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EEF NEWS (771) =================== d.d. May 16, 2013
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, Vatican City, Egypt, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Danmark, Switzerland, Russia, Austria, Hungary, New Zealand, China, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Israel (X) Exhibitions on Ancient Egypt USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Egypt, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Argentinia, Switzerland, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Mexico, Croatia, Singapore, India, China, United Arab Emirates, Latvia, Qatar, Israel (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: ========================================================================== +++ (I) NEW: LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS --UK-- [update] j) Institute of Archaeology, University College London 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY * Annual Conference "Forming Material Egypt" date: 20-21 May 2013 [new] info: programme at URL --GERMANY-- g) Münchner Arbeitskreis "Junge Aegyptologie" (MAJA) * 4th MAJA Meeting: "TEXT: Wissen - Wirkung - Wahrnehmung" date: 29 November 2013 - 1 December 2013 place: Ägyptologisches Institut, München. costs: registration before September 1, 2013, at email info: URL --EGYPT-- d) Supreme Council of Antiquities 3 el-Adel Abu Bakr Street, Zamalek, Cairo * "From Scotia to Scandinavia: ongoing research into the Egyptian coffin collections of Scotland and Sweden", by Dr. Aidan Dodson date: Tuesday 21 May 2013, 6:00 PM place: Ahmed Pasha Kamal Hall, The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 3 Adel Abu Bakr Street, Zamalek info: email [update] l) International Association of Egyptologists * 11th International Congress of Egyptologists [new] date: September 2014 [was: September 13-20, 2013] place: The Calligraphy Center in Alexandria info: URL --AUSTRALIA-- c) University of Sydney * The Seventh Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquities and Egyptology (AMPHORAE VII) The conference is open to postgraduate and honours students in all aspects of antiquity (whether history, literature, or archaeology), in the Egyptian, Greek, Roman or post-Roman worlds. Abstracts of papers are invited before Friday 31 May. date: Wednesday 17 July, 2013 - Friday 19 July, 2013. costs: free info: URL ; email URL ---- For previously listed lectures and conferences, see section IX below. +++ (II) NEW: EXHIBITIONS --GERMANY-- [update] d) Ägyptisches Museum – Georg Steindorff – der Universität Leipzig Goethestraße 2, 04109 Leipzig * "Zwischen den Welten: Grabfunde von Ägyptens Südgrenze" [Between Worlds: Finds from Tombs on Egypt's Southern Border] [new] date: June 12, 2013 - November 17, 2013 [was: - TBA] [new] info: [PDF] URL --FRANCE-- [update] g) Musée du Louvre Palais Royal, 75001 Paris * "« L'art du contour » dans l'Égypte ancienne" [The Art of Outline: Drawing in ancient Egypt] date: April 19, 2013 - July 22, 2013 [new] info: press report at URL Interview with Guillemette Andreu-Lanoë, director of the Department of the Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre. - Includes a slideshow. --ITALY-- a) Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali via Giolitti, 36, Torino * "Botanica aegyptiaca in antichi volumi" [Egyptian botany in old books] date: May 11, 2013 - September 15, 2013 The exhibition shows descriptions and drawings of plants and flowers of Egypt as found in old books like "Description de l'Égypte" or accounts by Belzoni and other early travelers in Egypt. The importance of plants in Ancient Egypt is also shown. info: URL --SPAIN-- a) Parque del Retiro Paseo de las Delicias s/n 11406 Jerez De La Frontera, Andalucia * "El tesoro de los Faraones" [The treasure of the Pharaohs] date: 18 [was: 24] May 2013 - 7 [was: 14] July 2013 A replica of the temple of Abu Simbel, which has been (and will be) travelling through Portugal and Spain. info: URL With a video section. info: a press file [PDF, 25 pp.] at URL info: videos, of when the exhibit was at an earlier venue, at URL URL info: press reports at URL URL URL URL --EGYPT-- c) Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) 1, Dr Mahmoud Azmi Street, 11211 Zamalek - Cairo - Egypt * “Journey to Dakhleh – Desert Maps” date: May 9 - 30, 2013 An exhibition of artwork by John O’Carroll, who worked for the Dakhleh Oasis Project. info: cp. 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.] +++ (IV) READ ON THE WEB --NEWSPAPER REPORTS ONLINE-- * (&) Press report: "Egyptian-Nubian soldier skeleton discovered by [Dr. Pamela Rose]" URL "Dr. Ahmed E[i]ssa, the newly appointed Minister of State for Antiquities, announced the discovery of a skeleton of a young soldier in a late Roman site of Hisn Al-Bab to the south of Aswan. The Austrian Archaeological Institute mission (..) discovered a residential construction which is most likely dated back to the Heraclian dynasty (610-695 A.D). (..)" -- Another English press report: URL ["Erin Forestner Molar" = Dr Irene Forstner-Müller (director of the Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, Zweigstelle Kairo); the discoveries in Hisn Al-Bab were done by mission director Dr. Pamela Rose. AKE] -- Spanish press report: URL -- Web page of the mission: URL * (&) Press report: "Egiptólogos catalanes encuentran una esfinge y millares de peces sagrados" URL With video. The archaeological mission at Oxyrhynchus (of the Societat Catalana d'Egiptologia (SCE) and the Universitat de Barcelona (UB)) has ended its 2013 season. They have found a possible nilometer and a decorated Coptic-period crypt, as well as a stone sphinx (of which a part had been found in 2008). -- Other press reports (with photos): URL URL -- Web site of the mission, led by Dr. Josep Padró: URL [Submitted by Kat Newkirk] * Press report: "Restoration of the Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara" URL "Leading international engineering and preservation firm CINTEC Worldwide has completed a complex restoration project at the Pyramid of Djoser in Egypt. (..) To save what’s left of this monumental structure, CINTEC used its Waterwall technology of self-inflating air-filled bags to prevent the ceiling collapsing and strengthened the central chamber with its patented anchoring and reinforcement system. (..) An educational film by National Geographic has been released documenting CINTEC Worldwide’s project at the Saqqara complex entitled Saving Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid. You can view the film below or on CINTEC Worldwide’s YouTube channel. " With video and photo. -- The YouTube video (48:03) mentioned: URL * Press report: "HMNS Unveils Egyptian Sarcophagus, Hall of Egypt" URL "(..) the Houston Museum of Natural Science unveils the giant sarcophagus of Gemshuunk. Standing out for its massive size, green face, and inscribed hieroglyphs, it may have accommodated smaller coffins inside as well as additional grave goods. The green face symbolizes resurrection, similar to the way plants return each spring. (..) The “Green Giant” as it’s called is more than ten feet tall, three feet wide, and three feet high, but it is certainly not alone in the display. Visitors to the Hall of Egypt will be treated to hundreds of artifacts representing life as it was for the ancient Egyptians. The 10,000 square foot Hall of Egypt opens on May 24th, and you can get a sneak peak at the Green Giant by checking out the pictures we’ve got for you in the photo gallery below. " * Some items relating to Egyptomania [submitted by Michael Tilgner (1) and Kat Newkirk (2)]: -- Press item about modern make-up for the Bust of Nefertiti... : URL "Ach, was büste schön - so der Titel der ungewöhnlichen Beauty-Strecke des SZ MAGAZINS, das der Frage nachgehen wollte, welches Make-up Nofretete heute tragen würde. Unter den vier Vorschlägen von Top-Visagisten, gezeigt an Originalnachbildungen des Ägyptischen Museums Berlin, ist auch die von LONI BAUR. (..)" -- Photos of Egyptian inspired modern necklaces, made by Silvia Malaguzzi: URL and by Doro Soucy: URL -- The Treasury of the British Virgin Islands have officially issued (13th May) a new and unique coin which highlights the Great Pyramids of Giza...in ultra-high-relief: URL --Follow-ups-- [Submitted by Kat Newkirk] * A bit more on the artefacts that were recently identified by Christie's as being almost certainly stolen from Egypt: URL With slideshow. -- French press report: URL * French press report about the new MSA minister: URL * Update on the ARCE Fellow who was stabbed in Egypt recently: URL URL --MISCELLANEOUS-- * The 2013 blog of the South Asasif Conservation Project has an entry for the first week: URL * New entries to the 2013 blog of the Gebel el Silsila Survey Project: URL -- "Halfway into the spring season" -- "Silsila from a topographer’s perspective" [Next five items submitted by Ingrid van Sprakelaar] * At the blog of the Egypt Centre, Swansea: -- "Guest Post: Unveiling mummies" URL Beverley Rogers traces the history of a piece of mummy bandage (EC951) that is labelled as coming from an unwrapping held ‘about the year 1896’. * At the Manchester Museum blog: -- "Life and Death in Roman Egypt: Artemidoros and his family" URL About the history of the mummies of Artemidoros junior, Artemidoros senior, and Thermoutharin. * New entry at the Penn Museum / Artifact Lab blog: URL -- "Ancient Egypt is all around us" (photos of Egyptianizing buildings in Philadelphia) * At the blog of the Instituts d’égyptologie et de papyrologie de Strasbourg: -- "Pièce en vedette: Fragment de bas-relief d'une scène de massacre des ennemis [IES 2472A]", by Laetitia Martzolff URL * The "Karnak" project: URL "Initiated in January 2013, the Karnak project (CNRS, USR 3172 - CFEETK / UMR 5140, Équipe ENiM - Programme « Investissement d’Avenir » ANR-11-LABX-0032-01 Labex ARCHIMEDE) aims to organize and make available textual documentation from the temples of Karnak. (...)" With examples. -- French introduction: URL [Submitted by Orlando Mezzabotta] * Dear EEF members, I just released on Youtube my last amateurish vocalization of the Pyramid of Wnjs. This time it is the western gable of the antechamber. It goes without saying that it is a very questionable experiment for what concerns interpretation and translation as well, which might be quite unorthodox. Those who are interested may find the audio/video version here: URL And here is the subtextual structure on which I worked out my vocal rendering: URL +++ (V) BOOK CORNER ---NEW (PAPER) BOOK RELEASES--- * Neunert, Gregor; Gabler, Kathrin; Verbovsek, Alexandra (Hgg.), Nekropolen: Grab - Bild - Ritual. Beiträge des zweiten Münchner Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie (MAJA 2). Göttinger Orientforschungen 54. Harrassowitz Verlag, May 2013. Pb, 254 pp. ISBN: 978-3-447-06660-0. EUR 58. TOC at URL --DIGITIZED BOOKS & ONLINE THESES-- [Next two items submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Online thesis: Mark D. Janzen, The Iconography of Humiliation. The Depiction and Treatment of Bound Foreigners in New Kingdom Egypt, University of Memphis, 2013. - xiv, 364 pp. - pdf-file (25.4 MB) URL "The following study is an analysis of bound foreigners in Egyptian iconographic and literary sources, demonstrating that depictions of bound enemies played a vital role in Egyptian ideology and that the assimilation of enemy prisoners into New Kingdom society was essential to the empire economy. Some captives, particularly enemy leaders, were publicly executed as important components to Egyptian ritual or state ceremonies and celebrations. Furthermore, this material reveals that the Egyptians had much in common with other ancient societies in their treatment of captured enemies." * Online thesis: Patricia Hilary Usick, William John Bankes' Collection of Drawings and Manuscripts Relating to Ancient Nubia, 2 vols., University of London, 1998. - 697 pp. URL "The portfolio of fifteen-hundred drawings made by the wealthy and brilliant William John Bankes (1786-1855) and his artists, travelling and working in Egypt and Nubia between 1815 and 1822, constitutes an important early scholarly record. Of particular interest are sites and monuments in Nubia and the Sudan, many of which are now destroyed, damaged, or have been moved due to the creation of Lake Nasser. Together with Henry Salt, Henry William Beechey, L-M-A. Linant de Bellefonds, and Alessandro Ricci, Bankes produced plans, views, descriptions, and, above all, remarkably accurate copies of reliefs and inscriptions. This mass of information was never arranged and published. A catalogue raisonné of the Nubian drawings covers the sites running between Dabod and Naqa, including Gebel Barkal, Meroë, and Musawwarat; many virtually unknown at that time. The catalogue provides the data for an assessment of the archaeological and epigraphic significance of the record. In addition, the unsigned drawings can now be attributed to individual artists on stylistic criteria, and, using unpublished journals and correspondence, the two journeys of 1815 and 1818-9 can be reconstructed. Many previously unrecognised drawings can now be identified, and sections of texts of particular interest recorded on the drawings have been hand-copied in an appendix. Bankes' role as a pioneer in the field of Egyptology, and his contribution to the study of decipherment are also examined." [Submitted by Brian Yare] * Yare Egyptology (URL) are pleased to announce the availability of the following books in pdf format: -- Lefébure, (J.-B. L. J.) E. (1889) Les Hypogées Royaux de Thèbes: Seconde Division - Notices des Hypogées -- Abu Bakr, A.-M. Y. (1889) Les Hypogées Royaux de Thèbes: Troisième Division - Le Tombeau de Ramsès IV -- Spiegelberg, W. (1896) Rechnungen aus der Zeit Setis I (2 volumes) --NEW ISSUES OF (PAPER) JOURNALS & MAGAZINES-- * The TOC of the latest issue of Ricerche di egittologia e di antichità copte (REAC), vol. 13 (2013), is online: URL --DIGITIZED JOURNAL ARTICLES & ONLINE PAPERS-- * New entry added to the online UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: -- "Linguistic consciousness", by Sami Uljas URL * Twenty of the papers of the upcoming Institute of Archaeology annual conference "Forming Material Egypt" (20-21st May 2013) may be read online already: URL * Monuments et mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot [MonPiot] -- vols. 1 - 17 (1894-1909) URL Contains articles by authors like Maspero (vol.1.1), Bénédite (vol. 2.1; 7.2; 9.2; 10.2; 12.1; 13.1; 17.1), Chassinat (vol. 4.1 ), Berthelot (vol. 7.2), and Capart (vol. 13.1). [Submitted by Thierry Benderitter and Kat Newkirk] * Peter James, "New Theory on Egypt’s Collapsing Pyramids", in: Structure Magazine, May 2013. URL "(..) It is the author’s belief that in the case of the Bent Pyramid -- in fact, in the case of all pyramids -- the outer casing has been affected by thermal movement. (..) During the day, the temperature rises to 40°C (104°F) across the face of the outer casing, then at night cools to 3°C (37°F) because of the lack of cover and exposure to the prevailing winds. This gives an average daily temperature fluctuation of 37°C (67°F). The photographs of the Bent Pyramid show how thermal expansion has caused the blocks to move to the edges, where they have detached. It also shows how individual stones, unsupported, can cantilever and snap off and subsequently fall to the ground. (..)" -- Press report: URL * Additions to the PropylaeumDOK repository: -- Assmann, Jan; "Fest des Augenblicks - Verheißung der Dauer. Die Kontroverse der ägyptischen Harfnerlieder", in: Fragen an die altägyptische Literatur (Studien zum Gedenken an Eberhard Otto). Wiesbaden 1977, pp. 55-84. URL -- Assmann, Jan; "Egypte ancienne - la mémoire monumentale", in: Gignoux, Ph. (Hrsg.): La commémoration, Colloque du Centenaire, Bibliothèque des Hautes Études, Sciences religieuses, Vol.XCI. Louvain-Paris 1988, pp. 47-56. URL -- Schenkel, Wolfgang; "Eine neue Weisheitslehre?", in: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology , 50 (1964), pp. 6-12. URL +++ (VIA) JOBS AND GRANTS ---JOB OPENINGS--- [# = You may request from the editor the often longer announcement of an individual job opening on which the below summaries were based.] [New announcements are placed on top of the list.] * The Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC) at Northeast Normal University (NENU), Changchun, China, has a job opening for an international scholar in Egyptology, to teach undergraduate, MA, and PhD students. The initial contract is for one year, but the position can be promoted to a tenure-tracking one pending mutual satisfaction. A PhD degree in Egyptology is required. Positions are open until filled with preference given to early applicants. (#) [posted May 16, 2013] URL * The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is seeking an Administrative Assistant to join its team in Luxor, Egypt. This position involves assisting with various administrative aspects of ARCE's conservation, archaeology, and site improvement initiatives. The position is from 1 September 2013 - 30 June 2014 with the possibility of an extension. Application Deadline: June 14, 2013. Full info: URL * (&) Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) are seeking to appoint a ceramics supervisor to lead a team of instructors during the AERA/AUC Archaeological Field Training program in January - March 2014: Head ceramics supervisor for the AERA/AUC Archaeological Field Training from January 10th - March 21st 2014 (#) Deadline: Saturday June 8th 2013. * (&) The Faculty of Cultural Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians- University Munich (LMU) invites applications for a Professorship (W2)(6 years/tenure track) of Egyptian Archaeology and Art History commencing on April 1st, 2014. The successful candidate will have an outstanding research and publication record in Egyptian Archaeology and/or Art History together with experience in fieldwork in Egypt. LMU Munich seeks to appoint a highly qualified junior academic to this professorship and, therefore, especially encourages early-career scholars to apply. Deadline: June 20th, 2013. Full info: URL URL * (&) A fully funded PhD studentship, on the subject of Colour in the New Kingdom Town: the Technology of Painted Vernacular Architecture at Amara West and Tell el-Amarna, has just been advertised, to commence in October 2013. The PhD will be hosted at UCL, in collaboration with the British Museum, and include fieldwork at both Amara West and Tell el-Amarna. For further details, see URL Closing Date: 24 May 2013 * (&) The Faculty of Humanities' PhD School at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for 1 PhD scholarship starting September 1, 2013 for a period of up to three years. The PhD scholar will be attached to the Egyptological section of the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. (...) Full details can be found at URL Application deadline: May 2, 2013 * (&) The Egypt Exploration Society is looking for a Fieldwork & Engagement Manager to be the Society's main representative in Egypt, a full-time post based in the Society's Cairo Office. A first degree in Egyptology, archaeology or related discipline with an Egyptological contents is required, as is fluency in both written and spoken Arabic and English. Closing date for applications is Saturday 20 April 2013. Full info: URL * (&) The Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen (GSGG) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen invites applications for 8 postdoctoral research positions (ID 8104). The positions, to begin 1st August, 2013, will be offered as two-year fixed-term contracts on a full-time basis (currently 39.8 hours per week). (..) The postdoctoral researchers will be members of the Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen (GSGG). (...) The positions are incorporated into four interdisciplinary research focus areas reflecting particularly strong areas of the humanities in Göttingen: 1. Language, cognition and text; 2. Multiple modernities; 3. Religion; 4. Knowledge (..) Deadline for the submission of applications is May 3, 2013. Full info at: URL * (&) The University of Basel invites applications for one or several four year research positions (PhD candidates or postdoc level; 100%) within the module 'Materiality and Semantics of Writing', part of the EIKONES project. The position will start on September 1st, 2013. PhD candidates in Egyptology are expected to enroll as PhD students of the University of Basel. Full info at: URL Deadline: 7 May 2013 * (&) Hill International seeks to recruit for the Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, -- a Text Writing Egyptologist (OMC) URL Closing Date: Open until Position Filled -- an Exhibition Expert URL Closing Date: Open until Position Filled * (&) Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: Der Fachbereich 07 - Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften - sucht zum 1. Oktober 2013 im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs 1876 "Frühe Konzepte von Mensch und Natur: Universalität, Spezifität, Tradierung" eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Koordinator/in: URL Deadline: 31.05.2013 * (&) 6 Promotionsstellen at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz The Faculty 07 - History and Cultural Studies - invites applications in a new interdisciplinary Research Training Group (Graduate School) funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" for 6 Promotionsstellen (Stellenanteil 65%) für eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) - Kenn-Nr.: 0713-07-wiss-sd - tenable for a maximum of 36 months, starting on October 1, 2013. The disciplines cooperating in this programme are Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Graeco-Roman Archaeology, Classical Philology (Greek and Latin), Byzantine Studies, Middle High German und Medical History. (..) Applications before 31 May, 2013.