Press report: "[Egyptian] Draft law for harshening penalty for stealing antiquities."
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o120225j.htm
Press report: "A glimpse of eternity":
http://snipurl.com/ctwe
The Robert V. Fullerton Museum at Cal State San Bernardino has put its newest acquisition on display: a 2500 year old coffin lid of a man called Neter Heneb. With photos.
[Submitted by Michael Tilgner]
Press release: "Tutankhamun Examined in a CT Scanner"
"... The condition of the mummy is very bad: It was supposedly damaged when its discoverers removed jewelry from the body ..." - Note the picture on the left at bottom.
English: http://snipurl.com/cun5
Digitized Book from the Giza Digital Library
-- George A. Reisner, Mycerinus. The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931. XXI, 292 pp., 78 pls., 12 plans - pdf-file: 176 MB (can also be downloaded in parts)
URL: http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=mycerinus
Online dissertation: Diane Victoria Flores, The Funerary Sacrifice of Animals during the Predynastic Period, University of Toronto, 1999. xiv, 215 pp. - pdf-file: 15.6 MB
"This study is an attempt to rnarshal all the available contextual evidence for the independent animal burials, with the intention of providing a cultural framework within which interpretations for such burials may be adequately evaluated."
URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ45758.pdf
Michel Wuttmann, Thierry Gonon, Christophe Thiers , "The Qanats of 'Ayn-Manâwîr (Kharga Oasis, Egypt)" in: JASR 2000.1(Journal of Achaemenid Studies and Researches); in PDF (2.4 MB)
http://www.achemenet.com/pdf/jasr/jasr2000.1.pdf
IFAO research of the site that became resettled in the 5th c. BC due to a technical inovation, namely a network of Qanats. A temple of Osiris and ostraca were found, but the article is mainly about ancient water management.
Online version of: William Stevenson Smith, The Old Kingdom Linen List, in: ZÄS, vol. 71, pp. 134-49 (1935) - pdf-file: 2.8 MB
URL: http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/smith_zäs_71_1935.pdf
[Submitted by Michael Tilgner]
* "The Ancient Egypt film site"
"This website contains documentation and other information about motion pictures related to Ancient Egypt and Egyptology."
URL: http://www.wepwawet.nl/films/
End of EEF news
Food! A set of 2,800-year-old pottery discovered in Gansu
Archaeologists in northwest China's Gansu Province recently discovered two pottery cooking utensils made 2,800 years ago.
A pot and a food steamer, excavated from a site in Lintao County of Gansu Province, are yellow with no designs. The pot is 26 cm high with two handles. The steamer has a diameter of 28 cm with a height of 16 cm.
Okay, big whoop. A couple of pots.
More later.