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Today I went up to Cambridge to attend a 'bash' at the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate its 200 year anniversary, such a good time was had that I am now stuck on a very delayed train back into King's...
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In regards to the crushing up of the mummies to add to cosmetics how times and beliefs have not changed. You can understand them doing such things then, but even today with so much more knowledge...
Someone recently asked me about the history of Luxor airport. There sin't much on Google but a friend pointed me to this link when BOAC Flying Boats used to go fly from Southampton to East Africa.
This is addressed to those who live in Luxor and those who have visited over the last two years, and who have a strong interest I'm Egyptology.
There have been a number of tombs and temples...
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I think probably the best new 'discovery' in recent years in Luxor is the carefully restored Khonsu and Opet Temples within the Karnak complex, so few see this area though it is now a fully opened...
A German excavation mission from Bon University discovered 15 separate prehistoric graffiti texts during their excavation work in the Noblemen cemetery in Aswan.
Short notice I know but tomorrow evening Saturday 19th March at 6:30 pm there will be a free to all lecture by JJ Shirley (The University of Pennsylvania) on Theban Tomb 110 This work is being...
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I really enjoyed the 2 lectures I attended - either 2015 or 2014, can't remember which.
While we may still need to decode a wine label in order to understand all of the vital information it’s imparting, we have to admit that the label is a very convenient invention. It’s quite hard to...
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Wine labels have also been useful to egyptologists in determining the chronology relating to the pharaohs.
Labels recorded the date of the wine in terms of the reign of the pharaoh e.g. year 13 of...
I was frankly disappointed at the poor turn-out at Marcel Maessen's lecture at Nile Valley Hotel this evening, with the above title. Those present seemed to enjoy it, and the sound and noise problems...
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Now I was a little confused, I thought he said the land where the Four Seasons was to be built next to the Ibotel, but then they spoke about it being where Club Med is which is further up. Since it...
A series of 4 new documentaries featuring Joann Fletcher will be shown on BBC2, starting on Monday 4th January at 9pm GMT or 11pm Egyptian time.
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Thanks for the explanation, A-Four. I really liked programmes presented by him and always found him very easy to understand - without the histrionics of a certain 'lady expert'! :lol:
Just been reading about Tut's tomb and the wall decoration. One of the scenes depicts, what is described as Nefertiti as Pharaoh welcomed by the goddess Nut, now this might seem a stupid question for...
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I think if there is a tomb that it may reveal hopefully on its walks some of the missing Amarna story. But will the body still be there. The evidence that the funeral gear was used for Tut would make...
Hello everyone! I'm back with my latest theory, well to add onto my theory about Tutankhamun fallen down a fleet of stairs. As I sit and read and do tone of research on King Tut, I've noticed that...
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I proposed that he did because there was no heart in the body and in the period he grew up in it would've been left in his body (it was not).
Heary disease doesn't have an age limit it can occur in...
Someone popped round today with a memory stick in exchange for a beer or 2 or 3...
Downloaded that 'fat northern ginger bird Joanne Fletch.... Immortal Egypt
Anyhow in the 1st episode 38 minutes in...
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There is a great bit at the end where she is in The Kings Chamber and becomes all emotional, if she was that clever and 'knowable she should have struck the sarcophagus a few times to set up a...
I held this old theory that Meritaten was maybe elevated to Great Royal Wife by her grandfather Amenhotep III thus the King Nibuhuriya in the Hittite affairs was III. Perhaps he did had a long...
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Exactly. One of the reasons people often change Gods is because they lose faith in the current ones to look after them . If there was plague and drought etc then it can be a logical step to look for...
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