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EEF NEWS (604) ============= d.d. March 4, '10 (III Shemu 18)
Contents: (I) New: Lectures and symposiums (II) New: Exhibitions (III) Personals: personal and offtopic calls (IV) Read on the Web: online press reports in electronic newspapers etc. (V) Books and Journals Corner: book announcements, book reviews, journal issues appearing, digitised literature, etc. (VIA) Jobs and Grants: announcements of job openings and fellowships. (VIB) New: Courses and Trips: classroom & online courses, field schools, and non-commercial tours. (VII) (Multi)media: AE on TV, in Film, in Music, on CD-Rom or DVD (VIII) Websites: announcing, listing or updates of whole (mainstream) websites (IX) Lectures and symposiums on Ancient Egypt USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, Egypt, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Greece, Switzerland, Russia, Austria, Hungary, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Israel (X) Exhibitions on Ancient Egypt USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, Egypt, Italy, France, Israel, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Croatia, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Mexico, Czech Republic, Chili, Andorra, Japan, Russia, South 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: Glenn Meyer [(I) - USA (l)]; Sasha Renninger [(I) - USA (n)]; Brigitte Ouellet [(I) - Canada (a)]; Rebecca Hodgin [(I) - USA (h)]; Bjorn Koopmans [(II) - USA (b)(d), Canada (e), Egypt (a), Italy (b)]; Kat Newkirk [(II) - USA (b)(d), Canada (e), Egypt (a)]; Michael Tilgner [(I) - Germany (a); (II) - Switzerland ()] ========================================================================== +++ (I) NEW: LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS --USA-- h) ARCE/Oregon Chapter * "Kom El-Hisn: Rural Support for the Pyramid Builders", by Dr. Robert Wenke (University of Washington) date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010; 7:30 pm place: Room 294, Smith Memorial Student Union Portland State University costs: all welcome; free info: Rebecca Hodgin, ARCE Oregon Secretary, at email l) ARCE/Northern California * "A Complete Cosmos: The Coffins of Tomb 10A", by Dr. Lawrence M. Berman (Norma Jean Calderwood Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) date: March 21, 2010; 2:30 p.m. place: 20 Barrows Hall, UC Campus, Berkeley info: email n) ARCE/Pennsylvania Chapter * "North, West, and South from the Valley of the Kings: A Pilgrim's Journey", by Dr. Eugene Cruz-Uribe (Northern Arizona University) date: March 20, 2010; 3:30pm place: Classroom 2, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, PA costs: $5 for the general public, $3 for museum members, free to ARCE-PA members info: email --CANADA-- a) SSEA/SEEA Chap. Montreal * "Coptic Iconography Today: Artist, Audience, and Current Trends", by Dr. Mariam Ayad (Assistant Director, Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology; and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Art, University of Memphis) date: Saturday, March 13, 2010; 2:00pm place: Canadian Centre for Ecumenism, 1819 René-Lévesque Ouest (corner St-Mathieu) (Métro Guy-Concordia), Montreal costs: 5$ (includes Egyptian pastries) info: 514-353-4674 or 514-937-9176 ext. 26 --GERMANY-- a) Universität Bonn - Abteilung für Ägyptologie Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, D-53113 Bonn tel. : 0228 / 73-5733, fax: 0228 / 73-7360 e-mail: aegyptologisches.seminar@uni-bonn.de * "42. Ständige Ägyptologen-Konferenz" (SÄK 2010) date: July 16-18, 2010 info: URL 1. Rundbrief, including preliminary program - 3 pp. - pdf-file (45 KB): URL Anmeldeformular - pdf-file (54 KB): URL --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; nvic@rite.com * "Recent work of AERA at the town of Queen Khentawes, Giza" date: March 25, 2010; 5:30 pm for a 6 pm start info: URL ---- For previously listed lectures and conferences, see section IX below. +++ (II) NEW: EXHIBITIONS --USA-- [update] b) Denver Art Museum 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204 * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: July 1, 2010 - January 2, 2011 [new] info: press reports at URL "(..) Tickets for the general public go on sale May 14.(..)" URL URL [update] d) The Franklin Institute Science Museum 222 North 20th Street, PA 19103 tel.: +1 215 448 1200 * "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" date: June 5, 2010 - January 2, 2011 [new] info: press report at URL URL URL "(..) The exhibition will travel to five North American cities. (..)" --CANADA-- [update] e) Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 1G4 * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: November 21, 2009 - April 18, 2010 [new] info: press reports at URL URL URL "(..) some 250,000 tickets [have been] sold (..)". URL --ITALY-- b) Florence Archaeological Museum * "Abu Simbel. Il salvataggio dei templi, l'uomo e la tecnologia" [Abu Simbel. The Salvage of the Temples: Man and Technology] date: April, 2010 - TBA Not only looks at the natural historical and archaeological aspects of the salvage project, but specifically focusses also on the anthropological aspects (the men, methods, and machinery used). Organized by the Scientific Office of the Embassy of Italy in Egypt, the Italian Archaeological Centre in Caro, e.a. The exhibition was earlier at Castello del Valentino, Torino (October 28, 2009 - November 7, 2009) and is currently at Mawlawi Dervishes, Cairo (February 1, 2010 - TBA). info: (in many languages) URL info: press report at URL --SWITZERLAND-- a) Laténium. Parc et Musée d'archéologie de Neuchâtel Espace Paul Vouga, CH-2068 Hauterive * "La description de l'Egypte: une oeuvre monumentale aux sources de l'égyptomanie" [La Description de l'Egypte: A monumental work at the beginnings of egyptomania] date: February 23 - May 30, 2010 The "Description de l'Egypte" will be presented as an addition to the temporary exhibition "Du Nil à Alexandrie". info: press report at URL ------ For previously listed exhibitions, see section X below. +++ (III) PERSONALS AND ADMIN NOTES [As you might guess, a "Personal" is exactly that: unlike with the others sections, entries are not necessarily in accord with the scope (mainstream Egyptology) of EEF. They usually are not in the Website version, except for Personalia/Obituaries.] +++ (IV) READ ON THE WEB ------NEWSPAPER REPORTS ONLINE------ [Caveat: it is well-known that a press report cannot always be taken at face value, and it is not possible for the EEF contributors (submitting items) and the moderator (editor) to verify the validity of the contents of all press reports in advance. ] * (&) The Mission archéologique française de Saqqâra has discovered the burial chamber of 6th Dynasty Queen Behenu, wife of either Pepi I or Pepi II. It contained Pyramid Texts. URL -- All press reports about it are identical, but this one adds some tiny bits: URL "(..) French mission head Philippe Collombert said the mummy of Queen Behenu was destroyed, but the chamber contained green hieroglyph picked out on white stone known as the “Pyramid Texts.” “We are excited because the texts are well conserved,” he told The Associated Press, adding the queen’s titles were written on the walls of the 33 by 16 foot (10 metre by 5 metre) burial chamber inside her small pyramid. (..)" [Next eight items submitted by Bjorn Koopmans and Kat Newkirk] * Press report: "Harvard To Acquire First Egyptology Professor in Decades" URL "After years dedicated to shedding light on the work of the late Harvard Egyptology Professor George A. Reisner, Class of 1889, Peter D. Manuelian ’81 will become the first egyptology professor at Harvard since his predecessor’s death 68 years ago. Manuelian, currently an egyptology lecturer at Tufts, will be the first person to fill the Philip J. King Professorship, which was established in the fall of 2006 to support the study of ancient civilizations. (..) " -- Another press report: URL * Press report: "Bass gets Dan Paul artifacts" URL "An ancient Egyptian child's sarcophagus, a mummy and two Greek urns have been donated to the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach by the estate of celebrated First Amendment lawyer Dan Paul, who died in January at 85. The donation joins another Egyptian artifact in the museum's collection: Egyptian Painted Sycamore Fig Wood Sarcophagus and Mummy from Dynasty 25 or early Dynasty 26 (760-600 B.C.E.). The antiquities will be housed in the museum's Egyptian Gallery, which opens in April. Along with Paul's donations, the gallery will showcase 12 objects on long-term loan from the Brooklyn Museum, Lowe Art Museum and private collections. (..) [The] mummy is undergoing carbon testing and a CT-scan." With two photo slideshow (one shows the child's coffin). * Press report: "Egyptologists revisit a founding father" URL "The University of Manchester and the Natural History Museum in London are to revisit the work of anthropologist Sir Grafton Elliot Smith and set up a publicly available website on his excellent but as yet overlooked work. The team, which includes researchers at Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, has won a £160,000 Wellcome Trust grant to re-examine Smith’s evidence from 20,000 bodies buried at Nubia, in research that never received the recognition it deserved. (..) The Manchester-London team will look at all the human remains that can be identified, which are now held in different countries, and also animal remains. They will carry out a battery of non-destructive tests, such as radiology scans, and examine archival records to re-evaluate the diseases and the patterns of diet and disease that beset the population. They expect to produce a host of new papers and set up a dedicated website offering a mass of new information to the public. (..)" * Press report: "Hidden Treasures of the ROM Part III: Egyptology and Iraqi pottery" URL Interview with Gayle Gibson of the Royal Ontario Museum With video. * Press report: "Sudan's land of 'black pharaohs' a trove for archaeologists" URL About the archaeology of Kush and Meroe. (Same report but with pics: URL) -- A related press report, about the work of Charles Bonnet, ("the 76-year-old doyen of Sudan archaeologists"): URL * Press report: "Accountants are High Priests, Drawing Order out of Chaos" URL About a paper by Mahmoud Ezzamel on how accounting was performed in Ancient Egypt ("Order and accounting as a performative ritual: Evidence from ancient Egypt", by Mahmoud Ezzamel published in Accounting, Organizations and Society 34 (2009) 348-380). * Press report: "Egypt: 25,000 artefacts returned from Britain" URL "Cairo International Airport received today 25,000 artefacts which were exhibited in Great Britain. The antiquities date back to pre-historic eras. Some of them were showcased by the British museum. The pre-historic antiquities department's director Khaled Saad accompanied the restored artefacts that were carried in six big packages aboard an Egyptian flight coming from London. [I think to recall from past press reports it are predynastic shards, hence the large amount. AKE] -- Idem: URL "(..) The collection which dates back to the pre-historic era was then taken from Cairo Airport in six huge wooden containers to the Oasis Museum in the governorate of New Valley, southwestern Egypt. (..)" * Press report: "Huntsville Museum of Art cancels Boston Museum of Fine Art's touring exhibition" URL "After three years in the making, the Huntsville Museum of Art has canceled the much-publicized Boston Museum of Fine Art's touring exhibition "World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed." The museum board voted unanimously to cancel it, those involved say, citing concerns over the "six-figure" cost of installing, preparing and displaying it. (..) [it was] scheduled to open in October and run through 2011 (..) [and] the museum would have paid about $500,000 to display it. (..)" There are some nice photos of artefacts. [Next five items submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Press report: "Wie alt ist Mumie III 32 a?" URL "(..) In der Ausstellung 'Mumien - Körper für die Ewigkeit' im Naturkundemuseum hat die Mumie statt eines Namens eine Nummer: III 32 a. Ihr Alter ist mit 500 - 600 Jahre v. Chr. angegeben. Dieses unvorstellbare Alter muss jetzt vielleicht nach oben korrigiert werden. Experten vermuten: (...) [Die Mumie] (...) könnte 500 oder sogar tausend Jahre älter sein als angenommen (...). Der Schweizer Mediziner Dr. Frank Rühli, einer der führenden Mumienforscher der Welt und Leiter des Swiss-Mummy-Projekts, war kürzlich in Kassel, um das Ausstellungsobjekt III 32 a erstmals in Augenschein zu nehmen. Er hat gestaunt: Die Mumie bot für ihn alle Anzeichen dafür, dass es sich um eine 'sehr hochgestellte' Persönlichkeit handelt, eventuell ebenbürtig mit der in der Ausstellung benachbarten Mumie des Imhotep, Wesir des Pharao Thutmosis I. (..)" * Press report: "Des objets d'art du château musée saisis chez l'ancienne conservatrice" URL "L'an dernier, des objets d'art du château-musée ont failli être vendus aux enchères dans la Manche par l'ancienne conservatrice, Françoise Poiret-Halley des Fontaines, qui était étrangement en possession d'objets des collections boulonnaises. Mais la police a été alertée. Bilan : la fonctionnaire à la retraite a été condamnée et les objets ont pu réintégrer les réserves du château. (...)" * Press report: "Ravenna - L'università apre scavi in Egitto" URL "Il dipartimento di Archeologia parteciperà alla missione archeologica di Aswan-Kom Ombo, per la spedizione di un mese in collaborazione con la Yale University.(..)" -- English press report about it: "Researchers from Ravenna on a misison in Egypt" URL "Ravenna's department of archaeology, from the University of Bologna, will participate in the Aswan-Kom Ombo archaeological mission in Egypt, in collaboration with Yale University. The team will focus on the excavation of a necropolis from the IV-II millennium B.C., engage in the surface activities to locate new settlements and document the rock inscriptions and art on the scene. (..) The objective of the Aswan mission is the study of the interaction between Egyptians and Nubians in the borderlands. The mission, which will begin Sunday and end Tuesday March 30, is made up of scholars from different international institutions: in addition to Yale, the Oriental Institute of Chicago, the University of Mainz, Dublin's Trinity College and the British Museum. (..)" * Press report: "Identificadas en el teatro romano de Itálica estructuras para el culto a la diosa egipcia Isis" URL "Las excavaciones e investigaciones arqueológicas promovidas por la Consejería de Cultura en el entorno del antiguo teatro de la ciudad romana de Itálica, en Santiponce (Sevilla), revelan que el diseño original albergó un 'espacio religioso' dedicado a la diosa egipcia Isis, porque además han sido descubiertas 'nuevas estructuras' directamente relacionadas con dicho culto en este teatro levantado entre los años 30 y 37 después de Cristo.(...)" * Press report: "Una nueva técnica reconstruye el rostro de una momia egipcia" URL "Un equipo científico del Hospital Quirón de Barcelona cree haber desvelado el enigma de la Dama de Kemet, momia de la época tardía que descansa en el Museo Egipcio de la capital catalana. (..)" -- Other Spanish press reports: URL URL -- Another press report with a video report [12 mins.]: URL "En 1998 una momia de la época romana ingresa en la colección del Museu Egipci de Barcelona. Descubra en este vídeo cómo era una mujer que vivió hace casi dos mil años." -- Info of the Museu Egipci de Barcelona with a 3-D visualization of the mummy's face URL [Next two items submitted by Bjorn Koopmans] * Press report: "Dorman-led expedition produces reference study on temple in Luxor" URL About the work of Peter Dorman and the Epigraphic Survey of the University of Chicago, done at the Medinet Habu complex. * On the blog of Zahi Hawass: -- Photo: Dr. Hawass in KV 9 URL -- Press release: New Discovery at Kom El-Hettan URL [About the giant head of Amenhotep III.] * Some Egyptomania items [submitted by Kat Newkirk (1)(2)(3) and Bjorn Koopmans (3)(4)]: -- 'Mentalist' Uri Geller (the one of the spoon bending) has bought a small uninhabited Scottish island, called Lamb, and thinks that the treasure of the ancient Egyptian princess Scota is burried there: URL [Scota is a figure in Celtic folklore, in which she is Egyptian but of course not "King Tutankhamun’s half-sister". AKE] "(..) He believes the island, visible from North Berwick, has special mystical powers, with Lamb and neighbouring islands Fidra and Craigleith said to mirror the layout of Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza. (..)" -- In a contest, an 11-year-old designed a new land for Chessington World of Adventures in Surrey, and it's called the “Kingdom of Ra” and is based on Ancient Egypt: URL -- Students from Friends' Junior School in Saffron had a study day on ancient Egypt: URL "(..) The day was spent enjoying various activities including baking bread following an authentic Egyptian recipe, making jewellery, writing messages in hieroglyphs, researching Egyptian gods and goddesses and enjoying some Egyptian dancing. They also made a very impressive version of the golden mask of Tutankhamun in 3D. (..)" -- Students from Eau Claire Middle school had a Egypt Night: URL "With the hallway lined with sarcophagi, an archaeological dig out front, and Egyptian delicacies in the kitchen (..) The sarcophagi were taped to the locker doors with essays printed above. Within each sarcophagus was a collage of items each student chose to include for the voyage beyond this world. (..)" * Some Travel items [submitted by Kat Newkirk (1)(2) and Bjorn Koopmans (2)]: -- Travel report to Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan, meaning to give some practical advice that's not in the guidebooks: URL "(..) My husband started coughing immediately — he’s a canary when it comes to air quality. According to a recent World Bank study that ranked the air quality of cities, Cairo is the most polluted city in the world (..). Tourists with allergies and asthma should limit their exposure to Cairo’s air. No guidebooks mention the severity of this problem. (..) The concept of a fair price for buyer and seller does not exist. Every transaction is an argument. It’s not just about money, it’s an endless game. (..)" -- Brief report on a trip to the VoK: URL --Follow-ups-- [Next three items submitted by Kat Newkirk and Bjorn Koopmans] * Press report: "Unknown, unregistered, but thanks" URL More about the return of the 21st- Dynasty coffin of Imesy to Egypt. "(..) According to a brief report, a copy of which is in the possession of Al-Ahram Weekly, the SCA has not been able to find any record of the coffin in its official registers, nor any record of its legal export abroad. Even experts specialising in coffins belonging to the 21st Dynasty had never seen this coffin before, which makes it very likely that the coffin was illegally excavated and smuggled abroad. Additional research undertaken by the SCA has discovered connections between the family of the importer and antiquities smuggling. (..) The exhibition in which the Imesy coffin was displayed [in 2007] was at the Alexandra Irigoyen Gallery in Madrid, and was labelled "Galeria F. Cervera presents La Mirada de Egipto". One of the other pieces displayed in this exhibition is a block from the site of Kom Al-Khamsin in the south of Saqqara. Egyptologist Joseph Cervello has demonstrated that this block came from the tomb of Imep- Hor and was most probably looted from the site during a robbery in 1999. (..)" * Press report: "Pittsfield Mummy Goes to Hospital" URL More about the recent scanning of the mummy of Pahat, from the Berkshire Museum. "(..) Pahat might have been say between 55 and 62. (..)" With video. * Press report: "Residents make way for sphinxes in controversial Luxor plan" URL About the Avenue of Sphinxes Project. "(..) But many locals, especially low-income families, claim the scheme is a form of slum-clearance in disguise, aimed at freeing land for lucrative, upmarket hotel development. (..)" -- idem: URL [Submitted by Jan Bailey] * Press report: "Genetics reveals the truth about King Tut" URL Prof Albert says "We shall continue our research: Nefertiti will be our next project. We have moved our research on to a new and so far unexplored level!" [Research on an invisible mummy would indeed be a whole new level! ;) AKE] --MISCELLANEOUS-- * Weekly entry at the online excavation diary of the Brooklyn Museum Mut Expedition, 2010 season -- d.d. February 26: URL More photos of the re-erection of a small (less than 2 meters square) 26th Dynasty magical healing chapel that once stood in the Mut temple precinct. They located a lintel of this building which in antiquity had been reused in the base of a sphinx; the lintel is inscribed for Horwedja, Chief Seer of Re at Heliopoli (dyn. 26). With many photos. * February 25-March 3 entries of the dig diary of the Joint Expedition to Malqata, the last of the season: URL Only some backgorund info is supplied - but in a pit they found four pieces of leather (photos). * Weekly entry at the online excavation diary of the Dutch mission in Saqqara - dd. 26 February. the last of the season: URL Only some cleaning activities. [Submitted by Katherine Griffis] * On her blog, Kate Phizackerley takes a critical look at the recent DNA tests on royal mummies (JAMA article): URL About the genetic impossibility of alleles which seem to "skip" generations in the article's proposed family tree. +++ (V) BOOK CORNER ---NEW (PAPER) BOOK RELEASES--- * Salima Ikram. Ancient Egypt. Cambridge University Press, 2010. Hardback ISBN 9780521859073 GBP45 Paperback ISBN 9780521675987 GBP16.99 URL "A cornerstone introduction for the study of ancient Egypt, with an overview of geography, history, society, religion and culture." [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Raoul Schrott, Die Blüte des nackten Körpers. Liebesgedichte aus dem Alten Ägypten, Carl Hanser Verlag, München, 2010. Hardcover, 96 pp. ISBN: 978-3-446-23485-7, price: EUR 16.90 URL "Raoul Schrott, Kenner der Antike und antiker Sprachen, hat eine Auswahl aus den ägyptischen Quellen zusammengestellt und übersetzt. Die Gedichte der Liebe, die in der Epoche Ramses' des Großen entstanden, waren intim, erotisch ungezwungen und leidenschaftlich religiös. Schrott macht diese Texte endlich wieder zugänglich, in einer ebenso bildhaften wie kraftvollen Sprache." -- Sample - 10 pp. - pdf-file (1.2 MB) URL ---DIGITIZED BOOKS AND ONLINE DISSERTATIONS--- [Next two items submitted by Raymond Betz] * 2 Albums and 168 Photographs of Maxime Ducamp (1849-50). URL Gallica, the French online digitized books website of the "Bibliothèque Nationale de France" has published two very rare albums composed of the first photographs taken by Maxime Ducamp during his trip in Egypt in 1849-50. These photographs are - if not the first photographs of Egypt - at least the first very large collection of photographs on Egypt. This trip of Maxime Ducamp is well known because he was accompanied by French writer Gustave Flaubert. A book telling this story has been written by Michel Dewachter and Daniel Oster, comprising 70 (out of the 168) original calotypes (Editor Sand, 1987). * Norman de Garis Davies - Two Ramesside Tombs at Thebes - 1927 - New York : Metropolitan museum of art - XIX-86p.