date: October 1, 2011 - January 29, 2012 Egypt is illustrated with documents (letters, travel reports, diaries, books, photographs, excavation journals) of travelers, explorers, photographers, and tourists of the 19th century, especially from those of the Piemont region. info: URL info: press report at URL d) Chiostro del Bramante Arco della Pace, 5, 00186 Roma tel. 06.68809035-36, fax 06.68213516 E-mail: direzione@chiostrodelbramante.it * "Gli Orientalisti. Incanti e scoperte nella pittura dell'800 italiano" [The Orientalists. Magic and discoveries in the paintings of the Italian 19th century] date: October 20, 2011 - January 22, 2012 info: URL info: press report at URL "Ad essere presentata, dal 20 ottobre al 22 gennaio 2012, e' un'accurata selezione di circa un'ottantina di opere, che mettono in luce l'Oriente nella pittura dell'Ottocento italiano." info: press report at URL "Il Chiostro del Bramante è lieto di presentare una mostra di grande attualità ..., una accurata selezione di circa una ottantina di opere, che raccontano l'Oriente nella pittura dell'Ottocento italiano." info: press report at URL --FRANCE-- a) Musée Jacquemart-André 158 Boulevard Haussmann 75008 Paris, France URL * "Le Crépuscule des Pharaons: Chefs-d'oeuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes" [The Twilight of the Pharaohs: Masterpieces of the last Egyptian dynasties] [was: "Des Pharaons noirs à Alexandre le Grand"] date: March 23, 2012 - July 23, 2012 Exhibits ca. 140 artefacts from the start of the TIP to the end of the Ptolemaic Period (i.e. 1070-30 BC), on loan from the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Museum of Fine arts in Boston and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and several private collections. [new] info: URL With slideshow (9 photos of high-quality objects). Same info in English: URL With press release: URL info: press report at URL "Cette exposition attirera l'attention sur les plus belles réalisations de cette période afin de démontrer qu'il serait abusif de réduire le «crépuscule » de l'ancienne Égypte à dix siècles de déclin, même si le pays a été envahi par les Kouchites, les Perses et les Macédoniens." info: press report at URL "Pour la première fois, une exposition s'attèle à la mémoire du dernier millénaire de l'Egypte Antique, grâce à des prêts exceptionnels des plus grandes institutions mondiales." b) Musée Tessé 2 Avenue de Paderborn, Le Mans URL * "Du Nil à Alexandrie, histoire d'eaux" [From the Nile to Alexandria, the Story of Water] date: November 26 [was: 16], 2011 - May 27, 2012 The relationship between the city of Alexandria and the Nile is illustrated via artefacts, and the ways in which the population tried to control the water (via canals and cisterns) is explored. info: URL info: URL "Un colloque sur le thème aura lieu en avril 2012. (...) Jean-Yves Empereur, l'archéologue, grand spécialiste d'Alexandrie, est originaire du Mans. Et il y reviendra pour l'occasion. (..) L'exposition partira ensuite en Belgique, au Pays-Bas puis à Marseille en 2013. " info: detailed information on the travelling exhibition (with video and photos) at URL Part of the catalogue is online at URL [This is the catalogue of 2009, when the exhibition was in Neuchâtel - for Mans it will be rewritten, it seems.] info: URL With photo gallery. info: URL info: French press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL "Deux tombes égyptiennes ont été reconstituées à l'identique. La quasi-totalité de la collection d'archéologie égyptienne des musées du Mans trouve sa place aux côtés de ces 'demeures d'éternité', ainsi qu'un dépôt d'ouvres en provenance des musées du Louvre et de Laval. Au total, 130 pièces s'offrent aux regards des visiteurs ..." info: press report at URL "Le musée de Tessé accueille, jusqu'au 27 mai, une exposition exceptionnelle consacrée à l'acheminement et à l'exploitation de l'eau à Alexandrie." c) Eglise des Dominicains 4 rue Rabelais, 66000 Perpignan * "Les Trésors des Pharaons : 2ème Volet -- D'Akhenaton à Ramsès II... Images d'éternité" date: February 8-19, 2012 Travelling