Weekly EEF news:
Press report (in German): "Imhoteps Statue"
URL: http://www.welt.de/data/2005/01/26/416137.html
A painted wooden statue assigned to Imhotep was found in the Cairo Museum.
Press report: "Digital Exploration: Unwrapping the Secrets of Damaged Manuscripts"
http://www.research.uky.edu/odyssey/fall04/seales.html
Brent Seales in the UK computer science department demonstrates his non-invasive scanning and software technology which may be the only way to retrieve information from currently inaccessible objects. The software is, e.g., able to "read" writing on two sides of a rolled up papyrus (that cannot be physically unwrapped). He is looking for objects to apply his system to. (#)
I had resisted forwarding this offtopic article URL on "magnetic therapy", but my curiosity won.... For this article claims as an
Aside that "Cleopatra wore a naturally magnetic lodestone on her forehead to slow down the ageing process", and that claim is often repeated on the Net. The question of course is: can someone
provide a Classical source for this claim?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10007514
Press report: "Painfully beautiful"
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/724/tr1.htm
Travel report of a "cruise through the past", through Upper Nubia.
Press report: "[Replica of] Tutmosis III statue decorates European Parliament HQ":
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o260125k.htm
Press report with a sum-up of recent Egyptological news, namely the subterranean water problems of the Esna Temple, the scanning of Tutankhamun, the moving of the statue of Ramses II, and the newly discovered Dahshur mummy:
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/
[Submitted by Chris Bennett (cjbennett@sbcglobal.net)]
Roger Bagnall's online CV webpage has links to PDFs of dozens of his papers [notably about Greek, Roman and Byzantine Egypt]:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/classics/personal/bagnall/cv.html
[Submitted by Angiolo Menchetti (amenchetti@yahoo.it)]
I would like to signal that the update of the page of the Archeological Mission of the University of Pisa at Medinet Madi and Khelua (2003-2004) is online at the following URL:
http://www.egittologia.unipi.it/pisaegypt/MMscavi03-04.htm
[Submitted by Chris Bennett (cjbennett@sbcglobal.net)]
Website dedicated to Ptolemy, the famous scholar who worked in Alexandria in the 2nd c. AD:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajones/ptolgeog/
The site is under construction, but a page with translations of some of Ptolemy's lesser works (i.e. other than the 'Geography' and 'Almagest') is present at:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajones/ptolgeog/astroworks.html
With 'The Canobic Inscription', 'Phaseis', 'The Handy Tables', 'The Planetary Hypotheses', 'Analemma', and 'Planisphaerium'.
[Submitted by Michael Tilgner]
"Travellers in Egypt"
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/
"Egypt has been a destination for travellers since time immemorial. Physical evidence of this is inscribed on the timeless stones of Giza and the Valley of the Kings. From as far back as 1200 BC, right through to the last
century, travellers wrote their names on the monuments in Egypt they reached after many adventures and difficulties. The graffiti they left marks their passage. These pages are dedicated to them, the most disparate of
travellers into the unknown."
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