This week's news from the EEF
Press report: "A new home for mummies"
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000001/0203000000000000000542.htm
"A new hall for mummies will open at the Egyptian Museum in a fortnight's time. (..) The first hall contains the mummies of the Egyptian warrior Pharaohs from Sekhen-en-Ra to Ramses II, while the new hall will house the mummies of the high priests of Amun. "
For a report on the topics discussed at last December's Egypt Centre Conference, see:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1965612,00.html
Digitized book from Digital General Collection, University of Michigan
-- Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall, The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of
Egypt. A Study in the Origin of the Roman Empire, William Blackwood and
Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1914. XIX, 410 pp. Illustrations, maps and plan.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=genpub;idno=AJL1424.0001.001
"In the case of Cleopatra the biographer may approach his subject from one
of several directions. He may, for example, regard the Queen of Egypt as a
thoroughly bad woman, or as an irresponsible sinner, or as a moderately good
woman in a difficult situation. In this book it is my object to point out
the difficulty of the situation, and to realise the adverse circumstances
against which the Queen had to contend; and by so doing a fairer complexion
will be given to certain actions which otherwise must inevitably be regarded
as darkly sinful."
Eric Dooryhée, "Recipes & Use of Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt",
Presentation at the Workshop on Synchrotron Radiation in Art and
Archaeology, SSRL, 18 October 2000
http://srs.dl.ac.uk/arch/ssrl/dooryhee/stanford_talk/
"We have examined both the inorganic and organic contents of
cosmetics dated between 2000 and 1200 BC (..) Two well-known
natural lead-based compounds are identified: the crushed ore of
galena (PbS) and the cerussite (PbCO3). In addition, our analyses
reveal the presence of two unexpected synthetic products: laurionite
(PbOHCl) and phosgenite (Pb2Cl2CO3)."
aguib Kanawati, "Extreme Physical Punishment In Old Kingdom Scenes"
http://www.egyptology.mq.edu.au/punishmentscenes.htm
"In the two tombs [Mereruka, Khentika], an accused man is shown held naked
against a whipping-post with officials raising their batons about to strike
his back."
Digitization of "Description de l'Égypte"
http://www.bibalex.org/isis/Projects/description.htm
http://www.bibalex.org/isis/News/23052005.htm
"This valuable collection containing images related to antiquities, natural
history, and the modern states of Egypt has been fully digitized and
integrated on a virtual browser with the objective of preserving it and
making it publicly accessible ... Future Work: The whole collection is
to be available in an integrated searchable form on the web. "
End of EEF news