exhibition with over 300 replicas of ancient Egyptian artefacts that are in Cairo Museum. info: press reports at URL URL URL d) Le Musée en Herbe 21, rue Herold, 75001 Paris URL * "Les Hiéroglyphes de Keith Haring" [The Hieroglyphs of Keith Haring] date: March 16, 2011 - December 31, 2011 This exhibition for children will showcase over 50 works by modern artist Keith Haring as well as a stele and an Egyptian sarcophagus. info: URL info: English press report at URL e) Musée de Gajac 2 rue des Jardins, 47300 Villeneuve-sur-Lot * "La Description de l'Egypte" date: July 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011 A selection of plates from the collection of the Museum will be shown for the first time. info: [scroll down] URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "Depuis une dation de 1920, la ville de Villeneuve possède 3000 gravures de la campagne d'Egypte ! Elles n'ont jamais été présentées au public. L'erreur est réparée grâce à l'équipe du musée de Gajac qui, sous la conduite d'Hélène Lagès, propose, jusqu'au 31 décembre, « Description de l'Egypte »." info: press report at URL "... des ateliers d'arts plastiques sont proposés aux enfants pendant les vacances scolaires." info: press report at URL "L'exposition a attiré ces derniers mois un public dépassant les limites du département." f) - g) Musée du Louvre Palais Royal, 75001 Paris * "« L’art du contour » dans l’Égypte ancienne" date: 2013 info: source - URL h) Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon 20 place des Terreaux, 69001 Lyon tel.: 33 (0)4.72.10.17.40 * "Un jour, j'achetai une momie... Émile Guimet et l'Égypte antique" ['Once I bought a mummy..' - Émile Guimet and ancient Egypt] [was: "L'Égypte antique d'Émile Guimet"] date: March 30, 2012 - July 2, 2012 info: URL "L'exposition réunit une large part des antiquités égyptiennes qu'Émile Guimet acquiert pendant près d'un demi-siècle, stèles, statues, sarcophages, figurines funéraires, papyrus, amulettes. Il finance même des fouilles, dont les plus célèbres, dans la nécropole d'Antinoé, livrent une fabuleuse moisson de momies et de textiles." info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: English press report at URL info: press report at URL "Quand, en 1865, Emile Guimet (1836-1918) part visiter l'Egypte, il ne se doute pas que ce voyage va bouleverser sa vie. Fasciné par l'archéologie, la philosophie et l'histoire des religions orientales, une passion qui va l'entraîner jusqu'en Extrême-Orient, le jeune industriel lyonnais commence alors une exceptionnelle collection." i) Musée-Hôtel Bertrand 2 rue Descente des Cordeliers, 36000 Châteauroux tel.: 02 54 61 12 30, fax: 02 54 61 12 31 URL URL * "Un cabinet d'égyptologie" date: February 19, 2012 - permanent Opening of a new room dedicated to the Coptic 'mummy of Antinoé', which is exhibited together with some other objects. The mummy is back on display after having been researched by specialists of the Louvre last year. info: URL info: press report (with photo of mummy) at URL j) Médiathèque Équinoxe salle Raymonde Vincent 41 avenue Charles de Gaulle, 36008 Châteauroux * "Bonaparte en Egypte: une campagne savante (1798-1801)" [Bonaparte in Egypt: a scientific expedition (1798-1801)] date: February 25 - June 2, 2012 Exhibition of the "Description de l'Égypte". info: source - URL URL k) - l) Musée Calvet 65, rue Joseph Vernet, 84000 Avignon tel.: 04 90 86 33 84 URL * "Fastueuse Égypte" [Sumptuous Egypt] date: June 25, 2011 - January 2, 2012 [prolongation; was: till November 14, 2011] The exhibition will display the sumptuous Egyptian collections from the Calvet Museum on the occason of its bicentenary. info: (in French) URL info: (in English) URL info: URL info: press report at URL info: press release at URL "Aujourd'hui, grâce aux efforts conjoints de la Fondation Calvet et de la Ville, et avec l'aide des Monuments historiques, nous pouvons donc vous inviter à venir découvrir l'exposition « Fastueuse Egypte » au coeur même de cet extraordinaire décor rocaille. Répartie sur trois salons, de compagnie, de musique et d'étude, la collection égyptienne du musée Calvet déploiera ses fastes comme jamais." m) Eglise St. Pierre d’Arène 62 rue de France, Nice * “Le Mystère Copte” date: December 1, 2011 - February 5, 2012 Travelling exhibition that provides an introduction to the Coptic culture: History, language, art and literature, liturgy, traditions. Has been in several French cities and Monaco. info: URL --ISRAEL-- a) - --BELGIUM-- a) - b) - c) - d) Paleis voor Schone Kunsten - BOZAR Ravensteinstr. 