(#) Info: URL * (&) Two vacant posts at the Egypt Exploration Society: -- Office Manager (full-time post in London; closing date for applications is 11 March 2013): URL -- Publications Manager (full-time post in London; closing date for applications is 15 March 2013): URL * (&) The University of Copenhagen is looking to appoint a professor of Egyptology (deadline for applications is 2 April 2012). Full info at URL * (&) The Department of Archaeology of the University of Cambridge invites applications for a permanent University Lectureship in Ancient Egyptian Language, to start on 1st June 2013. Applicants will be expected to have a PhD, and should specialise in ancient Egyptian language and are expected to be able to teach Demotic and Coptic as well as Old, Middle and Late Egyptian. Deadline for applications is 3 April 2013. Full info at: URL idem: URL * (&) The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is once again offering a summer position (June - September 2013) for a research associate in Egyptian art: Terrace Research Associate in Egyptian Art -- Art of the Ancient World. Advanced graduate student in Egyptology preferred. Deadline: March 18, 2013. Full info: URL * (&) The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invites applications for an associate professorship in The Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia to be filled by 1 September 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline for receipt of applications and supporting materials: 1 March 2013. For more information see: URL URL * (&) An der Abteilung Kairo des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (...) ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle einer wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin/eines wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters in Vollzeit zu besetzen. (..) Voraussetzung für die Einstellung ist die Promotion in einem Fach der archäologischen Wissenschaften mit einem entschiedenen Schwerpunkt der fachlichen Kompetenz im Bereich der Archäologie des griechisch-römischen, spätantiken, byzantinischen und/oder mittelalterlichen Ägyptens. (..) Bewerbungen (..) werden bis zum 20. Februar 2013 (..) erbeten. (#) URL * (&) The Egypt Centre, Swansea, Wales, is looking for a Trainee Museum Assistant (a six month job). Applicants must be between 16 and 24 and have an interest in Egyptology. Deadline: 29/01/2013 URL * (&) The University of Oxford has an opening for a Professorship of Egyptology. A scholar of the highest international calibre is sought, with an outstanding record of research and publication in any area of Egyptology, and the ability to teach and inspire students at all levels. The intention is to fill the post from 1 October 2013. Deadline for applications: Monday 18th February 2013. Full info: URL * (&) The Petrie Museum is looking for a Curator - Ref:1304921 The successful candidate will have a graduate degree in Egyptian archaeology, Egyptology or Arab world archaeology. Closing Date: 15 Feb 2013 Full info: URL * (&) Leo Depuydt wishes to notify interested parties of the upcoming deadline of January 15 for applications to the position of postdoctoral research associate in Assyriology, Egyptology, or the material world of the Ancient Near East in the Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University (please see URL). He will gladly address inquiries about the position (leo_depuydt@brown.edu) * (&) A new post of Digital Project Manager at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has been advertised at URL "(..) Over the past 5 years, the Petrie has worked in partnership with UCL's Department of Geomatic Engineering and Arius3D, producer of 3D laser scanning technology, to develop imaging equipment and methodologies that produce high-resolution, geometrically accurate 3D digital replicas of its ancient artefacts. The Petrie is now ready to introduce the results of this research to the public in order to provide unparalleled access and engagement with its collection. (..) The Digital Project Manager will be responsible for designing and overseeing the production of digital applications using 3D images and a website housing a 3D image library and relevant applications. (..)" Closing Date 11 Jan 2013. * (&) This may be of interest to those with a background in ANE Studies and Information Technology: The University of Chicago, Oriental Institute is seeking an IT Specialist (Requisition # 091544) to oversee day to day operations of all IT support services at the Institute. URL * (&) Beim Ägyptischen Museum und Papyrussammlung (ÄMP) der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz ist zum 01.01.2013 befristet bis zum 31.12.2013 (eine Verlängerung bis 30.06.2014 ist beabsichtigt)die Stelle einer/eines Restauratorin/Restaurators (..) Aufgabengebiet: Beginn der restauratorischen Sichtung und Ersteinschätzung von ca. 1.000 Papyri und Ostraka der Rubensohn-Bibliothek der Papyrussammlung (..) (#) * (&) Beim Ägyptischen Museum und Papyrussammlung (ÄMP) der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz ist zum 01.01.2013 befristet bis zum 31.12.2013 (eine Verlängerung bis 30.06.2014 ist beabsichtigt) die Stelle einer/eines Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin/Mitarbeiters (..) Aufgabengebiet: Beginn der wissenschaftlichen Bearbeitung der ca. 550 demotischen Papyri und Ostraka der Rubensohn- Bibliothek der Papyrussammlung (..) (#) * (&) The Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a tenure-track appointment, effective July 1, 2013, at the rank of Assistant Professor: Assistant Professor in the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt or the Eastern Mediterranean World The successful candidate must hold a PhD (or expect to have successfully defended prior to July 1, 2013). Deadline for receipt of applications and supporting materials: December 21, 2012. (#) * (&) The Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Assyriology, Egyptology, or the material culture of Egypt or Ancient Western Asia (one year, beginning on 1 July 2013). Applications to URL before 15 January 2013. Candidates should have received their PhD from an institution other than Brown University after 1 July 2008 and have the degree in hand by 1 July 2013 at the latest. (#) ---GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS--- [# = You may request from the editor the often longer announcement on which the below summaries were based.] * (&) The Research Center "Religions and Societies in the Mediterranean world" (RESMED), a laboratory of excellence attached to Sorbonne University, is offering (2) three-year doctoral grants and (2) one-year postdoctoral positions starting in September 2013. You are invited to apply should your research projects fit into RESMED's scientific program, which is organized around three themes: 1. Religions, places/premises and conflicts; 2. Religion and reason: Tradition and Innovation; 3. Religions and social practices. You may see the call for application here: URL Deadline for submission: 20 May 2013 at 12 pm. * (&) University College, London, invites applications for the Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Egyptology, tenable for a period of three years from 1 September 2013. The Fellowship will be awarded within any area of Egyptology. Further information and details on the application process can be found here: URL * (&) Information on the Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants offered by the Archaeological Institute of America may be found at URL +++ (VIB) NEW: COURSES AND TRIPS For previously listed courses, trips and field schools, see section XI below. --COURSES-- * TBA --TRIPS & TOURS-- [Only tours organized by non-profit Egyptological organisations (notably if the proceeds go to public education or site excavation/conservation) will be listed here.] * TBA --FIELD SCHOOLS-- * (&) The American Research Center in Egypt is pleased to announce the launch of its new Luxor West Bank Archaeological Field School for local MSA/SCA inspectors. (..) The school will focus on the excavation of the forecourt of the Eighteenth Dynasty Theban Tomb of Djehuty, TT 110. (..) The field school will be divided into two duplicate, eight-week sessions. The first session will run from February 17 - April 11, 2013, while the second will run from April 14 - June 7, 2013. Full info: URL +++ (VII) (MULTI)MEDIA --TV & RADIO-- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * German TV: -- Arte, May 21, 2013, 17:20-18:12 "Der Schreiber im Alten Ägypten" -- Arte, May 22, 2013, 17:20-18:13 "Ägyptens versunkene Hafenstadt - Ein Mythos taucht auf" --DVDs & CDROMS-- * TBA --ONLINE VIDEO & AUDIO-- * Podcast (52:04) of a live radio broadcast (15 May 2013), with as guest S. J. Wolfe, speaking about the Joseph Smith's mummies and about ancient Egypt's appeal to 19th-century Americans: URL * Episode #36 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's series "82nd & Fifth": -- "Sustenance" by Catharine Roehrig URL About a dyn. 12 statue of an Offering Bearer. With video (2:25) and slideshow ("Explore"). * For previously listed online videos, see the website Videos and Audio Files. --SOFTWARE-- * TBA --MUSIC & THEATRE-- [Submitted by Kat Newkirk] * Perfermce of Verdi's "Aida" at the Detroit Opera House, May 11-19, 2013: URL --FICTION (NOVELS, GAMES & MOVIES)-- * TBA +++ (VIII) WEBSITES [Submitted by Ingrid van Sprakelaar] * Universitätssammlungen an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: URL New website (in progress) dedicated to the ca. 30 collections at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU), covering several disciplines (art, history, botany, numismatics, etc). Press release: http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/56259.php">URL For example (with some pictures): -- Ägyptische Sammlung: URL "30 zertifizierte, teils großformatige Gipsabgüsse, die nach dem Vorbild altägyptischer Originale erstellt und bemalt sind." -- "Prinz Johann Georg-Sammlung" URL "zahlreiche Aegyptiaca bilden einen wesentlichen Bestandteil der Sammlung, darunter verschiedene pharaonenzeitliche und ptolemäische Steindenkmäler, Uschebtifiguren, Terrakotten und Gläser. Hervorzuheben sind besonders die Mumienkartonagen und Mumienportraits. " +++ [End of new weekly additions] ========================================================================= [Overview of still current older material follows below] +++ (IX) LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS --USA-- a) ARCE/Pennsylvania Chapter URL * TBA date:..., 2012; 3:30pm place: Classroom 2, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, PA costs: $5 for the general public, $3 for museum members, free to ARCE-PA members info: email b) ARCE/New York Chapter * TBA date: ..., 2013; 6:30 p.m. place: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, 7 Times Square, New York, NY 10036, 23rd Floor Reception (Entrance to 7 Times Square is on Broadway at 42nd Street (next to The Loft). Photo ID is required to enter the building. You will then proceed to the 5th floor Sky Lobby and take the second elevator bank to the 23rd floor reception). costs: free to the public, but advanced R.S.V.P. is required; please reply to email c) ARCE/Oregon Chapter * "Seth: Ancient Egypt's Evil God of Power and Might", by Dr. Eugene Cruz-Uribe date: 13 May, 2013; 7:30 pm place: Room 238, Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland State University costs: free and open to the public info: email (Rebecca Hodgin) d) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU 15 East 84th Street New York, NY * TBA date: .., 2012; 06:00 PM info: URL e) ARCE/Chicago Chapter URL * "Harbor of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis 2001-2011", by Dr. Kathryn Bard date: Saturday March 2, 2013; 5:00pm place: LaSalle Bank Room, the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago costs: free and open to the public info: tel. 773-702-1062. f) North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC URL * Inaugural Egyptology Seminar: "Egypt through the Sands of Time", by Caroline M. Rocheleau In a series of illustrated lectures and a gallery tour, Egyptologist Caroline M. Rocheleau discusses Egyptomania, the Rosetta Stone, and the great collections of Egyptian art around the world. Reading materials, morning coffee, lunch, and a reception are included. date: Saturday, March 23, 2013; 9:30 am place: North Carolina Museum of Art, East Building, Museum Auditorium costs: $110 Members, $125 Nonmembers Advance ticket is required; space is limited. Register online at URL or call the Museum Box Office, (919) 715-5923. info: Caroline Rocheleau at (919) 664-6845 * Weinberg Endowed Lecture of Egyptology: "Isis, the Egyptian Goddess Who Conquered Rome", by Dr. Francesco Tiradritti (Assistant Professor, Kore University of Enna (Sicily)) date: Sunday, March 24, 2013; 2:30 pm place: North Carolina Museum of Art, East Building, Museum Auditorium costs: free; ticket from Box Office required info: Caroline Rocheleau at (919) 664-6845 g) ARCE/ Northwest Chapter * TBA date: .., 2012; 7 pm place: the Bungie Theater at the Bellevue Galleria, 550 106th Ave. NE, 2nd floor, Bellevue, WA costs: free and open to the public info: URL h) ARCE/Northern Texas Chapter URL * TBA date: ..., 2012; 7:00pm for a 7:30pm start place: Fondren Science Building, Room 123, at the Southern Methodist University campus, 3125 Daniel, Dallas, Texas. costs: free to visitors and members (donations at the door welcome) info: email i) ARCE/New Orleans Area Interest Group * TBA date: ..., 2013; 6:00 PM place: 102 Dinwiddie Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans costs: free to the public info: URL info: email j) ARCE/Northern California Chapter * TBA date: ..., 2013; 2:30 pm place: Room 110, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley Campus costs: no charge, donations are welcome. info: email * Fundraiser event: "Agatha Christie's Egypt" A relaxing afternoon in bygone Egypt to help raise funds to maintain the Chapter's free public lecture series and student outreach programs. After exploring the career and Egyptian novels and play of Agatha Christie, a Cataract Hotel style High Tea will be served. Period Dress (1920s & 1930s) encouraged, but not required. date: Sunday May 26th, 2013; 2 - 5 PM place: Imagine Affairs Art Lounge, 408 14th Street, Oakland cost: $35.00 ($20.00 students); RSVP and advance booking required before May 22, 2013. info: URL [PDF] URL URL info: email k) Center for Civic Leadership and Responsibility Camden County College Connector Building, Blackwood Campus 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 URL * Hidden Histories of Ancient Egypt Lecture Series -- "X-Raying the Pharaohs: A Look inside the Mummies of Ancient Egypt", by Dr. Stephen Phillips (research assistant, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) date: March 7, 2013; 7 pm -- "The Pyramid Age, from the Bottom-Up: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt", by Dr. Leslie Warden (Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Roanoke College) date: March 28, 2013; 7 pm -- "A Season in Hell (with apologies to Arthur Rimbaud): Exploration in the Egyptian Underworld", by Joshua Roberson (Assistant Professor of History, Camden County College, consulting scholar, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Egyptian Section) date: April 4, 2013; 7 pm -- "Women in Ancient Egypt", with Dr. Jennifer Wegner (Associate Curator, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Egyptian Section) date: April 11, 2013; 7 pm -- "Excavations at South Abydos, Egypt: Searching for the Tombs of the Last Pharaohs of Egypt's 12th Dynasty", by Dr. Joseph Wegner (Associate Professor and Assistant Curator, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Egyptian Section) date: April 25, 2013; 7 pm -- For all lectures is valid: place: Civic Hall, inside the Connector Building, Blackwood Campus of Camden County College costs: free and open to the Community, but registration is required info: email l) The California Museum of Ancient Art Beverly Hills, CA 90213 * Lecture Series, "Magic, Ritual and Healing in Ancient Egypt" Speakers: Dr. Robert Ritner ("Magic at the Creation: the Theory and Practice of Egyptian Religious Ritual"), Dr. Betsy Bryan ("The Festivals of Drunkenness in the NK"), Dr. Francesco Tiradritti ("Isis, Great of Magic from Pharaonic to Roman Times"), and Dr. Benson Harer ("Coping with Women's Health Concerns in Ancient Egypt"). date: April 22, April 29, May 13, May 21, 2013; 7:30-9pm. place: Piness Auditorium inside the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, 3663 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angelos costs: full series $64 for CMAA Members and $76 for the general public; individual lectures $19 each for CMAA Members and $22 each for the general public. info: URL m) The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology (IEAA) University of Memphis, Memphis, TN * Tenth Annual Legacy of Egypt Lecture "Ancient Egypt Meets a Modern Revolution: El Hibeh and Cultural Heritage Destruction," by Dr. Carol Redmount date: April 22, 2013; 7:30 p.m. place: Fountain View Suite (Room 350) University Center, University of Memphis info: URL n) The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago 1155 E. 58th Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60637 * "Death and Taxes in Ancient Egypt", by Prof. Brian Muhs date: April 3, 2013; 7:00 PM costs: free and open to public; register at URL * " 'Awake in Peace!': Interpreting, Seeking and Combating Dreams in Ancient Egypt", by Robert Ritner date: June 5, 2013; 7:00 PM costs: free and open to public; register at URL o) ARCE / Tennessee Chapter * TBA date: ..., 2012; 7:30 p.m. place: View Room (350), University Center, University of Memphis costs: free, and open to the public. info: email p) North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) * NACAL 41: "Afroasiatic Languages in Contact" Abstracts of papers are invited before November 15, 2012. date: February 16-17, 2013 place: Yale University, New Haven, CT info: URL q) ARCE / Arizona Chapter website * TBA date: ..., 2012; 5:30 p.m. place: University of Arizona Bookstore, 1209 E. University Blvd. Tucson, Arizona costs: free and open to all info: URL URL r) Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt * TBA date: .., 2012; 12-1 place: Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8298 info: URL s) - t) - u) American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) URL * ARCE 64th Annual Meeting date: April 19-21, 2013 place: the Hilton Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio info: URL info: latest schedule of papers 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: .., 2012; 19:00 place: Room 142, basement Earth Sciences Complex, 5 Bancroft Ave., Toronto costs: free to members, $5 for non-members. info: email or email --SSEA Calgary Chapter-- * TBA date: ..., 2012; 7:30 pm place: Room 162, Earth Science Building, campus of the University of Calgary, Calgary costs: free, all welcome info: email or URL --SSEA Vancouver Chapter-- * TBA date: ..., 2012; 7:00 PM place: Buchanan D217, University of British-Columbia, Vancouver, BC info: email or URL email or URL -- SEEA Chapitre de Montréal / SSEA Montreal Chapter-- society website * TBA date: ..., 2012; 6:30 pm place: Bureau des Affaires Culturelles et de l'Éducation (BACE) du Consulat Général d'Égypte, 1 Place Ville-Marie, 19ième étage, suite 1936, Montreal, Quebec costs: free; RSVP- to reserve your place please call: 514-353-4674 info: email * TBA date: ..., 2011; 18:00 place: The Espace culturel of Librairie Monet, 2752 de Salaberry in Montreal. costs: free for members, $12.00 for non-members. To confirm your place, please contact email info: email or tel. 514-353-4674 b) Friends of Ancient Egypt URL * TBA date: .., 2012; 7 - 9 pm place: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queens' Park, Toronto costs: $20 General Public; $15 ROM members; $10 Students info: tel.: 416.586.5797; e-mail: email URL --UNITED KINGDOM--- a) Egyptian Embassy, London, Education & Culture Bureau 4 Chesterfield Gardens, London W1. tel: 020 7491 7720; email * TBA date: ..., 2012; 6:45 pm b) Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT URL * TBA date: ..., 2012; 18.00 place: Petrie Museum costs: free but prebooking essential. 