- XLII p. de pl. ; ill., photogr. ; 49 cm. As PDF: URL [Next four items submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Online thesis: Anja Wieder, Altägyptische Erzählungen - Form und Funktion einer literarischen Gattung, Philosophische Fakultät an der Ruprecht Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, 2007 [published 2009] - IV, 313 pp. - pdf-file (3.7 MB) URL "Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage nach der Form und der Funktion altägyptischer Erzählungen. Die Klassifizierung altägyptischer Gattungen wird in der Ägyptologie seit Jahren als Desiderat formuliert. Die besondere Schwierigkeit der Gattungszuweisung in der Ägyptologie erschließt sich erst bei der näheren Betrachtung der Kategorie 'Erzählungen', denn unter diesem Begriff werden alle Texte zusammengefasst, die sich nicht in die beiden anderen Kategorien altägyptischer Literatur, die Klagen und die Lehren, einfügen lassen ... Die Arbeit ist in drei Teile gegliedert, von denen der erste die Grundlage für die Erstellung des Basiskorpus bildet und sich vor allem mit grundsätzlichen Fragen zur Definition der Begriffe "Erzählung" und "Literatur" beschäftigt. Der zweite Teil beinhaltet die formale Analyse der Texte des Basiskorpus, die dann im dritten Teil auf ihre Funktion hin untersucht werden." * New addition to the Giza Digital Library -- Michel Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien, 2 vols., Le Caire, 1999. --- Tome 1: XII, 393 pp. - pdf-file (50.2 MB) URL --- Tome 2: X, pp. 395-675 - pdf-file (16.8 MB) URL "... L'étude diachronique des cadres du pouvoir, essentiellement reconstitués sur la base des titulatures de fonctionnaires, impliquait évidemment de s'attarder tout particulièrement sur la datation des personnages fondamentaux pour notre recherche. Les principes en ont été établis dans un premier chapitre, qui comporte, en outre, une analyse détaillée des grands ensembles de tombes occupés par la famille royale, à Gîza et Dahchour ... L'étude des relations entre parenté et pouvoir royaux s'attache à l'inévitable question de la définition des groupes familiaux (chap. 2), puis se prolonge par l'analyse de leurs marqueurs de statut et de leurs fonctions, selon les catégories des fils et filles du roi, reines et mères royales (chap. 3). Chaque sujet abordé, si nécessaire et dans la mesure du possible, a été analysé dans sa dimension diachronique. Cette collection d'éléments disparates, étudiés individuellement, permet de dégager en fin de compte, du point de vue du corps politique et non du roi (quoique son image soit évidemment omniprésente), les lignes de force des relations entre parenté, pouvoir et monarchie (conclusion)." * New addition to the Giza Digital Library -- Henry Frederick Lutz, Egyptian Statues and Statuettes in the Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Leipzig, 1930. - 31 pp., 42 pls. - pdf-file (39.4 MB) URL "Sixty-five statues and statuettes, ranging in time from the Old Kingdom down to the Graeco-Roman period, are represented in this volume ... Attention may be called, finally, to the excellent example of the wood-carver's art, 39 a-40 b. The statuette, owing to its perishable material has been ravaged considerably by the vicissitudes of time, and had to be treated with wax and pitch in order to fill the many fissures; but it still bears witness to the high attainment of the sculptor's art in the Old Kingdom. The California Museum statuette is one of the finest specimens of that art and may well be placed side by side with the best examples of the art of the Old Kingdom in any of the large collections." * New addition to the Giza Digital Library -- Henry Frederick Lutz, Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering stones of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of California, Leipzig, 1927. - IV, 22 pp., 49 pls. - pdf-file (56.3 MB) URL "The importance of the archeological material here presented lies in two facts: first, most of it comes from three distinct sites, Gizeh, Naga ed-Der, and Der el-Ballas, and second, the various groups belong to certain definite periods, so that they afford a clear insight into the art and workmanship of the different places. The Naga ed-Der material, which follows the Gizeh material, incidentally brings out more emphatically the beauty of the art of Gizeh. The material represents part of the results of the excavations carried on by the Hearst expedition of the University of California more than twenty years ago ... Owing to the fact that the inscriptions of the steles do not deviate in any way from the well known formulas, it was deemed unnecessary to give translations of them." --NEW ISSUES OF JOURNALS & MAGAZINES-- * The TOC of the latest issue of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, no. 172 (2010), is online at: URL One directly relevant article (not online): -- Worp, K. A., A Note on the Use of Talents, Drachmas and Obols in Byzantine Egypt * The TOC of the latest issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review March / April 2010, is online at: URL There's one article of relevance, and it's available free of charge: -- Orly Goldwasser, "How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs" (6 pp. many pics) URL ---DIGITIZED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND ONLINE PAPERS--- [Submitted by Raymond Betz] * The volumes 1, 11, 17, and 18 of the ASAE (Annales du Services des Antiquités de l'Égypte) which were missing up to now in the "Internet Archive" website are now available on Gallica, the French online digitized books website of the "Bibliothèque Nationale de France": URL -- A list of online vols. of this journal at the Internet Archive: URL [Next two items submitted by Michael Tilgner] [update] * Les Cahiers de Karnak (CdK, KARNAK) -- vol. 10 (1995) URL -- vol. 11 (2003) URL -- vol. 12 (2007) - one article only, TOC URL -- A list of other online vols. of this journal: URL [update] * Electronic pre-published articles of Jürg Eggler, Christoph Uehlinger (eds.), Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East (IDD) - URL "Note that electronic pre-published articles are subject to change ... Illustrations cannot be printed ... Currently a total of 119 documents are published." Several of them may also be of interest for Egyptologists. [cf. EEF News (431), November 9, 2006] --MISCELLANEOUS-- [Next two items submitted by Kat Newkirk] * Book review of: Daniel Meyerson, In the Valley of the Kings. Ballantine, 230 pages, $26, hardcover. URL * BMCR online book review of: Laurent Bricault (ed.), Sylloge nummorum religionis isiacae et sarapiacae (SNRIS). Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 38. Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 2008. Pp. 347; CD-ROM. ISBN 9782877542135. € 90.00 (pb). URL "C'est un lourd défi que les auteurs de la Sylloge Nummorum religionis Isiacae et Sarapiacae (SNRIS) ont voulu relever. Proposer un corpus d'environ 5500 émissions monétaires qui réponde aux exigences des numismates, et en même temps balayer thématiquement toute l'iconographie monétaire d'Isis et d'Osiris, de manière à mettre en évidence les pistes de recherche que l'on peut y découvrir, tout en proposant déjà des éléments de synthèse. (..)" [Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review.] +++ (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.] * (&) The research centre for Canon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Literate Societies (CIF), Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, invites applications for a Papyrus Conservator for the 2010 academic year, beginning in September (negotiable). This is a three-month, non-renewable fellowship. The conservator will work on the preservation of texts from the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection. (..) Deadline for applications is March 15, 2010. (#) * (&) The Egyptological Institute at the University of Vienna has posted an advertisement for a full-time postdoctoral position in Egyptian Archaeology for four years. Deadline is 04.03.2010. Full info at: URL * (&) There are three job openings at the Office of the Secretary General of the SCA: two Administrative Assistants and one Media Content Manager. [#; full announcement was on the forum] * (&) Position at University College London - Institute of Archaeology: Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology/Egyptology (full-time Lectureship from 1st September 2010) Closing date for applications is March 1, 2010 info: URL * (&) Position at the Department of Art of the Ancient World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Terrace Research Associate in Egyptian Art (Summer 2010, 3 months) Deadline for applications is March 26, 2010. [#; full announcement was on the forum] * (&) The Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH), Brussels, Belgium, have a job opening for a scientific collaborator / field supervisor Elkab excavations (season November-December 2010). Preference will be given to candidates holding a PhD in archaeology, Egyptology or related sciences, but Masters are also encouraged to come forward. Substantial practical experience in archaeological fieldwork in Egypt is a prerequisite, as is a good basic level of conservational Arabic. (...). [#; full announcement was on the forum] ---GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS--- [# = You may request from the editor the often longer announcement on which the below summaries were based.] * The research centre for Canon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Literate Societies (CIF), Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, invites applications for two Post-Doctoral Fellowships for the 2010-2011 academic year in Assyriology and Egyptology respectively. Deadline for completed applications is March 22, 2010. Start date is June 1, 2010. (#) * (&) The Faculty of Humanities' Graduate School at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for a PhD scholarship starting 1 October 2010 for a period of up to three years. The PhD student will be affiliated to the Centre for Canon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Literate Societies (CIF) at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. Proposals should focus on one or more aspects of the intellectual history of ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia. Closing date for applications: March 23, 2010 For more information, see URL * (&) Information on the Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants offered by the Archaeological Institute of America may be found at URL * (&) The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts [National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC] announces a postdoctoral fellowship supported by a grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation. This award will be for academic years 2009-2011. The A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will be in residence at the Center. Please download the PDF (44 k) for more information: URL (VIB) NEW: COURSES AND TRIPS For previously listed courses, trips and field schools, see section XI below. --COURSES-- * TBA --TRIPS & TOURS-- [Only tours organized by non-profit Egyptological organisations (notably if the proceeds go to public education or site excavation/conservation) will be listed here.] * TBA --FIELD SCHOOLS-- * (&) Tell el-Amarna Field Program in Archaeological Geophysics Program Dates: Jan 08, 2011 - Feb 18, 2011 The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas are excited to announce the Tell el-Amarna Field Program in Archaeological Geophyics. As part of this program, students will use the latest in ground-based remote sensing technologies to reveal the secrets of the sacred city built by Pharaoh Akhenaten for the sun-god. Students will spend six weeks at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, the once great capital city of Egypt located halfway between Cairo and Luxor where they will explore the well-preserved ruins of this great city and receive hands-on experience using non-invasive archaeological techniques including surface survey and near-surface geophysical prospection. Work will concentrate on the North City, where they will map buried archaeological features using magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar. The course is worth 12 units of UCLA credit. Scholarships are available! Visit the sites below for more information Cotsen Institute at UCLA site - URL University of Arkansas site - URL * (&) Archaeology Field School (Ethnoarchaeology) in Egypt: "Ceramic Analysis in Fayum Project" 2010-10-10 to 2010-11-06 Directors and Instructors: Dr. Hans Barnard and Ms. Sonali Gupta-Agarwal info: URL +++ (VII) (MULTI)MEDIA --TV-- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * On German TV: -- NDR, March 6, 2010, 11:30-12:15 "Die Alten Ägypter (1): Die Schlacht von Megiddo" -- ZDF, March 8, 2010, 03:15-04:00 "Königinnen vom Nil (1): Die große Hatschepsut" -- Phoenix, March 9, 2010, 21:00-21:45; March 10, 2010, 08:15-09:00 and 19:15-20:00 "Ägypten - Das Rätsel um Grab 33" [TT 33; Pediamenemope] [Submitted by Vivien Raisman] * On U.K. TV -- Sky 520 Discovery Channel, March 7, 2010, 13:00 and 15:00. "King Tut Unwrapped" (2 episodes) [on the recent DNA tests] URL --THEATRE & MUSIC-- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * "Eine Nacht mit Nofretete. Dinner-Show mit königlichem 3-Gänge-Menü" URL "Tagsüber, ja da lässt Nofretete die Museumsbesucher an sich vorbeiziehen, ohne auch nur eine Miene zu verziehen. Aber nach Dienstschluss taut sie auf und ist dann eine so amüsante wie temperamentvolle Erzählerin, die Unglaubliches zu berichten weiß: Von Ägypten und den alten Pharaonen, von dem Mann, der sie nach Berlin lockte oder von den Marotten der Touristen." [Submitted by Kat Newkirk and Bjorn Koopmans] * The musical "Aida" will be performed by students of the following schools: -- Port Jervis High School, NewYork State (March 19-21): URL -- Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School, New York State (March 5-6): URL -- Central High School, New Jersey (this weekend): URL --DVDs & CDROMS-- * TBA * (&) For reviews of some CD-ROMs, see the website: EEF: CD-ROMs --ONLINE VIDEO & AUDIO-- [Submitted by Juan Jose Castillos] * The Uruguayan Institute of Egyptology has put in Youtube some videos with TV interviews we´ve had in Spanish about ancient Egypt and Egyptology. They are as follows: URL URL URL URL (The sound quality of the first is not very good, mainly because of the multiple conversions we had to do to conform to Youtube size and format requirements, but I think it is understandable.) A second batch of four more videos in Youtube contains interviews in Spanish about our Egyptian Museum (3a and 3b) and about clothing and fashion in ancient Egypt (4a and 4b). They can be seen at URL URL URL URL * For previously listed online videos, see the website Videos and Audio Files. --SOFTWARE-- * TBA --FICTION (NOVELS, GAMES & MOVIES)-- [Submitted by Kat Newkirk] * Info on a PC game called "HISTORY™ Egypt Engineering an Empire": URL The game allows players "to build their own empire from its foundations to the height of its power. Acting as the leader of Egypt or its enemies, players manage all aspects of its rise, from economic growth to political power, the development of armies, and expansion into other regions by war and diplomacy." * Review (with screen shots) of a PC game called "Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris": URL "(..) it's a humorous adventure through Cairo as you step into the sandals of an Ancient Egyptian teenager named Assil. Assil's beautiful girlfriend Thara has left him with a Dear John letter, and he's badly in need of a shave. To make matters worse, he's found himself tossed into an open grave. (..)" +++ (VIII) WEBSITES * TBA +++ (IX) LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS --USA-- a) ARCE/NT society's website * TBA date: ..., 2009; 7:30pm 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 b) American Research Center in Egypt * ARCE's 61st Annual Meeting date: April 23-25, 2010 place: Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California info: Call for Papers is at URL Submission deadline is January 8, 2010. info: URL c) Humanities West P.O. Box 546 San Francisco, CA 94104 http://www.humanitieswest.org/ * Symposium: "Alexander/Alexandria: The Flowering of Hellenistic Culture" With lectures by Prof Eugene Borza, Prof. Andrew Stewart, Prof. Susan Stephens, Prof. Erich Gruen, Prof. Martha Klironomos, and Prof. Ada Cohen. date: February 5-6, 2010 place: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco info: programme of lectures at URL d) AIA * "Before the Valley of the Kings: Egypt's Last Royal Pyramids", by Dr Stephen Harvey date: Friday, October 02, 2009; 8:00 PM place: Stanford University, Meyer Forum 124 info: URL (lecture abstract at URL) info: email e) ARCE New Mexico Chapter PO BOX 4152 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196 URL * TBA date: ...; 6-8pm place: Hibben Center, University of New Mexico, Marting Luther King Blvd. & Redondo st., Albuquerque costs: donations at the door welcome info: email; tel. (505) 615-9675 f) Biblical Archaeology Society of New York (BASNY) society's website * TBA date: ...; 6pm (dinner), 7:30 pm (lecture) place: Delphi Restaurant, 109 West Broadway (corner of Reade Street), New York costs: dinner and lecture is $22 for members, $35 for nonmembers; lecture alone is $12 for members and $20 for nonmembers. info: email g) The Egyptological Seminar of New York (ESNY) P.O. Box 1451, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10276 * TBA date: ....; 7:00PM place: Uris Orientation Theater (sic!), MMA costs: note that ESNY lectures are free for first-timers, but regular attendees are expected to join ESNY. info: email h) ARCE/Oregon Chapter * "Problems in Preserving Egypt's Monuments: Balancing Conservation Work, Tourism, and Local Interests", by Michael Jones (American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt ) date: February 17, 2010; 7:30 pm place: Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union Room 238 costs: free info: email i) ARCE/AZ * TBA date: ...; 7 pm place: Room 205 of the "Swede" Johnson Alumni Association building on the University of Arizona campus, 1111 N. Cherry (NW corner of Cherry and Speedway), Tucson, Arizona. costs: free and open to all info: Suzanne Onstine at email or Anne Lopez at 520-621-9026 j) ARCE/DC URL * TBA date: ...; 6:30 PM place: Benjamin T. Rome Auditorium, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC costs: free and open to all info: email k) ARCE/Atlanta Interest Group * TBA date: ...; 10:00 a.m. place: Reception Hall, 3rd floor of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, of Emory University, 571 South Kilgo Street Atlanta, Georgia costs: free and open to the public info: tel. 404-712-9854 (Candy Tate) or email l) ARCE/Northern California society's website * "Protecting Cultural Sites in a Living Environment", by Dr. Michael Jones (Director, Egypt Antiquities Project ARCE, Cairo) and Dina Saad (ARCE Funds Development, ARCE, USA) date: February 21, 2010; 2:30 p.m. place: 20 Barrows Hall, UC Campus, Berkeley info: email m) Egypt Exploration Organization of Southern California, (EEO/SC; previously: ARCE/SC) * TBA date: ...; TBA (5 p.m.?) place: Los Angeles area, venue TBA costs: lecture plus dinner $20, reservations required info: for venue and reservations, contact email or (323) 874-8681 / (818) 768-1236 n) ARCE/Pennsylvania Chapter URL * "North, West, and South from the Valley of the Kings: A Pilgrim's Journey", by Dr. Richard Jasnow (Johns Hopkins University) date: February 20, 2010; 3:30pm place: 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 o) Egyptian Study Society society's website. * TBA date: ...; 7:00 p.m. place: Ricketson Auditorium, Denver Museum of Nature and Science info: email p) University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 * "Built of Memory and Hope: The Sacred City of Abydos, Egypt", by Josef Wegner date: February 4, 2009; 6 p.m. costs: $5; free for Museum members and PennCard holders info: tel. (215) 898-4890 info: URL q) ARCE/Orange County California Chapter society's website * TBA date: ...; 1:30 p.m. place: Norma Kershaw Auditorium, Bowers Museum 2002 N. Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92706 costs: free and open to all info: email info: URL r) Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe * TBA date: ...; 7:00 PM place: Life Sciences Bldg. A, Room 191, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ costs: free and open to the public info: email s) Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization University of Washington, Seattle * "The Pursuit of Queen Teya, who Killed Ramses III (1186-1155 B.C.)", by Dr. Benson Harer On the Harem Conspiracies. Lecture is co-sponsored by the NELC Department and ARCE, Northwest Chapter. date: Thursday, December 3, 2009; 6:30-8:00 pm place: Gowen Hall (University of Washington Campus), room 201 costs: free admission info: email t) ARCE / Northwest (Seattle) Chapter society's website * TBA date: ...; 6:30 PM place: Mueller Hall, Room 153, University of Washington campus, Seattle, WA costs: admission is free info: email u) Embassy of Egypt 3521 International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008 * TBA date: ...; 6:30 PM costs: free info: please RSVP at tel. (202) 895-5463 v) The Smithsonian Resident Associates Program (RAP) PO Box 23293, Washington, DC 20026-3293 * TBA date: ...; 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. place: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, S.W. info: tel. 202-252-0012 info: URL w) Center for the Ancient Mediterranean 501 Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave New York, NY 10027 URL * TBA date: ...; 5 pm place: Room 832, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University's Morningside campus, 116th Sreet and Broadway, New York info: URL x) Ark-Homa Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society * “Bioarchaeological Investigations at Tell el-Amarna: Unexpected Results from an Ancient Egyptian Capital City”, by Dr. Melissa Zabecki date: October 15, 2009; 7 p.m. place: the Echols Conference Center, University of Arkansas Fort Smith costs: free and open to the public. info: URL email y) Egyptology and Ancient Egyptian Studies Society (EAESS) * TBA date: ...; 1:30pm-3:00 place: Panera Bread, Owasso, Ok (Off 96th St and Hwy 169, by Kohl's) info: URL, email z) The Idaho Archaeological Society, Great Basin Chapter * "Tutankhamun and The Golden Age of the Pharaohs", by Jan Summers Duffy (The College of Idaho's Natural History Museum's Archaeologist and Curator) The speaker will comment on the artifacts shown in the DVD 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' and will highlight her ongoing research on the headrests discovered in KV62. She is the College of Idaho's Expert Faculty in Egyptology, and previously worked in Egypt's Nile Delta (excavating mudbrick houses and mastaba burials). An in-depth article by her hand about headrests from KV62 will appear in the near future in Ancient Egypt magazine. date: Thursday, April 9, 2009; 7 pm place: The Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, Boone Hall, The College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, Idaho 83605 costs: none; donations appreciated info: email za) Oriental Institute, University of Chicago * "The Epigraphic Survey in Luxor: Change and Challenges in the Nile Valley", by W. Raymond Johnson (Director, Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute) date: Wednesday June 3, 2009; 7:00 pm place: Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 costs: free and open to the public info: tel. 773-834-9777 zb) North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics * NACAL 38 Papers on linguistic topics relevant to the languages of the Afroasiatic phylum (Chadic, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian, Semitic) are requested; deadline for abstracts is December 1st, 2009. date: February 13-14, 2010 [new] place: Austin, TX info: afroasiatic@gmail.com info: URL zc) Chicago Archaeological Society URL * "Egypt's New Tomb Revealed", by Dr.Otto Schaden date: Sunday, April 26, 2009; 3:30 P.M. place: North Shore Retirement Hotel, 1611 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Chicago costs: free and open to the public info: source - URL info: email zd) The St. Mina and St. Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church 1531 King Richard Parkway, Miamisburg * 12th annual Taste of Egypt Festival Fair/fundraiser with Egyptian foods, arts and crafts. date: August 29, 2009 (11 a.m. to 9 p.m.) and August 31, 2009 (11 a.m. - 6 p.m) info: URL info: press report at URL ze) St. Mina and St. Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church 1531 King Richard Parkway, Miamisburg, Ohio. * 12th Annual "Taste of Egypt" Festival Fair with foods from Egypt, camel rides, Egyptian jewelry, arts & crafts, and a church tour. date: August 29, 2009, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m, August 30, 2009, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. info: press report at URL zf) San Francisco War Memorial Opera House 301 Van Ness Avenue at Grove Street, San Francisco. http://www.sfwmpac.org/operahouse/oh_index.html * “Mysteries of Tutankhamun Revealed,” by Dr. Zahi Hawass About the recently announced CT scan and DNA study, “Ancestry and Pathology of King Tut’s Family” (JAMA). date: March 8, 2010; 7:30 pm costs: tickets $15 on URL info: press reports at URL URL zg) - zh) ARCE/Chicago Chapter URL * TBA date: ...; 5:00 pm place: The Oriental Institute, 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago costs: free and open to the public info: tel. 773 702 1062 zi) - zj) - zk) The Memphis area interest group for ARCE * TBA date: ...; 3-4 pm place: University of Memphis campus, Mitchell Hall room 309, Memphis, TN costs: free and open to the public info: Suzanne Onstine at URL or 901-678-3383 zl) - zm) - zp) - zq) - zr) Miller Theatre at Columbia University 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street) MC 1801 New York, NY 10027 phone: 212-854-1633 * Symposium: "Antony and Cleopatra: 'What Becomes a Legend Most?' " Experts in diverse disciplines will offer a wide-angle view of Samuel Barber's 'Antony and Cleopatra' and its sources, and will explore the world's enduring fascination with its larger-than-life heroine. The Egyptologist present is Dr Ann Macy Roth. date: Saturday, January 10, 2009; 12:00 - 5:00 PM costs: tickets $20 ($15 for Students/Seniors) info: URL info: press report, with programme, at URL --CANADA-- a) La Société pour l'Étude de l'Égypte Ancienne Society for the Study for Egyptian Antiquities society website --SSEA Toronto Chapter-- * TBA date:..., 2009; 7:00pm. place: Room 142, basement of Earth Sciences Complex, 5 Bancroft Ave, Toronto info: to see more details and RSVP, see URL info: email -- SEEA Chapitre de Montréal / SSEA Montreal Chapter-- society website * Seminar: "Amour et passion sous les pharaons" with Michel Guay date: February 13, 2010;13h30 - 16h00 costs: members 10$, non-members 15$ place: Université du Québec à Montréal, Département de Mathématiques 201, rue du Président Kennedy O., Salle PK 5115, 5e étage. Métro Place-des-Arts. info: subscription with email * TBA date: ...; 18h00 place: Bureau des Affaires Culturelles et de l'Éducation (BACE) du Consulat Général d'Égypte, 1 Place Ville-Marie, 19ième étage, suite 1936, Montreal, Quebec costs: free; RSVP- to reserve your place please call: 514-353-4674 info: email * TBA date: ...; 18:00 place: The Espace culturel of Librairie Monet, 2752 de Salaberry in Montreal. costs: free for members, $12.00 for non-members. To confirm your place, please contact email info: email or tel. 514-353-4674 --SSEA Calgary Chapter--- * TBA date: ...; 7:00 pm. place: Room 162, Earth Sciences Building, University of Calgary costs: free b) Toronto Society of the Archaeological Institute of America * TBA date: ...; 4:15 pm place: Emmanuel College, 75 Queen's Park Crescent, Room EC001, Basement Level, Elevator Access. info: phone 416-978-7892, 905-823-2819 or 416-489-0209 info: URL c) The Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt * TBA date: ...; 7.30 pm place: National Library of Canada Auditorium, 395 Wellington St., Ottawa costs: free info: email d) Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto URL * TBA date: ...; 7:30 pm place: Sam Sorbara Auditorium of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, 81 St. Mary's St., Toronto costs: free info: URL e) Dept. of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations of the University of Toronto * TBA f) Archaeological Institute of America - Toronto Society * Second Annual Student Symposium: "Unmasking Identity: Individuals and Societies" Graduate and undergraduate students are invited to submit abstracts of papers exploring the general topic of Identity both individual and societal; a broad spectrum of geographical, temporal, and methodological approaches to the topic are welcome before February 15, 2010. date: Saturday March 27, 2010 info: email g) Canadian Society for the Study of Egypt * TBA date: ...; 6.30 p.m. place: Lecture Hall C300, The University of British Columbia, Robson Square, Vancouver, B.C. costs: non-members $8, members: $5, students: $3, student members: free info: email h) Le Bureau des Affaires culturelles et de l'Éducation du Consulat général d'Égypte * TBA date: ...; 18h30 place: Bureau des Affaires Culturelles et de l'Éducation (BCAC) du Consulat Général d'Égypte, 1 Place Ville-Marie, 19ième étage, suite 1936, Montreal, Quebec costs: free, but reservation is required info: email or email --UNITED KINGDOM--- a) Egyptian Embassy, London, Education & Culture Bureau 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London W1. tel: 020 7491 7720; email * Regular lectures: -- “The Temple of Amun at Karnak”, by Bob Partridge date: January 22, 2009; 6:45 pm -- “From Siwa to Kharga”, by Peter Philips date: February 12, 2009; 6:45 pm -- “Individual Hands? The elusive writers and makers of ancient Egypt”, by Dr Stephen Quirke date: February 26, 2009; 6:45 pm * Day School: “Egyptology in Manchester : the first hundred years” With Prof. Rosalie David, Mrs Jacqueline Finch & Dr Karen Exell. date: February 14, 2009; 10 am – 4.30 pm b) ICAANE * 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Deadline for papers is April 30, 2009. place: The British Museum and the University College London date: April 12-16, 2010 info: URL info: email c) Manchester Ancient Egypt Society (MAES) society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:30 place: Weston Building, UMIST, Sackville Street, Manchester costs: members GBP 3, non-members GBP 5 info: email d) British Museum, London Great Russell Street, London WC1N 3BG tel.: 020-7323 8299, e-mail: information@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk * "A Secret Voyage", by Dr Zahi Hawass Lecture about Hawass's work, and presentation of his limited-edition book A Secret Voyage (Heritage World Press) -- only 750 copies, signed by the author and silk-bound, with photos of Sandro Vannini. date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 costs: only an invited audience of 600 people will be able to attend; if you would like to attend, please email for more details. info: URL --British Museum Friends-- * TBA date: ...; 18:30 place: BP lecture theatre, British Museum, London costs: tickets GBP7.50 info: booking at 020 7323 8566, friends@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk source: The London Diary for the ANE, edited by Jan Picton. e) Petrie Museum * Workshop: "Sock it! Making Ancient Egyptian socks from scratch" [Coptic knitting] date: Saturday January 30, 2010; 11.30-13.30 info: email --- Friends of the Petrie Museum -- society's website * "Come, tell me how you dig: living and working in Egypt", by Joanne Rowland date: Friday, January 29, 2010; 18:30 place: Room G6, Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq, London WC1. costs: free, all welcome info: email f) Poynton Egypt Group society's website * TBA date: ...; 8:00 pm place: Lower Park Primary School, Hazelbadge Road, Poynton, Cheshire. costs: open to all, with entrance fee (GBP2 members) info: group@poyntonegypt.freeserve.co.uk g) The Egypt Exploration Society 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG society's website --EES London-- * Conference:" "Disciplinary Measures?" Histories of Egyptology in a Multi-Disciplinary Context" date: June 10-12, 2010 place: TBA, London Sponsored by The Egypt Exploration Society (EES), The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies, University College London (UCL), Institute of Archaeology, Heritage Studies Research Group. Abstracts (250 words maximum) are invited for papers that consider the history of Egyptology from outside the perspective of the discipline itself, or which provide a historical perspective from within the discipline on current issues in other fields. The deadline for submission is February 28 2010. (#) info: URL * The Third British Egyptology Congress (BEC3) Cosponsored by the Egypt Exploration Society, The Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum, and University College London. Keynote lecture on the evening of Saturday 11 September will be given by Dr Mark Lehner. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 5 pm, Monday 1 February 2010. date: Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September 2010 place: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1N 3BG info: email * TBA date: ...; 18.00 for a 18:30 start place: Brunei Gallery lecture theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St WC1 London. EES lecture. costs: £10 members, £15 non-members. info: 020 7242 1903, email --EES Manchester-- * TBA date: ...; 7:00pm place: Lecture Theatre 1, Stopford Building, 1st floor, Oxford Rd, University of Manchester info: email --EES Exeter-- * TBA date: ... place: St Loye's Foundation, Topsham Road, Exeter EX2 6EP. info: email h) University College London, Institute of Archaeology * Conference: "Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium" Pre-circulated papers will focus on the artefactual nature of writing— the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and landscapes, and structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. A number of papers deal with evidence from the Nile Valley / Eastern Mediterranean / Near East. date: May 15 - 17, 2009 costs: £50 (£15 student) before 1 May / thereafter £75 (£25 student) info: URL info: email i) Egypt Society of Bristol. society's website * TBA date: ..., 2010; 18:45 place: Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, 43 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol 8 (map link: URL) costs: all welcome; admission £2.00 for non members and free for members. info: URL j) Sussex Egyptology Society society's website * TBA date: ...; 2 pm place: Brighton Hove & Sussex 6th Form College, 205 Dyke Road, Hove, East Sussex costs: free for members, GBP 3 for non-members info: URL info: email k) The North Yorkshire Ancient Egypt Group society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:30pm to 9:30pm place: Taits College, Station Bridge, Harrogate costs: £5 entrance info: contact Anne Murray at tel. 01423.861604 or anne@annemurray50.wanadoo.co.uk l) Staffordshire Egyptology Society URL * TBA date: ...; 7:30 pm place: St Leonards Sports and Social Club, St Leonards Avenue, Stafford. costs: members GBP1.50, non-members GBP3.50 info: staffordshireegyptology@yahoo.co.uk m) The Leicester Ancient Egypt Society * TBA date: ...; 2:00 pm. place: The New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, 53 New Walk, Leicester info: dylan367@yahoo.com n) The Southampton Ancient Egypt Society (SAES) Society's website * TBA date: ..., 2009; 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 o) Three Counties Ancient History Society society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:30h place: Upton Snodsbury Village Hall, off the A422 between Worcester and Stratford info: brian@yare.org p) The Egypt Centre, University of Wales Swansea Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP * Conference: "Experiment and Experience: Ancient Egypt in the Present" Lectures, workshops and practical demonstrations will explore the value of a hands-on approach to understanding the past. This will include experimental archaeology as well as experiential approaches. date: May 10-12, 2010 info: email info: URL info: programme and abstracts of papers at URL q) The Friends of the Egypt Centre, Wales, Swansea society's website * "Looting Egypt: A contemporary View", by David Gill date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010; 7.00pm place: 'Faraday A' Lecture Theatre, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP cost: free for members, £3.00 non-members info: tel. 01792 295960 r) Tameside Egypt Group society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:00-10:00pm place: St Marks Social Centre, corner of West St (off the A627) and Railway St., Dukenfield, Cheshire. cost: members GBP2, non-members GBP3 info: kendowns@lineone.net s) Swansea University Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP. * TBA date: ... place: the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology (KH 115). costs: all welcome. info: URL t) Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society URL * TBA date: ..., 2009; 13:30 for a 14:00 start place: Allen Laboratory, Building 48, Whiteknights Campus, Pepper Lane entrance, Reading University costs: TVAES members free, visitors £3 info: email u) Current Research in Egyptology * Conference CRE X The Call for Papers is on the website below; deadline for submissions is September 14, 2008. date: January 7-9, 2009 place: University of Liverpool info: URL info: email v) Sussex College of Egyptology website * TBA date: ... place: Queen Street Community Centre, Queen Street, Worthing, West Sussex cost: GBP10 for members, GBP13 for non-members info: egyptology.sussex@mcmail.com w) North-East Manchester Egypt Society (NEMES) society's website * TBA date: ...; 7:30 pm place: St Andrews Church, Woodward Road, Carr Clough, Prestwich, Manchester info: alan@nemes.co.uk x) Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt society's website * TBA date: ...; 1.30 pm place: University of Derby, Main Kedleston Road Campus, Derby place: the Library Lecture Theatre, New Beetwell Street, Chesterfield info: mail.ssae@ntlworld.com y) Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art Oxford University * "Radiocarbon dating and the Egyptian chronology", by Prof. Christopher Bronk Ramsey (University of Oxford) & Dr Andrew Shortland (Cranfield University). date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010; 18:30 place: Oxford University Museum of Natural History costs: admission is free, but pre-booking essential by emailing email * Symposium: "Radiocarbon dating and the Egyptian chronology" date: March 17-18, 2010. place: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. costs: £50 (£25 students) info: URL z - zl) - zm) The British Association of Near Eastern Archaeologists ---BANEA South-East/The London Centre for the Ancient Near East--- URL * TBA date: .., 2009: 18.00 place: Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St, London WC1. info: email zn) - zo) - zp) Research Laboratory for Archaeology & The History of Art, University of Oxford * Symposium: "Radiocarbon Dating and the Egyptian Chronology" date: Wednesday, 17th March 2010 - Thursday, 18th March 2010 place: Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, UK info: URL info: URL info: email zq) School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE), University of Liverpool 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 7WZ * Egyptology Day-School: "Ritual and Magic in Ancient Egypt" date: Saturday March 6, 2010 The day will include talks from some of the UK’s leading Egyptologists, together with the unique opportunity to handle and learn about objects from the Garstang Museum. info: programme details and a booking form at URL info: Katharine Earnshaw (email) or Glenn Godenho (email). --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden * TBA date: ...; 20:00 place: Tempelzaal, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, Leiden. costs: free and open to all info: URL b) Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap 'Ex Oriente Lux' * TBA date: ..; 20:00 place: Openbare Bibliotheek, Hinthamerstraat 72, Den Bosch costs: EUR 2 for non-members info: tel. 073-6133336 (J. Croonen) c) Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) URL * "De Egyptische collectie van de Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (Brussel): een kijkje achter de schermen", by L. Limme date: April 16, 2009; 14:45 for a 15:00 start place: filmzaal, 2nd floor, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, Leiden costs: open to all info: email d) Leiden University * Fourth Dutch Symposium of the ancient Near East (DUSANE IV) Eight guest lecturers will present recent research concerning the ancient Near East. Speakers on Egypt related topics: Karel Innemée, Jorrit Kelder, and Ben Haring (#). date: March 27, 2010; 09:30-17:00 place: Lipius building of Leiden University, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden cost: € 15,00 (students € 7,50) info: URL; email e) Het Huis van Horus & Mehen URL * TBA --GERMANY-- a) Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster Schlaunstr. 2, D-48143 Münster fax: +49 251 83 29933, e-mail: aegypkop@uni-muenster.de * "41. Ständige Ägyptologen-Konferenz" (SÄK 2009) Generalthema: "Ägyptologie unter dem sog. Bologna-Prozess"; Sektion: "Themen der jungen Ägyptologie" date: July 17-19, 2009 info: preliminary programme and registration info at URL info: new information and preliminary program at URL "15.04.09: SÄK - ade ? ... die Anmeldefrist zur SÄK 2009 ist längst abgelaufen: Wir haben 93 Anmeldungen. Natürlich werden wir auch eine 'kleine' SÄK organisieren ... Zusatz 22.4.09: Zu obigem sind Tadel und Lob gekommen. Kritische Stimmen sagen, das Thema des Hauptvortrages [Ägyptologie unter dem sog. Bologna-Prozess] betreffe ein schon erledigtes Problem ..." info: Zweiter Rundbrief (Programm) at URL b) Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Schlossstr. 70, D-14059 Berlin email museum's website tel: +49-30-34357311 * TBA date: ...; 07.15 h p.m. place: Brugsch-Pascha-Saal im Haus 20 B, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2-8, 10117 Berlin costs: entrance 2 Euro; no fee for Museum community members and members of Aegypten Forum Berlin e.V info: URL c) 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 "Das Neue Reich / 2. Zwischenzeit" -- "Die Erzählung von den beiden Brüdern. Ein neuägyptisches Literaturwerk im Spiegel seiner Zeit" by Wolfgang Wettengel date: November 5, 2009, 6:30 pm -- "Tutanchamun als historische Gestalt" by Marianne Eaton Krauss date: December 10, 2009, 6:30 pm -- "Statuen in thebanischen Gräbern des Neuen Reiches. Befund, Repertoire und Deutung" by Friederike Seyfried date: January 14, 2010, 6:30 pm -- For all lectures is valid: place: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstr. 116, D-20249 Hamburg d) Ägyptologisches Institut Schloss, D-72070 Tübingen tel: +49 7071 29-72650, fax: +49 7071 29-5909 e-mail: aegyptologie@uni-tuebingen.de * TBA e) Sudanarchaeologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. c/o Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Philosophische Fakultaet III, Richard-Lepsius-Institut Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin tel.: +49 30 47 97 328, fax: +49 30 47 97 326 society's website * TBA date: ....; 18.00, place: Remise des Ägyptischen Museums Charlottenburg (Berlin) costs: free and open to all f) Institut fuer Aegyptologie Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Friedrich-von-Pfeiffer-Weg 5, D-55099 Mainz tel.: +49 6131 392 2438, fax: +49 6131 392 5409 e-mail: instaegypt@mail.uni-mainz.de URL * TBA date: ...; 6:30 pm place: Hörsaal N6, Gebäude der Naturwiss. Fakultät info: URL info: URL g) Die Aegyptisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft Nord e.V. c/o Dr.