23, 1000 Brussels URL * "Engaging Egypt. Four Encounters with the Foreign from Facebook to Fayum" date: October 5 [was: 12], 2012 - January 13, 2013 In four sections - Roman Egypt (with Fayyum Portraits), Ayyubidic Egypt, 20th c. art, and contemporary art. info: (in Dutch and French resp.) URL URL info: (in English) URL --SPAIN-- a) - b) Museu Egipci / Museo Egipcio de Barcelona València, 284, E-08007 Barcelona tel.: (34) 93 488 01 88, fax: (34) 93 487 80 60 URL * "Moda y belleza en el Antiguo Egipto" [Fashion and Beauty in Ancient Egypt] date: October 20, 2011 - July 20, 2012 info: URL info: URL info: Spanish press report at URL info: Spanish press report at URL info: Italian press report at URL info: Italian press report at URL info: blog report at URL c) - d) - e) - f) Museu de Prehistoria de Valencia Corona 36, 46003 Valencia URL * "Tanis, imágenes de una ciudad enterrada" [Tanis. Images of a buried city] date: September 28, 2011 - January 29, 2012 Via photographs of Pierre Montet and recent photographs of Tanis, visitors will be able to discover the beauty of this archeological site. Several original documents and moldings will be displayed, related to the Montet mission and the current MFFT (Mission Française des Fouilles de Tanis), and a short film on the recent discoveries in the sacred lake of the Mut temenos in Tanis will be shown. info: URL With a gallery of old photos at the website. info: source - URL info: Italian press report at URL "Il responsabile dell'esposizione, Pierre-Jerôme Jehel spiega 'l'opera di Montet offre una nuova visione sull'Antico Egitto, tante volte trattato e raccontato solo con la scoperta della tomba di Tutankamon'." g) CaixaForum Girona C. dels Ciutadans 19, 17004 Girona tel.: 972 20 98 36 * "Otro Egipto. Colecciones coptas del Museu del Louvre" / "Un altre Egipte. Colleccions coptes del Museu del Louvre" [The other Egypt. Coptic collection of the Musée du Louvre] date: September 16, 2011 - January 15, 2012 [prolongation; was: till January 8, 2012] Coptic art from the collection of the Louvre. info: URL info: (in Catalan) URL info: (in Spanish) URL info: press report at URL info: video report [1:57 mins.] URL info: French press report at URL h) - i) La Fundación Novacaixagalicia – Claudio San Martín Rúa Nueva, 30 A Coruña 15003 URL * "Primeras civilizaciones. Egipto y Mesopotamia en el Museo de Montserrat" / "Primeiras civilizacións. Exipto e Mesopotamia no Museo de Montserrat" [Early Civilizations. Egypt and Mesopotomia in the Museum of Montserrat] date: October 5, 2011 - January 22, 2012 [prolongation; was: till January 8, 2012] Exhibition of 52 artefacts from ancient Mesopotamia and 66 artefacts from ancient Egypt uit het Museum van Montserrat. info: (Spanish) URL (Galician) URL info: URL info: press reports at URL URL j) - k) - l) CaixaForum Plaza de Weyler, 3, 07001 Palma de Mallorca URL * "Otro Egipto. Colecciones coptas del Museu del Louvre" [The Other Egypt: The Coptic Collections of the Louvre Museum] date: February 15, 2012 - May 6, 2012 Some 112 Coptic objects from the Louvre. The exhibition is currently in the CaixaForum Girona (September 16, 2011 - January 8, 2012). info: source - URL m) Museu de Ceràmica Av. Diagonal, 686, 08034 Barcelona URL * "Terracotes de l'antiguitat. Confluències en l'entorn mediterrani" date: November 3, 2011 - March 4, 2012 Ceramic products from ancient Mediterranean cultures, on loan from several museums, incl. the Museu Egipci de Barcelona. info: URL n) El Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias - Autopista del Saler 5, Valencia 46013. URL * "Indiana Jones y la Aventura de la Arqueología [Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology] date: December 22, 2011 - September 16, 2012 The exhibition organized by Lucasfilm Ltd., National Geographic Society, and X3 Productions, which was earlier in the Montréal Science Centre (April 28, 2011 - September 18, 2011). The fictional character of Indiana Jones is employed as an invitation to discover what the world of archaeology is today as well as what the world of archeology was in the past. The exhibition includes a selection of iconic props from the Indiana Jones movies, but also real-world ancient artefacts from several places around the world (e.g. a Book of the Dead from Egypt). info: URL info: URL o) - p) Centro Cultural Caja Rioja - La Merced C/Marques de San Nicolás, 109, 26001 Logroño (La Rioja) * "Egipto" date: December 23, 2011- January 28, 2012 Overview about the art and magic of the Egyptian civilization. All periods and all important aspects are shown with sculptures, reliefs and other objects. info: URL info: press report at URL --AUSTRALIA-- a) - b) - c) Queensland Museum Corner of Grey & Melbourne Streets, South Bank, South Brisbane BC, Queensland 4101 URL * "Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb" date: April 19, 2012 - August 19, 2012 Travelling exhibition with over 100 artefacts from the British Museum, like amulets, canopic jars, sarcophagi, statues, excerpts from the Book of the Dead, shabtis, and four mummies. The central piece of the exhibition is the mummy of the priest Nesperennub, with a 3D film experience showing the mummy's virtual unwrapping. An earlier venue will be the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (November 19, 2011 – March 11, 2012), USA. info: URL info: press report (with photos) at URL "(..) A 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy - originally embalmed with a bowl attached to his head - is the feature attraction (..). Documents from the British Museum reveal that the embalmers who first worked on Nesperennub's body accidentally let a small bowl become attached to his skull. According to British Museum experts: "Perhaps during the embalming process the bowl was placed on the head to catch surplus resin. "This may then have hardened unexpectedly quickly, cementing the bowl firmly to the skull. "Damage to the skin at the back of the head may have been caused by attempts to remove it. "The embalmers may then have decided to carry on with the wrapping of the body, hoping that their mistake would pass unnoticed - which it did for nearly three thousand years." (..)" info: press reports at URL URL With several photos (Nesperennub's cartonnage, mummy, coffin). info: press report at URL info: press report (with 7 photos) at URL --MEXICO-- a) - ---SWITZERLAND--- a) Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum Museumstrasse 50, CH-9000, St. Gallen URL * "Die ägyptische Sammlung Burgdorf" date: April 2011 - mid 2012 Artefacts from the ancient Egyptian collection of the Museum für Völkerkunde Burgdorf. with a focus on hieroglyphic texts on coffins, papyri and stelae/reliefs.- b) - c) Bibel+Orient Museum Universität Freiburg, Miséricorde Av. de l'Europe 20 - CH-1700 Freiburg URL * "1001 Amulett" date: November 2010 - January 31, 2012 [2nd prolongation; was: till December 31, 2011] Amulets, ancient and modern, incl. ancient Egyptian samples. info: URL info: URL info: English press report at URL "(..) Charms of various shapes and colours meet the eye, including turquoise amulets, first produced by ancient Egyptians, and women's necklaces, which surely inspired the designers of today’s jewellery. The exhibition also displays a collection of cylindrical and flat seals, ancient Egyptian scarab artifacts, 3,700-year-old amulets from Palestine and others from Iran and Syria dating back to the fifth and sixth millennium BC. (..)" d) Zentrum für Evolutionäre Medizin der Universität Zürich Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich URL URL * "Mumien: Mensch, Medizin, Magie" [Mummies, Man, Medicine, Magic] date: September 23, 2011 - January 8, 2012 About mummies, ancient funerary