020 8679 4138, email ---Friends of the Petrie Museum--- URL * TBA date: ..,, 2013; 18:30 place: Lecture Theatre G6, Institute of Archaeology, 31 Gordon Sq, London WC1 costs: free, all welcome info: email * Annual Petrie Memorial Lecture: "Recent Investigations at Dayr al-Barsha", by Prof. Harco Willems date: Wednesday 15th May, 2013; 18:30 place: Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building, corner of Malet Place and Torrington Place near the Petrie Museum. costs: tickets required. £10 Friends of the Petrie Museum, £15 for other guests, £5 for full-time students info: tickets application form at URL c) The Egypt Exploration Society 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG society's website * Seminar "Egypt's Rival in Africa: Exploring the Material culture of Nubia" Speakers: Dr John Gait, Sarah Docherty, Ruth Humphreys, and Anna Garnett. date: Saturday 4th May 2013; 11am - 4pm place: EES, 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG. costs: Members: £25.00, Non-members: £30.00, Student Members: £18.00, Student Non-members: £22.00 info: URL * Seminar "Dream Interpretation and Divination Practices in Ancient Egypt: Coping with the Unknown and Foreseeing the Future from the New Kingdom to the Roman Period" Speaker: Luigi Prada. date: Saturday 18th May 2013; 11am - 4pm place: EES, 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG. costs: Members: £25.00, Non-members: £30.00, Student Members: £18.00, Student Non-members: £22.00 info: URL * Conference: "Palaces and Residences in Ancient Egypt: Reaching beyond the State of the Art" Speakers will include: Prof. Manfred Bietak, Prof. Gunter Dreyer, Dr Eva Lange, Dr Renee Friedman, Dr Ian Shaw, Prof. Miroslav Verner, Dr Dietrich Raue, Dr Ulrich Hartung, Dr Peter Lacovara, Dr Felix Arnold and Dr Alexander Tzonis (keynote lecture). date: 12th-14th June 2013 place: Christopher Ingold Lecture Theatre, University College London, UCL Chemistry Building, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1 6BT costs: members £25.00, non-members £30.00 info: URL * Study Day: "Palaces and Residences in Ancient Egypt: Reaching beyond the State of the Art" Speakers: Prof. Gunter Dreyer, Dr Eva Lange, Prof. Manfred Bietak, Prof. Miroslav Verner. date: 15th June 2013; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm place: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG costs: members £28.00, non-members £33.00 info: URL * Fourth British Egyptology Conference (BEC4) date: TBA, September 2013 place: Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU d) Egypt Society of Bristol. society's website * TBA date: ..., 2012; 18:45 place: Lecture Room 1, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, 43 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol 8 costs: all welcome; admission £2.00 for non members and free for members. info: email info: URL (PDF) e) The Southampton Ancient Egypt Society (SAES) Society's website * TBA date: ..., 2012; 1.30 pm for a 2 pm start place: Main School Hall, Wyvern Technology College, Botley Road, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, Hants SO50 7 AN costs: GBP 3.0 members, GBP 6.0 non-members info: email f) The Friends of the Egypt Centre, Wales, Swansea society's website * TBA date: ...; 7.00pm place: 'Fulton House 2' Lecture Theatre, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP costs: free for members, £3.00 non-members info: tel. 01792 295960 g) University of Oxford * Interdisciplinary Conference: "Disbelief in Antiquity" Were there ancient versions of atheism? Who were the religious disbelievers in antiquity? What did they question? When and why did ancient religions allow dissent? This conference brings together some of the top names of Egyptology, Classics, Biblical Studies, the Ancient Near East and East Asia to address these questions. Speakers include Jan Assmann and Richard Parkinson. date: 22-24 June 2013 place: Al-Jaber auditorium, Corpus Christi College, Oxford costs: booking is now open at URL, places are limited info: URL h) Manchester Ancient Egypt Society * TBA i) British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG * Annual Egyptological Colloquium: "Nubia in the New Kingdom: Lived experience, pharaonic control and local traditions" Two-day colloquium with insights from the latest archaeological research at major settlements and cemeteries in Nubia. The relationship between Egypt and Nubia during the New Kingdom (1550-1070 BC) has typically been described in terms that mirror the ideology promulgated on ancient temple walls: the pharaonic state had complete political control and cultural dominance over 'wretched Kush'. This conference seeks to build on recent research that has seen this interaction re-assessed, suggesting it was as much 'entanglement' as 'colonisation'. Two days of lectures will provide insights from the latest archaeological research at major settlements and cemeteries in Nubia, but also considerations on the material culture, written evidence and environmental context for Egyptian- Nubian interactions in the New Kingdom, and the understanding being gained from the application of new scientific techniques to this field of research. date: July 11-12, 2013 info: For programme and tickets, see URL * The 2013 Raymond and Beverley Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology: "Nubia in the New Kingdom: the Egyptians at Kurgus" by Vivian Davies During the New Kingdom, Egyptian military expeditions penetrated deep into Kush (Upper Nubia), as far upstream as the site of Kurgus on the Abu Hamed reach of the Nile. Here, on a conspicuous local landmark known today as the Hagr el-Merwa, 'rock of quartz', they left their mark in the form of large royal tableaux and numerous other inscriptions. The lecture presents the results of a project of survey and epigraphic recording at the site, the latest season of which occurred in November 2012. It places the material in its wider contemporary context and considers when and how the Egyptians made their way to this remote spot, the composition of their teams, and the purpose of their visits. The lecture will be followed by a reception. date: Thursday 11 July, 2013; 18.00-19.00 info: For programme and tickets, see URL j) Institute of Archaeology, University College London 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY * Annual Conference "Forming Material Egypt" Day 1 of the conference addresses the history of archaeology and collecting, in both the negative and positive consequences for current research practice. On Day 2 the conference will then turn to the practical consequences of those decisions on where to locate objects physically, and how to connect them, in particular in these areas: Dealine for abstracts is Friday 8 March 2013 at email date: 20-21 May 2013. info: URL info: the programme is at URL k) The British Association of Near Eastern Archaeologists URL * BANEA Annual Conference 2014: "New Agendas in Near Eastern Archaeology" Paper/poster/workshop proposals are invited before 31 May 2013. date: 9-11 January 2014 place: University of Reading costs: bookings will open from 1 July 2013 info: email info: URL ---BANEA South-East/The London Centre for the Ancient Near East--- URL * TBA date: .., 2012: 18.00 place: Room G51, SOAS, Thornhaugh St, London WC1. info: email l) Essex Egyptology Group * TBA date: ..., 2012; 3pm place: Spring Lodge Community Centre, Witham, Essex info: email m) Leicestershire Ancient Egypt Society URL * TBA date: ..., 2012; 1:30 for a 2pm start place: Lord Mayors Room, New Walk Museum, Leicester info: email n) Sudan Archaeological Research Society * Colloquium: "Recent Archaeological Fieldwork in Sudan" date: 13th May 2013 info: URL info: email o) The Queen's College, University of Oxford * Fifth Ancient Egyptian Language and Text Workshop (AELT 5) This workshop will bring together text-focused researchers in Egyptology in the UK and provide a forum for sharing and discussing ideas, problems, and issues. date: Saturday 25th May 2013. costs: registration before 15th March; PhD students who work on texts are also welcome. info: URL p) University of Manchester * Study Day: "Daughters of Isis: Women in Ancient Egypt" date: Saturday, February 16, 2013; c.9:00-c.17:00 place: Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT. costs: GBP 30 info: programme at URL q) Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) * CRE XV date: 9th - 12th April 2014 place: London, at KCL and UCL r) The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East * The Tenth ASTENE Biennial Conference: "Researches and Reflections" Papers are invited that explore the impact of travellers, and the impact on travellers, to Egypt and the Near East, Turkey, the Ottoman Balkans and Greece, from the earliest times to the twentieth century. Abstracts (max 100 words) of papers (max 25 minutes) may be send before 1 February 2013 to Patricia Usick at email date: July 12-15, 2013 place: Aston University Birmingham info: URL s) Egyptology Scotland URL * Double Summer Lecture: "Royal Palaces in Ancient Egypt" and "The Gurob Harem Palace Project: 2005-2013", by Dr Ian Shaw date: Saturday 13th July 2013; 1 pm costs: open to all info: email t) Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology: Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford * Symposium: "Heracleion in context: The maritime economy of the Egyptian Late Period The purpose of this symposium is to explore the maritime trading economy of the Egyptian port of Thonis-Heracleion during the Late Period and place it within the wider context of maritime trade at this time. Keynote lecture by Franck Goddio. date: 15-17 March 2013 place: Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College, University of Oxford costs: registration requested, see URL info: URL info: URL --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) URL * TBA date: ..., 2012; 14:45 for a 15:00 start place: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, Leiden costs: open to all info: email b) Ex Oriente Lux / Chapter 's-Hertogenbosch * TBA date: ..., 2012; 20:00 place: Orangerie, WZC Nieuwehagen, Gervenstraat 2, 5211 PD, Den Bosch costs: members free, others EUR 2 info: 073-6133336 c) Het Huis van Horus * TBA date: ..., 2012; 19:30 - ca. 20:45 place: Leiden, Lipsius Gebouw costs: € 8 for members of Huis van Horus, EUR 10, non-members please RSVP at email or 06-52008364 info: URL d) RoMeO (Vriendenvereniging van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) * TBA date: ..., 2012; 20:00 place: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW Leiden costs: EUR5,00; RoMeO-members free info: URL e) Mehen * Study Day: "Asasif" with dr. Elena Pischikova, John Billman, and Jan Koek In cooperation with the South Asasif Conservation Project. date: Saturday 2 March 2013; 10:00 - ca. 16:45 place: R.M.O., Leiden costs: EUR 60 (supporters of Mehen and the South Asasif Conservation Project EUR 50) info: URL f) Friends of Saqqara * 11th Saqqara Day date: Saturday June 1st, 2013; 9:00-18:00 place: Lipsius-gebouw (Leiden University), Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden. costs: free for Friends of Saqqara and students; others EUR 10 info: programme at URL --GERMANY-- a) Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Zentrum für Altertumswissenschaften, Ägyptologisches Institut Marstallhof 4, 69117 Heidelberg * Workshop: "Observing tradition, challenging materiality: dialogue between texts and layouts in the pyramids of Egyptian queens in the third millennium BCE", by Dr. Antonio J. Morales (Freie Universität Berlin, Ägyptologische Seminar) date: Tuesday, 21 May 2013; 9:00 am to 17:45 place: Universität Heidelberg, Project Room 12, Marstallstraße 6 costs: free; for attendance, please write to the Workshop responsible: Ms. (Brigitte) Apfel at email / phone n.: 06221-54 35 55 info: URL * "From voice to papyrus to wall: the processes of Verschriftung and Verschriftlichung in the royal pyramids of the Old Kingdom", by Dr. Antonio J. Morales (Freie Universität Berlin, Ägyptologische Seminar) date: Thursday, 23 May 2013; 18:00 pm c.t. place: Universität Heidelberg, HS 02, Neue Universität costs: free info: URL * "Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz" (SÄK) 2013 Abstracts of papers are invited before January 31, 2013 date: July 12-14, 2013 info: URL info: 1. Rundbrief - 3 pp. - pdf-file (164 KB) URL info: Anmeldung - URL List of hotels (new) - URL info: URL info: 2. Rundbrief - 1 pp. - pdf-file (91 KB) URL info: preliminary program - 2 pp. - pdf-file (45 KB) URL b) Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Schlaunstr. 2, 48143 Münster * TBA c) Aegypten-Forum-Berlin e.V. URL * TBA date: ..., 2012; 19:30 place: Hörsaal 2002 (Hauptgebäude, vorderer Ostflügel) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin d) Freundeskreis Ägyptologie e.V.: URL * TBA date: ..., 2012; 18:30 place: Philosophicum, Hörsaal P 1, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz e) Ägyptologisches Institut der Universität Leipzig Goethestrasse 2, 04109 Leipzig URL * "5th Fayyum Conference: "Von der Pharaonenzeit bis zur Spätantike - Kulturelle Vielfalt im Fayum" date: May 29 - June 1, 2013 place: Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstrasse 6, 04107 Leipzig info: programme at URL f) Forum Ägyptologie an der Universität Hamburg e.V. c/o Universität Hamburg, Archäologisches Institut, - Abteilung Ägyptologie - Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel West, D-20146 Hamburg * TBA date: ..., 2012, 6:30 pm place: Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel West, room: 121 g) Münchner Arbeitskreis "Junge Aegyptologie" (MAJA) URL * TBA h) Institut für Ägyptologie und Altorientalistik Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, D 55099 Mainz * Internationale Fachtagung "Ägyptologische 'Binsen'-Weisheiten II": "Von Früh bis Spät: Hieratisch. Die dreitausendjährige Entwicklung der altägyptischen Handschrift in der Forschung". date: 18-20 March 2013 place: Plenarsaal, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2, D-55131 Mainz info: flyer at URL info: programme and registration form at URL Registration before March 10. i) Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Bonn Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, 53113 Bonn * "Die Kunst des Alten Ägypten Teil II: Das Rundbild im Alten Reich", by Daniel Mahr date: 14 April 2013; 17:00 info: URL --VATICAN CITY-- a) Egyptian Department of the Musei Vaticani * "First Vatican Coffin Conference" date: 19-22 June 2013 place: Vatican Museums Conference Hall costs: EUR 80; registration before 30 March 2013 info: URL Call for papers [PDF]: URL --EGYPT-- a) Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) 1, Dr Mahmoud Azmi Street P.O. Box 50, 11211 Zamalek - Cairo - Egypt phone: ++20 2 738.2522 / 738.2520 email; institute's website * TBA date: ..., 2013; 6 p.m. (door open 5.30 p.m.) info: URL b) EES Cairo C/O British Council, 192 Sharei el-Nil St. Agouza -Cairo. Cell.pho.:010/6797508 * TBA date: ..., 2012; 7:00 pm. place: British council, ‘Garden Room’ costs: free info: email c) l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire * "Egypt at its Origins 5" - Fifth International Conference on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt Abstracts of papers are invited before 31st July 2013. date: 13-18 April 2014 place: Institut Français d'Égypte (IFE), Cairo info: URL d) Supreme Council of Antiquities 3 el-Adel Abu Bakr Street, Zamalek, Cairo phone: +2/02 736-5645; fax: 735-7239 * TBA date: .. 2013; 6:00 PM place: Ahmed Pasha Kamal Hall, The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 3 Adel Abu Bakr Street, Zamalek info: email e) - f) - g) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo URL * TBA date: ..., 2012; 18:00 place: 31, Sh. Abu el-Feda, 11211 Cairo-Zamalek info: email h) - i) Mummification Museum, Luxor * TBA date: ..... 2013; 7pm cost: admission free; NB: strictly NO cameras or recording devices please. info: email j) Italian Archaeological Centre 14 Champollion str. Midan El Tahrir * TBA date: .., 2012; 5.30 pm info: email k) - l) International Association of Egyptologists * 11th International Congress of Egyptologists 2013 date: September 13-20, 2013. place: The Calligraphy Center in Alexandria info: URL info: URL Registration is open since August 1, 2012. info: URL Some 'Speakers&Abstracts' are already online. [Note e.g. the abstract of Niwinski: "(..) The Polish-Egyptian Cliff Mission working in Deir el-Bahari since 1999 has gathered a great number of clear archaeological indications that a royal tomb should be expected in the area, and its entrance may perhaps be unearthed even in the course of the next season of the works. " AKE] --ITALY-- a) Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna and CISE, Imola * TBA date: ..., 2012; 16:00 place: Sala del Risorgimento, Museo Civico Archeologico, Via dell'Archiginnasio 2, Bologna info: email b) - c) Gruppo Egittologico "Khentyimentyu" * TBA date: ..., 2012; 17.45 place: Cinema teatro Cappuccini, via Clelia 18 - Imola costs: free info: email info: URL URL d) Associazione Culturale "MUMMY PROJECT" * TBA date: ..., 2012; 18:30 place: Libreria Labirinto, via Benvenuto Sangiorgio, 4, Casale Monferrato info: tel. 0142 79051 --FRANCE-- a) Rencontres Egyptologiques de Strasbourg website * "Distinction entre viol et adultère en Égypte ancienne ", by Christine Hue-Arcé date: 2 April 2013; 18:45 place: Maison des Associations, 1A place des Orphelins 67000 Strasbourg costs: RES members EUR 2, non-members EUR 6 (students EUR 3) info: email b) l'Association Égyptologique du Gard URL * "Les rites de passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte à l'Ancien Empire", by Jennifer Romion date: March 29, 2013; 20:00 place: Centre Pablo Néruda, 30000 Nîmes costs: free * "Un labyrinthe Thébain. La tombe de prêtre Padiaménopé (TT33)", by Isabelle Regen date: April 19, 2013; 20:00 place: Centre Pablo Néruda, 30000 Nîmes costs: free --PORTUGAL-- a) - --BELGIUM-- a) Université de Liège Place du 20-Août, 4000 Liège * Conference: "(Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt" Papers which address the emergence, transmission and expiration of traditions in textual, artistic and material production in ancient Egypt are invited before 15th October 2012. date: February 6-8, 2013 info: URL --SPAIN-- a) Asociación Española de Egiptología URL * I Seminario Internacional de Arqueología Egipcia (XXV Aniversario de la AEDE): "Arqueología, Patrimonio y Egiptología" date: May 24-27, 2013 place: several venues in Madrid costs: AEDE members and students EUR 10; others EUR 25 info: programme at URL b) Centro de Estudios Artísticos Elba Doctor Esquerdo, 16 - 6º derecha, Madrid 28028 * TBA date: ..., 2013; 19:00 place: Instituto Egipcio. c/ Francisco de Asís Méndez Casariego, 1 (A la altura del Pso. habana, 40), Madrid costs: free, but reservation is advisable info: URL --AUSTRALIA-- a) Egyptian Elementals Dance and Movement * Workshop: "Absolutely Ancient Egyptian Dance" Dr. Lesley Kinney (author of 'Dance, Dancers and the Performance Cohort in the Old Kingdom' (2008), BAR International Series 1809) will explain and reveal the extant primary evidence that has inspired her ancient Egyptian dance reconstructions, along with demonstrations (and yes! - you will learn an 'Absolutely Ancient Banquet Dance', responsible for much hilarity at previous workshops). date: 26th January 2013; 1.00 - 4.00 p.m place: Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria. costs: bookings are essential, contact email info: URL b) Macquarie University (Sydney) * Conference: "Observing the Scribe at Work: Knowledge Transfer and Scribal Professionalism in Pre-Typographic Societies" Abstracts of papers concerning scribal practices in the ancient and antique Mediterranean world are invited before 31 March 2013. date: 27th-28th September 2013 info: email --DANMARK-- a) - --SWITZERLAND-- a) Ägyptologie-Forum an der Universität Zürich URL * TBA date: ...2013; 18:30 place: Hörsaal KO2 F 150, Universität Zentrum, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich costs: open for members, students, and the general public. info: email --SWEDEN-- a) - --AUSTRIA-- a) - --HUNGARY-- a) - --NEW ZEALAND-- a) - --CHINA-- a) Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum * 2nd International Symposium for Ancient Human Remains Protection and Research: “Mummy Protection and Research” The deadline for the submission of abstracts and CV is 19th May 2013, the deadline for registration is 2nd June 2013. (#) date: 23th – 27th September 2013 place: Urumqi, Xinjiang, China info: email --CZECH REPUBLIC-- a) Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts Czech Institute of Egyptology Celetná 20, CZ-110 00 Prague 1 tel.: +420 224491394, fax: +420 224491628 URL * TBA --POLAND-- a) University of Warsaw * "27th International Congress of Papyrology" Deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2013. date: 29 July, 2013 - 3 August 2013 place: Congress Centre at the Collegium Novum, the old Library of the University of Warsaw, 26-28 Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street, Warsaw info: URL With First Circular. b) University of Wroclaw * Conference: "Alexander the Great and the East: history, art, tradition." Abstracts (ca. 100-150 words) of papers (ca. 20-30 minutes) are invited before May 15, 2013 (to be sent to Dr. Agnieszka Wojciechowska, email). date: September 12-14, 2013 place: University of Wroclaw, Institute of History costs: fee, inclusive of conference materials, three lunches and a banquet, is EUR 40 (EUR20 for students/ doctoral students) --BULGARIA-- a) - --ISRAEL-- a) - +++ (X) EXHIBITIONS Most info in this section was collected by Michael Tilgner and Ingrid van Sprakelaar. Ingrid maintains an exhibition calendar [in a complementary format, i.e. sorted by date (and country)] at the Dutch website of the Mehen Study Center. --USA-- a) Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University 170 Whitney Ave., New Haven CT 06520-8118 URL * "Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs" date: April 13, 2013 - January 4, 2014 Features more than 100 objects and works of art from various Yale University collections, as well as objects on loan, and looks at how Egypt has been re-imagined through the millennia, influencing art, architecture and literature in a host of different periods and cultures. info: URL Associated lecture series: URL info: http://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/">URL Online catalogue with photos and background info of exhibited artefacts! info: press report at URL "(..) Two years in the making, the exhibition will include "one of the most diverse collections of ancient Egyptian-influenced objects ever assembled," [curator Dr. Colleen] Manassa said, adding that the exhibit will reflect a range of cultures. Visitors will enter the exhibit through a scaled-down reproduction of the cemetery's famous gateway, or pylon. Other highlights will include a display on the meaning and changing uses of hieroglyphs; a unique copy of a medieval Arabic attempt to translate hieroglyphs, on loan from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, never before displayed in the United States; and a diorama that depicts a mummy unwrapping in 19th-century Philadelphia, complete with Pa-Ib, a 4,000 year-old-female mummy on loan from Bridgeport's Barnum Museum. (..)" info: press reports at URL idem: URL URL info: press reports at URL "(..) And then there’s the 3-D sphinx, specially made for this exhibit. The museum commissioned a crew to do a 3-D laser scan in Italy of a 13th-century Italian sphinx, and “through computer processing, created a 3-D model that was then printed in plaster in three dimension at the Yale School of Architecture to create a one-to-one replica,” says Manassa. (..)" URL "(..) A prime example of ancient Egypt's enduring presence in modern society is the entranceway to the exhibition. Visitors walk through a scaled-down reproduction of the gateway to New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery that mirrors monuments of the ancient Nile Valley. Henry Austin designed the gateway in 1839 and constructed locally in 1848. (..) Colleen Manassa, the exhibition curator and associate professor of Egyptology at Yale points out, this is "one of the most diverse collections of ancient Egyptian-influenced objects ever assembled." She adds, "Exhibits that are so-called Egyptomania or Egyptian Revivals begin with Napoleon's invasion, so they only cover the last 200 years-we cover the last 2,000 years." Manassa says the exhibit attempts to answer the "why" behind Egyptian revivals rather than just the "how," and that this is the first time this concept of Egyptosophy (the inclusion of ancient Egypt's magical and religious symbolism by later cultures) has been included in an overall exhibit about the ancient culture. (..)" b) The Oriental Institute Museum University of Chicago 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago IL 60637 URL * "Between Heaven & Earth: Birds In Ancient Egypt" date: October 16, 2012 - July 28, 2013 Via forty artifacts, the exhibit traces bird imagery and symbolism through religion, images of the king, the economic exploitation of birds for their feathers and flesh, birds as protective deities, the incorporation of more than sixty species of birds into hieroglyphic writing, and images of birds on objects of daily life. A special feature of the exhibit is a discussion of the role of bird mummies in religion. The artefacts stem from the Museum, plus objects on loan from the Arts Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. info: URL info: the catalogue is available for free online at URL info: URL With links to two short articles on bird mummies. info: URL info: source - URL info: press report at URL info: video of a live online discussion via Google+ with Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer and Chad Haney, with previews of some of the exhibition pieces and images of scanned bird mummies, at URL info: press report at URL "(..) But there is one preserved bird in the Hyde Park museum that is simply stunning. Resting amid a larger exhibition comprising mostly artistic representations of birds, it's a mummified eagle, stripped of its swaddling, laid out on its back in a display case .(..)" info: press report (with image gallery) at URL With video (featuring exhibit's curator, Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer): URL info: press report (with some bird scan images) at URL c) The Field Museum 1400 S Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60605 URL * "Images of the Afterlife" date: June 8, 2012 - June 9, 2013 Presents the results of the CT-scanning of the Museum's Mummy 30007 and Mummy 11571 info: URL info: press report, with photo gallery of the displays, at URL Also a portrait bust / recreation of King Tutankhamun is on display. d) Robert W. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University San Bernadino 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397 URL * "Treasures from Ancient Egypt: Selection from the Permanent Collection" date: September 1, 2012 - July 31, 2013 info: URL e) Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052 URL * "Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments & Amulets" date: November 19, 2009 - June 30, 2013 [prolongation; was: till October 2, 2011] Features thirty-five representations of individual body parts from the Brooklyn Museum's ancient Egyptian collection, many of which are displayed for the first time. This exhibition uses fragments of sculptures and objects created as distinct elements to illuminate the very realistic depiction of individual body parts in canonical Egyptian sculpture. info: URL * "Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt" date: July 24, 2013 - December 2014 [was: postponed; was earlier planned for November 4, 2011 - November 4, 2012] The exhibition explores the role of felines in everyday ancient Egyptian life, religion, mythology, and kingship. Among the ca. 30 objects are a gold-gilded statue of a Leonine Goddess from the Brooklyn Museum's collection, a large wooden statue of a cat, a selection of bronze and stone depictions of felines, and furniture and luxury items decorated with feline features. info: press reports at URL "(..) It will feature some 30 objects from the museum's permanent collection, like a gilded sculpture of a lion-headed goddess from between 770-412 BCE that has never been on public view before since it entered the museum's holdings in 1937. Other fine art felines on view will include a bronze sphinx sculpture of King Sheshenq from between 945-718 BCE, and an adorable-sounding cast bronze sculpture of a mother cat with four kittens nursing from ca. 666-30 BCE. (..)" With photo of a Greco-Roman cat statue. URL [For the statue of mother cat and kittens, see URL ] info: source - URL info: source - URL (PDF) * "Mummies" (TBA) date: 2013 (TBA) info: source - URL f) Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams St, New London, CT 06320 URL * "Shaped by the Ancients: Selections from the Lyman Allyn Permanent Collection" date: February 2, 2013 - June 22, 2013 The exhibit encompasses more than 90 objects ranging from ancient Egyptian jewelry and [two] falcon mummies to ancient Greek and Roman glass, pottery, coins and sculpture. A rare wooden Greco-Egyptian child's pull toy is among the objects. info: URL info: press report at: URL info: press report at URL g) Massachusetts Institute of Technology / MIT Museum Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 URL * "3D Hologram of the Rhind Mummy" date: June 25, 2012 - September 28, 2013 Pioneering 3D visualisation holographic imagery is being used to reveal the concealed detail of an Egyptian mummy. info: URL info: URL Reopening of the Holography Gallery on June 25. info: press reports at URL With scan photos, showing the position of the amulets on the mummy. URL "(..) the CT scans revealed the mummy was an Egyptian female aged 25-29, 5ft 2 ins tall, dating back to around 10BC. She was revealed to hold a papyrus scroll in her right hand, the so-called Book of Breathing (..)" h) Albany Institute of History & Art 125 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12210 URL * "GE Presents: The Mystery of the Albany Mummies" date: September 21, 2013 - June 8, 2014 Two dyn. 21 mummies and their coffins will be on display, plus the results of CT scan research (conducted March 31, 2012). One of the mummies, Ankhefenmut, a priest in the temple of Mut, will be reunited with his mummy cover and the coffin lid that are in the collections of London’s British Museum and Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. info: URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL "(..) Two mummified Egyptians and an alligator mummy were transported to Albany Medical Center’s South Campus to undergo X-ray and CT scans in an effort to learn more about the Albany Institute of History and Art’s Egyptian collections and its mummies. (..) The two mummies, called the Albany mummies, include a somewhat unwrapped one that is believed to be a male with its skull and remaining upper body showing. It was unwrapped not long after it was purchased in 1909 from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, mainly to see what was under the ancient wrapping that dates back to 300 B.C. The other mummy, which is full wrapped, is believed to be a female from the 21st dynasty, or about 1,000 B.C. It was lighter than the male mummy, museum officials said. Both mummies were transported from Egypt, where they were discovered near Luxor at Deir el-Bahri on a steamship, to help fill the institute’s new building around the turn of the 20th century. Egyptologist Dr. Bob Brier (..) said he hoped to finally determine their sex after Saturday’s tests. (..)". URL URL URL URL With photos of the scanning process. URL Here results are mentioned: "(..) The mummies were both determined to be male, which was a surprise to the Institute since one of the mummies was believed to be a female. According to Brindisi, the Institute was thrilled because the paintings on the sarcophagus indicated that the mummy was a male. “It made more sense that sarcophagus held a male because the paintings told its name, dynasty and place it came from,” Brindisi said.(..)" i) Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design 224 Benefit Street | Providence, RI 02903 URL * Made for Eternity" date: March 15, 2013 - December 31, 2013 [was: till November 17, 2013] The exhibition will highlight everyday functional objects as well as those used for temple worship and funerary practices; e.g. the RISD Museum's mummy (the Egyptian priest Nesmin), amulets, small bronze statues of gods, carved granite, and painted panel portraits. info: URL info: URL j) Washington State Historical Society 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402 URL * "Mason and the Mummy" date: October 20, 2011 - June 2, 2013 [prolongation; was: till November 30, 2012] Features the story of noted Tacoma businessman Allen C. Mason and his purchase of the Egyptian mummy Ankh-Wennefer. Mason set out on a 6-month around-the-world journey to Egypt in 1890 with the intention of finding and bringing home a mummy. He succeeded, and later donated Ankh-Wennefer's mummy to the Historical Society in 1897. info: URL k) The Leonardo 209 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 URL * "Mummies of the World" date: February 16, 2013 - May 27, 2013. The traveling exhibition currently on a seven-city, three-year tour of the United States, with ca. 45 human and animal mummies and ca. 95 funeral artifacts from many cultures, incl. Egypt. Recently at The Witte Museum, San Antonio TX (September 29, 2012 - January 27, 2013) and the Museum of Science & Industry, Tampa (April 27, 2012 - September 3, 2012), earlier in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and at the Discovery Place, Charlotte, NC (November 11, 2011 - April 8, 2012). info: URL info: URL info press release at URL info: URL info: press report at URL With video of TV press report and photo gallery. info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL URL URL URL info: press report at URL l) The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028-0198 URL * "Objects from the Kharga Oasis" date: August 14, 2012 - August 4, 2013 About the work of the MMA in and around the ancient city of Hibis in the Kharga Oasis. info: URL "(..) This selection of late Roman and Byzantine period objects from the Metropolitan Museum's excavations at the Kharga Oasis includes textiles, ceramics, and grave goods from an intact tomb. Also on view are facsimiles of the painted interiors of several of the Bagawat Necropolis tomb chapels and excavation photography." With several illustrated background articles. * "The Search for Cleopatra's Tomb" [?] date: TBA info: source - URL "(..) Martinez also announced the exhibit of her findings at the Metropolitan Art Museum*, where Dominicans who live in New York can view them. (..) " m) Saint Louis Science Center 5050 Oakland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110 URL * "Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science" date: May 25, 2013 - September 2, 2013 This interactive exhibit features authentic artefacts, plus a human mummy and animal mummies, as well as scans, forensic facial reconstructions and a life-size rapid prototype of a mummy in a stage of "unwrapping." The artefacts are on loan from the Brooklyn Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences. The travelling exhibition was earlier at COSI Columbus (May 30, 2009 - September 7, 2009), Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (October 24, 2010 - January 2, 2011), the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) (January 29, 2011 - May 1, 2011), the Mayborn Museum (May 28, 2011 - September 5, 2011), the Science Center of Iowa, Des Moines (November 25, 2011 - April 29, 2012), the Museum of Science, Boston (May 27, 2012 - September 3, 2012), and the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul (October 13, 2012 - January 1, 2013), and the Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland ( February 2, 2013 - April 28, 2013). info: URL info: URL info: source - URL n) Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Michigan State University 547 East Circle Drive East Lansing, MI 48824 URL * "Collective Reflections, Individual Memories" date: April 19, 2013 - April 28, 2013 Exhibition curated by museum studies students; includes diverse objects from ancient Egypt to the present. info: URL info: press report at URL o) Museum of Fine Arts 465 Hurlington Street, Massachusetts 02115 URL * "Jewels, Gems and Treasures: Ancient to Modern" date: July 19, 2011 - June 1, 2014 [prolongation; was: till November 25, 2012] Features approximately 75 works from the MFA's jewelry collection, as well as select loans. Among the jewelry (ancient and modern) displayed are ancient Egyptian pectoral from an elite burial and several Nubian hard-stone pendants from the burial of a Kushite queen. info: URL info: (in PDF) URL With photo of a Hathor-headed crystal pendant, Napatan Period, reign of King Piye (743-712 BC), from el-Kurru. p) OMSI 1945 SE Water Ave., Portland, OR 97214-3354 URL * "Mummies of the World" date: June 14, 2013 - September 8, 2013 The traveling exhibition currently on a seven-city, three-year tour of the United States, with ca. 45 human and animal mummies and ca. 95 funeral artifacts from many cultures, incl. Egypt. Recently at The Witte Museum, San Antonio TX (September 29, 2012 - January 27, 2013), the Museum of Science & Industry, Tampa (April 27, 2012 - September 3, 2012), and The Leonardo, Salt Lake City (February 16, 2013 - May 27, 2013); earlier in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and at the Discovery Place, Charlotte, NC (November 11, 2011 - April 8, 2012). info: URL info: URL q) - r) - s) - t) - u) University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 URL * "Inside the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies" date: September 30, 2012 - TBA Part exhibition, and part working laboratory, a glass-enclosed conservation lab allows you to watch conservators work on a wide array of Egyptian objects. info: URL info: URL info: matching blog at URL info: press reports at URL URL "(..) The archaeology and anthropology museum has identified 30 objects from its 42,000-piece Egyptian collection to be conserved during the evolving project. Many of the lab items have not been exhibited before because of their poor condition, said conservator Molly Gleeson. Among Gleeson's first projects are preserving the mummies of a cat, falcon and ibis. (..) Also undergoing study are hieroglyphic-inscribed slabs of wood that comprised the coffin of an Egyptian named Ahanakht, circa 2000 B.C. Conservation efforts led researchers to discover hidden inscriptions on the seams, said David Silverman, curator-in-charge of the Egyptian section.