-Ing. Hani El Nokraschy An de Masch 24, D-25488 Holm tel.: +49 4103 15199, fax: +49 4103 919792 * TBA date: ..., 11 am place: Vortragssaal des Museums fuer Völkerkunde, Rothenbaumchaussee 64, Hamburg info: [Word document]: URL source: URL h) Collegium Aegyptium e.V. Foerderkreis des Instituts fuer Aegyptologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen e.V. tel.: +49 89 289 27 540, fax: +49 89 289 27 545 e-mail: collegium-aegyptium@aegyp.fak12.uni-muenchen.de * TBA date: ...; 19:00 place: Groszer Hoersaal of the Institute für Ägyptologie, Meiserstr. 10, D-80333 München, 2nd floor costs: open to non-members at a donation of EUR 6 info: URL i) Aegypten-Forum-Berlin e.V. URL * "Aegypten und Aegaeis in den Kopien der Fa. Gilliéron & Sohn" [Ein kuerzlich aufgetauchtes Musterbuch mit Kopien aegyptischer Kunst], by Dr. Veit Stuermer, Berlin date: January 21, 2010; 7:30 p.m. place: Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Hoersaal 2091/92, Hauptgebaeude, 1. Etage, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin costs: free info: URL * "Mit Kind und Kegel" [Personenverbaende im Alten Aegypten] by Manuela Lehmann M.A., Berlin date: February 11, 2010; 7:30 p.m. place: Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Hoersaal 2091/92, Hauptgebaeude, 1. Etage, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin costs: free info: URL j) Ägyptologisches Institut Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig Burgstraße 21, D-04109 Leipzig tel.: +49 341 97 370 10, fax: +49 341 97 370 29; e-mail:aegmus@rz.uni-leipzig.de * TBA date: ...; 18:15 place: Städtisches Kaufhaus, Eingang Universitätsstraße, Raum 0208 info: URL k) Urania e.V. An der Urania 17, D-10787 Berlin tel.: +49 30 2 18 90 91, fax: +49 30 2 11 03 98 * TBA date: ....; 3:30 pm info: URL URL l) Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim Am Steine 1-2, D-31134 Hildesheim tel.: +49 5121 9369-21, fax: +49 5121 35283 e-mail: info@rpmuseum.de * TBA m) Uschebti e.V c/o Seminar für Aegyptologie der Universitaet zu Koeln Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Koeln tel.: +49 221 470 3876, fax: +49 221 470 5079 e-mail: Svenja.Guelden@uni-koeln.de * TBA date: ...; 7 pm s.t. place: Hörsaalgebäude der Universität zu Köln, Hörsaal E entry: EUR 3 for non-members info: URL n) Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, * Symposium: "Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece: Zur Übersetzbarkeit von Wissenschaftssprachen des Altertums " The conference aims to explore problems involved in translating ancient scientific texts and to create a methodological framework to improve the quality of future translations. date: July 27-29, 2009 costs: EUR 15 (registration in advance, before May 31, with email) info: URL info: preliminary programme at URL o) Freundeskreis Aegyptologie an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz e. V. Johann-Friedrich-von-Pfeiffer-Weg 5, D-55128 Mainz tel.: +49 69 51 42 53 (Marianne Arnold), e-mail: FK-Aegyptologie-MZ@web.de URL * TBA date: ...; 18:30 place: Philosophicum, Hörsaal P2 info: URL p) Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Bonner Sammlung von Aegyptiaca e. V. c/o Ägyptologisches Seminar der Universität Bonn Regina-Pacis Weg 7, D-53113 Bonn tel: +49 228 737587 * TBA date: ...; 06:00 pm place: Hörsaal 17 des Englischen Seminars, Regina-Pacis-Weg 5, Bonn costs: EUR 2 for non-members info: URL q) Ägyptologische Arbeitsgruppe Megypt * TBA date: ... place: Münchner Institut für Ägyptologie, Meiserstraße 10, 80333 München costs: - info: URL r) Museum August Kestner * Colloquium "In Memoriam Peter Munro" Meeting in commemoration of Prof. Dr. Peter Munro (8.1.1930 - 2.1.2009). date: May 27, 2009; 15:00 - 18:00 info: participants please register before May 15 with email The programme was on the forum (#; April 27) s) Ägyptisches Museum, Bonner Sammlung von Aegyptiaca Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, D-53113 Bonn tel.: +49 228-739717 (Kasse), fax: +49 228-737360 e-mail: aegyptisches-museum@uni-bonn.de website: URL * TBA date: ...; 07:15 pm info: URL t) Seminar fuer Aegyptologie und Koptologie Georg-August-Universitaet Prinzenstrasse 21, D-37073 Goettingen URL * Conference: "On Dating Egyptian Literary Texts" date: June 9-12, 2010 info: URL u) Institut fuer Aegyptologie, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet Meiserstr. 10, D-80333 Muenchen tel.: +49 89 289 27 540, fax: +49 89 289 27 545 e-mail: aegyptologie@aegyp.fak12.uni-muenchen.de * TBA date: ...; 18:00 place: Grosser Hoersaal of the Institute info: URL v) Seminars für Ägyptologie der Universität zu Köln * Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz (SÄK) date: TBA w) Freie Universität zu Berlin Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften Ägyptologisches Seminar * TBA date: ..., 18:00 h. place: Hörsaal 1 im Gebäude Schwendener Straße 1, 14195 Berlin (2. Obergeschoss, links) costs: free info: email x) Ägyptologisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Marstallhof 4, D-69117 Heidelberg tel.: +49-06221-542533, fax: +49-06221-542551 e-mail: aegypt-inst@urz.uni-heidelberg.de * TBA date: ...; 07:00 pm - 03:00 am place: Sammlung des Ägyptologischen Instituts, Marstallhof 4, 4. Stock info: URL z) Institut für Altertumswissenschaften der Universität Würzburg Lehrstuhl für Ägyptologie Residenzplatz 2/Tor A, D-97070 Würzburg * TBA date: ..., 2009; 18:15 place: Toscanasaal, Südflügel der Residenz, 2. Stock 97070 Würzburg info: URL za) Ägyptologisches Seminar Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, D-53113 Bonn e-mail: aegyptologisches.seminar@uni-bonn.de * TBA date: .. zb) - zc) Freundes- und Förderkreis 'Antike und Gegenwart e.V.' Kestner-Museum Trammplatz 3, D-30159 Hannover tel.: +49 511 168-42120, fax: +49 511 168-46530 e-mail: kestner-museum@hannover-stadt.de * TBA date: ...; 18:30 place: Kestner-Museum, Trammplatz 3, D-30159 Hannover info: URL zd) Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut / Fachbereich Orientalistik Rothenbaumchaussee 67/69, D-20148 Hamburg tel.: +49 40 42838-4055, fax: +49 40 42838-6530 e-mail: aai@uni-hamburg.de * TBA date: ...; 6:30 pm ze) Egyptological Institute, University of Leipzig * TBA date: ... place: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig info: URL zf) University of California, Berkeley * "The Trick of Anonymity: authorial presence and absence in ancient Egyptian literature", Nikolaos Lazaridis (California State University Sacramento) The paper will discuss the presence of the author/narrator in Egyptian literary narratives. date: November 4, 2009; 12 - 1 pm place: 7205 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley campus info: for more details, call 510-642-4218 --SOUTH AFRICA-- a) The Egyptian Society of South-Africa society's website * TBA date: ... place: The Jenny Mallett Hall, St. George's Grammar School Richmond Road, Mowbray, Cape Town costs: members free, non-members R20 info: grenvill@iafrica.com --EGYPT-- a) Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) 1, Dr Mahmoud Azmi Street P.O. Box 50, 11211 Zamalek - Cairo - Egypt phone: ++20 2 738.2522 / 738.2520 email: nvic@rite.com; institute's website * "Gods and Roman emperors at Ain Birbiyeh: results of recent excavations in the Dakhleh Oasis", by Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaper About the Roman Period temple at Ain Birbiyeh, dedicated to Amunnakht, a deity who was specific to the Dakhleh Oasis. date: February 25, 2010; 5:30 pm for a 6 pm start info: URL b) EES Cairo C/O British Council, 192 Sharei el-Nil St. Agouza -Cairo. Cell.pho.:010/6797508 * Regular lectures: -- "Recent discoveries at Tell el-Farkha (Nile Delta)", by Dr.Krzysztof Cialowicz and Dr.Marek Chlodnicki dae: March 17, 2009; 7:00 pm. -- "Water, water every where. The results of the North West Delta survey", by Dr. Penny Wilson date: March 23, 2009; 7:00 pm. -- "The Liverpool University Harem Palace Project. New field work at Ghorab", by Dr Ian Shaw date: March 30, 2009; 7:00 pm. -- For all lectures is valid: place: British council, ‘Garden Room’ costs: free info: email c) Japan Egyptology Society in Cairo * TBA date: ...; 7:00pm place: Embassy of Japan (Information & Culture Center), 3rd Floor, Cairo Center Bldg., 106 Kasr Al-Aini St., Garden City, Cairo costs: free and open to all info: Yukinori Kawae at yukinegy@soficom.com.eg d) l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire * Int. Colloquiuim: "Landscape Archaeology, Egypt and the Mediterranean World" Participants wishing to present a communication have to send their proposal before the 30th of March 2010 date: September 19-21, 2010 place: the French Cultural Centre (CFCC), Cairo info: URL e) University of Sohag * Conference: "The Asyut Project: Seven Seasons of Egyptian-German Cooperation in Archaeological Fieldwork" date: Saturday, October 10, 2009; 9:00 am - 8:00 pm The conference will feature about ten papers and presentations on recently completed and ongoing studies of the Asyut Project conducted by researchers from Egyptian and German university institutions. info: participants please contact email The programme was on the forum (#; April 27) f) Supreme Council of Antiquities 3 el-Adel Abu Bakr Street, Zamalek, Cairo phone: +2/02 736-5645; fax: 735-7239 * TBA date: ..., 2009; 6:00 PM place: Ahmad Pasha Kamal Hall, SCA Building, Zamalek info: email * TBA date: ......, 2010; 6:00 PM place: SCA, Zamalek info: email g) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo URL * "The Cave of Beasts - Rock Art and Landscape Archaeology in Wadi Sura (Gilf Kebir)", by Dr Rudolph Kuper, Erik Büttner, and Dr Heiko Riemer date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010; 6 pm. place: 31, Sh. Abu el-Feda, 11211 Cairo-Zamalek info: email h) International Workshop for African Archaeobotany * IWAA 6, Cairo 2009 Deadline for abstracts of papers is the end of December 2008. Pre-registration (via a form) is requested as soon as possible. date: June 13-15, 2009 place: Helwan University, Cairo info: URL info: first circular (in PDF) at URL info: email i) International Association of Egyptologists * XIth International Congress of Egyptologists place: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt date: TBA; between September 7 and September 21, 2012 j) Mummification Museum, Luxor * Throughout the winter months, starting 4th December, there are weekly lectures at the Mummification Museum, Luxor, by archaeologists working locally. The lectures start at 7pm and entrance is free. See also (f). k) American Research Center in Egypt 2 Simon Bolivar (Qasr al-Dubara), Garden City, Cairo * First Conference on Human Remains in Ancient Egypt 2010. "CHRAE 2010: Possibilities, Problems and Priorities" Cosponsored by ARCE, the Institute for Bioarchaeology, and the American University in Cairo. A Keynote Address will take place on the evening of Thursday, January 28th at 6pm, at ARCE, by Dr. Sonia Guillen. date: January 28th - 29th, 2010 place: American University in Cairo campus, Midan Tahrir, Cairo. info: email l) Israeli Academic Center in Cairo 92 El Nil St., Dokki Giza, 3rd Floor, Apt. 33. * TBA date: ..., 2010; 5 PM info: email --ITALY-- a) Centro Italiano Studi Egittologici (CISE) piazza Gramsci, 21, 40026 Imola tel. 349 1858983; CISE info website * TBA date: ...; 18:00h -- For all lectures is valid: place: Sala delle Stagioni, via Emilia 25, Imola. b) Associazione Napoletana di Studi Egittologici * TBA info: URL c) Associazione Collaboratori Museo Egizio (ACME) c/o Museo Egizio di Torino, via Accademia delle Scienze 6, 10123 Turin, Italy * TBA date: ...; 18:00 (6 pm) place: Centro Congressi dell'Unione Industriale, via Fanti 17, Turin costs: free for ACME members; non-members should contact ACME in advance. info: on Saturday mornings only - phone: +39-011-5617776 d) European Academy Bolzano (EURAC) Institute for Mummies and the Iceman URL * First Bolzano Mummy Congress - "Mummies and Life Sciences" On the application of biomedical sciences in mummy studies. Deadline for registration is February 28, 2009. date: March 19-21, 2009 info: email info: the programme is now available at URL e) Istituto Italiano per la Civiltà Egizia Via Massena 52/a, I-10128 Torino tel.: +39 011599813, fax: +39 011599813 * TBA date: ... place: Università degli Studi, Palermo f) Centro Studi Archeologia Africana (CSAA) * "Magia di stato e magia privata in Età amarniana", by Daniele Salvoldi date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009; 18:00 place: main hall of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Corso Venezia 55, Milano info: email g) Centro di Studi Papirologici, Università del Salento, Lecce * Dakhleh Oasis Project - 6th International Conference "New Perspectives on the Western Desert of Egypt" The provisional programme is now up on the website. date: September 20-24, 2009. info: email info: URL h) - i) Associazione Culturale Seshat International of Turin, Italy * TBA date: .....; 18:00 (6 pm) site: Aula Magna "Giovanni Agnelli", Politecnico, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Turin costs: free info: mobile: +39-347-9445090 - e-mail: info@seshat.it --FRANCE-- a) Musee du Louvre F-75058 Paris Cedex 01, France tel. : +33 1 40 20 50 50; fax : +33 1 40 20 54 42; email * TBA b) Centre culturel d'Egypte 111, boulevard Saint-Michel, F-75005 Paris tel.: +33 1 46 33 75 67, fax: +33 1 43 26 18 83 e-mail: centre-culturel@egypt.edu * TBA date: ...; 06:30 pm info: URL c) Association Rennes Egyptologie * TBA date: ...; 20h30 place : La Maison du Champ de Mars 6, Cours des Alliers, 35000 Rennes info: email d) Societe francaise d'Egyptologie Cabinet d'egyptologie, College de France place Marcelin-Berthelot, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 tel./fax: +33 1 40 46 94 31, e-mail: sfe@egypt.edu * TBA date: ...; 05:30 pm place: grand amphithéâtre de l'université de Paris IV, 108 boulevard Malesherbes, F-75017 Paris e) Association France-Égypte Secretariat: 41 rue Joseph-de Maistre, F-75018 Paris tel.: +33 1 42 29 22 70, e-mail: france.egypte@egypt.edu * TBA date: ...; 6:45 pm place: Centre Asiem, 6 rue Albert-de-Lapparent, F-75007 Paris f) Collège de France, Paris. La chaire d'égyptologie, Collège de France place Marcelin-Berthelot, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 * TBA g) L'Association Dauphinoise D'Egyptologie CHAMPOLLION (ADEC) c/o Musée Dauphinois 30, rue Maurice Gignoux, F-38031 Grenoble Cedex 1 website: URL * TBA date: ...; 3 pm place: Archives Départementales de l'Isère, 2 rue Auguste Prudhomme, Grenoble info: URL h) Rencontres Egyptologiques de Strasbourg * "De l'Afghanistan à l'Égypte: sure les traces du lapis-lazuli du trésor égyptien de Tôd (Moyen Empire)", by Philippe Quenet date: March 9, 2010; 18h45 (doors open at 18h15) place: Maison des Associations de Strasbourg, 1A place des Orphelins, 67000 Strasbourg costs: RES members EUR 2, non-members EUR 6 (students EUR 3) info: tel. 03 88 30 14 60; email i) Association Égyptologique du Gard (Nîmes) * TBA date: ...; 9:00-18:00 place: Hôtel ATRIA Novotel, 5 Boulevard de Pragues, Nîmes info: URL j) L'Association Provence Égyptologie * TBA date: ...; 9:30 - 17:30 info: URL info: email k) - l) Archéo-Nil c/o Cabinet d'Égyptologie, Collège de France 11 place Marcelin-Berthelot, F-75005 Paris adresse administrative: M. Alain Fortier, abs institut Khéops 16, rue Albert-Bayet, F-75013 Paris email * TBA date: ..; 4:30 pm place: L'école du Louvre, palais du Louvre, place du Carroussel, dans l'amphithéâtre Cézanne info: URL --PORTUGAL-- a) Instituto Oriental da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa * IV Iberian Congress of Egyptology Registration before October 31, 2009. date: September 13-17, 2010. place: Museu da Farmácia and Museu das Comunicações, Lisbon info: email info: URL --BELGIUM-- a) Egyptologica a.s.b.l. 42, Av. Hansen-Soulie, B-1040 Bruxelles tel./fax: +32 2 736 93 31, e-mail : fdoyen@ulb.ac.be website: URL * TBA date: ...; 2 pm place: Salle Jean Capart au 1er étage de la Maison communale de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, 93 Av. Charles Thielemans, 1150 Bruxelles info: URL b) Egyptologica Vlaanderen * TBA date: ....; 20.00 u. place: Justus Lipsiuszaal (8th floor of the Erasmushuis), Blijde Inkomst-straat 21, 3000 Leuven place: Mgr. Sencie Instituut, Erasmusplein 2, 3000 Leuven (behind the Centrale Bibliotheek of the KUL) c) Association égyptologique néo-louvaniste * TBA date: ...; 20:00h info: 0474/451149 or egyptelln@hotmail.com info: URL d) Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (MRAH) Parc du Cinquantenaire, 10, 1000 Bruxelles * TBA date: ...; 10:30 am place: Auditorium info: URL e) - f) - g) Ptah-hotep a.s.b.l. Association d'égyptologie belge Chemin des Postes, 234, CP 1410 Waterloo tel.: 0495.896.148 * TBA date: ...; 3 pm place: Salle Jules Bastin de la maison communale de Waterloo, 26, rue François Libert, 1410 Waterloo info: URL --SPAIN-- a) Instituto de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto, Madrid URL email: antiguoegipto@telefonica.net tel: 00 34 91 576 57 95 * TBA date: ... place: Jaime Ferrer, 3., Palma de Mallorca. info: programme at URL info: antiguoegipto@telefonica.net; info@fundacionsophia.com b) Asociacion Espanola de Egiptologia (AEDE) URL * TBA date: ...; 19:00h place: Aula Magna del CSIC, C/Serrano 117, Madrid info: aedeweb@arrakis.es c) Asociacion Andaluza de Egiptologia (ASADE) email address: asade@supercable.es * TBA date: ...; 18:00-19:30h place: Sala de Conferencias del Museo Arqueologico de Sevilla. place: Paraninfo de la Universidad de Sevilla. costs: free info: asade@supercable.es d) MUSEU MARÍTIM / Museo Marítimo Av. de les Drassanes s/n, ES-08001 Barcelona * "Howard Carter's work in the tomb of Tutankhamun", by Dr Jaromir Malek date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009; 7:00pm - 8:30pm place: Sala d'actes del Museu Marítim de Barcelona costs: free, but RSVP to info@tutankhamon.cat is required, because the amount of seats is limited (100). info: URL e) Asociación Amigos de la Egiptología en Cantabria * Two lectures connected with the exhibition mentioned under [Spain (II) - (c)], both free: -- "Napoleón Bonaparte en Egipto; el inicio de la egiptología", by Manuel Abeledo date: February 19, 2010; 19:30 place: la Casa de Cultura de Villapresente, Reocín, Cantabria -- "El paisaje del Antiguo Egipto a través de las excavaciones de Saqqara y el Rameseum", by Dra. Victory Asensi Amorós date: February 20, 2010; 19:30 place: la Casa de Cultura de Villapresente, Reocín, Cantabria info: email --AUSTRALIA-- a) Egyptology Society of Victoria society's website * TBA date: ...; 8.00pm place: Lecture Theatre E7 (Building 72; Melways Map No.475 near Engineering), Clayton Campus, Monash University info: Colin.Hope@arts.monash.edu.au info: URL b) Rundle Foundation for Egyptian Archaeology * TBA date: ...; 7.30-9.00pm place: W5A Theatre 2, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney costs: tickets $11 per person, incl. GST info: tel. (02) 9850 8848 c) Australian Centre for Egyptology Division of Humanities, Macquarie University, Sydney tel. (02) 9850 8848; egyptology@hmn.mq.edu.au * TBA d) The West Australian Museum Centre for Ancient Egyptian Studies Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Perth Western Australia 6000 URL * TBA date: ... place: 'The Tunnel', West Australian Museum, Perth Cultural Centre, James St, Perth. info: rsvp to email e) Ancient Egypt Society of Western Australia * TBA date: ...; 7.00 pm for 7.15 pm start place: Institution of Engineers, Murray St, West Perth, W.A. costs: members $A 3.00, non-members $A 5 00c info: vydenhall@bigpond.com or (08) 9795 7023 f) Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne * First Australasian Conference of Young Egyptologisits date: 4-6th September 2009. info: details, programme, and subscription information can be found at: URL --GREECE-- a) - --SWITZERLAND-- a) l'Association internationale de papyrologues * 26e Congrès international de papyrologie Deadline for papers is February 28, 2010. place: l'Université de Genève date: August 16-21, 2010 info: URL info: email b) Aegyptologie der Universitaet Zuerich Orientalisches Seminar, Wiesenstrasse 9, CH-8008 Zuerich tel.: +41 1 634 07 31, fax: +41 1 634 36 92 e-mail: orient@oriental.unizh.ch * TBA date: ... c) - d) Ägyptologisches Seminar Bernoullistrasse 32, CH-4056 Basel tel.: +41 61 267 30 62, fax: +41 61 267 31 94 e-mail: aegyptologie@unibas.ch * TBA date: ... place: BildungsZentrum 21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4055 Basel info: URL e) Basler Forum für Ägyptologie URL * TBA date: ...; 19:15 place: Bildungszentrum 21 (Basler Mission), Missionsstrasse 21, Basel --RUSSIA-- a) Association of Ancient Egypt Studies "MAAT" society's website * TBA date: ... place: State Library for Foreign Cultures and Literature Exhibition Center, Nikoloyamskaya str, 1, Moscow. costs: free admission. info: info@maat.ru b) The Center for Egyptological Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences * Conference: "Achievements and Problems of Modern Egyptology" The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 31, 2009. Registration procedure is open till August 31, 2009. date: September 29 – October 4, 2009. place: Moscow info: URL --AUSTRIA-- a) - --HUNGARY-- a) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Department of Egyptian Antiquities H-1146, Budapest (Pest), Dózsa György út 41. * Conference: "Art and Society: Ancient and Modern Contexts of Egyptian Art" date: 13-15 May 2010 info: URL b) Byblos Foundation Pasaréti út 66/b, Budapest * Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists: "Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt” Abstracts of papers are due before March 31, 2009. date: September 25-27, 2009 place: Budapest, Hungary. info: URL info: email (also for registration) info: press report at URL --BRAZIL-- a) UERJ - IFCH: Núcleo de Estudos da Antiguidade Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, 9º andar, sala 9030 A, Maracanã CEP20550-020 phone : 55 21-2587-7162 / 2587-7295; fax: 55 21- 2284-0547 website * TBA date: ...; 08:30-11:30 am place: Nucleo de Estudos da Antiguidade - NEA-UERJ (Ancient Research Center) from Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ (State University from Rio de Janeiro Brazil) info: jorphil@uol.com.br or egisto@bol.com.br --CHINA-- a) The Institute of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Peking University, Beijing * TBA --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 * Symposium: "Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010" date: May 31-June 4, 2010 info: email * International Workshop: "Egypt and the Near East - The Crossroads" The main objective of the workshop is to enhance our understanding of