cults, and modern research (scans, DNA) conducted on mummies. info: URL URL URL info: press release at URL "Die Ausstellung gibt einen Einblick in die Welt der Mumien und die neuesten Techniken, mit denen Mumien heute an der UZH medizinisch erforscht werden.." Includes a trailer for the exhibition [3:55 mins.] [new] info: press report at URL "Die Universität Zürich präsentiert auf dem Campus Irchel eine Mumien-Schau. Zu sehen sind unter anderem mehrere Mumien. Hauptthema aber sind die Mumienforschung und deren Bedeutung für die Medizin." info: press report (with slideshow) at URL "(..) The exhibition boasts various interactive elements such as microscopes looking at mummy cell tissue, a virtual autopsy which can be controlled by waving one’s hands around, and test tubes containing the various spices used on Egyptian mummies. Visitors can take a good whiff of this “eau de pharaoh”, which includes bees’ wax, incense, cinnamon and onions. (..)" --SWEDEN-- a) - b) Malmö Expo Center Hyllie Vattenparksgata /Jungmansgatan 12, 211 19 Malmö, Sweden URL * "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his Treasures" date: September 15, 2012 - January 2013 More than 1,000 crafted replicas of KV62 objects, plus original photos and films from the time of the excavation. info: URL info: press report at URL --HUNGARY-- a) - b) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Dózsa György út 41, 1146 Budapest Pf. 463, H-1396 Budapest 62 URL * "Múmiák testközelben" [Mummies uncovered] date: June 10, 2011 - February 19, 2012 [prolongation; was: till October 22, 2011] The results of the Budapest Mummy Project will be displayed in the form of 3D models of four mummified bodies in the Egyptian Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. info: (in English) URL info: URL info: URL Includes a video (1:39) on the Budapest Mummy Project. URL ---POLAND--- a) Muzeum Archeologiczne Ul. Wodna 27, PL - 61-781 Poznan URL * "Death and Life in Ancient Egypt" date: September 22, 1998 - July 15, 2014 With long-term loans from the Egyptian Museum and Collection of Papyri in Berlin and the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich . info: (in English) URL info: URL info: information (in English) on an obelisk (Berlin 12800) that was added to the exhibition in 2002 - URL b) Panstwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne w Warszawie ul Dluga 52, 00-241 Warszawa * "Papirusy, mumie, zloto Michal Tyszkiewicz i 150-lecie pierwszych polskich i litewskich wykopalisk w Egipcie" [Papyri, mummies, gold. Michal Tyszkiewicz and the 150th anniversary of the first Polish and Lithuanian excavation in Egypt] date: December 13, 2011 - May 31, 2012 info: (in Polish) URL URL info: press report (in Polish) at URL --BRAZIL-- a) - --CZECH REPUBLIC-- a) - 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 --DANMARK-- a) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Dantes Plads 7, 1556 Kbh. V tel. (+ 45) 33 41 81 41, fax: (+ 45) 33 91 20 58 email * "I pyramidernes skygge" [In the Shadow of the Pyramids] date: November 11, 2011 - March 25, 2012 "One hundred years ago the Ny Carlsberg Foundation supported Flinders Petrie's excavations in Egypt. For this reason the Glyptotek has today an impressive collection of finds from tombs, temples and towns in the shadow of the Pyramids." info: (in Danish) URL info: (in English) URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(...) As one of the sponsors of Petrie's Egyptian's expeditions, the Carlsberg Foundation was the recipient of a large number of artefacts unearthed in the early decades of the 20th century. (..) Two key discoveries resulting from Tine Bagh's research will be highlighted in the exhibition. A limestone crown in the Glyptotek's collection from Hawara, Egypt, has been matched to the head and torso of a crocodile god (Sobek) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Although the Boston piece will not be travelling to Copenhagen, there will be images of it displayed with the crown, as well as an artist's impression of the reassembled work. According to Bagh, Petrie believed