(..)" URL URL URL URL URL With slideshow. info: press report at URL "(..) The museum owns parts of a burial cloth on display now. It will be replaced by a high-resolution photograph in a few weeks to it won't be damaged by long-term exposure to light. (..)" With video. v) The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201 URL * "Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum" date: October 13, 2013 - January 5, 2014 This exhibition on the Egyptian belief system will focus on an exquisitely illustrated Greco-Roman-period papyrus—the Book of the Faiyum— that describes the creation of the universe and depicts the daily journey of the sun god. This will be the first time in more than 150 years that t he manuscript, which was divided up for sale in the 19th century, will be reunited. Will travel to the Roemer- und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, in Summer 2014. info: URL info: URL "(..) with maps and photo murals of the region (...) and displays mimicking the papyrus' composition: an oblong lake in and around which sit, lie, swim and stand a multitude of gods. Visitors will move through the galleries, as if traversing the lake, to "meet" the figures and learn about ancient rituals and beliefs. This exhibition will travel to the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany and the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim, Germany." w) The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology 103 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 URL * Closed for renovation date: July 1, 2012 - July 1, 2014 info: URL x) - y) - z) Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston Texas 77030 URL * "Opening Hall of Ancient Egypt" date: May 31, 2013 - permament This new permanent exhibition hall will explore the climate, wildlife and geography of Egypt, the daily life of its inhabitants and the rule of its kings, the religious and funerary customs. The exhibition will also compare old-style archaeology with 21st-century approaches, such as using satellite imagery and remote sensing to locate and map ancient settlements. info: URL Members Preview: May 24-30. Public Opening: May 31 info: press report at URL With virtual tour of the new hall. za) - zb) - zc) - zd) - ze) - zf) - zg) The New Children's Museum 950 Trout Brook Drive, West Hartford, Connecticut 06119 1437 URL * "King Tut, The Boy King" date: October 4, 2012 - May 31, 2013 With 126 replicas of objects from KV62; this is the travelling 'Tutankhamun: "Wonderful Things" From The Pharaoh's Tomb" exhibition. info: URL URL URL zh) Newark Museum 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102-3176 URL * "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" date: February 27 [was: 23], 2013 - August 11, 2013 The exhibition exolores, via some 90 objects, how the celestial bodies of the sun, moon, and stars and such celestial phenomena as rainbows and eclipses serve as sources of inspiration in the creation of African art, both traditional and contemporary. Among the objects on view is a mummy board, and one of the world's earliest "calendars", the stone structures at Nabta Playa (Egypt), will receive attention. Currently at the National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560 (June 20, 2012 - December 9, 2012). info: URL info: press release at URL "(..) With an opening selection of ancient Egyptian and Nubian works that frame the topic historically. (..) Concurrent with the presentation of this exhibition, visitors will be able to see a new program Stars of the Pharaohs in the Museum's Dreyfuss Planetarium. (..)" info: press report at URL "(..) In the first gallery, you learn about Nabta Playa, a site near the border of Egypt and Sudan where a circle of upright stones and sun dials were set up for astronomical measurements. (..) You also learn that the ancient Egyptians associated Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, with the annual flooding of the Nile, a welcome event for farmers. (..) A 3,000-year-old mummy case from Thebes, made for a female singer in the temple of the sun god Amun-Ra, depicts a winged sky goddess that the occupant hoped would transport her spirit into the heavens. (..)" --CANADA-- a) Penetanguishene Centennial Museum 13 Burke Street, Penetanguishene, ON L9M 1C1 URL * "Egypt, Gift of the Nile" date: April 2, 2013 - July 26, 2013 A travelling exhibition from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), including more than 50 original artifacts and a mummy replica. info: press report at URL --UNITED KINGDOM-- a) British Museum British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG * TBA b) Tate Britain Millbank, London SW1P 4RG URL * "Focus: Francis Frith Photographs" date: until 15 April 2013 Francis Frith (1822-1898) made several trips to Egypt and the Near East between 1856 and 1859, and was one of the first to experiment with glass negatives. A series of his early photographs is on display. info: URL info: images of many of Frith's Egyptian photos may be seen at URL c) Manchester Museum The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL URL * Re-opening of The Ancient Worlds galleries date: October 26, 2012 info: URL info: blog report (about the Amarna artefacts) at URL d) Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology * "In and Out of the Nile Valley" date: July-September 2013 Exhibition of the winning photographs from the 25th Anniversary Photo Competition of the Friends of the Petrie Museum. Closing date of entries is May 1, 2013 (open to non-members). For information (poster, rules, entry form), see URL e) Fleetwood Museum 6-7 Queens Terrace, Fleetwood FY7 6BT URL * "From Egypt's Sands to Northern Hills" date: cancelled [was: March 29, 2013 - June 9, 2013] Exhibition of objects from the excavations of John Garstang. It was earlier at Kendal Museum (April 1, 2011 - September 30, 2011), Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery (October 22, 2011 - March 16, 2012), and Towneley Hall Museum (March 28, 2012 - June 28, 2012). Will move to the Museum of Lancashire, Preston (November 15, 2012 - January 20, 2013) and the Lancaster City Museum (January 25, 2013 - mid-March 2013). info: source - URL info: URL f) Inverness Museum and Art Gallery Castle Wynd, Inverness IV2 3EB URL * "Secret Egypt: Unravelling Truth from Myth" date: March 30, 2013 - June 1, 2013 With over 150 objects drawn from the significant collections of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, The Herbert in Coventry and Maidstone Museum. This travelling exhibition was ealier in the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (February 11, 2011 - June 5, 2011), Torquay Museum (July 1, 2011 - October 25, 2011), Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery (March 10, 2012 - June 10, 2012), and Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery (June 30, 2012 - September 3, 2012). Among the upcoming venues is Portsmouth. info: URL info: URL g) University College London UCL North Cloisters (Wilkins Building) Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT * "Foreigh Bodies" date: March 18, 2013 - July 14, 2013 "An exhibition curated by UCL Researchers in Museums, re-interpreting the collections through the theme of 'foreign bodies'. Through 7 very different research projects, audiences are invited to explore the idea of what is alien - biologically, psychologically, socially and politically - and how this concept has shifted across history, culture, and even species." info: URL info: source - URL URL The faience tiles from the royal palace at Medinet Habu, depicting foreigners. will apparently be part of the exhibition. URL An ancient Egyptian statue of a baboon playing a harp (from the Petrie Museum) will be among the items. h) Buckingham Palace SW1A 1AA London * "Cairo to Constantinople: Early Photographs of the Middle East" date: October 31, 2014 - February 22, 2015 This exhibition documents the journey of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) in 1862 to Egypt, Palestine and the Holy Land, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece, via the work of British photographer Francis Bedford (1815-94) who accompanied him. The exhibition includes archaeological material brought back to Britain by the Prince of Wales from the excavations he had visited during his tour - e.g., a statue of the 12th Dynasty queen Senet, the BD papyrus of Nesmin, the stela of Nakhtmontu, and scarabs. Currently in Edinburgh (March 8, 2013 - July 21, 2013). info: URL i) Palace of Holyroodhouse, Canongate, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH8 8DX URL * "Cairo to Constantinople: Early Photographs of the Middle East" date: March 8, 2013 - July 21, 2013 This exhibition documents the journey of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) in 1862 to Egypt, Palestine and the Holy Land, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece, via the work of British photographer Francis Bedford (1815-94) who accompanied him. info: URL info: press release at URL "(..) The Prince of Wales and his small entourage set out from London on 6 February 1862 and made their way by train to Venice, where they boarded the Royal Yacht Osborne. The steamer took the party to Alexandria, where they began an ambitious itinerary planned in advance by scholars and politicians. Many of the places they visited were known for their spectacular archaeological sites, such as those at Philae, Karnak and Luxor along the Nile. (..) The exhibition includes archaeological material brought back to Britain by the Prince of Wales from the excavations he had visited during his tour. Among the objects is an Egyptian papyrus inscribed with the Amduat, (..); a painted wooden funerary stela of Nakhtmontu, a priest of the Egyptian god Amon-Re, is displayed in a striking frame commissioned by the Prince on his return to London. The Prince also had a number of ancient scarabs set into pieces of Egyptian-style gold jewellery, some of which he presented as gifts to his fiancée, Princess Alexandra of Denmark, to mark their marriage in March 1863.(..)" info: presss report, with video, at URL info: blog entry, with a review of the exhibition, at URL info: press report at URL j) - k) - l) - m) - n) The Tutankhamun Exhibition, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1UW. URL * "Harry Burton's Photographs" date: November 4, 2012 - TBA info: press report at URL "The Tutankhamun Exhibition in Dorchester is celebrating the 90th anniversary of Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb in the Valley of the Kings. From this week it is showing an exhibition on the photographic images of Harry Burton who documented the discovery. (..) The duotone reproductions in the exhibit concentrate on three years of Howard Carter's work in the tomb from the break-in until the revelation of the famous Golden Mask of the young pharaoh. " o) - p) - q) Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RL URL * "Pharaoh: King of Egypt" date: March 16 [was: 15], 2013 - July 21 [was: June 9], 2013 The travelling exhibition with 130 tems from the British Museum that will focus on aspects of Egyptian kingship (with examples of sculpture, jewellery, palace ornamentation, papyri and funerary objects). Earlier at the Leeds City Museum (February 11, 2012 - June 17, 2012) and the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (July 14, 2012 - October 14, 2012), and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (November 3, 2012 - February 24, 2013). info: URL info: URL info: URL info: press report, with a video of a tour of the exhibition, at URL info: press report at URL * "Pharaoh: Reborn" date: April 20, 2013 - September 29, 2013 With paintings of the tomb of Pharaoh Sety I. When Giovanni Belzoni opened this tomb in 1818, he was astonished by the painted wall decoration. Belzoni created a blockbuster exhibition in London, using the casts and scale copies of the wall paintings. A selection of the 'model' paintings will show the journey of the pharaoh after death through the Underworld. info: URL info: press report at URL * "Roman Empire: Power and People" date: September 20, 2013 - January 12, 2014 Touring exhibition, combining some of the most fascinating objects from the British Museum's collections of Roman, Romano-British and Romano-Egyptian material, never before displayed together in this way. The exhibition will contain over 70 British Museum pieces on display. Will later travel to Norwich and Coventry. info: URL info: URL "(..) an opportunity to see a selection of objects from Antinoupolis and other cities from the former empire's southern frontier, Roman Egypt.(..)" Among the pieces will be the statue of Horus dressed as Roman Emperor. r) Saffron Walden Museum Museum Street, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 1JL * "Reimagining Egypt" date: November 16, 2013 - January 26, 2014 A collaborative exhibition bringing together Ancient Egyptian artefacts, acclaimed Egyptian artist Khaled Hafez, and members of the community. info: URL --THE NETHERLANDS-- a) Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, Amsterdam URL * "Women for all seasons. Beeld van de vrouw in de Oudheid" date: March 8, 2013 - August 25, 2013 An exhibition dedicated to depictions of women and goddesses in ancient Egypt, the ANE, and Greece. info: URL info: source - URL info: source - URL info: press report at URL * "Eeuwig Egypte Experience" date: 12 July 2013 - 5 January 2014 A multimedia show called Culturama, showing on large screens the history of ancient Egypt, combined with presentations about Dutch and Flemish archaeological work in Egypt, illustrated with artefacts from the collection. info: source - URL b) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) Rapenburg 28, 2311 EW Leiden URL * "Het Egypte van Hollywood KIDS" [was: Egypte in de film KIDS] date: October 13, 2012 - Summer 2013 In five reconstructed film-studios, kids can watch movies that have an ancient Egyptian theme (e.g. 'Asterix and Cleopatra' and 'The Prince of Egypt'), and can discover which elements in these movies are historically accurate and which are not. info: URL info: URL * "Mummiekisten van de Amon-priesters" ["Coffins of the Amun-priests"] [was: Coffins [preliminary title]] date: April 19, 2013 - September 15, 2013 The exhibition looks at the priesthood of Amun in Thebes and their necropolis of Bab el-Gasus, with a special focus on the conservation of their coffins (the 'Vatican Coffin Project'). With artefacts from the collections of the RMO, the Louvre and the Vatican Museum. info: URL info: URL info: a press release about the Project is available at URL English: URL info: URL Coffins from the Louvre and the Vatican Museums have arrived on April 9, 2013 -- with photo gallery. info: press release and press photos at URL info: Dutch press report at URL c) - d) Drents Museum Brink 1, 9401 HS Assen URL * "Mummies" [working title] date: 2014 info: source - URL (in PDF) e) - f) Universeit Leiden * "Schoeisel in het Oude Egypte" [Footwear in ancient Egypt] date: 17 [18] January 2013 - 15 [16] May 2013 place: Bestuursbureau, Oude Universiteitsbibliotheek, Rapenburg 70, Leiden info: URL info: (in English) URL info: an impression (in English, with photos) at URL g) Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, Amsterdam URL * "Divine Surprise! Het vrouwelijke in God" date: March 8, 2013 - August 25, 2013 Exhibition (organized by the BIBEL + ORIENT Museum in Freiburg) of a large amount of depictions of goddesses from the Ancient Near East, incl. Egypt. info: URL h) Museum Jan van der Togt Dorpsstraat 50, 1182 JE Amstelveen URL * "Time out of mind" date: April 25, 2013 - June 2, 2013 Exhibition of paintings and other works by modern artist Gerti Bierenbroodspot, inspired by ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East. info: URL info: source - URL --GERMANY-- a) b) Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Bonn Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, 53113 Bonn URL * " "Ausgrabungen" in der Universität - Die Abgussammlung des Ägyptischen Museums" date: March 19, 2013 - April 7, 2013 [prolongation; was: till March 24, 2013] info: URL info: a podcast, about the discovery of the gypsum casts, at URL * "Zu schön um wahr zu sein - Die Ästhetik des Nicht-Authentischen in der ägyptoformen Kunst" date: May 15, 2013 - June 30, 2013 info: URL * "Kleopatra VII. - Die wohlvertraute und doch so unbekannte Königin" date: July 24, 2013 - November 30, 2013 info: URL * "Bei den Pyramiden von Meroe - Reiseaquarelle von Francis Breyer" date: December 4, 2013 - February 28, 2014 info: URL c) Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst Standort Residenz Hofgartenstraße 1, 80539 München URL URL * Part 1 of the Museum is closed from January 2 - 13, 2013. Part 2 will be closed on January 14, 2013. The museum is moving: see press reports in Section IV below. info: source - URL * "Vom Kleinen Teil zum Grossen Ganzen: Fragen und Antworten zur Umwelt und zum Leben Alter Kulturen" date: January 16, 2013 - June 9 [was: 30], 2013 An exhibition on modern methods of Archaeology, organized by the PhD candidates of the ArchaeoBioCenter of the Ludwig- Maximilians-University in Munich [see URL]. Several specialisms are being featured: Archäologie, Anthropologie, Archäozoologie, Mineralogie & Geologie, Archäobotanik, Informatik. info: URL info: URL info: source - URL (see p. 41) * "Reise in die Unterwelt: Altägyptische Jenseitsvorstellungen" [Journey to the Netherworld: Ancient Eyptian Concepts about the Afterlife] date: January 16, 2013 - June 9 [was: 30], 2013 With a reconstruction of the NK tomb of Rai in Thebes-West, plus funerary artefacts. info: URL info: URL info: source - URL d) Ägyptisches Museum – Georg Steindorff – der Universität Leipzig Goethestraße 2, 04109 Leipzig URL * "Zwischen den Welten: Grabfunde von Ägyptens Südgrenze" [Between Worlds: Finds from Tombs on Egypt's Southern Border] date: 11 June 2013 - TBA Exhibition of finds from excavations by the University of Bonn in Qubbet el-Hawa (near Aswan) between 1950 en 1980. Earlier at the Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Bonn (September 1, 2011 - May 1, 2012). info: source - URL info: source - URL e) Landesmuseum Hannover Willy-Brandt-Allee 5, 30169 Hannover URL * "Faszination Nofretete. Bernhard Hoetger und Ägypten" date: April 26, 2013 - August 25, 2013 Looks at the ways in which Bernhard Hoetger's art (between 1912 and 1919) was influenced by ancient Egyptian art. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "Dank großzügiger Leihgaben aus dem Ägyptischen Museum in Berlin und der Berliner Gipsformerei könnten Hoetgers Skulpturen erstmals ihren Vorbildern gegenübergestellt werden, sagte Museumschefin Katja Lembke am Donnerstag." info: press report, including slideshow, at URL Also a video report on TET-city, a project of the early 20th century to build a suburb of Hannover in an Egyptianizing manner [3:39 mins.] info: press report at URL "Als Messestadt genießt Hannover Weltruf, doch um wie viel heller würde eine von Sonnengott Amun-Re bestrahlte Landeshauptstadt glänzen, wenn der Plan zum Bau einer ägyptischen Metropolis vor rund 100 Jahren realisiert worden wäre? Ab 1916 verfolgte der Hannoveraner Keksfabrikant Hermann Bahlsen zusammen mit dem expressionistischen Künstler Bernhard Hoetger (1874-1949) ein wahrhaft visionäres Projekt: die Errichtung der sogenannten Tet-Stadt, in der etwa 17.000 Mitarbeiter des Konzerns arbeiten, wohnen und sich in Theater, Cafés, Kegelbahnen und Parks erholen sollten." info: press report at URL "Als Messestadt genießt Hannover Weltruf, doch um wie viel heller würde eine von Sonnengott Amun-Re bestrahlte Landeshauptstadt glänzen, wenn der Plan zum Bau einer ägyptischen Metropolis vor rund 100 Jahren realisiert worden wäre? Ab 1916 verfolgte der Hannoveraner Keksfabrikant Hermann Bahlsen zusammen mit dem expressionistischen Künstler Bernhard Hoetger (1874-1949) ein wahrhaft visionäres Projekt: die Errichtung der sogenannten Tet-Stadt, in der etwa 17.000 Mitarbeiter des Konzerns arbeiten, wohnen und sich in Theater, Cafés, Kegelbahnen und Parks erholen sollten." f) Arena Berlin Eichenstraße 4, 12435 Berlin * "Tutanchamun - Sein Grab und die Schätze" [Tutankhamun - his tomb and the treasures] date: March 9 [was: 19], 2013 - September 1, 2013 The travelling exhibition of replicas will also come to Berlin. info: URL info: source - URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL URL "Rund 1000 Objekte zeigt die Ausstellung, jedes Stück ist ein Replikat, eigens für die Ausstellung angefertigt in einer ägyptischen Werkstatt.. (...) Das Ergebnis kann sich sehen lassen. Die Ausstellung macht Lust auf mehr und verhehlt nicht ihren Bildungsanspruch, der zeitgemäß verpackt ist. (....) Rund fünf Millionen Euro hat Semmel Concerts investiert, um die Ausstellung zu kreieren. (...) Ein Geschäftsmodell, das sich offenbar rechnet. Über vier Millionen Besucher hat die Wanderausstellung, die 2008 in Zürich Premiere hatte, mittlerweile in zwölf Ländern und an 16 Orten angezogen." info: video report [2:25 mins.] at URL info: many press reports around on the occasion of the opening - one example at URL " In der Berliner Arena werden eintausend Stücke aus dem Schatz des Tutanchamun gezeigt. Es ist eine wunderbare Ausstellung, in der nichts echt ist, aber alles stimmt." info: press report "Die Schätze von Treptow" at URL Diary notes of an exhibition day. g) Naturmuseum Gerberau 32, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau URL * "Die Letzten Pharaonen" [was: "Das spätantike Ägypten"] date: cancelled? [was: July 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015] info: URL info: source - URL h) Haus der Stadtgeschichte, Museum und Archiv Herrnstraße 61, 63065 Offenbach am Main URL * "David Roberts: Eine romantische Reise in den Orient (1842) - Die schönsten Lithographien aus dem Heiligen Land und Ägypten: Jerusalem - Palästina - Petra - Sinai - Alt-Ägypten und Kairo" date: April 15, 2012 - May 13, 2012 info: (PDF) URL info: URL i) - j) Internationales Keramik-Museum Luitpoldstr. 25, 92637 Weiden URL * "Das besondere Objekt: Schildkröte Uralt - Eine Schminkpalette aus der ägyptischen Vorgeschichte" date: March 17, 2013 - till Summer 2013 A Predynastic Turtle Palette is on loan from the Museum Ägyptischer Kunst München. With an opening lecture by Sylvia Schoske (on March 17, 11:00). info: URL info: source - URL info: source - URL k) Arche Nebra An der Steinklöbe 15, 06642 Wangen URL * "Ägyptische Mumien -- Eine Reise in die Unsterblichkeit" date: April 26, 2013 - November 10, 2013 Exhibition about the AE funerary cult (afterlife concepts, mummification, sarcophagi, funerary rituals and gifts), with artefacts on loan from the Museo Egizio di Firenze. The exhibition was earlier in the Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt (November 5, 2011 - February 26, 2012; under the title "Reise in die Unsterblichkeit. Ägyptische Mumien und das ewige Leben") and the Museumszentrum Mistelbach ( March 24, 2012 - October 28, 2012; under the title "Mumien: Blick in die Ewigkeit"). info: URL l) Knauf-Museum Am Marktplatz, 97343 Iphofen URL * "Das Erwachen der Sphinx - Die Wiederentdeckung Altägyptens" date: July 28, 2013 - November 3, 2013 Exhibition about the Egyptomania of the 18th and 19th c. info: URL info: source - URL m) Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Bodestr 1, D-10178 Berlin tel.: +49(0)30 266 42-4242, fax: +49(0)30 266 42-2290 email * "Im Licht von Amarna. 100 Jahre Fund der Nofretete" [In the Light of Amarna. 