the historical processes and the development of the abundant and complex relation of Egypt with the Near East during the period defined by the end of Chalcolithic and the dawn of Iron Age. In light of this special attention will be given to the region of Syria-Palestine. date: September 1-3, 2010 place: Námestí Jana Palacha 2, 110 00 Prague 1 (room 104) info: registration forms at URL Registration and abstracts of papers are due before May 1st, 2010. info: email --POLAND-- a) Pultusk Academy of Humanities Al. Polonii 1/3, 06-100 Pultusk, Poland. * Conference: " First Interdisciplinary Meeting: Seeking Origins and Manifestations of Religion" date: June 28-29, 2010 info: URL --BULGARIA-- a) TBA, Sofia * Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists: "Cult and Belief in Ancient Egypt" date: September 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria. info: email --ISRAEL-- a) - b) - c) The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem Tu B'Shvat 5770, Jerusalem * Conference: "Living the Lunar Calendar: Time, Text and Tradition" date: January 30, 2010 - February 1, 2010 The conference will investigate the place of lunar calendar reckoning in human society and culture, with sessions covering the cuneiform Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient Israel, the Greco-Roman World, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Far East, Africa, and Mesoamerica. Papers are invited before 31st July, 2009. (#) info: email d) University of Haifa Department of Biblical Studies Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905 * Conference: "The Ancient Near East in the 12th-10th Centuries BCE: Culture and History" Among the sessions is "Egypt, Libya and Nubia". (#) Abstracts of papers are due by January 31, 2010. date: May 2-5, 2010 info: Prof. Gershon Galil (email) +++ (X) EXHIBITIONS Most info in this section was collected by Michael Tilgner. Great work, Michael! --USA-- a) Reading Public Museum Ancient Civilizations Gallery 500 Museum Road, West Reading URL * "Nefrina's World" date: through 2011. Forensic facial reconstruction of a 2000-year-old female Akhmimic mummy, the daughter of a priest around 250 B.C. info: URL Has a photo and video of the reconstruction. info: press report with photos at URL About the work of Dr. Jonathan Elias, director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium (AMSC), and with a description of the mummy and of the reconstruction process. b) Denver Art Museum 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204 * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: July 1, 2010 - January 2, 2011 Featuring more than 130 treasures: more than 50 from the tomb of the boy-king and more than 70 objects from other periods (OK-LP). Earlier this toruing exhibition was in the Atlanta Civic Center (Nov 15, 2008 - May 22, 2009), currently it is in Indianapolis (June 27, 2009 - October 25, 2009), and in between it will be at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (November 21, 2009 - April 18, 2010) info: URL info: press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL c) Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of West Virginia One Clay Square, Charleston, West Virginia 25301 URL * "Lost Kingdoms of the Nile: Nubian Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston" date: September 12, 2009 - April 11, 2010 info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(..) The exhibit will showcase more than 200 objects including funerary statues, pottery, jewelry, weaponry and cosmetic toiletries from the royal tombs that date from the Prehistoric Period to the Roman era (3100 BC to AD 246). (..)" info: press report at URL "(..) Photographic murals from the early 20th century Harvard-Boston Expedition tell remarkable stories of the discovery of these artifacts.(..)" Among the artefacts: a golden royal diadem (435-431 BC), a 5-foot granite statue of Nubian King Senkamanisken (642-623 BC), and the coffin of Neskashuti. info: press reports at URL "(..) It includes sculptures, stone relief, gold and silver jewelry, ceramic vessels, the coffin of Neskashuti and a large granite statue of King Senkamanisken. Large murals, created by Clay Center staffer Bridget Turley, and dozens of labels describing each exhibit, complement the exhibit. (..)" With two photos of artefacts. URL "(..) The Clay Center is one of only two museums nationwide to present this collection of more than 200 objects from royal tombs dating from the Prehistoric Era to the Roman Era (..)" info: press report at URL With photo of model offering bearers. info: press report at URL Mentions some lectures surrounding the exhibition. info: press report at URL With two photos and info on lectures surrounding the exhibition. info: press reports at URL "(..) An Egyptian falcon mummy from 664-332 B.C. will be on display at the Clay Center beginning Nov. 11. This mummy comes from the collection of Joseph A. Lewis, III and Sofi Lewis. (...) URL URL With video and photo of Nubian hippo pitcher. d) The Franklin Institute Science Museum 222 North 20th Street, PA 19103 tel.: +1 215 448 1200 URL * "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" date: June 5, 2010 - January 2, 2011 First stop in a traveling exhibition about the enigmatic Egyptian queen; four other US cities will follow. The exhibition will feature more than 250 artifacts, and takes visitors inside the present-day search for Cleopatra's tomb in Taposiris Magana and will display finds from Aboukir Bay. info: press reports at URL URL URL URL URL "(..) The exhibition will center on the search for Cleopatra's tomb, which is still going on. (..)" URL URL The latter report has the most details. info: press report at URL Interview with Troy Collins of the Franklin Insitute. info: press report at URL With three photos of Ptolemaic statues. "(...) The show's more than 250 objects, including gold coinage and stone sculptures (some 15 feet in height), evoke the ambience of Cleopatra's court and everyday life during her reign. (..)" [I wonder if the 'cleft chin face' will be present, and to which mission it will be attributed.....cf. EEF d.d. Nov. 22, '09. AKE] e) Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052 URL * "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum" date: February 12, 2010 - May 2, 2010. More than 100 items from one of the world's greatest collections of Egyptian antiquities will help guests explore the universal theme of life after death. This is the travelling exhibition that was at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (July 13, 2008 - September 7, 2008), the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (October 17, 2008 - January 11, 2009), and the Columbus Museum of Art (February 13, 2009 - June 7, 2009), and the Chrysler Museum of Art (October 9, 2009 - January 3, 2010), and will afterwards travel to the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (June 6–September 12, 2010), San Antonio Museum of Art (October 15, 2010–January 9, 2011), Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (February 12–May 8, 2011), Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (June 11–September 4, 2011), Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee (October 6– January 7, 2012). info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL With several photos of fine artefacts. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL With photos of the mummy of Demetrios and the coffin of Weretwahset. info: press reports at URL URL f) Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum Campus of the California State University San Bernardino 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397 tel (909) 537-7373; email: artmuseum@csusb.edu * "Treasures from Ancient Egypt: Selection from the Permanent Collection" date: September 1, 2009 - July 13, 2010 info: URL info: press report at URL g) Albany Institute of History & Art 125 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12210 tel: 518.463.4478; e-mail: information@albanyinstitute.org URL * "The Eternal Light of Egypt: The Photography of Sarite Sanders" date: January 16, 2010 - June 13, 2010. Contemporary photographer Sarite Sanders approaches Egypt's ancient monuments like a 19th century traveler, using infrared film 35mm film. With 40 b&w photos. The exhibition was earlier at the Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago (January 31 - May 10, 2009) e.a. info: press report at URL info: press report, with some sample photos, at URL info: press report at URL "(..) Taken with digital infrared film (..) [that] captures light the same as regular film, but also electromagnetic fields of color invisible to the naked eye. Digitally enhanced infrared film records the extremes of the light spectrum. With magnified resolutions, things around numerous religious sites in Aswan, along the Nile in Upper Egypt, glow with alternative existences in surreal settings. Knotted shrubs in "Fatimid Tomb" become a stone fence. Bark on trees in "Elephantine Island" forms the spots on a snake's skin. Palm trees in "Trajan's Kiosk" explode like fireworks in the night sky. So sharp are the hues, it's like they're painted with exotic mixes of pigment, providing electric form to the site's mystical demeanor. Such clarity distills "Queen, Base of Seated Colossus Ramesses II" nearly to the point of abstraction.(..)" h) Bass Museum of Art 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 33139 URL * "The Mummy Project" date: May 7, 2010 - TBA Spotlights a LP mummy and coffin of the museum, scan results of these artefacts, and objects on loan from the Brooklyn Museum. info: press reports at URL URL With photo of coffin. i) The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 tel.: 410 547 9000, e-mail: info@thewalters.org http://www.thewalters.org * "Mummified" date: November 15, 2008 - November 8, 2010 The exhibition focusses on a female mummy nicknamed Mery, her cartonnage, and a recent CT scan done of the mummy. But also other ancient Egyptian objects are on display, some 20, like X-rayed animal mummies. There's also a section devoted to the "Mummimania" of the 17th-20th centuries. info: URL info: press report (with info on the mummy) at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL The mummy of 'Mery' is the centerpiece of the exhibition. "(..) Deep abscesses, broken teeth and intensely infected gums filled Mery's mouth, leading researchers to believe she died from blood poisoning stemming from multiple infections. (..)" With photo of X Ray of mummy in profile superimposed over her coffin. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "(..) [The exhibition] highlights the Walters Museum's very own well-preserved mummy, Mery, (..) who is about 4' 9'' tall and lived to be somewhere around 60. (..) She is placed on a "Mummy board" and is wrapped in linen and plaster. This casing is painted with images, in surprisingly vivid colors (..). Next to the body one finds four canopic jars (..) [and] several small, ornate amulets that were at one point sewn into Mery's fabric. (..) According to a CT-scan of the body, Mery suffered from osteoarthritis and had 16 dental abscesses that likely lead to her death. (..) Accompanying with Mery the Mummy are several other rather gruesomely tiny Mummies, one of which is even a young girl and the rest are cat mummies. (..)" j) The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1155 E. 58th St., Chicago http://oi.uchicago.edu/ * "Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919–1920” date: January 12, 2010 - August 31, 2010 On Jan. 12, the Institute celebrates its 90th anniversary with a temporary exhibit that illustrates the exploits of the institute's founding father James Henry Breasted in Egypt and Mesopotamia, with his own letters, photos taken by him and four companions, and hundreds of ancient artifacts he brought back. info: URL info: press reports at URL With an overview of Breasted's travels. URL Has some quotes from Breasted's letters. URL info: catalogue details at URL info: URL k) Discovery Times Square Exposition 226 West 44th Street, New York URL * "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" date: April 23, 2010 - January 2, 2011 [was: April 1, 2010 - January 1, 2011] The touring exhibition of more than 130 Egyptian antiquities. that was at several venues in the USA, then in London, then in Dallas (Oct 3, 2008 - May 17, 2009) and San Francisco (June 27, 2009 - March 28, 2010). info: source - URL URL "(..) The new Times Square space will also allow exhibitors to avoid the restrictions of museums. The King Tut exhibition was turned down by many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, because its organizers wanted to charge additional admission fees.(..)" info: press reports at URL URL URL info: press report at URL info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL " (..) The traveling special exhibition (..) will feature a new gallery that describes how recent DNA testing provided information about the ruler's cause of death and family history. " l) M.H. de Young Memorial Museum Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 * "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" date: June 27, 2009 - March 28, 2010 The travelling exhibition with 130 artefacts that was at several venues in the USA, then in London, then in Dallas (Oct 3, 2008 - May 17, 2009). info: URL info: press reports at URL URL URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL (Includes a photo of the sculpted head of an Amarna princess) "(..) One of the highlights of the exhibit is a wooden torso of Tutankhamun that focuses on his roundish, still-developing facial features (..)" URL URL (With 3 image photo gallery) URL (With video) "(..) See ABC7's special broadcast on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 7 p.m. on Channel 7, "Tutankhamun: New Details of The Boy King." (..)" info: press report (with image gallery) about the ten finest items on display, at URL info: press reports (many with several photos) at URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL info: press report (interview with curator Renee Dreyfus) at URL URL info: press reports about the previewing by special guests: URL URL URL info: press report at URL "(..) Among the most exciting pieces in this exhibit is the golden coffinette, inlaid with precious stones, that contained Tut’s mummified internal organs. Less spectacular but more significant to curator David Silverman is a wooden mannequin that, he says, is more true to life and brings you closer to the real young Tutankhamun. (..) New to this exhibit [compared to Los Angeles, Chicago, or Philadelphia] are two [nested] coffinettes [that once] contained the remains of two fetuses that are now undergoing DNA testing to reveal their relationship to King Tut. (..) Not seen in 1979 are a bracelet with the central image of a scarab and an inlaid pendant that contains a rare, yellow-green glass stone [LDG] carved in the shape of a scarab beetle that some scientists now believe is a fragment from an ancient meteorite. Another wonderful piece used in day to day life is a dog’s collar, made of two different colors of leather bonded together with horses that seem to be galloping across it. (..)" info: press report, with multiple photos of animal-shaped objects, at URL info: autio interview (MP3) with curator Dr. Renee Dreyfus: URL info: press report with slide-show at URL info: other press reports at URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL info: press report, with a critical opinion piece, at URL "Among people with a professional interest in the arts, [this exhibition] will merely deepen the tarnish on the reputation of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (..)" info: press report at URL " (..) The museum anticipates close to a million visitors. (..) The absence of the mask, though, is harbinger of things to come. The Egyptian authorities plan to keep valuable antiquities at home; fragility is cited as among the reasons. The construction of a vast complex of museums, several football fields in size, is underway, and once completed, it's unlikely the objects on display will be allowed out of the country again. Even if the exhibition doesn't live up to expectations, it represents a last golden opportunity. " info: press report at URL With five image slideshow and link to video. " (..) [The de Young exhibition] includes four items not originally with the exhibit. These include a pectoral collar with solar/lunar emblems and a scarab, a bracelet with a scarab clasp and two coffinettes. (..)" URL URL URL "(..) But it is the exhibit's high-tech, 21st-century flourishes -- such as the 3-D reconstruction of Tut's face, digital scans of the mummy and a digital recreation of just how the young king was entombed -- that enhance the wow effect. (..)" URL URL info: press reports at URL URL URL How to get discounted tickets. URL You can also get ticket discounts with a supermarket chain. URL "Any day is a good day when you come home with a rubber duckie. Especially a rubber duckie dressed up like an ancient E gyptian mummified rubber duckie with beady little eyes that, hey, I swear they were looking the other direction a minute ago. (I'm watching you, duck.) Said duck is the evidence of my recent visit to the King Tut exhibit. (..) Some highbrow museum visitors may balk at all this commercialism, but I stand tall in the name of cheesy merchandising. (..) It extends the experience. Yes, into your wallet, but also into your closet (..) or onto your desk (....), and ultimately into your heart. With video. URL "(..) Cameras can be carried in but this is wasted effort as no picture taking is allowed, even without flash. (..)" URL info: press report at URL "How do you visit the King Tut exhibit at San Francisco's de Young with kids?" info: press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL "(..) Commissioned by San Francisco’s de Young Museum to commemorate its King Tut exhibit (..) Iron Horse Vineyards has produced a tête de cuvée run to be named Tut Cuvée. Only 500 cases of the unique sparkling wine (vintage 2006 Blanc de Noirs) will be produced. (..)" info: press report at URL About the “Tut at Twilight” programme. info: press report at URL Sarcastic(?) report of a private tour. info: press reports at URL "(..) Free [sponsored] tickets (..) will be available to the public Feb. 20-21 only. (..)" URL * “Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb: The Harry Burton Photographs" date: June 27, 2009 - March 28, 2010 Feature 38 prints from Harry Burton, the photographer who documented Carter's discoveries in Tutankhamun's tomb. info: press report at URL m) The Oriental Institute Museum 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, Illinois URL * "Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920" date: January 12, 2010 - August 31, 2010 "The exhibit follows Illinois native James Henry Breasted's daring travels through Egypt and Mesopotamia in the unstable aftermath of World War I ... Breasted's story is told by never-before-exhibited photos, artifacts, letters, and archival documents including his elaborate passport and even the wind-torn American flag that he carried on the trip ... The story of the expedition is told in two voices. The first is Breasted's own, excerpted from his detailed letters. The events of the expedition are paired with the second voice - a modern commentary that considers changes in attitudes, laws, and archaeology over the past ninety years." info: URL info: press report at URL n) Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Lincoln Park 34th Avenue & Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121 URL * "Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine" date: October 31, 2009 - summer 2010 info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "The mummy that has been a part of Stockton lore for 65 years is going away. Iret-net Hor-irw ("The eye of Horus is upon you") on extended loan to the Haggin Museum from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, will return to be part of an exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in the city. (..)" info: press report at URL info: press report at URL About the scans of the mummy of Iret-net-Hor-irw. info: press report (with 3 scan photos) at URL "A 2,500-year-old priest named Irethorrou [Iret-net Hor-iw], will be teaching anatomy to all comers in an exhibition beginning Oct. 31. The mummified remains of this onetime inhabitant of a Middle Egyptian city will be on display in his coffin at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, along with a reconstruction of Irethorrou’s head. (..)" Includes an interview with Jonathan Elias, PhD, director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium in Harrisburg, Pa., and with several of the experts consulted during the scanning. "(..) Based on his teeth and bones, the Stanford scientists conclude that Irethorrou was perhaps 35 to 45 years old. His skeleton showed only a few traces of arthritis. He doesn’t seem to have lived a harsh life of hard labor. The cause of Irethorrou’s death remains unknown. But the scan showed bumps on his back that were later determined, on extensive data analysis, to be lesions beneath the skin (..) leading to speculation that an infectious disease such as a pox could have been the culprit. (..)" info: press report at URL Overview of types (cost classes) of mummification. info: press reports at URL URL "(..).The scans show Irethorrou had his wisdom teeth, establishing a minimum age of 25 for his death. But his teeth showed signs of wear, leaving Elias to estimate he was older than 25 when he died. Spine curvature and fractures in the lower back suggest he was as old as 45, Elias noted. A more curious discovery is that one of Irethorrou's wisdom teeth didn't grow in, allowing the one above it to grow farther down. It's a feature Irethorrou shared with his father, Ankh-Wennefer, another mummy studied by Elias. Ankh-Wennefer, whose mummified remains are owned by the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma, Wash., had the same abnormality. (..)" info: press report (with photo) at URL "(..) A reconstruction of the mummy's head based on an extremely accurate reproduction of the skull sits in the exhibition room side by side with the head of the mummy's daddy [called Ankh-Wennefer, also an Akhmim-dwelling priest], who is spending his eternal life in another museum in Tacoma. The museum has also posted a behind-the-scenes photo set on Flickr.