the crown to have been part of a statue of a pharaoh rather than of a divinity. The other discovery that will be on view are two painted wall fragments depicting a husband and wife that until recently had been stowed away in the museum's storeroom for more than 100 years. Bagh concluded that the fragment is most likely part of the well known "Meydum Geese" tomb painting now in the Cairo Museum. " With photo of the wooden statuette of Meri-re-ha-ishtef, excavated in 1921 by Petrie. info: URL info: photos of the objects at URL info: blog entry (in English) with review (by Jan Picton) at URL --LUXEMBOURG-- a) - --JAPAN--- a) DNP-Gotanda Building Tokyo, Shinagawa-ku, Nishi Gotanda, 3-5-20 URL URL * "L'offrande éternelle au temps des egyptiens: une question de survie"/ "Offerings for Eternity in Ancient Egypt: a Question of Survival" date: October 8, 2011 - March 4, 2012 Focusing on a selection of works that illustrate the principle of funerary offerings, an essential ritual in ancient Egypt, a visitor circuit comprising seven multimedia resources offers a hands-on experience for discovering and understanding the aesthetics and vision specific to this civilization for around three millennia. Two of the multimedia resources developed for this presentation will be later relocated to the permanent exhibition rooms of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities in the musée du Louvre in Paris. info: (in English) URL info: source - URL (PDF) b) - c) Tempozan Special Gallery 1-5-10 Kaigan-Dori, Minato-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, 552-0002 URL * "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" date: March 17, 2012 - June 3, 2012 The travelling exhibition (since 2004) that showcases 50 of King Tutankhamun's burial objects and 72 more AE artefacts, and which was recently in Melbourne Museum (April 8, 2011 - December 4, 2011) and will later travel to the Ueono Royal Museum (August 4, 2012 - December 9, 2012), before returning to Egypt. info: URL info: URL info: English press reports at URL URL URL URL [These Egyptian reports suggest that the exhibition was already opened on January 18, 2012, but I suppose that was another event, likely a press event at the start of the promotional period before the exhibition opens, like the "[Osaka]"-pop-up here might imply: URL URL AKE] d) Ueno Royal Museum 1-2 Ueno Koen Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0007 URL * "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" date: August 4, 2012 - December 9, 2012 The travelling exhibition (since 2004) that showcases 50 of King Tutankhamun's burial objects and 72 more AE artefacts, and which was recently in Melbourne Museum (April 8, 2011 - December 4, 2011) and is heading to Tempozan Special Gallery, Osaka (March 17, 2012 - June 3, 2012). info: URL --INDIA-- a) TBA * TBA date: 2012 info: press report at URL "Relics from Tutankhamun's tomb are among a magnificent array of objects that will travel to India from Egypt for a mega archaeological exhibition. (..) "We have the approval to bring artefacts from the National Museum in Cairo to India. In the coming weeks, we will work on selection of articles and finalisation of dates and places for the exhibition," Egypt's ambassador to India Khaled El Bakly said. (...)" ---TAIWAN--- a) National Museum of Natural Science 1, Guancian Rd, Taichung URL * “Quest for Immortality, The Hidden Treasure of Ancient Egypt” date: October 15, 2011 - February 12, 2012 The exhibition will include more than four mummies, a reproduction of Thutmoses III's burial chamber, and hundreds of historical Egyptian artefacts - a total of 268 objects from the Bolton Museum. Second stop a planned two-year tour in Asia; earlier at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei (June 12, 2011 - September 23, 2011). info: URL b) TBA Kaohsiung * “Quest for Immortality: The Bolton Museum Collection" date: March 2012 The exhibition will include more than four mummies, a reproduction of Thutmoses III's burial chamber, and hundreds of historical Egyptian artefacts - a total of 268 objects from