100 Years of the Find of Nefertiti] date: December 7, 2012 - August 4, 2013 [prolongation; was: till April 13, 2013] At the occassion of the anniversary of the excavations of Ludwig Borchardt in Amarna in 1912/1913, during which the Bust of Nefertiti was discovered. With ca. 400 objects, of whoch ca. 50 on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre und the British Museum. info: URL info: (in German) URL (in English) URL info: URL "(..) Während der Grabungskampagnen in Amarna wurden zwischen 7.000 und 10.000 Objekte gefunden, von denen sich 3.500 in Berlin befinden. Die meisten sind bis heute weder restauratorisch noch wissenschaftlich bearbeitet worden. Ausgestellt wurden bislang meist nur wenige Schlüsselobjekte. (..)" info: source - Presseinformation der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz - pdf-file (0.4 MB) URL info: English press report at URL info: press report at URL "Das Projekt ist Teil der Kooperation zwischen den Staatlichen Museen und der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, die am Mittwoch bekanntgegeben wurde. Über die Fördersumme vereinbarten die Museen Stillschweigen." info: press reports at URL "Hundert Jahre nach ihrer Entdeckung wird in Berlin die Büste des Echnaton restauriert und im Dezember in der großen Ausstellung "Im Licht von Armana. 100 Jahre Fund der Nofretete" im Neuen Museum gezeigt. (..)" ][cf. Press Reports section below] URL "Die Büste des Echnaton, Mann der Nofretete, war bisher nur in zerstörtem Zustand zu sehen. Erstmals wird sie, behutsam bearbeitet, gemeinsam mit der berühmten Büste seiner Frau ausgestellt. (..)" URL info: Spanish press report at URL info: video report [0:34 mins.] at URL info: URL New exhibition website. You may already buy your ticket online. info: press reports at URL "Berlin is to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of the magnificent bust of Queen Nefertiti - wife of monotheistic pharaoh, Akhnaten - with an exhibition of objects discovered at the Amarna archaeological site in Upper Egypt where the bust was originally found. Entitled 'In the Light of Amarna,' the exhibition will open on 6 December, the day on which the bust was unearthed one hundred years ago by a German archaeological team led by Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt. Artefacts on display will include 600 objects used in the everyday lives of ancient Egyptians. (..)" URL "(..) The show will include some 600 objects, many of which have been held in the Berlin museum's stores over the decades and which organizers hope will illustrate life in ancient Egypt. They include some 200 items being restored in time for the exhibition. There's also an excavator's diary, including a sketch of Nefertiti. (..)" URL URL With photo of excavator's diary with sketch. info: press reports (among many similar ones) at URL "'Nofretete ist über die Jahre stark vereinzelt und ikonisiert worden', so Kuratorin Friederike Seyfried. Dabei wurde sie in der Werkstatt des Handwerkers Thutmosis zusammen mit vielen anderen Objekten entdeckt, darunter der Büste ihres Gemahls Echnaton. 'Die beiden Büsten gehören zusammen, sie sind gleich groß und ähnlich verziert. Es ist mir wichtig, beide in einer Ausstellung zu zeigen', so Seyfried." URL "Die Ausstellung wird buchstäblich um die Pharaonengattin herumgebaut: Die einzigartige Büste ist so empfindlich, dass sie nicht transportiert werden darf. Sie behält deshalb ihren angestammten Ehrenplatz im Nordkuppelsaal des von David Chipperfield renovierten Museums. Allerdings wird ihr eine Bronzereplik als Doppelgängerin zur Seite gestellt. «Wir wollen, dass der Besucher die Schönheit der Büste auch durch die Hände erleben kann», sagt Ausstellungsarchitekt Noel McCauley." info: press report at URL info: press report at URL "Was in Amarna vor 3300 Jahren entstand und vor hundert Jahren wiederentdeckt wurde an Alltagsgegenständen, vor allem aber an Kultobjekten, was unter Ägyptern unter der Hand heimlich weitergereicht oder (auch heimlich) in einem Winkel der Wohnung verehrt wurde, korrigiert die These vom so perfekten wie totalitären Sonnenstaat des Echnaton und seiner Gemahlin Nofretete. So anmaßend der Sonnenkult des Echnaton, so rücksichtlos seine religiöse Revolution, so beängstigend die Errichtung seines Gottesstaats, um 1340 v. Chr., für etwa 15 Jahre - so deutlich die Spuren individueller Opposition." Reports about the preparation of the exhibition. info: English press report at URL info: press release, about the opening, at URL "Kulturstaatsminister Bernd Neumann erklärte anlässlich der Ausstellungseröffnung (...): 'Die Büste der Nofretete ist unzweifelhaft und zu Recht im Eigentum der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK). Dazu gibt es umfassende Belege, die Professor Friederike Seyfried im Jahrbuch 2010 der SPK überzeugend dargestellt und dokumentiert hat. Die rechtliche Grundlage ist die mit der ägyptischen Seite vereinbarte Fundteilung, die damals üblich war, und aufgrund derer viele bedeutende Exponate für die Nachwelt erhalten werden konnten. Von einer Täuschung bei der Teilung kann keine Rede sein, die gehört ins Reich der Mythen.'" info: press release, information, photographs and more (German): URL press release, information, photographs and more (English - mostly): URL info: press report at URL "(...) Fünf Tipps, wie Sie die Nofretete-Ausstellung im Neuen Museum genießen können. 1) Die Königin als First Lady entdecken (...) 2) Die Werkstatt des Bildhauers besuchen (...) 3) Das antike Kosmetiktäschchen öffnen (...) 4) Im Tagebuch des Ausgräbers blättern (...) 5) Die Geheimnisse der Nofretete zum Nachlesen (...)" Includes a slideshow info: press report (in English) at URL "(..) Visitors to the Neues Museum will be shown 600 articles from the fabled German dig of 1912 at el-Amarna, 300 kilometers south of Cairo, that unearthed the [Nefertiti] bust. Many of the 3,350-year-old artifacts have not been seen in public since before World War I. (..) The prime novelty of the show will be the restored bust of King Akhenaten, Nefertiti's husband, by the same sculptor, Thutmose." info: examples of the original audio guide [ca: 1:30 - 2:00 mins. each] - URL info: video report "Vor 100 Jahre wurde Nofretete entdeckt" [0:46 mins.] - URL info: press report at URL About the reconstructed Bust of Akhenaten, with two images of a 3D computer model. info: press report at URL "(...) Es wird nahezu alles gezeigt, was die Ausgrabungen Borchardts in Tell el-Amarna, dem ehemaligen Achet-Aton, zutage gebracht haben, Hunderte von Objekten, die zum Teil bisher noch nie die Depots verlassen hatten und nun zum ersten Mal publiziert werden. Nofretete ist zwar der Fluchtpunkt des Ausstellungsparcours, aber sie ist nicht die alles überstrahlende Hauptfigur. (...) Wissenschaftliche Nüchternheit muss nicht sinnenfeindlich sein. Die überzeugende Ausstellungsarchitektur holt die Gelb- und Brauntöne der Wüstenlandschaft am Nil ins Museum. Eine Lichtinstallation aus transparentem Stoff repräsentiert den Sonnen- gott Aton. (...) Zum Publikumsmagneten wird sicher der Raum, in der alle noch vorhandenen Funde aus der Werkstatt des Thutmosis versammelt sind. Dort fand sich auch Nofretete, unter einer dicken Sandschicht geschützt (...)" info: video report "Im Licht von Amarna - 100 Jahre Nofretete" [5:58 mins.] URL "Interview (in German) with Michael Eissenhauer, general director of the Berlin National Museums, and impressions of the exhibition (...)" info: video report "100 Jahre: Fund der Nofretete - Ausstellung in Berlin ehrt Pharaonengattin" [1.59 mins.] URL info: review (in English) (by Campbell Price, at the Manchester Museum blog) - URL info: English press reports at URL URL info: press report at URL With photo gallery of artefacts [click on Nefertiti]. info: press report at URL "(...) Wer waren die beiden überhaupt? Genealogisch ist klar, dass Echnaton ein Sohn von Amenophis III. war. Er heiratete Nofretete, die beiden hatten sechs Töchter. Unklar ist, ob auch der Nachfolger Echnatons, Tutenchamun, ein Spross dieser Verbindung war. Genetische Analysen verschiedener Mumien haben jüngst versucht, hier Klarheit zu schaffen, mit widersprüchlichen Resultaten. Dazu Direktorin Seyfried in vornehmer Zurückhaltung: «Wir beteiligen uns nicht am heiteren Mumienraten.» Sie präsentiert einen Stammbaum, der von den neuesten Forschungen nichts wissen will. Für die seriös arbeitenden Genetiker ist das ein Affront, ist es doch Aufgabe gerade der Ägyptologen und Ägyptologinnen, sich mit den genetischen Analysen auseinanderzusetzen und gegenüber dem breiten Publikum Stellung zu beziehen. Hier wurde eine Gelegenheit verpasst, dem Besucher die Problematik von Fakten contra Spekulation näherzubringen - eine Problematik, mit der sich jede archäologische Wissenschaft, jede Ausstellung auseinanderzu- setzen hat." Exhibition review with a slideshow. info: another press report, with some remarks about faked objects on the market, at URL info: Itallian press report, with slideshow, at URL info: video of the exhibition [3:30 mins.] at URL info: kino trailer [0:50 mins.] at URL info: video report "Nofretetes Jubiläumausstellung" [5:47 mins.] at URL info: "Begrüßung des 250.000ten Besuchers (...) - Ausstellung wird bis zum 4. August verlängert" URL info: press report at URL "Die Berliner Ausstellung zum Fund der Nofretete vor 100 Jahren hat innerhalb von 15 Wochen eine Viertel Million Besucher angezogen. Wegen des großen Interesses werde die Schau über Mitte April hinaus bis zum 4. August verlängert (...)" n) Stadtmuseum Gera & Historische Geraer Höhler Museumsplatz 1, 07545 Gera URL * "Ägypten -- Unbekannte Schätze aus Thüringer Sammlungen" [Egypt - Unknown treasures from Thuringian collections] date: March 26, 2013 - June 9, 2013 With more than 200 artefacts, among which medical instruments, jewellery, amulets, and golden mummy masks; the objects stem from the Thüringisches Landesamt für Archäologie, the Friedrich-Schiller- Universität Jena, and some other collections. The exhibition was earlier at the Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Thüringens, Weimar (June 27, 2012 - August 24, 2012) and the Historisch-Technisches Museum im Dreyse-Haus, Sömmerda (September 9, 2012 - March 10, 2013) info: URL info: press release at URL "(..) etwa 200 Objekte -- Statuetten, Amulette, Sarkophagteile, Totenmasken, Keramik- und Steingefäße sowie Teile von Mumien. (..)" URL "Geheimnisvolle Teile von Mumien, wertvolle Statuetten, grazile Amulette, farbige Totenmasken, rätselhafte Sarkophagteile sowie formschöne Keramik- und Steingefäße präsentiert das Stadtmuseum Gera (...) Insgesamt werden zirka 200 ägyptische Objekte aus Thüringer Sammlungen gezeigt." info: press report at URL "Die Sonderausstellung (...) präsentiert bis zum 9. Juni mehr als 200 Stücke aus dem Alltag der alten Ägypter, erklärte Matthias Wagner, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter des Museums, vor Eröffnung der Schau. Gezeigt werden auch geheimnisvolle Mumienteile, wertvolle Statuetten und Sarkophagteile. Die Exponate stammen unter anderem aus den Beständen der Universität Jena, des Museums für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Weimar, des Lindenau-Museums Altenburg und von Schloss Glücksburg in Römhild." info: press report at URL "(..) Das Objekt, ein winzig kleiner Osiris-Kopf aus Bronze, ist ein Oberflächenfund. (..) Der kleine ägyptische Gott wurde nicht am Nil gefunden, sondern bei Hetschburg im Weimarer Land. Angenommen wird, dass er einst einem Römer gehörte und als germanisches Beutestück auf einen Thüringer Acker gelangte. (..) info: source - URL info: source - URL info: press report at URL o) Museum August Kestner Trammplatz 3, 30159 Hannover URL * "Amarna" [working title] date: 2013? info: source - URL p) MHPArena Ludwigsburg Schwieberdinger Str. 30, 71636 Ludwigsburg * "Tutanchamun - Reise in die Ewigkeit" [Tutankhamun - Voyage to eternity] date: June 27 [was: 26], 2013 - August 18, 2013 A traveling exhibition with replicas of the tomb of Tutankhamun and other objects. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL q) - r) Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH Museumsmeile Bonn, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4, 53113 Bonn URL URL (English) * “Kleopatra. Die ewige Diva” [Cleopatra. The Eternal Diva] date: 28 June 2013 - 6 October 2013 [was: July 19, 2013 - November 19, 2013] Exhibition about the many faces of Cleaoptra, from Antiquity to the modern pop culture, illustrated by statues, paintings, and film. info: URL * "Der Orientalische Garten" date: May 17, 2013 - October 6, 2013 As complement to the exhibition "Kleopatra. Die ewige Diva", an oriental (Alexandrian) garden will be recreated on the roof of the Bundeskunsthalle. info: URL info: URL "(..) Der Gartenkomplex, dessen Verbindungsachsen von großzügigen Palmenalleen gesäumt werden, besteht aus mehreren thematisch angelegten Gartenräumen mit ägyptischen Kulturpflanzen. (..)" With flyer. s) Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe Schlossbezirk 10, 76131 Karlsruhe URL URL * "Imperium der Götter: Isis -- Mithras -- Christus. Kulte und Religionen im Römischen Reich" [was: "Isis, Mithras, Christus. Die orientalischen Kulte im Römischen Reich"] date: November 16, 2013 - May 18, 2014 info: URL info: URL t) - u) Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Am Steine 1-2, Hildesheim URL (Engels: URL) * "Die Macht der Toga - Mode im römischen Weltreich" date: April 20, 2013 - September 8, 2013 Looks at Roman clothing, in Rome and in the provinces of the empire; also textiles from Roman Egypt will be on display. info: URL info: URL * "Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum" date: Spring, 2014 - TBA This exhibition on the Egyptian belief system will focus on an exquisitely illustrated Greco-Roman-period papyrus-the Book of the Faiyum- that describes the creation of the universe and depicts the daily journey of the sun god. This will be the first time in more than 150 years that the manuscript, which was divided up for sale in the 19th century, will be reunited. Earlier at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (October 13, 2013 - January 5, 2014). info: source - URL v) Wolfgang-Bonhage-Museum Korbach Kirchplatz 2, 34497 Korbach tel.: 05631 53 289 * "Das Alte Ägypten. Eine Ausstellung zum Anfassen und Spielen" [Ancient Egypt. An exhibition for touching and playing] date: December 18, 2011 - May 20, 2012 [prolongation; was: till April 29, 2012] Exhibition presented by students of the Alten Landesschule (ALS). It will also spotlight a former ALS-student, Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen (1791-1860), author of 'Ägyptens Stelle in der Weltgeschichte'. info: (including a flyer for download) URL info: about the Geschichtswerkstatt of the Alte Landesschule and how the exhibition was prepared - URL "Schüler und Schülerinnen entwickeln unter fachkundiger Begleitung ein Ausstellungskonzept, arbeiten an der methodischen Umsetzung, setzen inhaltliche Schwerpunkte, besuchen anderen Museen (u.a. in Hildesheim, Kassel etc.), informieren und qualifizieren sich, übernehmen die Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, verfassen Texte, bemühen sich um Leihgaben, unterhalten Kontakte zu anderen Museen, gestalten und entwickeln eigenständig ein umfassendes Begleitprogramm mit Vortragsabenden, Filmstunden, Workshops, Spielen und sonstigen Attraktionen (z. B. in Kooperation mit dem Waldeckischen Geschichtsverein - Bezirksgruppe Korbach). Auch führen Geschichtswerkstättler neben Museumspädagogen interessierte Jugendgruppen und Schulklassen durch die Ausstellung." info: URL info: URL info: press report, including a video report [0:58 mins.], at URL info: [from a press report no longer online now] "Mehr als 6000 Besucher zählte die (...) Ausstellung, die mit den Schülern des Gymnasiums gestaltet worden war." w) Kölnisches Stadtmuseum Zeughausstraße 1, 50667 Köln URL * "KÖLN / NIL. Die abenteuerliche Orient-Expedition des Kölners Franz Christian Gau 1818-1820" [was: Ein Kölner entdeckt Ägypten. Die abenteuerliche Orient-Expedition des Franz Christian Gau 1818--1820] date: March 9, 2013 - May 26, 2013 About the journey of Franz Christian Gau (1790--1853) to the Orient. With Gau's water-colors, and early photographs. info: URL info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL info: press reports at URL URL URL "(..) Als Gau 1820 über Palästina nach Europa zurückkehrte, brachte er Dutzende Zeichnungen und Aquarelle mit. In Kupferstiche umgesetzt, wurden sie in einem der letzten großen Bildbände dieser Epoche zusammengefasst. Sie dienten dem Wiener Biedermeiermaler Norbert Bittner als Vorbild für eigene Aquarelle, die er mit viel Phantasie anreicherte. (..) Von Gaus Arbeiten sind nur noch wenig erhalten. Ihr Weg hat sich verloren. Eher durch Zufall stieß Mario Kramp, Direktor des Kölnischen Stadtmuseums, vor einigen Jahren im Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wiener Museum auf ein Konvolut von 57 Aquarellen Gaus. Sie sind jetzt in Köln zu sehen -- umfangreich ergänzt mit Arbeiten von Bittner, mit Fotos und archäologischen Objekten." info: press report: "Franz Christian Gau - ein vergessener Pionier" at URL "Der deutsche Architekt Franz Christian Gau reiste im 19. Jahrhundert ins bislang unbekannte Nubien (heute Teile von Ägypten und Sudan). Als Erster erfasste er der die Tempellandschaft entlang des Nils." - includes a slideshow * "Ägypten, Nubien und die Cyrenaika. Die imaginäre Reise des Norbert Bittner (1786 - 1851)" [Egypt, Nubia, and the Cyrenaica. The imaginarytravels of Norbert Bittner] date: March 9, 2013 - May 26, 2013 This travelling exhibition has become part of the above exhibition. Norbert Bittner's fifty-seven watercolors, which are part of the Graphic Collection at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna today, constitute the first testimony to this enthusiasm for Egypt in the Biedermeier era and were an early contribution to the dissemination of knowledge about Egyptian monuments. Since Norbert Bittner (1786-1851) never visited the Orient himself, he drew on publications concerning three expeditions." Traveling exhibition: Wien (January 20 - February 26, 2012), Salzburg (May 4 - July 1, 2012), Stendal (July 17 - October 16, 2012), Köln. info: source - URL x) Erkenbert-Museum Rathausplatz, 67227 Frankenthal (Pfalz) URL * "Vom /henket/ zum Bier: Die Biergeschichte in Zinn" date: March 20, 2013 - June 2, 2013 About the history of making beer, starting with ancient Egypt. info: URL info: press report at URL y) Wasserturm Hannover Vahrenwalderstraße 267, 30179 Hannover * "Die Welt der Pharaonen" [The world of the Pharaohs] date: August 24, 2012 - September 23, 2012 An exhibition of copies of ancient Egyptian objects. info: URL info: commentary by Christian E. Loeben - URL "(...) man bekommt hier ägyptische Nachbildungen in äußerst bescheidener Qualität - Marke Touristen-Kitsch - zu sehen und diese als einen Gemischtwarenladen völlig konzeptlos präsentiert." z) Historisches Museum der Pfalz Domplatz, Speyer D-67346 URL * "Ägyptens Schätze entdecken: Meisterwerke aus dem Ägyptischen Museum Turin“ [Discovering the treasures of Egypt. Master-works from the Egyptian Museum of Turin] date: March 11, 2012 - October 14, 2012 [prolongation; was: till September 2, 2012] info: URL info: URL info: source - URL info: press report at URL "In diesem Jahr wird zum ersten Mal eine der weltweit bedeutendsten Sammlungen altägyptischer Zeugnisse zu Gast in Speyer sein. Vom 11. März bis 2. September präsentiert das Historischen Museum der Pfalz Meisterwerke aus dem Ägyptischen Museum Turin." info: video report [3:49 mins.] at URL info: video report [1:29 mins.], of the preparation of the exhibition, at URL info: press report (with slideshow) at URL "In der Ausstellung (...) beleuchtet das Museum den Alltag am Nil vor rund 3000 Jahren." info: Italian press report at URL "Oltre 300 reperti del Museo Egizio di Torino sono in mostra fino ad inizio settembre in Germania presso il Museo Storico del Palatinato a Speyer nell'ambito della mostra 'Ägyptens, Schätze entdecken. Meisterwerke aus dem Ägyptischen Museum Turin' ('Egitto, tesori scoperti. Capolavori del Museo Egizio di Torino')." info: press report at URL " Knapp einen Monat nach der Eröffnung (...) hat das Historische Museum der Pfalz gestern die 25?000. Besucherin begrüßt." info: press report at URL info: French press report at URL "Le musée historique du Palatinat de Spire (Speyer - Allemagne) vous propose de découvrir quelques uns des chefs d'ouvres du musée de Turin. (...) L'exposition du musée de Spire est principalement consacrée à la vie quotidienne en Egypte ancienne et à l'art royal. Elle fut préparée pendant deux ans. Elle est aujourd'hui considérée comme l'une des principales expositions d'égyptologie d'Allemagne." info: English press report at URL "(..) 50,000 spectators have already visited the exhibition. (..) Due to developments carried out at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, the German museum had the unique opportunity to receive and display 300 works from the Italian collection (...). A more than 3,000 years old statue of Pharaoh Thutmose I, along with a sarcophagus of Butehamun, writer from Ancient Egypt, feature among the loans. The (almost all preserved) items discovered in Minhotep's tomb are also displayed.