(..)" URL o) Southwest Florida Museum of History 2031 Jackson St., Fort Myers, Florida URL * “King Tut: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh’s Tomb” date: January 16, 2010 - June 19, 2010. Exhibition of replicas of artefacts from Tutankhamun's tomb. These likely are the 126 replicas that were earlier at Goss Opera House and Gallery, Watertown, South Dakota (November 28, 2008 - September 7, 2009), which came with a few genuine AE objects. info: press report at URL p) Kentucky Center for African American Heritage 315 W. Guthrie Green, Suite 400 Louisville, Kentucky 40202 http://www.kcaah.org/site/index.htm * "Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh's Tomb" A touring exhibit featuring 125 replicas of the treasures of Tutanchamun, but also does include three ancient necklaces. date: March 9, 2010 - August 29, 2010 [was: TBA] A touring exhibit featuring 125 replicas of the treasures of Tutanchamun, but also does include three ancient necklaces. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL q) Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052 tel. : (718) 638-5000 * "Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments & Amulets" date: November 19, 2009 - October 2, 2011 Displays 35 sculptural fragments in a focus presentation that examines anatomical realism in Egyptian art. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL With two nice photos of objects. info: press report at URL With slideshow at: URL "(..) The fragments are presented by body part, grouped into clusters of hands, heads, torsos, feet, organs and facial elements. The items range in size from a hulking royal torso to a wee little heart valve amulet--a sort-of talisman that protects someone from harm or trouble. (..)" Some objects are described. * "To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt date: February 12, 2010 - May 2, 2010 Displays 107 artifacts that describe mummification and tomb rituals practiced by the Egyptians in preparation for the afterlife. (This is surely the travelling exhibition, presently in the Columbus Museum of Art (February 13, 2009 - June 7, 2009).) info: source - URL r) Discovery Times Square Exposition 226 West 44th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues), New York * "Tutankhamum and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" date: April 2010 - December 2010 Last stop of this travelling exhibition. "On display will be more than 130 ancient objects, which range in age from 3,300 to 3,500 years old. There are more than 50 pieces from King Tut's tomb, including the gold crown used on his mummy. " info: URL info: press reports at URL (With photo of alabaster lioness-topped perfume jar.) URL info: press reports at URL URL "(..) Anyone who signs up before the end of the year will have an opportunity to purchase tickets before they go on sale publicly next year, giving pre-registrants priority access to choice dates and times. Tickets will be designated for a specific date and time to avoid long entrance wait times. (..)" URL s) Arkansas Arts Center 501 East 9th Street, Little Rock, AR 72202 URL * "World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed" [was: Egyptian Masterpieces From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston] date: September 25, 2009 - July 5, 2010 [was: September 10, 2009 - June 27, 2010] Touring exhibition with 211 artefacts from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The Museum of Idaho is the first venue of this 4 year tour. Among the objects are "a royal decree carved in limestone ["Decree of Neferirkare"], a relief scene from the tomb of Qar and Idu, a sarcophagus lid, jewelry, amulets and a cat mummy. " info: URL With photo gallery, events, etc. info: press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL There will be Teacher Academies in July to Oct, with suggestions for lesson plans, classroom activities, etc. info: press report at URL "(..) The completed exhibit will feature a special floor symbolizing the Nile River. (..)" info: press reports at URL "(..) "World of the Pharaohs" will feature more than 200 artifacts including mummies, jewelry, sculptures and funeral offerings that date to the "Old Kingdom," between 2675 B.C, to 213 B.C. (..) with a towering statue of Ramses II as its centerpiece (..). Among the items set for display is a royal decree that released a community from having to provide laborers for a project.(..) Another artifact is an amulet of an Egyptian god, a figure with a ram's head. The piece is in solid gold and its underside has an inscription of the name of a lesser-known king. (..)" URL URL URL URL URL URL URL info: three videos plus photos of objects: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: video at URL info: press reports at URL URL URL URL URL With slideshow of artefacts and audio & MP3 buttons. info: press reports at URL "(..). Artifacts include a royal decree carved in limestone (Decree of Neferirkare), the false door of Inty, a Priestess of Inty and a relief scene from the tomb of Qar and Idu. Funerary objects are also well-represented. (..)" URL "(..) A bird-shaped palette for grinding minerals for eyeliners dating to 4,000 B.C, gold finger and toe guards to protect the digits of the dead, a faience goblet in the form of a lotus, startlingly blue, a tiny vessel in the shape of a hedgehog, meant to hold ointments, (..) a relief showing a man stuffing the throat of a goose, an earthenware fragment on which is stylized drawing of a heron or phoenix, its long toes outstretched, a a stone rattle symbolic of one used in the rites celebrating the cow-eared goddess Hathor. (..)" info: press reports at URL "(..) A colossus of Ramesses the Great, thought (..) greets patrons as they enter. (..) The 200-plus objects, except the two mummies, are from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which has one of the finest ancient Egypt collections the world. (..)" Lists some of the objects, like "a panel that depicts two of the Pharaoh Akhenaten's daughters. The hieroglyphic inscription notes that the pharaoh's "great wife," Nefertiti, was also in the picture before the panel was broken." URL URL "(..) Little Rock is one of only four cities outside Boston selected to showcase the "Treasures of Egypt Revealed." (..)" URL The latter has three photos. info: press reports at URL URL URL info: press report at URL With photo of model boat near statue. info: press report at URL A (generic) look at the shabtis in the exhibition (with photo). t) Truman State University 100 E. Normal, Kirksville, Missouri 63501 URL * "Vessels of the Past" date: January 19, 2010 - February 16, 2010 A collection of 28 pieces of ancient Egyptian pottery on loan from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. place: Ophelia Parrish Hall info: URL info: press report on a lecture by curator Prof. Sara Orel about the pottery, found by John Garstang in Beni Hasan: URL u) The California Science Center 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles. * "Mummies of the World" date: July 1, 2010 - TBA More than 150 objects and artifacts from all over the world, incl. mummies, with much attention to state-of-the-art mummy studies. info: URL info: press reports at URL "(..) the world-debut of (..) the largest traveling exhibition of mummies ever assembled.(..)" URL v) Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal 1301 Western Avenue - Cincinnati, OH 45203-1130 URL * "Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science" date: October 3, 2009 - TBA "I Lost Egypt, visitors will see a real human mummy, animal mummies, scans of human and animal mummies, forensic facial reconstructions and a life-size rapid prototype of a mummy in a stage of “unwrapping.” Visitors also will be able to interact with some of the world’s foremost authorities on Egyptology through video interviews and photographs from the field." The exhibition was earlier in COSI Columbus (May 30, 2009 - September 7, 2009) info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL "(..) In Egypt, sometime during the Roman period of the first and second centuries A.D., a boy died when he was just 3 or 4 years old. He wasn't royalty, but his grieving parents spent a considerable amount of money - more than most Egyptian families had - to mummify his remains with amulets that they believed would ensure that his soul would be reunited with his body in the afterlife, and adorn the strips of linen that wrapped his body with brightly painted hieroglyphs symbolizing protection and resurrection. (..) The mummy of the young boy will appear only at the exhibit's stop at the Museum Center, which received it as a gift from the Cincinnati Art Museum earlier this month. Museum Center officials believe Lost Egypt will mark the first time the mummy has been on exhibit. With no hieroglyphs to indicate his real name on the linen wrappings, they have named him Umi, which is pronounced "OO-me" and means "life." (..)" History and description of the mummy are provided. URL Events at the exhibition's opening. w) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 tel 617-267-9300 * "Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 B.C." date: October 18, 2009 - May 16, 2010 [was: Jan. 10, 2010] Exhibits the funerary equipment from the tomb of Djehutynacht, complemented by other artefacts. info: URL info: press report at URL "(..) [The exhibition] showcases funerary objects discovered in Deir el-Bersha by the joint Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition in 1915. It includes the famous painted "Bersha coffin," the mummified head of one of the tomb’s two occupants, and hundreds of items deemed necessary for a comfortable afterlife in ancient Egypt. This find represents the largest Middle Kingdom burial assemblage ever discovered and sheds light on the grand lifestyle enjoyed by local governor and priest Djehutynakht and his wife, Lady Djehutynakht. (..) More than 250 objects (..) includ[ing] four painted coffins, cult objects, vessels for food and drink, furniture, jewelry, walking sticks, and sealed beer jars (one of which will be opened and examined), as well as the largest known collection of wooden models from the Middle Kingdom representing—in miniature form—a range of activities and items that would have been found on the couple’s estate. (..)" There's a lot more good info in this press report; with photo of front side panel of outer coffin of Djehutynakht. info: press report at URL The story of the 1915 expedition at Deir el-Bersha led by George Andrew Reisner. info: press report at URL Interview with Dr Rita Freed. "(..) the MFA hasn’t been in much of a hurry to exhibit the remnants of the Djehutynakht’s tomb. The reason: many of the artifacts, which range from pottery and cooking utensils to weapons and jewelry, were damaged [by looting] long before the tomb was discovered in 1912 by archaeologists working for Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts. (..) Over the years, both the "Bersha coffin" and the "Bersha procession" have been widely exhibited, (..) [but] about 97 percent of the show is completely new, in the sense of never having been exhibited before (..)" info: press report at URL Another interview with Dr Rita Freed, and with Dr. Lawrence Berman, with lots of details. "(..) Despite CT scans and other tests, experts are still unsure if the preserved head is that of Djehutynakht or his wife. DNA tests on an extracted molar should be complete sometime during the exhibit’s run. (..)" The article has three pages, with photo of Djehutynakht's mummy's head, and with a photo gallery at: URL info: press reports at URL URL With several photos. URL "(..) If this is the kind of intelligent, collection-based, curator-driven show we are going to see more of in the future, I for one won’t be complaining." URL URL URL URL Lists some of the highlights on display. URL Slideshow with 22 images. info: press report at URL "(..) Mimicking the discovery, the exhibition moves from within the tomb to inside the coffin.(..) The focus on archaeological process over product, and artifact over art, distinguishes “The Secrets of Tomb 10a” from many Egyptian exhibitions, where typically a hodgepodge of statues and jewelry leave the viewer awestruck, but distanced from the culture itself. (..)" info: press report at URL Report on a family visit. info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL URL x) Bruce Museum One Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830 * "Exotic Encounters: Art, Travel, and Modernity in the Collection of the Bruce Museum." date: January 23, 2010 - April 25, 2010 Exhibits a wide array of 70 objects (not Egypt related), to portray "a palimpsest of American collecting habits." But there's also a new collection of vintage sepia photos of 19th century Egypt taken by an Italian-British photographer, Antonio Beato. info: URL info: press report at URL "(..) Especially evocative is a new collection of vintage sepia photos of 19th century Egypt taken by an Italian-British photographer, Antonio Beato. Two were of Karnak, Statue of Ramses and of the Colossus of Memnon. "These Beato photos send an electric charge through me," says [curator Kenneth] Silver. One photo of the Sphinx, by an unknown photographer, shows it in its half-covered-with-sand days, lending the ancient object even more mystery. (..)" y) Georgia Children's Museum 370, 382 Cherry St., Macon, GA 31201 http://www.georgiachildrensmuseum.com/ * "Ancient Egypt Traveling Exhibit" date: February 9-19, 2010. Didactic, but type of objects not specified. info: URL info: press report at URL z) The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028-0198 tel.: +1 212 535 7710 (recorded information) http://www.metmuseum.org/ * "Tutankhamun's Funeral" date: March 16, 2010 - September 6, 2010 The exhibition will explore the materials and rituals associated with the burial of the pharaoh, and will include some 60 objects, primarily from the Metropolitan's own collection (jars, lids, bowls, floral collars, linen sheets, and bandages). Also ncluded willl be a sculpted head of the youthful Tutankhamun and photographs by Harry Burton. info: press reports at URL URL URL --CANADA-- a) Musée canadien des civilizations / Canadian Museum of Civilization 100 Laurier Street, Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0M8 http://www.civilization.ca/splash.html * "Fascinantes momies d'Égypte" [Fascinating mummies of Egypt] date: April 22, 2009 - April 4, 2010 Some 220 objects - mummies, coffins, amulets etc. - will lead the visitor into the fascinating world of the funerary rituals of AE. Major pieces are from the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: (in French) URL With photos of several artefacts. info: press release at URL "... l'exposition Fascinantes momies d'Egypte, qu'a inaugurée ce matin la directrice générale, madame Claire Simard, propose une incursion dans l'univers captivant des rituels funéraires en Egypte ancienne. Une coproduction du Musée de la civilisation et du Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Pays-Bas." info: press report, including some photographs, at URL b) Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queens' Park, Toronto URL * "Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries" date: January 9, 2010 - April 4, 2010 [was: October 2009] The exhibition will present 115 artifacts ranging from Egyptian antiquities and Chinese porcelain to knockoffs of designer brand clothing, and will include bogus items displayed alongside their genuine counterparts. "Visitors of all ages are invited to guess which Museum artifacts are real and which are clever fakes ... Visitors learn how to tell authentic pieces from sly forgeries and discover the fascinating lengths forgers will go to hoodwink the unwary." Includes a real and a fake bronze statue of Sekhmet. info: press report at URL info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL URL URL URL info: press report at URL c) - d) - e) Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 1G4 website * "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" date: November 21, 2009 - April 18, 2010 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). This is the sole Canadian stop of this travelling exhibition that was at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta ( November 15, 2008 - May 25, 2009) and that now is at the Indianapolis Children's Museum (June 27, 2009 - Oct 25, 2009). info: URL info: English press reports at URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL info: English press reports at URL URL info: press reports, on early ticket reservations, at URL URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL URL Tickets have gone on sale this week. info: press report, with some photos, at URL info: press report at URL With photo of gilt wood shabti. info: press reports at URL URL URL URL With photos, including curator handling canopic jar stopper. URL "(..) According to Lach, in cities that have recently had Tut exhibits, one-third of those attending typically buy memberships in the museum they visit. And about 12 or 13 per cent renew their memberships in years following. (..)" info: press report at URL Info on how the exhibition objects are transported between venues. An original press report with a fair bit of detail. info: press reports a URL URL Has some brief interviews with Egyptologists (and others involved). URL URL URL URL Has some background facts about the exhibition (financial details are again not disclosed by the museum). URL URL URL URL URL URL URL URL "The real genius behind [this exhibition] is to bring the Boy King back to the roots that really matter: to Steve Martin's breakthrough performance of King Tut on NBC's Saturday Night Live on April 22, 1978 [cf EEF NEWS (480) for a video link]. Martin insisted the skit look glittery and feel absolutely over-the top. The AGO (..) has taken Martin's point to heart. Their Tut show is over-the-top to a golden T. Call this the Las Vegas branch of Egyptology (..) " info: press reports about Egyptomaniacal thingies surrounding the exhibition, namely: - the jewelry of the show's giftshop: URL - other souvenirs (like Tutty-bears...): URL - a Tut salad created by AGO's executive chef...: URL - a Tut drink....: URL - and (just when you thought it couldn't get worse after the Tut-tchotchkes and Tut-tini's) a video about a Tut-dance...: URL info: press reports a URL URL "(..) Tellingly, no visitors complained of overcrowding. A crowd-control system limiting the show to 250 attendees at a time appears to be working (..)" URL URL URL "(..) Overall, the curation is mediocre, giving only minimal information about what’s on display, in overly basic language (which, as is overly basic language’s wont, tends to confuse more than it clarifies). (..)" URL "(..) The deal was simple: The hosts, like the AGO, could keep a portion of the gate receipts (the AGO declined to disclose how much, citing a confidentiality pact with AEI), but would surrender all say in how the show was presented and installed. The host would only profit after all of AEI's costs were covered. AEG also demanded that its own, proprietary gift shop be installed. (..)" URL "(..) The AGO has security on hand and won’t let you take any pictures inside the exhibit. (..) A good trip through the exhibit will take you between 2 and 3 hours (with the audio tour especially) (..)" info: press report at URL "(..) more than 100,000 tickets sold (..) extended evening hours through Jan. 31, 2010 (..)" info: press report at URL --UNITED KINGDOM-- a) Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London, Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT * "Egypt Unclassified" date: January 12, 2010 - April 1, 2010 Exhibition by artist Gemma Aboe of visual investigations into Egypt's history and culture but not without humorous twists and factual blunders. info: URL URL b) British Museum Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, WC1B 3DG * "Journey Through the Afterlife: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" date: November 4, 2010 - March 6, 2011 info: press report at URL "[The exhibition] traces the [BD] spells' development over time through numerous papyrus and linen scrolls, (..) [including] the complete 37-meter Papyrus of Hunefer (ca. 1285 B.C.), the longest Book of the Dead in existence (..)" info: press report at URL c) Hall Place and Gardens, Bourne Road, Bexley Kent. DA5 1PQ URL * "Ancient Egypt: Pottery from the Nile" date: December 3, 2009 - November 30, 2010 Exhibition with predynastic pottery, mummified human remains, mummy bandages and shabtis, ancient pottery and beads and a mummified cat. info: press reports at URL URL d) The British Library 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB * "Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs" date: October 30, 2009 - March 7, 2010 Rarely displayed items from the British Library's photography collection; the (free) exhibition is wide ranging and also has a small but significant section on the lure of Egypt and includes a number of early photographs and books with photographs by Francis Frith and others that may be of interest. info: URL info: press report (with audio slideshow) at URL e) The Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL URL * "The Metropolitan Police Service's Investigation of Fakes and Forgeries" date: January 23, 2010 - February 7, 2010. The exhibition, curated by the Metropolitan Police Service's Art and Antiques Unit, will include confiscated works by Shaun Greenhalgh, the forger who executed "masterpieces" such as paintings purporting to be the work of the L S Lowry and statue of The Egyptian Amarna Princess. The alabaster carved figure, created in Bolton in 2003, was sold for £440,000 before it was revealed as a fake. The exhibition aims to raise awareness about frakes and forgeries and will also showcase some of the investigative methods involved in detecting and preventing the increasingly sophisticated crime of art forgery. