News from the EEF

Press report: "Coptic Museum countdown"
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/778/heritage.htm
Tour through the reconstructed Coptic Museum that is
about to be officially re-opened.
"No other museum in the world can boast such an exclusive
collection of Coptic antiquities as ours, but it has not been
our aim to put all our 14,000 objects on display. It has been
to combine medium and subject matter, carefully to select
each object for display and group them in a manner that
casts light on Egypt's rich Coptic heritage and its continuity."

Press report: "Old Kingdom art: Rare Egyptian sculpture
puts a human face on a remote civilization"
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0118/p18s02-hfgn.html
"The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, set a world
record when it bought this ancient Egyptian limestone sculpture
at auction Dec. 9 (...) this "Group Statue of Ka-nefer and His
Family," which sold for $2,816,000. " For the buy and the
statue, see EEFNEWS (385).

Review (by Peter C. Nadig) of:
Anthony J. Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt. Ancient World at War Series.
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 291. ISBN 1-4051-1372-3.
$29.95 (pb).
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-01-21.html

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