(..)" info: press report at URL "Fast 70 000 Besucher haben die Schau in Speyer seit ihrem Beginn am 11. März gesehen (...)" info: press report at URL "(..) Heute konnte in Speyer die 100.000ste Besucherin in der Ausstellung "Ägyptens Schätze entdecken. Meisterwerke aus dem Ägyptischen Museum Turin" gezählt werden. (..)" info: press report at URL "350 Sammlungsstücke haben den Weg von Turin nach Speyer ins Historische Museum der Pfalz gefunden, das einlädt, 'Ägyptens Schätze' zu entdecken. Es war eine kluge Entscheidung der Kuratoren, die in der Tat beeindruckende Präsentation spektakulärer Objekte in eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Erzählung einzubetten, die bis zu heutigen Forschungsarbeiten deutscher und ägyptischer Wissenschaftler in der Nekropole Assiut 370 Kilometer südlich von Kairo reicht und den Bogen vom Schatzgräbertum zum Wissenstransfer schlägt." info: press report, of the opening ceremony, at URL info: press report at URL "125?000 Besucher sahen die Ausstellung (...)" za)-zc) - zd) Galerie Neue Meister, Altertinum Brühlische Terrasse, Dresden URL * "Von Max Slevogt bis Paul Klee. Ägyptenrezeption in der deutschen Malerei der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts" date: May 3, 2014 - August 3, 2014 Looks at the influence of journeys to Egypt on the works of artists like Impressionist Max Slevogt (1914) and Bauhauskünstler Paul Klee (1928/29). The exhibition will travel to K 20 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (August 2014 - January 2015). info: URL info: URL ze) K20 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Grabbeplatz 5, 40213 Düsseldorf, URL * "Von Max Slevogt bis Paul Klee. Ägyptenrezeption in der deutschen Malerei der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts" date: August 2014 - January 2015 Looks at the influence of journeys to Egypt on the works of artists like Impressionist Max Slevogt (1914) and Bauhauskünstler Paul Klee (1928/29). The exhibition will first be in the Galerie Neue Meister, Altertinum Brühlische Terrasse, Dresden (May 3, 2014 - August 3, 2014). info: URL info: source - URL --AUSTRIA-- a) Museum für Völkerkunde, Neue Burg/Heldenplatz, 1010 Wien URL * "Urania reist nach Ägypten. Wiener Volksbildung und der Orient um 1900" date: December 12, 2012 - June 3, 2013 [prolongation; was: till March 3, 2013] About an educational tour to Egypt in 1912, organized by the Urania Travel Group of Vienna. On display are historical documents, hand-colored glass diapositives (ca. 1910), clothing, post-cards, souvenirs, etc., and even some original AE artefacts. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL "Die Besucher erwartet eine Fülle an noch nie gezeigter historischer Dokumente wie Briefe, Schiffspläne, Originalrechnungen und Menükarten nobler ägyptischer Hotels wie des Shepheard's in Kairo und vieles mehr, die das Flair organisierter Reisen um die Jahrhundertwende wiederauferstehen lassen und visualisieren." b) Kunsthistorisches Museum Maria Theresien Platz, 1010 Vienna URL * "Im Schatten der Pyramiden. Die österreichischen Grabungen in Giza (1912-1929) [In the Shadow of the Pyramids: The Austrian Excavations at Giza (1912-1929)] date: January 22, 2013 - May 20, 2013 About the work of an Austrian expedition that excavated the Old Kingdom mastabas located west of the Great Pyramid. Their finds (numerous statues, reliefs, sarcophagi and other funerary objects), complemented by seminal loans from major European and American collections and museums, illustrate life during the OK. info: (in German) URL (in English) URL "(..) The exhibition is curated by Dr. Regina Hölzl, director of the Egyptian and Near-Eastern Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, and Dr. Peter Jánosi, Assistant-Professor of Egyptology at the University of Vienna.(..)" info: URL (in English:) URL info: press report at URL Among the objects are the famous statue of Hem-Iunu and 22 other artefacts from the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum. info: press report "TU Wien: Pyramiden aus Bits und Bytes" URL "Die TU Wien lässt ein Stück Altes Ägypten wiederauferstehen - in hochmodernen digitalen Präsentationen, die Teil einer Ausstellung im Kunsthistorischen Museum sind. (...) Keinesfalls sollte man die digitalen Ausstellungsexponate als bloße Unterhaltungsshow betrachten. (...) Selbst für Ägyptologen seien die Filme und Multimedia- Aufbereitungen von großem Interesse: Objekte, die sonst tausende Kilometer von den Pyramiden entfernt in Museen stehen, kehren virtuell zum Fundort zurück, Information, die man sonst mühsam aus verschiedenen Quellen zusammensuchen müsste, ist mit einem Fingertippen verfügbar.(..)" info: press reports at URL "(...) Die Schau im KHM bringt die Mastaba-Gräber nicht nur anhand ihrer Artefakte näher. Vor Bildschirmen montierte Tablets lassen Besucher virtuell durch die Totenwelt navigieren. "Wir haben ein abstrahiertes, sehr typisches Grab gebaut", erklärt Iman Kulitz von der TU Wien, die mit ihrem Team die 3-D-Visualisierungen gestaltete. Bei den virtuellen Rundgängen finden sich die Gefäße, Reliefs und Statuen der Ausstellung an ihrem ursprünglichen Plätzen in der Mastaba wieder. (..)" URL " (..) Wissenschaftler haben Aufzeichnungen vertont, alte Fotos gescannt, das Gewicht von Sarkophagen aus Skizzenbüchern ausgewertet und ermittelt, wie vieler Helfer es zum Transport bedurfte - und lassen die Grabung vor 100 Jahren interaktiv wiedererstehen." - includes a slideshow with 12 photos. URL URL With 5 photos and 1 audio file. URL With an example of the "virtuellen Grabrundgang" (3D-visualisation). --EGYPT-- a) The Egyptian Museum Maydan El Tahrir, Cairo tel: +20 2 5742681, 5754319/10; fax: +20 2 5795133 * TBA b) Bibliotheca Alexandrina Chatby, Alexandria 21526 URL * TBA --ITALY-- a) - b) Museo Egizio di Firenze Piazza Santissima Annunziata, 9/B tel.: 055-23575, fax: 055-242213, e-mail: museoarcheologico@tabloidcoop.it * "Il fascino eterno dell'antico Egitto" [The eternal fascination of Ancient Egypt] date: September 24, 2011 - TBA Photographic exhibiton on the occasion of the re-opening of the Ptolemaic and Roman-Coptic rooms. info: press report at URL c) Chiostro del Bramante Arco della Pace, 5, 00186 Roma tel. 06.68809035-36, fax 06.68213516 email * "Cleopatra. L'incantesimo dell'Egitto" [Cleopatra. The Magic of Egypt] date: October 10, 2013 - February 2, 2014 "(...) Rome's Chiostro del Bramante will be hosting a major exhibition focusing on the figure of Cleopatra (Alexandria, 69 B.C. - 30 B.C.). Ptolemaic Egypt, the fascinating life of Cleopatra, her influence on the political events of the era and the relationship between Rome and Egypt: all of this is explored in an exhibition that counts more than 200 works from leading national and international museums (...)" info: (in Italian:) URL (in English:) URL d) Padua / Rovigo at different places - see below * "Egitto in Veneto" [Egypt in Venice] date: April 19, 2013 - June 30, 2013 (Padua) / April 12, 2013 - June 16, 2013 (Rovigo) info: URL In Padua: -- Museo Botanico, via Orto Botanico, 15: "Esplorando l'Egitto: viaggio nella cultura egizia" -- Musei Civici Agli Eremitani, piazza Eremitani, 8: "Il Veneto e l'Egitto nell'antichità: relazione e scambi" -- Pedrocchi, via VIII Febbraio, 15: "L'Egittomania a Padova" In Rovigo: -- Museo dei Grandi Fiumi di Rovigo, Piazzale S. Bartolomeo, 18: "L'Egitto all'Accademia dei Concordi di Rovigo" In addition the Egyptian antiquities of its collection will be presented to the public -- Museo di Scienze Archeologiche e d'Arte, Palazzo Liviano, Padua: "Lo scavo e la ricerca archeologica patavina in Egitto" info: press report at URL "Mummie, perle, sarcofagi, splendide stele dipinte, papiri: saranno più di 300 i reperti esposti nella mostra Egitto in Veneto distribuita tra i poli museali di Padova e Rovigo e che aprirà il 19 aprile 2013. (...) Incredibile è la vastità e la qualità dei reperti in mostra. Le collezioni ora visibili, ma per anni conservate per mancanza di spazi espositivi nei depositi dei musei, tornano alla luce come 'nuove scoperte'." info: press report at URL "Un grande progetto che vede le due città unite nel riportare alla luce antichi reperti della civiltà egiziana, un evento di grande importanza che punta a valorizzare la conoscenza dell'ingente patrimonio egittologico conservato in Veneto." [new] info: press report, including a slideshow, at URL --FRANCE-- a) Musée Boulogne-sur-Mer [Château-Musée] Rue Bernet, 62200 Boulogne-sur-Mer * "Intime Egypte, la vie quotidienne au temps des pharaons" [Intimate Egypt, the daily life in the time of the Pharaohs] date: March 23, 2013 - June 17, 2013 The exhibition focusses on beauty, food, work, and leisure time and will show objects from several museums: jewellery, object of daily life, wooden models, games, tools etc. info: URL info: URL info: URL The exhibition "présente le cadre naturel de l'Egypte ancienne et la façon dont les Égyptiens l'ont exploité : économie rurale, comptabilité, écriture. Le cadre de vie domestique, les rituels de beauté, la musique et les jeux complètent le tableau." info: three NK multicolored glass objects from the Musée Départemental des Antiquités in Rouen will be in the exhibition, cf URL With photos. b) Centre culturel du moulin 37190 Azay-le-Rideau * "Egypte Ancienne, mythologie et rites funéraires" [Ancient Egypt, mythology and funerary rites] date: May 14, 2013 - May 31, 2013 Exhibition of photographs taken by Yveline Bouquard. info: URL c) l'Hôtel-Dieu du Puy-en-Velay 2, rue Becdelièvre, 43000 Le Puy-En Velay, Auvergne URL * "L'Égypte pharaonique. Trésors cachés du Louvre" [Pharaonic Egypte. Hidden treasures of the Louvre] [was: "Les Secrets de l'Égypte pharaonique"] date: July 11, 2013 - November 6, 2013 info: URL info: source - URL info: source - URL d) Institut du monde arabe 1, rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, Place Mohammed V, 75236 PARIS CEDEX 05 URL * Le théorème de Néfertiti" date: April 23, 2013 - September 8, 2013 The exhibition "examines our perceptions of an artwork from three distinct perspectives: the artist, the museum, and the public. Through revisiting the contested histories of how Egyptian collections have been amassed by numerous museums from the 19th century onwards, it brings together antiquities, modernist works, archives, and 26 international contemporary artists and artist collectives." Among the antiquities is a number of Pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic and Orientalist works. The exhibition was earlier at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar (November 17, 2012 - March 31, 2013), under the title "Tea with Nefertiti: The Making of the Artwork by the Artist, the Museum and the Public", and will travel to the Centre for Fine Arts, BOZAR, Brussels, and other venues. info: URL "(..) Consacrée notamment à Néfertiti, reine de l'antiquité devenue icône Pop, l'exposition explore les différentes fonctions et significations qu'une oeuvre d'art peut acquérir en fonction du lieu et des conditions de son exposition. (..) " e) Mairie du 10e arrondissement, 72, rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, Paris 10e URL * "Le Louxor - Palais du cinéma" date: March 25, 2013 - May 25, 2013 An exhibition about the history of the creation of this unique Egyptian Revival Cinema (1920), its Egyptian decoration (inside and outside), the films presented between 1921 and 1983, how the building was saved by the people living around it, the way it was restored, and some Egyptian style cinemas in Great Britain and United States. Free entrance, open Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 17:00 pm, Thursday 8:30 am to 19:30 pm and Saturday 9:00 am to 12:30 am. Closed on Sunday and Holidays. A book on this cinema will be published mid-June: Jean-Marcel Humbert et Philippe Pumain, Le Louxor, Palais du cinéma, éditions AAM, Bruxelles. info: URL URL Opening event of the exhibition (with photos) at URL Photo galleries: URL info: a lot of information (and photographs) about the Louxor (that reopened on April 18, 2013) at URL f) - g) Musée du Louvre Palais Royal, 75001 Paris URL * "« L’art du contour » dans l’Égypte ancienne" [The Art of Outline: Drawing in ancient Egypt] date: April 19 [was: 17], 2013 - July 22 [was: 23], 2013 "(..) Cette exposition, riche de 200 ouvres, s'attache à explorer toute la complexité de l'art égyptien bi-dimensionnel, avec ses conventions, ses techniques, ses pratiques, ses fonctions et ses usages. (..)" Will travel to the Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles (September 13, 2013 - January 19, 2014). info: URL "(..) L'exposition commence par la présentation des « scribes du contour », c'est ainsi que les textes égyptiens nomment les peintres dessinateurs. Elle se poursuit par des oeuvres montrant les caractéristiques du dessin égyptien, ses règles et ses variantes, qui ont donné lieu à des créations uniques. La dernière partie présente l'univers égyptien en dessin ou, plus exactement, l'univers et l'imaginaire des dessinateurs : les dieux, l'au-delà, la magie, les pharaons, les Égyptiens, les étrangers, le paysage, les animaux. Une place particulière est donnée aux dessins satiriques et érotiques." info: press releases at URL URL info: source - URL info: source - URL info: source - URL info: news about the accompanying documentary ("Le scribe qui dessine") at URL info: press report at URL info: a documentary relating to the exhibition is now for sale - URL info: press report at URL info: English press report at URL "(..) For the occasion, the Parisian museum offers the display of an important body of materials and mediums through which Egyptian drawers have expressed their art, including papyrus, ostraca, paintings, steles and low reliefs in stone, wooden furniture, earthenware and terracotta. (..) The exhibition starts by presenting the creators of these drawings, called the “Outline Scribes” in Egyptian texts. It continues with the display of works emblematic of Egyptian drawing, with its rules and variations, which gave birth to unique creations. The last section presents the Egyptian world through drawings, or more precisely shows the universe and imagination of the drawers: the gods, the hereafter, magic, the pharaohs, the Egyptian people, foreigners, landscapes and animals… Satirical and erotic drawings are specially emphasised. The exhibition was curated by Guillemette Andreu-Lanoë, from the Department of Egyptian Antiquities. " h) Médiathèque de Honfleur Place de la Porte de Rouen, 14600 Honfleur * "La France et l'Égypte, de Napoléon Bonaparte à Gustave Flaubert" [France and Egypt, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Gustave Flaubert] date: February 5, 2013 - May 11, 2013 Some 30 photographs of the 19th century, other objects and manuscripts are shown. info: URL info: URL info: press report at URL i) - j) - k) - l) - m) Villa Grecque Kérylos Impasse Gustave Eiffel, 06310 Beaulieu-sur-Mer URL (Engels: URL) * "Voyage autour de la Méditerranée antique" [Voyage around the ancient Mediterranean] date: now - TBA Exhibition of watercolors by Jean-Claude Golvin (in the past director of the Franco-Egyptian Research Centre of the Temples of Karnak), illustrating the famous ports of the Mediterranean and their buildings, among which Alexandria. info: (in French) URL (in English) URL * "La naissance de l'écriture sur les rives de la Méditerranée" [The Birth of writing on the shores of the Mediterranean] date: April 13, 2013 - September 29, 2013 By means of 46 educational panels and the reproduction of 20 items bearing different inscriptions (incl. Egyptian statuettes and the Narmer Palette), the story of the invention of the alphabet is being told. info: URL --PORTUGAL-- a) Museu da Vila Velha Rua de Trás-os-Muros, 5000-657 Vila Real URL * "Serápis nos confins do Império: o complexo sagrado de Panóias" [Serapis at the fringes of the Empire: the sacred complex of Panóias] date: November 11, 2012 - March 3, 2013 Exhibition about the worship of the Greek-Egyptian god Serapis in the sanctuary of Panoias: his iconography, his cult accross the Roman Empire and, more specifically, in the Iberian Peninsula. With artefacts from the collections of the Museu de Arqueologia e Numismática de Vila Real, the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia and the Museu D. Diogo de Sousa. info: URL With slide-show. --BELGIUM-- a) Le Musée du Cinquantenaire / Jubelparkmuseum Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles / Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis Jubelpark 10, B-1000 Brussel / 10 Parc du Cinquantenaire, Bruxelles B-1000 URL * "L'art du contour: Le dessin dans l'Egypte ancienne" [Schrijvers van contouren: Tekenkunst in het Oude Egypte] date: September 13, 2013 - January 19, 2014 "(..) Cette exposition, riche de 200 ouvres, s'attache à explorer toute la complexité de l'art égyptien bi-dimensionnel, avec ses conventions, ses techniques, ses pratiques, ses fonctions et ses usages. (..)". Earlier at the Musée du Louvre, Paris (April 19, 2013 - July 22, 2013) info: (French) URL (Dutch) URL b) Musée royal de Mariemont Chaussée de Mariemont, 100, 7140 Morlanwelz URL URL * "Du Nil à Alexandrie : Histoires d'eaux" [From the Nile to Alexandria: Stories about Water] date: April 20, 2013 - September 29, 2013 The relationship between the city of Alexandria and the Nile, and the ways in which the Egyptian population tried to control the water (via canals, cisterns, shadufs), is illustrated by ca. 100 artefacts. The exhibition is based on the exhibition of the same title that was earlier at Musée Tessé, Le Mans (November 26, 2011 - May 27, 2012), that is, it contains the panels/texts that were at Musée Tessé; but 90% of the artifacts is new (on loan from the Museum aan de Strom (MAS - Antwerpen), Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (MRAH Brussels), Allard Pierson, Leiden, Louvre, Fondation Custodia, Musée Picardie (Amiens), Institut Royal Sciences naturelles (Brussels), Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Stadsmuseum Lokeren, Musée Louvain-la-Neuve, CeAlex, Grand Curtius (Liège)). info: URL info: URL (overview when in Le Mans) info: press report at URL "(..) L'exposition fait le point sur les recherches récentes à Alexandrie. Les résultats du Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines sont évidemment au centre de cette présentation. (..) Plusieurs musées européens ont prêtés des objets afin de rendre l'exposition de Mariemont encore plus attractive : Le Louvre, le Rijksmuseum de Leiden, le Allard Pierson Museum d'Amsterdam, les musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles, le Grand Curtius de Liège, le Stedelijk Museum de Lokeren, le MAS Museum d'Antwerpen (Anvers) (..). Parmi les plus belles pièces, il y a les fragments d'un couple colossal ptolémaïque mis au jour à proximité d'Alexandrie. L'exposition présentera aussi le mythique fleuve Nil. De nombreux objets, des gravures et des maquettes illustrent la problématique de l'eau à Alexandrie et dans le Delta. Le musée de Mariemont sortira de sa réserve précieuse des récits de voyageurs européens du XVIe au XIXe siècle afin de mieux illustrer la manière dont Alexandrie fut perçue au fil des siècles." info: press reports at URL URL c) - d) Paleis voor Schone Kunsten - BOZAR Ravensteinstr. 23, 1000 Brussels URL * "Engaging Egypt. Four Encounters with the Foreign from Facebook to Fayum" date: postponed [was: October 5, 2012 - January 13, 2013] In four sections - Roman Egypt (with Fayyum Portraits), Ayyubidic Egypt, 20th c. art, and contemporary art. info: (in Dutch and French resp.) URL URL info: (in English) URL info: source of postponemnet - URL --SPAIN-- a) Fundación Sophia C/Jaime Ferrer, 3, 07012 Palma de Mallorca, Baleares * "Egipto 1930" date: November 5, 2012 - November 16, 2012 Some 50 photographs of temples and monuments of Ancient Egypt are shown to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Carter. info: source - URL info: press report at URL b) Museo de León Plaza de Santo Domingo, 8. 