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: Spanish press report at URL f) Tate Britain Millbank, London SW1P 4RG http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/ * "Art now: Andy Holden" date: January 8, 2010 - April 10, 2010 info: URL info: press report at URL Artist Andy Holden broke off a lump of stone from the side of the Great Pyramid in Giza when he was a boy, and as penance he now created a 10ft replica of the rock. "Pyramid Piece 2009, a giant knitted boulder, is being displayed alongside a film work, Return of the Pyramid Piece 2008, in which Mr Holden can be seen climbing the pyramid and returning the stone to its original spot." It is hoped that the exhibition "would raise awareness surrounding the illegal removal of antiquities" and "will encourage other people to be more responsible when they visit ancient sites." info: press report (with photo) at URL g) Sladmore Gallery 57 Jermyn Street, St James’s, London http://www.sladmore.com/ * "A Collector’s Menagerie: Animal Sculpture from the Ancient World" date: May 12-28, 2010. Around 70 pieces, including many ancient Egyptian artefacts (e.g., a bronze mummy mask of a cat’s head, and statues of bulls, crocodiles, baboons, ibises, and falcons - all Late Dynastic Period) info: press report (with several photos) at URL --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, Amsterdam tel. + 31 (0)20 52 52 556 http://www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl/museum/ * "Doden voor de rechter: Het Egyptisch dodengericht in perspectief" [The deceased in court: The Egyptian judgement of the dead ] date: February 19, 2010 - May 24, 2010 The ancient Egyptian believes about the judgement of the dead are compared with christian and Islamic notions on that topic. info: URL * "Doden voor de rechter: Het Egyptisch dodengericht in perspectief" [The Judgement of the Dead: A Journey through the Egyptian Afterlife] date: February 19, 2010 - May 23, 2010 In this exhibition, Ancient Egyptian concepts of Death and the Afterlife are put in perspective with modern Christian and Islamic ideas on this subject. The journey to be undertaken by the dead is reconstructed and visualized in several theme rooms (Opening of the Mouth, Negative Confession, Judgment with the Scales, Passage through the Netherworld and the Fields of Reed). info: URL info: URL (English) b) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW Leiden tel.: (+31) (0)71 - 5163 163, fax: (+31) (0)71 - 5149 941 * "Het Egypte van Gustave Flaubert" [The Egypt of Gustave Flaubert] date: December 2, 2009 - April 4, 2010 "The exhibition 'The Egypt of Gustave Flaubert' combines fragments from Flaubert's journals and letters with Du Camp's detached, professional photography. In addition, you can see Egyptian objects that refer to Flaubert's correspondence, Du Camp's photos and the excavations and monuments that they visited." info: (in Dutch:) URL (in English:) URL --GERMANY-- a) Internationales Keramik-Museum Luitpoldstr. 25, D-92637 Weiden tel./fax: +49 961 3 20 30, fax:+49 961 3 39 41 * "Aegyptische Keramik aus der Staatlichen Sammlung Aegyptischer Kunst Muenchen" [Egyptian ceramics from the State Collection of Egyptian Art, Munich] date: 1990 - The Staatliche Sammlung Aegyptischer Kunst of Munich presents in the Weiden ceramic Museum a special exhibition on ancient ceramics, the largest of its kind ever organized. On display are 500 objects from the Staatliche Sammlung and others from museums of Toronto, Berlin, Brussels, as well as from private collectors. Together they demonstrate practically all aspects of life from the prehistory to the early Christian period. - Catalog not yet available. info: URL b) Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst München Hofgartenstraße, D-80333 München * "Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing. Ägyptologe - Mäzen - Sammler" [Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing. Egyptologist - Patron - Collector] date: February 3, 2010 - April 25, 2010 Ca. 150 objects of von Bissing's private collection are on display, most of them for the first time. info: URL info: press report at URL c) Museum August Kestner Trammplatz 3, D-30159 Hannover e-mail: museum-august-kestner@hannver-stadt.de URL * "84 Years After Tutankhamun: The Latest Discovery in the Valley of the Kings and the “Egyptological Art” of Susan Osgood" date: July 15, 2010 - October 2010 Susan Osgood works as an artist for the University of Chicago’s Epigraphic Survey, drawing the reliefs of ancient temples in Luxor, Egypt, and she has also been called on to draw new finds, like the coffins found in the newly discovered KV 63 tomb. info: URL d) Liebieghaus Schaumainkai 71, D-60596 Frankfurt am Main tel.: 069-650049-0, fax: 069-650049-150 e-mail: info@liebieghaus.de * "Sahure - Leben und Tod eines großen Pharao" [Sahure - life and death of a great Pharaoh] date: June 26 - November 28, 2010 Sculptures, reliefs and other architectural elements as well as models and computer animations will show the beauty and splendor of the OK. In addition diaries and drawings of the excavator Ludwig Borchardt will give some insight into the history of their discovery. info: source - URL URL e) Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg Rothenbaumchaussee 64, D-20148 Hamburg e-mail: info@mvhamburg.de * "A Secret Voyage" date: March 21 - June 6, 2010 [was: March, 2010 - TBA] A photo exhibition with photos from the book of Zahi Hawass and Sandro Vannini with the same title. info: press release at URL Lecture "My Discoveries" by Zahi Hawass on March 26, 2010 on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, which consists of photographs of Sandro Vannini. Hawass will also sign his new book "A Secret Voyage" [cf. EEF News (593), December 17, 2009]. Place of the lecture: CCH Hamburg. info: press report at URL "Seit 1997 dokumentiert der italienische Fotograf Sandro Vannini die Kostbarkeiten altägyptischer Kunst. Ab dem 21. März sind im Hamburger Museum für Völkerkunde seine wandfüllenden, gestochen scharfen Aufnahmen zu sehen." info: press report at URL "Am 26. März ist dabei Zahi Hawass, Chef der ägyptischen Altertümerverwaltung, in Hamburg zu Gast. In einem etwa 90-minütigen multimedialen Vortrag wird er auf die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse zu Tutanchamun eingehen ... Der Auftritt in Hamburg wird der erste öffentliche Vortrag des 62-jährigen Ägypters in Deutschland sein." f) Ruhr Museum Gelsenkirchener Straße 181, D-45309 Essen tel.: +49 (0)201 88 45 200 * "Das Große Spiel. Archäologie und Politik zur Zeit des Kolonialismus" [The Big Game. Archaeology and Politics in the Time of Colonialism] date: February 12, 2010 - June 13, 2010 An exhibition about spectacular excavations and expeditions of Lawrence of Arabia, Bertrude Bell and Carl Humann. It shows the influence of the European powers on the archaeological discoveries, especially in the East in the time between 1840 and 1940. Some of the 800 artefacts, photographs and films have never been seen in public before. One part of the exhibition is devoted to the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti in 1912. A catalog is available. info: URL info: German press report at URL info: English press report at URL "(..) The exhibition catalogue contains an article about Borchardt's contract with the inspectorate of antiquities, known today as the SCA, on the official division of spoils from the German excavation. (..)" g) Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Neue Bahnhofstraße 9, D-59065 Hamm tel.: +49 2381 17 57 14, fax: +49 2381 17 29 89 e-mail: Gustav-Luebcke-Museum@stadt.hamm.de * "Echnaton und Amarna. Alltagsleben im Alten Ägypten" [Akhnaten and Amarna. Daily life in AE] date: September 26, 2010 - January 30, 2011 The exhibition will look into the vision and the claim of the new concept of a city developed by Akhenaton by means of models and original objects. info: source - URL h) Bilderbuchmuseum Burg Wissem, Burgallee 1, D-53840 Troisdorf tel.: 02241/ 8841-11 oder 17, fax: 02241/ 8841-20 e-mail: Museum@troisdorf.de * "Alte Ägypter in der Burg. Eine Mitmachausstellung für Klein und Groß" [Ancient Egyptians in the castle. Exhibition where the little one and the grown-up can take part] date: November 29, 2009 - February 13, 2010 Props and costumes invite children to dress up as a Pharaoh or as an Egyptian dancer. A quiz leads through the exhibition and makes possible to find out interesting facts playfully. Authentic objects of the Egyptian Museum, Bonn, will give some insights into the culture of that time. info: press release - 1 p. - pdf-file (18 KB): URL i) Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst Bodestraße 1-3, D-10178 Berlin tel.: +49 - (0)30 - 2090 5601, fax: +49 - (0)30 - 2090 5602 e-mail: sbm@smb.spk-berlin.de * "Kindheit am Nil. Spielzeug - Kleidung - Kinderbilder aus Ägypten in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin" [Childhood on the River Nile. Toys - clothes - images of children from Egypt in the National Museums in Berlin] date: July 10, 2009 - June 6, 2010 "Toys, clothing, shoes and education - in the Egypt of late antiquity children also had their own realm of experience. An insight into this world of theirs is provided by the small exhibition 'Childhood on the River Nile' with exhibits ranging from the third century BC to the eighth century AD." info: in German - URL in English - URL j) Natureum Niederelbe und Elbe-Küsten-Park Neuenhof 8, D-21730 Balje * "Versunken in der Elbe - Schätze vom Nil" [Sunken into the [river] Elbe - treasures from the Nile] date: February 28 - June 15, 2010 The sailor "Gottfried" sunk into the river Elbe on its way to Hamburg on March 12, 1822; it had 97 boxes with Egyptian antiquities aboard acquired by an expedition of Heinrich Menu von Minutoli in 1820 and 1821 in Egypt. Another 20 boxes were sent overland and formed the basis of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. 7 out of 8 mummies and some other items were found on the beach shortly after the accident and sold in an auction. Their present whereabouts are unknown. The sunken ship has not been found yet. The exhibition is devoted to the circumstances of this desaster and presents some artifacts, including a hairlock of a mummy assigned to one of the lost mummies found in 2003 in Hamburg by Renate Germer. info: URL info: press reports at URL URL info: for some background information, see also -- the press report: "Schatzschiff 'Gottfried' seit 180 Jahren auf dem Elbgrund" URL -- Joachim S. Karig, Rainer Leive, Auf der Suche nach der "Gottfried" und der Sammlung Minutoli, in: Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, vol. 30, pp. 133-153 (1993) [cf. EEF News (299), April 22, 2004] k) Alte Postdirektion Eingang Dammtorwall 4, D-20354 Hamburg * "Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze" [Tutankhamun - his tomb and the treasures] date: October 1, 2009 - April 18, 2010 [prolongation; was: till January 31, 2010] The exhibition of replicas that earlier was in Zurich and Munich. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report, including a slide-show, at URL "Die berühmte Goldmaske von Tutanchamun, die Schreine und die meisten anderen Fundstücke aus seiner Grabkammer sind so wertvoll, dass sie Ägypten nicht mehr verlassen dürfen. Aber die in der Ausstellung zu sehenden Repliken sind von ägyptischen Handwerkern so täuschend echt nachgebaut worden, dass es bei der Ausfuhr prompt Ärger mit dem Zoll gab." info: press report in general about this travelling exhibition, at URL "Interaktive Grafik zum Tutanchamun-Grab, Wissenstest übers alte Ägypten sowie eine Reportage über die letzten Geheimnisse der Archäologie." info: press report, including two slide-shows, at URL "Die ersten Exponate der Ausstellung 'Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze' sind in Hamburg eingetroffen." info: press report at URL "Von den rund 1000 Exponaten der Ausstellung, ausgewählt aus den mehr als 4000, die Carter dereinst zu Tage förderte, ist keines ein Original ... In mehrjähriger Arbeit wurden von ägyptischen Kunsthandwerkern die Fundstücke nachgebaut, oft aus den gleichen Materialien, die vor 3300 Jahren benutzt wurden ... In der sogenannten Allee der Schreine und Sarkophage zeitigt der Aufwand tatsächlich seine Wirkung. Ähnlich nahe kommt man im ägyptischen Museum von Kairo keinem Exponat ... Der Wiener Ägyptologe Wolfgang Wettengel, er ist wissenschaftlicher Leiter der Ausstellung, sagt kluge Worte: 'Natürlich fehlt den Exponaten die Aura des Originals. Das schmälert aber nicht die Wirkung dieser gesamtheitlichen Kollektion, und vor allem schmälert es nicht die didaktischen Qualitäten dieser Ausstellung.'" info: another press report at URL info: video report [2:10 mins.] at URL info: press report at URL "Tutanchamun ist einer der prominentesten Pharaonen Ägyptens. Eine Repliken-Ausstellung in Hamburg lässt den Mythos wieder auferstehen - und gibt den Besuchern das Gefühl, an der Entdeckung seines Grabes teilzuhaben. So wird 'Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und seine Schätze' eine archäologische Erlebnis-Show." info: press report at URL "Schon 50 000 Besucher bei Tutanchamun" info: press report at URL "... so wird nächste Woche bereits der 100.000. Besucher in Hamburg erwartet, der sich in der Ausstellung ... die goldenen Statuen, die großen Schreine und vor allem die legendäre Maske anguckt ... Deshalb, so Scholz, sei eine Verlängerung der Ausstellung bis April (ursprünglich war bis Januar 2010 geplant) in Vorbereitung." info: press report at URL "Karina Amberg (60) ... war die 100 000. Besucherin der ... Ausstellung." info: press report at URL "'Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze' wird bis zum 18. April 2010 verlängert. Schon 125.000 Besucher sahen die Ausstellung." info: press report at URL "Mehr als 230 000 Besucher haben bisher die Ausstellung ... besucht. Die Schau mit mehr als 1000 kostbaren Grabbeigaben verlängert aufgrund des anhaltenden Besucherandrangs ihre Öffnungszeiten zwischen dem 8. März und dem 9. April ..." l) - m) Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Am Lustgarten, D-10178 Berlin tel.: +49 (0)30 20 90 51 08, fax: +49 (0)30 - 2090 5109 e-mail: aemp@smb.spk-berlin.de * TBA n) Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim Am Steine 1-2, D-31134 Hildesheim tel.: +49 5121 9369-21, fax: +49 5121 35283 e-mail: info@rpmuseum.de * "Berliner Größen. Meisterwerke ägyptischer Kunst zu Gast in Hildesheim" [Important figures from Berlin. Masterpieces of Egyptian art staying in Hildesheim] Six monumental sculptures from the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin will be on loan at Hildesheim. date: August 27, 2005 - 2009 (expected) info: URL info: URL o) Naturkundemuseum im Ottoneum Steinweg 2, D-34117 Kassel and Museum für Sepulkralkultur Weinbergstraße 25-27, D-34117 Kassel * "Mumien - Körper für die Ewigkeit" [Mummies - Bodies for Eternity] date: November 17 [was: 11], 2009 - April 18 [was: 4], 2010 This exhibition is based on "Mummies - the dream of eternal life" shown in Mannheim, Germany and elsewhere, but will include additional aspects. Objects never shown before will be on display. This exhibition will travel to Los Angeles in June, 2010 and to other venues in the USA. info: URL info: press report at URL "Konservierte Leichen hat es nicht nur im alten Ägypten gegeben: Rund 70 Mumien aus allen Teilen der Welt werden dieser Tage in zwei Kassler Museen präsentiert. Es sei eine Ausstellung zum Thema Tod und keine Sensationsschau, betonen die Macher. Mit der Mumifizierung verbanden Menschen konkrete Vorstellungen vom Jenseits." info: URL p) - q) - r) Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Obenmarspforten, D-50667 Köln tel.: +49 221-221/2 11 19, e-mail: wallraf@museenkoeln.de * "Mit Napoleon in Ägypten. Die Zeichnungen des Jean-Baptiste Lépère" [With Napoleon in Egypt. The drawings of Jean-Baptiste Lépère] date: October 2, 2009 - January 31 [was: 10], 2010 [prolongation, was: till January 10, 2010] info: source - URL info: URL info: flyer as pdf-file (740 KB) at URL info: press reports at URL "Gemeinsam mit Napoleon fuhr der Forscher Jean-Baptiste Lepère nach Ägypten. Eine Ausstellung in Köln zeigt erstmals seine Zeichnungen von Tempeln, Skulpturen und Hieroglyphen." URL info: press report at URL "Er fuhr 1798 mit Napoleon Bonaparte nach Ägypten, um die Siege und Leistungen des Herrschers zu dokumentieren: Doch Jean-Baptiste Lepère war weit mehr als nur ein Berichterstatter. Seine jetzt in einer Kölner Ausstellung zu bestaunenden Zeichnungen sind Zeugnisse einer großartigen Entdeckungsgeschichte." info: press report at URL "Die abenteuerlich anmutende Geschichte um die Wiederentdeckung des zeichnerischen Nachlasses von Jean-Baptiste Lepère findet ihren Höhepunkt in einer Ausstellung des Kölner Wallraf-Richartz-Museums, die eine grosse Anzahl bestechend guter Zeichnungen präsentiert - sowie die dazugehörigen Druckgrafiken." info: URL info: press report at URL "Près de 150 dessins y révèlent le souci de la précision qui animait le dessinateur lorsqu'il a accompagné Napoléon dans sa campagne d'Egypte en 1798, aux côtés de 160 autres artistes et scientifiques." s) Ägyptisches Museum, Bonner Sammlung von Aegyptiaca Regina-Pacis-Weg 3, D-53113 Bonn tel.: +49 228-739717 (Kasse), fax: +49 228-737360 aegyptisches-museum@uni-bonn.de URL * "Das geheimnisvolle Grab 63 - Die neueste Entdeckung aus dem Tal der Könige" [The mysterious tomb 63 - The newest discovery from the Valley of the Kings] date: November 27, 2009 - May 30, 2010 Drawings of Susan Osgood of the objects found in KV 63 are on display. This exhibition will be shown in the Kestner-Museum, Hannover, next June and perhaps later in Leiden. A catalog is available. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: URL (info on artist) --SINGAPORE-- a) National Museum of Singapore 93 Stamford Road Singapore 178897 http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/ * "Quest For Immortality - The World Of Ancient Egypt" date: December 22, 2009 - April 4, 2010. Exhibition with 230 antiquities from the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) of Vienna. It was earlier in the National Museum of Korea in Seoul (April 28 - August 30, 2009) and in the Australian Museum in Sydney (September 13 - December 6, 2009), under different titles. info: URL info: press report at URL With photo of the sarcophagus of Nekhet-iset-aru. info: blog entry with lame text but with photos of artefacts: URL info: press report at URL Among the items are "three Egyptian mummies -- well, 11 if you include two newborn children, a falcon, a cat, an ibis, two crocodiles and a scarab beetle with its own little sarcophagus -- (..) a statue of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, weighing more than a ton, (..) and the exhibition’s oldest piece, a tiny 6,000-year-old ivory carving of a naked woman. Sphinxes, carvings, stelae, jewelry and cosmetics follow, ending with the burial chamber with the sarcophaguses and mummies, including one where an x-ray showed two infants were buried with her. (..)" With photo of Sekhmet statue. info: press report at URL "(..) Also on display is the poignant mummy of a young mother named Nes-Khons, whose body was preserved along with the corpses of her two babies who are all believed to have died at or shortly after birth. (..)" info: press report with audio link at URL info: some more press reports at URL URL URL info: press report at URL info: press report (brief report of a visitor) at URL --EGYPT-- a) The Egyptian Museum Maydan El Tahrir, Cairo tel: +20 2 5742681, 5754319/10; fax: +20 2 5795133 * "Hungarian Excavations in the Theban Necropolis: A Celebration of 102 Years of Fieldwork in Egypt" date: November 7, 2009 - TBA place: Hall no. 44. info: press report at URL "(..) [The exhibition] features more than 140 artifacts dug out by Hungarian archaeologists in Egypt since 1907. (..) The exhibition focuses on the ancient Egyptian cult of the dead, displaying coffins, faience amulets and heart scarabs placed next to the heart of the deceased, as well as statues. " info: press report at URL Hawass tells about the opening. "(..) I mentioned the new project that was announced during President Mubarak's recent visit to Hungary. It is a new underwater archaeology project at the temples of Kom Ombo and Esna that will be very important, and we hope will further the cooperation between Egypt and Hungary. (..)" info: French press reports at URL Describes the exhibition in some detail (with photos). URL Describes the work of the past Hungarian missions in some detail. info: press report at URL With some details on the Hungarian work. "(..) Among the objects on display are the Tasenet coffin found by Smolenski, which represents the so-called swollen type. It was made for a woman called Tasenet, daughter of the mistress of the house of Tadiiset. (..) A number of ushabti (votive servant) figures are also exhibited along with wooden figurine models, canopic jars, pottery vessels, marble statuettes, amulets and scarabs." * “Mersa/Wadi Gawasis: A Pharaonic Harbor on the Red Sea’’ date: TBA (January 2010) Special exhibit about the finds at this site, "featuring, among other things, cargo seals, voyage accounts, and a shipping crate marked in hieroglyphic text: “Wonderful Things of Punt.’’" info: source - URL * "Ippolito Rosellini and the Dawn of Egyptology. Original Drawings and Manuscripts of the Franco-Tuscan Expedition to Egypt (1828-1829) from the Biblioteca Universitaria di Pisa" date: January 27 – February 23, 2010 This exhibition, organized by the University of Pisa in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities and the Italian Archaeological Centre in Cairo, features 50 original drawings of the Tuscan Literary Expedition to Egypt (1828-29), which accompanied the French Expedition of J.F. Champollion, together with unpublished manuscripts of notes taken on site by Ippolito Rosellini, letters to him by famous Egyptologists, such as Champollion himself, Lepsius, Leemans, and other material from the Rosellini Archives in the University Library of Pisa, kindly lent for the exhibition. place: Room 44 info: press report at URL info: French press report at URL [NB: there are some inaccuracies in this article, and Prof. Betro is being misquoted.] info: English press report at URL * "Illustrations of Time: Impressions from Edfu Temple" date: February 8, 2010 - April 8, 2010 The exhibition consists of hundreds of works of art by Spanish painters Asunción Jódar Miñarro and Ricardo Marín Viade. The drawings, many of which are over two meters in height, were made between 2005 and 2010 and are based on sketches from life and photographs of the 31 priests’ figures from the west staircase of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus in Edfu, Egypt. place: Room 25 info: press report (with photos of two of the pieces) at URL b) Mawlawi Dervishes Shary Es Siyufiyah, 31 Helmiah - Cairo * "Abu Simbel. Il salvataggio dei templi, l'uomo e la tecnologia" [Abu Simbel. The Salvage of the Temples: Man and Technology] date: February 1, 2010 - TBA Not only looks at the natural historical and archaeological aspects of the salvage project, but specifically focusses also on the anthropological aspects (the men, methods, and machinery used). Organized by the Scientific Office of the Embassy of Italy in Egypt, the Italian Archaeological Centre in Caro, e.a. Opening on February 1, 2010, at 7:30 pm. The exhibition was earlier at Castello del Valentino, Torino (October 28, 2009 - November 7, 2009) e.a. info: (in many languages) URL info: press reports (in English and Italian resp.) at URL URL info: English press report at URL With information about the salvaging of Nubian monuments in the 1960s and 70s, the role of Italian scholars in that project, the temples of Abu Simbel, the rock-cut temple of Al-Lessiya (offered to Italy as thanks), and Qasr Ibrim (the only Nubian site still in situ and threatened by the rising water level at Lake Nasser). info: English press report at URL info: Italian press report at URL "E' una mostra fotografica apparentemente come tante altre, quella riaperta nei giorni scorsi nei locali della restaurata Sama'Khana, scuola medioevale e teatro dei dervisci mevlevi, nel cuore del Cairo islamico. Ma sono i contenuti storici ed emotivi che ne costituiscono la singolarita' e l'unicita': i lavori per salvare dalle acque del lago Nasser, che salivano inesorabilmente dopo la costruzione della diga di Assuan, i due templi di Abu Simbel, fatti costruire in fondo all'Egitto dal faraone Ramesse II intorno al 1250 avanti Cristo." --ITALY-- a) Liz Gallery Via Benevento SS7, I-82016 Montesarchio * "Il magico Egitto" [Magic Egypt] date: January 16 - 30, 2010 Small exhibition in a commercial gallery. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "Circa centomila visitatori [sic] e più di cento allievi delle scuole elementari della Campania hanno ammirato la grande mostra tematica IL MAGICO EGITTO ..." b) - c) Villa Genoese Zerbi Via Zaleuco, 16, Reggio Calabria * "Egitto mai visto. Le dimore eterne di Assiut e Gebelein" [Egypt, never seen. The eternal dwelling places of Assiut and Gebelein] date: February 21, 2010 - June 20, 2010 The exhibition will consist of two parts: Objects from the Egyptian Museum, Turin, especially from the tomb of Kha, and objects from the collection of the Castello del Buonconsiglio. The important Egyptian collection of Buonconsiglio Castle in Trento, which has long been in storage, will be shown together with extraordinary artefacts discovered during excavations by Ernesto Schiaparelli between 1905 and 1920 in the necropolises of Gebelein and Asyut. The exhibition will include hundreds of remarkable finds that have never before been shown, including sarcophagi, funeral artefacts, human and animal mummies, steles, funeral masks, figurines and amulets. The exhibition was earlier in Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento (May 30, 2009 - January 24, 2010). info: press report, including a slideshow, at URL info: press reports at URL URL info: press report, including a slideshow, at URL "A Reggio Calabria, a Villa Genoese Zerbi, una grande mostra svela i segreti sconosciuto delle necropoli di Assiut e Gebelein. Quattrocento straordinari reperti datati al 2000 a. C. scoperti all'inizio del '900 da Sciaparelli e chiusi per un secolo nei depositi del Museo Egizio di Torino." d) Museo Civico Archeologico di Chianciano Terme Viale Dante, I-53042 Chianciano Terme (SI) tel.: 0578 30471, e-mail: museoetrusco@libero.it * "Tutte le anime della mummia. La vita oltre la morte ai tempi di Sety I'' [All souls of the mummy. Life after death in the time of Sethos I] date: June 20, 2009 - April 5, 2010 [prolongation; was: till January 6, 2010] About 100 objects from Egyptian collections in Italy and a reconstruction of the tomb of Sethos I will be on display to illustrate the funerary ritual in the Ramesside era. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "Un centinaio di oggetti provenienti dalle maggiori collezioni egizie d'Italia e la ricostruzione parziale di una delle tombe faraoniche più grandi della Valle dei Re costituiscono il fulcro della mostra ..." info: press reports (in Italian) at URL URL (with photo of blue figurine) URL (with photo of stela) info: press report at URL "Era il 1817 quando l'esploratore padovano Giovanni Battista Belzoni scoprì, nella Valle dei Re, la tomba di Sety I (King Valley 17), una delle sepolture faraoniche più grandi della zona. Oggi quella tomba, parzialmente ricostruita per l'occasione proprio grazie ai disegni di Belzoni, rivive nelle sale del Museo Civico Archeologico di Chianciano Terme, che fino al 5 aprile 2010 ospita la mostra 'Tutte le anime della mummia. La vita oltre la morte ai tempi di Sety I'." e) - f) Castello del Buonconsiglio Via Bernardo Clesio, 5, Trento * "Egitto mai visto" [Egypt, never seen] date: May 30, 2009 - January 24, 2010 [prolongation; was: till January 10, 2010] The exhibition will consist of two parts: Objects from the Egyptian Museum, Turin, especially from the tomb of Kha, and objects from the collection of the Castello del Buonconsiglio. The important Egyptian collection of Buonconsiglio Castle in Trento, which has long been in storage, will be shown together with extraordinary artefacts discovered during excavations by Ernesto Schiaparelli between 1905 and 1920 in the necropolises of Gebelein and Asyut. The exhibition will include hundreds of remarkable finds that have never before been shown, including sarcophagi, funeral artefacts, human and animal mummies, steles, funeral masks, figurines and amulets. info: press release at URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "Egitto mai visto nella mostra 'Collezioni inedite dal Museo Egizio di Torino e dal Castello del Buonconsiglio di Trento' in programma dal 30 Maggio al prossimo 8 Novembre 2009. In questi giorni le anteprime" info: English press report at URL With info on two human mummies (plus sarcophagi) that are on show and on a cat mummy. info: English press report at URL info: Italian press report, including slideshow, at URL "800 reperti riuniti insieme con cura filologica saranno visibili fino all'8 novembre prossimo. I sarcofagi completi di corredi funebri vengono da Torino: poggiatesta, specchi, sandali, vasellame, archi, frecce, modellinidi attività agricole e di navigazione. Dalla collezione Tonelli provengono invece amuleti: pezzi curiosi estravaganti, pregni di valenze magiche e religiose: scarabei del cuore, modellini di servitori ushabty, e una splendida maschera funeraria in foglia d'oro. Colpisce, per esempio, un gatto imbalsamato e avvolto in una raffinatissima veste funebre." [new] info: Italian press report at URL "E' stata inaugurata a Trento la nuova sezione egizia del Castello del Buonconsiglio, di cui la nostra concittadina, Sabina Malgora è curatore.. In anteprima mondiale, a oltre 100 anni dalle scoperte, l'esposizione permette di ammirare oltre 800 affascinanti ritrovamenti che fanno parte di due sorprendenti collezioni inedite, diverse tra loro, quella del Castello del Buonconsiglio e quella della Soprintendenza del Museo Egizio di Torino." info: press report "La 'montagna dei morti' di Assiut a Trento di scena l'Egitto mai visto" URL "Al Castello del Buonconsiglio, i materiali del Museo Egizio di Torino scavati dal grande Schiaparelli nel 1906-1913 e mai esposti. Sarcofagi dipinti e tombe con corredi che devono assicurare al defunto la vita nei 'milioni di anni', l'eternità dell'Antico Egitto. Una collezione inedita anche dal Castello trentino"] info: press report at URL "Sono 40.000 le persone che in 57 giorni di apertura hanno visitato la mostra 'Egitto mai visto', in media 702 al giorno." info: URL info: press release at URL info: press report at URL "La rassegna ... tocca quota 100mila visitatori e proroga la data di chiusura ..." info: press report at URL "Due diverse collezioni inedite, una proveniente dal Castello del Buonconsiglio e l'altra dal Museo Egizio di Torino, unite in un'esposizione in anteprima mondiale intitolata Egitto Mai Visto: 800 affascinanti ritrovamenti." info: press report at URL --FRANCE-- a) Musee du Louvre F-75058 Paris Cedex 01, France tel. : +33 1 40 20 50 50; fax : +33 1 40 20 54 42 * "Méroé, un empire sur le Nil" [Meroe, an empire at the Nile] date: March 24 - September 6, 2010 "The Louvre hosts its first exhibition reserved exclusively for Meroe, the capital of a majestic and enigmatic civilization that developed on the banks of the Nile between 270 BC and AD 350. The 200 works on show reveal the multicultural character of this ancient African civilization." info: (in French) URL info: (in English) URL (go to page 5) b) - c) Le Musée de Tessé 2, avenue de Paderborn, F-72000 Le Mans * "Une autre Égypte, collections coptes du musée du Louvre" [Another Egypt, Coptic collections of the Louvre] date: November 21, 2009 - February 20, 2010 About 180 objects from the collections of the Louvre will show the language and writings as well as the everyday life, the funerary and artistic practices of the Copts in Egypt and abroad. This exhibition will also travel to Millau (March 19 - June 20, 2010) and Sarrebourg (July 9 - October 10, 2010). info: URL --ISRAEL-- a) Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem Museum Row, 25 Granot Street, P.O Box 4670, Jerusalem 91046 tel: 972-2-5611066 * "Echoes of Egypt" date: March 22, 2009 - "The exhibition displays an impressive collection of photos, paintings, maps and prints of Egypt's magnificent monuments and daily life in the 19th century. The collection includes photos from 1857 by Francis Frith, paintings from 1838 by David Roberts and more works of art by famous painters and photographers who were among the first westerners to document Egypt's mysteries and wonders." info: press reports at URL URL --BELGIUM-- a) Musée royal de Mariemont Chaussée de Mariemont, 100, 7140 Morlanwelz tel.: + 32 (0)64 21 21 93; info@musee-mariemont.be URL * "Mémoires d'Orient - Du Hainaut à Héliopolis" date: May 7, 2010 - October 15, 2010 The exhibition will link ancient traditions of the Province of Hainaut (Mithra, Isis) through Orientalists, leading to the foundation, at the beginning of the 20th century, of Heliopolis by baron Empain. It will present his influence and other Belgian companies' influences in Egypt (tramways, bridges, metallic constructions). A catalogue of 350 pages, written by more than 20 authors, will detail all these topics. info: some French info on Empain and modern Heliopolis may be found at URL --SPAIN-- a) Sala d'Exposicions Caixa Tarragona calle Higini Anglès, 5, 43001 Tarragona * "Egipte" date: December 11, 2009 - March 7, 2010 Ancient Egyptian objects from the Museu Egipci de Barcelona. info: Spanish press report at URL b) Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona Passeig de Santa Madrona, 39-41, 08038 Barcelona http://www.mac.cat/ * "Visions d'Egipte. Oxirrinc, ahir i avui" [Visions of Egypt: Oxyrrhynchus, yesterday and today] date: October 2, 2009 - January 10, 2010 More than 50 photographs illustrate the past and present of Oxyrrhynchus, one of the most important cities in Greco-Roman Egypt. The exhibition will later travel to Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona. info: URL c) la Casa de Cultura de Villapresente Reocín, Cantabria * "Napoleón Bonaparte en Egipto" [Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt] date: February 18, 2010 - March 21, 2010 Exhibition of old drawings regarding the expedition from Napoleon Bonaparte, including plates of the "Description de l´Égypte". Organized by the Asociación Amigos de la Egiptología en Cantabria. The opening is on February 18, 19:30h. info: email d) Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Alicante (MARQ) Plza. Dr. Gómez Ulla, s/n. 03013 Alicante http://www.marqalicante.com/ * "Seramón. El enigma de la momia y sus amuletos. El rito funerario en el antiguo Egipto [Seramon. The riddle of the mummy and his amulets. Funerary rites in ancient Egypt] date: ca. March, 2010 - ca. October, 2010 Ca. 260 objects from several museums will illustrate the funerary cult of the Ancient Egyptians. Highlights will be the mummies of the priest Seramon and Ankhpakhered and their sarcophagi. info: (in Spanish) URL URL info: (in Catalan) URL --AUSTRALIA-- a) Nicholson Museum Quadrangle A14, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 URL * "Egyptians, Gods & Mummies: Travels with Herodotus" date: August 26, 2009 - end of 2010 [was: July 12, 2009 - TBA] info: press report at URL "(..) will feature Egyptian artefacts including centuries-old mummified bodies, cats, birds and a crocodile. It will also feature a 4-tonne 4000-year-old granite column capital of the goddess Hathor from the Temple of Bastet in Bubastis. (..) The exhibition will only use the words of Herodutus to describe aspects of the Egypt of this time. (..) The exhibition will also feature ground-breaking colour 3-D CT-scanned images recently taken on a 2000-year-old Nicholson child mummy b) Ian Potter Museum of Art The University of Melbourne Swanston Street, Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/ * "Texts and Textiles" date: October 16, 2009 - April 18, 2010 Features Greek papyrus texts from Oxyrhynchus and Coptic textiles. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL --CROATIA-- a) Archaeological Museum in Zagreb N. S. Zrinskog 19, HR-10000 Zagreb URL * ''The Secrets of the Egyptian Mummies'' date: January 29, 2010 - February 28, 2010 Exhibition displays the CT-research results on the Egyptian mummy dated to the 4th century BC. The mummy and some mummified body parts are exhibited, and also canopic jars, shabties, amulets, and the parts of the cartonnage. ---SWITZERLAND--- a) Laténium. Parc et Musée d'archéologie de Neuchâtel Espace Paul Vouga, CH-2068 Hauterive * "Du Nil à Alexandrie" [From the Nile to Alexandria] date: October 23, 2009 - May 30, 2010 Exhibition about drinking water in Egypt. info: URL info: German press report at URL info: French press report at URL info: French audio report [2:42 mins.] - Realplayer needed -: URL b) - c) Kulturama, Museum des Menschen Englischviertelstr. 9, CH-8032 Zürich tel.: 044 260 60 44, fax 044 260 60 38 E-Mail: mail@kulturama.ch * "Mumien. Ägyptische Grabschätze und Mumien aus der Schweiz" [Mummies. Egyptian tomb treasures and mummies from Switzerland] date: March 6, 2009 - February 14, 2010 Mummies from the Museum für Völkerkunde in Burgdorf, and objects from other private Swiss collections. info: URL info: URL --POLAND-- a) - --HUNGARY-- a) VAM Design Center 1061 Budapest Király u. 26 * "Tutanhamon kincse" [Treasure of Tutankhamun] date: October 24, 2009 - April 25 [was: April 19], 2010 Another exhibition of replicas of artifacts found in Tutankhamun's tomb. Traveling exhibition: next venue Warsaw, Poland (May - November, 2010) info: (in Hungarian) URL (in English) URL info: (in English, German and Hungarian) URL ---SERBIA--- a) TBA, Belgrade * "Pharaoh's Treasure" date: TBA, 2010 Exhibition with 63 objects from the Egyptian Museum. info: press report at URL --MEXICO-- a) - --CZECH REPUBLIC-- a) Náprstkovo muzeum asijských, afrických a amerických kultur [Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures] Betlémské námestí 1, 110 00, Praha 1 [Prague] * TBA b) Prague Castle's Riding School Hall * TBA date: Spring to Autumn 2012 Some 200 top-value artifacts from Cairo Museum, complemented by exhibits from European collections of Egyptian art. Organized by Charles University's Egyptology Institute in cooperation with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo info: press report at URL --CHILE-- a) - --ANDORRA-- a) - --JAPAN--- a) - b) Fukuoka Museum of Art 1-6 Ohori Park, Chuo-ku Fukuoka * "Ancient Egypt in Torino" date: January 5, 2010 - March 7, 2010 Organized by Asahi Shinbun, TOEI and Fuji Television, this exhibition will highlight the Torino Museum's collection by exhibiting for the first time in Japan 150 items. Previous venues were Tokyo (August 1, 2009 - October 4, 2009) and Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai (October 17 - December 20, 2009), next venues will be Kobe (March 20 - May 30, 2010), Shizuoka (June 12 - August 22, 2010). info: Japanese website about the travelling exhibition at URL --RUSSIA-- a) - ---SOUTH KOREA--- a) - (XI) COURSES AND TRIPS --COURSES--- * ICCROM announces that the14th International Course on Wood Conservation Technology - ICWCT 2010 will be held in Oslo, Norway from 24 May - 2 July 2010. One of the main objectives of the course is to give participants the theoretical and practical knowledge essential for diagnosing the causes of deterioration and for selecting the most appropriate methods of conservation and restoration of wood. Applications should reach ICCROM by the 29 January 2010, Participation is free of charge for the selected participants. Applicants should be mid-career professionals with a minimum of three years work experience in wood conservation. (#) info: URL * The Xth International Course of Classical Archaeology at Baelo Claudia will take place between 6th and 26th of September 2009 at the "Archaeological Ensemble of Baelo Claudia" (Tarifa, Spain), with 4 places for foreign university students, and the International Seminar "Learning Archaeology". International Course and Seminar are offered by the "Área Arqueología-Curso Internacional de Arqueología Clásica" of the "Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Filosofía" of the University of Cadiz (UCA); Directors: Prof. Dr. Alicia Arévalo González, Prof. Dr. Darío Bernal Casasola and D. Ángel Muñoz Vicente URL Here is the complete info and the preinscription form: "X Curso de Arqueología Clásica en Baelo Claudia" URL Seminario Internacional "Aprendiendo Arqueología": URL * The KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, Manchester University, offers this distant (e-)learning programme: Certificate in Egyptology: a 3 year online study (starting Oct 1, 2009) with as tutor Dr Joyce Tyldesley. (The Certificate is apparently equivalent to 1st year full-time Undergraduate study.) URL * News from Bloomsbury Summer School: -- This year our summer courses held at UCL in London will be: Technology in Ancient Egypt with Dr Ian Shaw and Dr Paul Nicholson. Fauna of Ancient Egypt with John Wyatt. Hieroglyphs for Beginners with Dr José-Ramon Perez-Accino. From Tanis to Alexandria: the last millennium of pharaonic history with George Hart. Ancient Egypt and Nubia: a dynamic relationship with Dr Robert Morkot. Beyond Words and Images: reading and writing Egyptian literature with Dr José-Ramon Perez-Accino. Flinders Petrie and his Heritage: exploring the Petrie Museum II with Jan Picton. Discovering the Peoples of the Levant: Canaanites, Israelites and Philistines with Dr Rachael Sparks. -- Our Bloomsbury Summer School in Egypt course this year will be: Exploring Amarna: Akhenaten's Abandoned City with Professor Barry Kemp.This course will be taught in Minya; lectures will be combined with visits to archaeological sites in Middle Egypt. -- For further information: bloomsbury@egyptology-uk.com URL +44 (0)207 679 3622 * The House of Horus & Mehen (Netherlands) has published its programme of new courses until spring 2010 on its website. See: URL -- Among the courses: "Narmer - the first king of Egypt?" Course in four meetings, discussing the recent archaeological discoveries on the predynastic era and their consequences for the position of Narmer and our views on the unification of pharaonic Egypt. Speaker: dr. Marcel Zitman Dates: Sunday: May 10th, 17th, 24th, 31th Location: National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (R.M.O.) Start: 14.30 - 16.00 h. Fee: E 75,-- (donateurs) or E 80,-- (niet-donateurs) Note: fee excludes admission to the Museum Subscription: info@huisvanhorus.nl Link to the course description in Dutch: URL * Courses for the Public, The University of Manchester (URL cce.reception@manchester.ac.uk), is organizing the following event on Saturday 13th June, 2009: "Mummies, Science & Egyptology: Meeting the ancient Egyptians - How modern scientific investigations and archaeological research is helping to reveal more about the lives of the inhabitants of the Nile Valley." Presented by Natalie McCreesh and Roger Forshaw, KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, The University of Manchester Topics: Hesyre: the first dentist in history; Khnum-Nakht & Nakht-Ankh: two brothers?; Nesy-Amun: the Leeds mummy; Perenbast: an unusual burial; Nesperennub: a priest from Thebes; Asru: chantress of Amun. * Birkbeck College Egyptology Summer School 2009: "Trade, Travel and Transport in Ancient Egypt" Monday 22nd June to Friday 26th June 2009 10.00 am-5.00 pm Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London info: URL info: URL * (&) Upcoming activities by Bloomsbury Summer School: -- In London (UCL): URL Several courses with well-known speakers, between July 6-31, 2009. -- In Egypt: Summer school at Tell el-Amarna, with Prof Barry Kemp - November 30 - December 7, 2009. URL * (&) Summer Seminars in Papyrology Papyrological Institute at the University of Michigan 1 July- 31 July 2009 URL "In July 2009, the Department of Classical Studies and the Graduate Library at the University of Michigan will host a Papyrological Institute for advanced graduate students and junior faculty in Ancient History, Classics, Egyptology, Byzantine Studies and related disciplines. (..)" Application deadline is 15 February 2009. * (&) Dayschool at Dillington House (Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 9DT) on Saturday 13th September: "Palaces to Slums: housing in ancient Egypt" Taught by Lucia Gahlin The day costs £37 but includes a fabulous home-cooked 3 course lunch and delicious afternoon tea. For further information, see URL info: email * (&) On-line course - Ancient Egyptian Religion (20 classes) and correspondence courses in Hieroglyphs (Beg, Int, Advanced) 10 classes each. Tutor: Charlotte Booth. By post, and email. For evening/day classes and other private classes please see URL * (&) Correspondence course: "Religious beliefs and funerary practices" 10 chapters. By email or post. Enquiries: Suzanne Bojtos --TRIPS AND TOURS-- * Info on a trip that is being run for ARCE Orange County: URL The trip has no fewer than 16 special permits on it for opening closed tombs and sites and also includes participation by a great array of experts. The tour will be raising money for sites in Egypt. * The Archaeological Institute of America organizes the following 15 days tour: "Egyptian Odyssey", October 3-17, 2009, with Egyptologist Edwin (Ted) Brock. URL --FIELD SCHOOLS-- * (&) New York University's Archaeology and History Program in Egypt will have a field school at Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in Dakhleh Oasis, as part of its semester program offered each year from January to March for advanced undergraduates. 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