Thursday, March 25, 2004

Have a PBR afterwards, eh? Eternal Glory (in Wisconsin)

Sometime around 3000 B.C., the Egyptians decided that life was so beautiful they wanted to make it go on forever.

In a way, they succeeded.

Prepare to be dazzled by their efforts. A part of their world will be resurrected in Milwaukee when "The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt" opens next Sunday at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

"Quest" is the largest exhibit of ancient Egyptian artifacts to ever arrive in North America and the largest exhibit ever to come to the museum. Costing $6.5 million to stage, the exhibit features more than 100 priceless artifacts on loan from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Luxor Museum courtesy of the Egyptian government. Many have never been seen outside of Egypt.


Pretty good exhibit. I saw it in DC a couple of years ago. It's been VERY popular, so try to go when there is a likelyhood of it being not as crowded (if possible). There is a lot of good material and the interpretive texts (IIRC) are very informative.


Slide show on Ramesses VI sarcophagus


Finding the statue of Tiye and large hippo statues

A rare statue of Queen Ti, mother of Akhenaton, the first in history to propagate monotheist calls, and the wife of King Amenhotep III, was unearthed in the Al-Bar El-Gharbi West Bank area in the ancient Egyptian archaeological city of Luxor, said Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni.

Touring Luxor Sunday accompanied by the People’s Assembly Housing Committee under Mohamed Abul-Enein and Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Secretary General Dr. Zahi Hawas, the minister said the find was made by a German mission inside the Amenhotep III Temple.


Tiye is definitely going to curse someone for putting her in the same sentence as hippos.

Not EgyptAirAntiquities from the air

Join a newspaper and see the world. Marilyn Bridges worked as a photographer for the Naples Daily News for about a year in 1972 when all of its pictures were in black and white.

Today, Bridges, one of the world's foremost aerial photographers, is currently showing 52 excellent black-and-white gelatin silver aerial prints of ancient Egyptian monuments at the Edison Community College Gallery of Fine Art in Fort Myers.

Her resume of exhibitions and lectures is many pages long and lists representation in 80 museum and corporate collections. Bridges, who estimates she has flown about 200 foreign photographic trips, first traveled to Peru in 1976 and has made 10 trips there. She lives in Warwick, N.Y., 100 miles north of New York City.


Her book, Egypt: Antiquities from Above, is also available.

Online books for the seriously geeky
Digitized books: E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead: The Chapers of
Coming Forth by Day. The Egyptian Text According to the Theban Recension in
Hieroglyphic. Edited From Numerous Papyri, with a Translation, Vocabulary,
etc, vols. 1 - 2, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., London, 1898. XL,
517 pp.; 386 pp. - pdf-files: vol. 1: 11.3 MB, vol. 2: 13.8 MB.

Volume 1
Volume 2

Note: Both are large PDF files and will take a long time to download by dial-up. Thanks to The Egyptologists' Electronic Forum and Michael Tilgner.