24002-León URL * "Cleopatra" date: Summer 2013 - Summer 2014 [was: Spring 2013 - Spring 2014] Organized by the Instituto Biblico y Oriental, León, and with more than 200 objects on display, many of them yet unpublished. info: press report at URL info: press report at URL * "Animales sagrados egipcios: Un viaje a los secretos de la momificación" [Egyptian sacred animals: a journey into the secrets of mummification] date: TBA Exhibition of eleven ancient Egyptian animal mummies, plus a collection of amulets and other funerary objects. It also features (via videos) the results of the research (CT scans etc) conducted on the mummies by an interdisciplinary team of the University of Navarra since 2009. Earlier at the Museo Romano Oiasso, Irun (December 20, 2012 - April 14/15, 2013) and the Bibat: Arkeologia - Fournier de Naipes Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz (25 April 2013 - 28 July 2013). info: source - press report at URL "(..) Algunos son propiedad del Museo Bíblico y Oriental de León y se exhiben ahora en el Museo Romano Oiasso, en Irún. La exposición, que vendrá próximamente a León, así como a Valladolid, Tarragona y Galicia, desvela algunos secretos sobre el arte funerario egipcio, tras una innovadora investigación llevada a cabo por la egiptóloga y profesora del Instituto Bíblico de León María Luz Mangado. (..) De momento no hay fecha para mostrar esta exposición, que podría anticiparse a la de Cleopatra que prepara desde hace meses el museo que dirige Jesús García Recio. (..)" c) Museu Egipci / Museo Egipcio de Barcelona València, 284, E-08007 Barcelona URL URL * "Tutankhamón. Historia de un descubrimiento" [Tutankhamun. History of a discovery] date: November 30, 2012 - May 31, 2013 Exhibition to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankamun's tomb, with 60 objects from the collection Jordi Clos and the Egyptian Museum in Barcelona, plus 54 photographs of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb which were made by Harry Burton between 1922 and 1929, fragments from the excavation diary of Howard Carter, and other documentation. info: URL info: press reports at URL URL URL URL info: press report at URL "La egiptóloga Joyce Tyldesley se sumerge en el fascinante descubrimiento de Howard Carter (..)" d) - e) CaixaForum Madrid Paseo del Prado, 36, 28014 Madrid URL * "Animales, hombres y dioses. El bestiario en el Egipto faraónico" [Animals, Humans, and Gods. The Bestiary in Pharaonic Egypt] date: February 2015 - May 2015 With artefacts from the Louvre Museum, Paris. info: press reports at URL URL f) CaixaForum Barcelona Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8, 08038 Barcelona URL * "Animales, hombres y dioses. El bestiario en el Egipto faraónico" [Animals, Humans, and Gods. The Bestiary in Pharaonic Egypt] date: June 2015 - September 2015 info: press reports at URL URL g) Bibat. Arkeologia - Fournier de Naipes Museoa Aiztogile / Cuchilleria, 54, 01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz URL * "Animales sagrados egipcios: Un viaje a los secretos de la momificación" [Egyptian sacred animals: a journey into the secrets of mummification] date: 25 April 2013 - 28 July 2013 Exhibition of eleven ancient Egyptian animal mummies, plus a collection of amulets and other funerary objects. It also features (via videos) the results of the research (CT scans etc) conducted on the mummies by an interdisciplinary team of the University of Navarra since 2009. Earlier at the Museo Romano Oiasso, Irun (December 20, 2012 - April 14/15, 2013). info: source - URL h) Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya Passeig de Santa Madrona, 39-41, Parc de Montjuïc, 08038 Barcelona URL * "Històries de Tocador: Cosmètica i bellesa a l'antiguitat" [Toilet stories: Cosmetics and beauty in ancient times"] date: December 20, 2012 - June 17, 2013 The exhibition reveals the main beauty secrets of Antiquity, the techniques and mannerisms used by men and women to enhance their personal image. Incl. Ancient Egyptian examples. info: URL i) Museo Bíblico y Oriental Plaza Santo Martino, 5 24003 León URL * "Papyros egipcios" [?] date: till July 15, 2013 Nine Egyptian papyrus-fragments (pharaonic, Coptic, Greek, Islamic), from the Palau-Ribes Collection, are on display. info: press report at URL Listing of the 9 fragments - URL j) CaixaForum C/ Cristòfor Colom, 2, Tarragona URL * "Momias egipcias. El secreto de la vida eterna" [Egyptian Mummies: The Secret of Eternal Life] date: May 17, 2013 - August 18, 2013 The travelling exhibition with over 250 artefacts from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. It was earlier at several venues in Canada, USA, and Japan, and more recently at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam (October 1, 2011 - January 29, 2012) and the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (February 11, 2012 - May 27, 2012), under different titles ("Fascinating Mummies" etc). Previous venue was CaixaForum, Lleida/Lerida (December 20, 2012 - April 21, 2013), next venue will be CaixaForum in Girona info: URL URL info: source - URL k) Museu Darder Plaça dels Estudis, 2 - 17820 Banyoles URL * "Projecte Monthemhat, les mòmies oblidades" / "Proyecto Monthemhat, las momias olvidadas" date: April 20, 2013 - June 2, 2013 Traveling exhibition on loan from Arqueoxarxa, about the research done on the 18 TIP mummies that were found to be stored in the tomb of governor Monthemhat in Luxor. info: URL info: information about one the Museum's mummy - URL "(..) La exposición consta de la citada momia del Museu Darder de plafones explicativos sobre el Proyecto Monthemhat y de las 18 momias que se han encontrado. La exposición se complementa con un audiovisual que muestra donde se encontraron las momias y las tareas desarrolladas por el equipo del Proyecto Monthemhat.(..)" --AUSTRALIA-- a) - b) - c) Western Australian Museum Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Perth, Western Australia, 6000 URL * * Secrets of the Afterlife: Mummies, Magic & Immortality in Ancient Egypt date: May 17, 2013 - September 22, 2013 The travelling exhibition from the British Museum, featuring ca. 100 objects, is a bespoke exhibition similar in some respects to the suite of objects that appeared at the British Museum in 2010 and at the Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan) (October 6, 2012 - November 25, 2012). The exhibition in Perth includes painted coffins, gilded masks, amulets, jewellery, tomb figurines and mummy trappings, and around 30 sheets of papyrus including sections of the Greenfield Papyrus (Book of the Dead of Nesitanebisheru), and including examples of the Book of Caverns, the Amduat and the Second Book of Breathing. Curated by Dr John Taylor, Assistant Keeper Ancient Egypt; Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum. info: URL URL "Secrets of the Afterlife features over 100 objects, from tiny amulets to intricate coffins carrying carved or painted texts and spells for the dead, as well as jewellery, models and sculpture which reflect the quest for eternal life, as well as the rituals and obstacles that might be faced in pursuit of the perfect afterlife." info: a Souvenir Guide has been published and will be available after May 17, 2013 from the Museum's exhibition shop and on-line store: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL Interview with curator Dr John Taylor. d) Nicholson Museum Camperdown (main) campus of the University of Sydney Manning Road, University of Sydney 2006 URL * "50 Objects 50 Stories: Extraordinary Tales from the Nicholson Museum" date: May 17, 2012 - May 1, 2014 [prolongation; was: till December 21, 2012] An exhibition that takes fifty of the more extraordinary objects from the Nicholson Museum's collection and tells the often bizarre or wonderful story that has attached itself to each since the moment of its discovery. Accompanying the exhibition will be a book and a weekly retelling of each story on ABC TV. info: URL info: press report at URL With photos of some of the objects, like the Mummy Coffin of Padiashaikhet, a Head of Horemheb, a Mummified Kitten, and the Mummified Legs of a Baby. --ANDORRA-- a) Centre d'Art d'Escaldes-Engordany Av. Carlemany, 30, AD700 Escaldes-Engordany URL * "Antic Egipte i teixits coptes de Montserrat" date: 21 March 2013 - 8 June 2013 Exhibition of Coptic textiles from the Ramon Roca-Puig Collection. info: URL ---SWITZERLAND--- a) Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum Museumstrasse 50, CH-9000, St. Gallen URL * "Im Banne Ägyptens" [Spellbound by Egypt] date: end of August 2012 - till 2015 Artefacts from the ancient Egyptian collection of the Museum für Völkerkunde Burgdorf that had been a major part of the "Im Banne Ägyptens. Begegnungen mit der Ewigkeit" (June 19, 2010 - March 6, 2011) exhibition in St Gallen, had remained in St Gallen as "Die ägyptische Sammlung Burgdorf" (since April 2011). These objects, together with those from the St Gallen museum itself, having a focus on hieroglyphic texts on coffins, papyri and stelae/reliefs, are now supplemented in the present exhibition with the remainder of the Burgdorf collection that was still on view at Burgdorf as "Gaben für die Götter - Altägyptische Bronzefiguren in neuem Licht" (April 1- August 5, 2012), and with artefacts from two private collections in Zürich. info: URL info: flyer of the Burgdorf 's "Bronzefiguren" exhibition - URL b) Universität Zürich * "Altägyptische Gärten" [working title] date: 2013 info: source - URL c) Antikenmuseum St. Alban-Graben 5, CH-4010 Basel * "Amarna" [working title] date: TBA [2012/2013] info: source - URL d) - e) Le Laténium. Parc et musée d'archéologie de Neuchâtel Espace Paul Vouga, CH-2068 Hauterive URL * "Fleurs des pharaons" [Flowers of the pharaohs] date: 19 May 2013 - 2 March 2014 Exhibition of floral wreaths found in tombs and art objects with floral patterns or shapes. info: URL info: flyer at URL info: press reports at URL URL Feature about the exhibition's curator, Christiane Jacquat, and her archaeobotanical work. --SWEDEN-- a) Medelhavsmuseet Fredsgatan 2, 103 21 Stockholm * The Egyptian exhibition will close for remodeling in September 2012. In Autumn 2013 a whole new exhibition about Egypt will open. info: source - URL --HUNGARY-- a) - ---POLAND--- a) Muzeum Archeologiczne Ul. Wodna 27, PL - 61-781 Poznan URL * "Death and Life in Ancient Egypt" date: September 22, 1998 - July 15, 2014 With long-term loans from the Egyptian Museum and Collection of Papyri in Berlin and the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich . info: (in English) URL info: URL info: information (in English) on an obelisk (Berlin 12800) that was added to the exhibition in 2002 - URL info: press report at URL A papyrus of the Ptolemaic Period has been added to the exhibition, with spells and vignettes from the BD. With photo. --RUSSIA-- a) - --CZECH REPUBLIC-- a) Výstaviste Holesovice Areál Výstaviste 67, 170 90 Praha 7 - Holesovice * "Tutanchamon - jeho hrob a poklady" [Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his Treasures] date: March 28, 2013 - June 30, 2013 One of the internationally travelling exhibitions with KV62 replicas. info: URL info: press release at URL info: English press report at URL b) Prague Castle's Riding School Hall * "Treasures of the Pharaohs" date: TBA [postponed until further notice; was: Spring to Autumn 2012] The plan was that some 200 top-value artifacts from Cairo Museum, complemented by exhibits from European collections of Egyptian art, would go on display in an exhibition organized by the Charles University's Egyptology Institute in cooperation with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. But the project is currently suspended. info: (now outdated) press release of earlier this year at URL --MEXICO-- a) Museo de la Ciudad Guerrero 27 Norte, Centro Histórico. Querétaro, Qro. 76000 * "Ancient Egyptian Mummification" date: June 15, 2012 - TBA info: URL info: press report at URL --CROATIA-- a) - --REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE--- a) ArtScience Museum Marina Bay Sands 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956 URL * "Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb" date: April 27, 2013 - November 4,2013 Exhibition with ca 110 ancient Egyptian artefacts (incl. 6 mummies) from the British Museum, with the focus on the mummy and coffin of the priestNesperennub and the CT scans and 3D imagery made of him. The show was mounted at the BM in 2004 and since then has been travelling to the USA, Australia, and now SE Asia. Recently it was at the CSMVS, Mumbai (November 20, 2012 - March 24, 2013). info: URL info: press report at URL With photo of the mummy of Tjayasetimu. info: press release at URL info: URL (At earlier venues, the exhibition was called "Mummy: the Inside Story".) info: English press report at URL info: press reports at URL With photos. URL URL With photos. URL With slideshow. --INDIA-- a) - ---CHINA--- a) OCT Creative Exhibition Center OCT Harbour, Shenzhen * "Quest for Immortality - The Hidden Treasure of Ancient Egypt" date: March 15, 2013 - June 16, 2013 The exhibition will include mummies, a reproduction of Thutmoses III's burial chamber, and hundreds of historical Egyptian artefacts - a total of 250 objects from the Bolton Museum. On a two-year tour in Asia; earlier at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei (Taiwan) (June 12, 2011 - September 23, 2011), the National Museum of Natural Science 1, Taichung (Taiwan) (October 15, 2011 - February 12, 2012) and Kaohsiung (Taiwan) (March 2, 2012 - May, 2012). It will travel to five or six venues in China until 2014. nfo: URL info: press report at URL info: press report at URL info: press report (in English) at URL "More than 300 relics from ancient Egypt will be displayed (..) includ[ing] mummies, golden masks, sculptures, and arts and crafts (..)." b) - c) National Museum 16 East Chang'an Avenue, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006 URL * "Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art -- Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art" date: February 1, 2013 - May 9, 2013 Some ancient Egyptian artefacts will be among the 130 objects, like a (Horus) falcon statuette (360 B.C.) and a stone relief of grain (ca. 1349--1336 B.C). info: URL info: press reports at URL URL --UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-- a) Manarat Al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi URL * "Birth of a museum" date: April 22, 2013 - July 20, 2013 info: URL "The Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel, is scheduled to open in 2015. In the meantime, some of the museum's permanent collection [130 objects] go on display at Manarat Al Saadiyat on April 22. (..)" info: about Project Louvre Abu Dhabi - URL URL info: press report at URL "Birth of a Museum, the first large-scale presentation of the Louvre Abu Dhabi's permanent collection, showcases 130 artworks reflecting the narrative of the museum. The exhibition is open from 22 April until 20 July at Manarat Al Saadiyat, the art exhibition centre on Saadiyat Island." info: press reports at URL "(..) The exhibition contains items from Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Mali and other countries (..)". URL URL b) Sharjah Art Museum Dubai URL * "Journey Through Egypt" date: March 6, 2013 - May 13, 2013 Displays a group of 67 water colour drawings by several 19th c. Orientalist artists, from a private collection. info: URL info: English press report at URL ---LATVIA--- a) Art Museum Riga Bourse Dome Square 6 URL * "Tutanhamona dzintars. Sena Egipte / Dzintara cels" [Tutankhamun's Amber. Ancient Egypt / the Amber Road] date: November 1, 2013 - January 1, 2015 Exhibition of objects from the Museum's collection of Egyptian art, plus loans from several international museums (incl. Cairo Museum). Baltic amber was traded from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea - even ending up in Egypt. info: URL info: press report (in English) at URL --QATAR-- a) - b) University College London Qatar UCL Qatar, PO Box 23689, 2nd Floor, Georgetown Building, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha * "3D Encounters: Where Science Meets Heritage" date: February 13, 2013 - TBA The exhibition explores how 3D digital replicas of museum collections can be used to advance museum, archaeological and conservation practice. Using 3D visualisations of artefacts from UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, the exhibition offers a 360 degree view of ancient items that range from fragments of stone vessels and carved wooden hair combs to a skull on an ancient Egyptian ruler info: press release at URL "(..) At the exhibition visitors can try out the 3D technology themselves and handle virtual images of historical treasures. The public are invited to do this through a series of interactive activities that combine 3D images with immersive technologies such as heightened reality and gesture recognition. For example, one interactive visualisation transports visitors to an archaeological site in Egypt where they are able to select 3D replica artefacts to pick up and inspect. Visitors can also try their hands at restoring an ancient mummy mask through a touch screen interactive image that allows them to choose and test different facial features. Another interactive option offers a 3D image of a skull that archaeologists believe is that of an ancient ruler named Inti. Visitors can then build layers of muscles, veins and skin on to the ruler's skull via touch screen animation to see what Inti might have looked like. (..)" info: some links to 3DPetrie Project website and 3DPetrie exhibitions website, and to press reports: URL info: a film that is on exhibition is available online at URL " "Making Many. The mass production of funerary figures. UCL Petrie Museum' - The film explains research about mass production of shabtis via 3D imaging, 3D printing and reproduction of a physical replica to find out about the mass production of funerary figures in Ancient Egypt. The 3D printing was done at the Digital Manufacturing Centre at the UCL Bartlett." ---ISRAEL--- a) Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem Museum Row, across from the Israel Museum 25 Avraham Granot Street, P.O Box 4670, Jerusalem 91046 URL * "Pure Gold" date: June 6, 2012 - April 29, 2013 On display will be a wide variety of gold jewelry and vessels from throughout the ancient world (incl. Egypt). info: URL info: URL "(..) 400 pieces (..). Opening the exhibit is a replica of a papyrus from 1,300 BCE (BC) which marked gold mines in ancient Egypt (..)" (XI) COURSES AND TRIPS --COURSES--- [Submitted by Glenn Meyer] * [USA] A new UC Berkeley Extension course: "Pharaoh's Tomb Crew: The History of Deir el-Medina" Instructor is Dr Teresa Moore. dates: June 15 to July 20, 2013: Sat., 10 am-1 pm (6 meetings) place: Berkeley: 78 Barrows Hall, UC campus costs: $245 info: URL [Submitted by Brian Yare] * [UK] Daytime (Friday 11:00 - 13:00) or Evening (Tuesday 17:00-19:00) Class "Roman Egypt" Tutor: Angela Torpey dates: Tuesday 30th April - 25th June 2013, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. or Friday 3rd May - 28th June 2013, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (8 weeks) There will be no classes on Tuesday 28th or Friday 31st May (half-term). place: Xcel Centre, Mitchell Avenue, Coventry CV4 8DY (off Charter Avenue) (nr. University of Warwick Westwood Site) costs: GBP48.00 for 8 weeks info: email URL * (&) Evening classes at the Egypt Exploration Society (EES): -- Evening Class 'Middle Egyptian Reading Class: The Shipwrecked Sailor'. Tutor: Dr Joanna Kyffin. A new eight week reading class, tackling the classic Egyptian tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor. Not suitable for complete beginners. date: from Wednesday 9th April 2013, 6.30pm place: EES, 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG. costs: Members: £182.00 Non-members: £228.00 Student Members: £91.00 Student Non-members:£114.00. info: URL -- Evening Class 'An Introduction to the Archaeology of Hellenistic and Imperial Egypt'. Tutor: Elizabeth Brophy. A new eight week class, introducing students to the art, architecture and archaeology of Imperial and Hellenistic Egypt. Suitable for all. date: from Tuesday 16th April 2013, 6.30pm place: EES, 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG. costs: Members: £182.00 Non-members: £228.00 Student Members: £91.00 Student Non-members:£114.00. info: URL -- Evening Class 'An Introduction to Hieratic: Reading Ancient Egyptian Papyri'. Tutor: Luigi Prada. A new eight week class, in which students will read the Shipwrecked Sailor in Hieratic. Not suitable for complete beginners. date: from Wednesday 17th April 2013, 6.30pm place: EES, 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG. costs: Members: £182.00 Non-members: £228.00 Student Members: £91.00 Student Non-members:£114.00. info: URL -- Evening Class 'An Introduction to Sahidic Coptic'. Tutor: Dr Jennifer Cromwell. A new eight week class, introducing the basics of Sahidic Coptic. Suitable for all. date: from Thursday 16 April 2013, 6.30pm place: EES, 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG. costs: Members: £182.00 Non-members: £228.00 Student Members: £91.00 Student Non-members: £114.00. info: URL * (&) A Saturday course in Middle Kingdom Egypt, offered through UC Berkeley Extension, and taught by Terry Moore, Ph.D.: "World of Sinhue: Middle Kingdom Egypt" 10 meetings, Sat., March 2 to May 18, 10 am-1 pm Berkeley: 110 Barrows Hall, UC campus URL * (&) A Saturday course in Middle Kingdom Egypt, offered through UC Berkeley Extension, and taught by Northern California ARCE chapter board member Terry Moore, Ph.D." "World of Sinhue: Middle Kingdom Egypt" X401 (2 semester units in Anthropology) Berkeley, Sat. March 2 to May 18, 10 am-1pm, 10 meetings URL * (&) From the Centro de Estudios Artísticos Elba, Madrid: new course on Ancient Egypt Jewellery, "Pequeños tesoros, grandes hallazgos. Estudio de la joyería faraónica", by Laura Di Nóbile URL * (&) Online and correspondence Egyptology courses including hieroglyphs and Egyptology. New courses are added regularly, and suggestions are always welcome. Please visit URL * (&) 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-- * TBA --FIELD SCHOOLS-- * TBA +++ ==================================================================== Please send any contributions to: A. K. Eyma This list is not meant for distribution to any other public channel than the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum. 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