the Bolton Museum. On a two-year tour in Asia; earlier at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei (Taiwan) (June 12, 2011 - September 23, 2011) and currently at the National Museum of Natural Science 1, Taichung (Taiwan). After Kaohsiung it will travel to Shanghai (China) and another four or five venues in China (until 2014). info: press report at URL ---VENEZUELA--- a) - ---FINLAND--- a) Villa Royal Kortejärventie 200, 38470 Sastamala URL * "Egyptin Aarteet"[Treasures of Egypt] date: February 1, 2012 - November 30, 2012 Replicas of 18th dynasty artefacts, notably from Tutankhamun's tomb. info: (in English) URL ---CHILE--- a) - ---KOREA--- a) National Gwacheon Science Museum Seoul URL * “Tutankhamun. His Tomb and his Treasures” date: October 15, 2011 - February 26, 2012 [was: till March 2012] The travelling exhibition of ca. 1000 replicas of KV62 objects. info: (in English) URL info: URL (in Korean) (XI) COURSES AND TRIPS --COURSES--- * The University of Barcelona will offer next February a course of Egyptian art: "L''art egipci a través de la seva iconografia". For more information you can visit URL or send an e-mail to nuria.castellano.sole@gmail.com. * The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is organizing a Specialist art course on Ancient Egypt, with lectures by leading experts and curators and with visits to museums and galleries, including unique access to museum reserve collections. date: 13 – 16 February 2012 (4 days) costs: GBP 540 info: URL * Courses of the Centro de Estudios Artísticos Elba: -- Hieroglyphs course: "PALABRAS PARA CREAR UN MUNDO: Introducción a la lengua y a la escritura egipcia antigua" Por el Dr. José R. Pérez Accino con la colaboración del Dr. Bill Manley Dates: from 19th october to 7th december Place: MADRID. Instituto Egipcio, c/ Francisco de Asís Méndez Casariego, 1 (a la altura de Pso. de la Habana, 40) More information at URL -- History of Nubia course: "NUBIA: La Tierra de los Faraones Negros y su herencia. Historia, Arte y Arqueología". Por: Miguel Jaramago, Dr. Miguel A. Molinero, Laura Di Nóbile, Lucía Díaz-Iglesias, Dra. Covadonga Sevilla, Cristina Pino, Alba Villar, Isabel Olbés, Dr. Miguel A. Elvira, Dra. Carmen Pérez-Die, Alfonso Martín. Dates: from 20th October 2011 to 15th March 2012. Place: MADRID. Instituto Egipcio, c/ Francisco de Asís Méndez Casariego, 1 (a la altura de Pso. de la Habana, 40) More information at URL * Mercia Egyptology Society, UK Course: The Egyptian Middle Kingdom Tutor: Miss Angela Torpey, B.A., M.Phil., P.G.C.E. "The Middle Kingdom can arguably be said to be one of the finest periods in ancient Egypt's dynastic history. The flowering of the arts and literature, a democratisation of funeral beliefs, the discovery of one of the few settlement sites known in Egypt and the mystery of the Middle Kingdom capital all show a flourishing country, with a proud and distinguished heritage. From the intact tomb of the Two Brothers to the now ruin-fields of the royal pyramids to Egypt's policy in Nubia, ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom will surprise and delight. Come and discover ancient Egypt's wonderful Middle Kingdom, its people and its culture" Where: Xcel Centre, Mitchell Avenue, Coventry, England When: starting Tuesday 27th September, 2011: 19:00-21:00 or Friday 30th September, 2011 for 10 weeks. Cost: £60.00 Info: URL e-mail: 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-- * The Archaeological Institute of America is organizing a new tour next year (January 18-February 12, 2012), with as host Dr Stephen Harvey, visiting several sites closed to the public, like the closed tombs of Nefertari, KV5 (sons of Ramesses II), Senenmut, Seti I, and Maya the treasurer: URL (PDF) --FIELD SCHOOLS-- * (&) Penn State University fieldschool at Tel er-Rub'a (Mendes), of four consecutive six-day weeks, from June 22, 2012 to July 23, 2012. Cost: approx. $6,000 (room, board & tuition). Application deadline: December 20, 2011 URL 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. 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