A few items from this week's news from the EEF:
Press report: "Key archaeological finds in Sinai"
http://snipurl.com/qn0t
"An archaeological mission belonging to the SCA announced
the discovery of 36 tombs dating back to the pre-history era
(..) during an archaeological survey in Ain Hadra and Abul Rdeis."
Press report "Tutankhamun's mysteries to be put online"
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1774854,00.html
Short update report on the Griffith Institute's project
"Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation" (URL of the project:
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tut.html )
Preliminary Report 2006 of the sixth season of work at Tell el-Borg:
http://www.tellelborg.org/report2006preliminary.htm
"Joint Archaeological Expedition at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis
(Red Sea, Egypt) of the University of Naples 'l'Orientale'
(Naples, Italy), Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (Rome,
Italy), and Boston University (Boston, USA) - 2005-2006
Field Season"
http://snipurl.com/qn11
"In December 2005-January 2006 the Archaeological Expedition of the
University of Naples 'l'Orientale' (UNO), Naples, and the Italian Institute
for Africa and the Orient (IsIAO), Rome, in collaboration with Boston
University (BU), Boston (USA), conducted the fifth field season at the site
of Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt, under the direction of Prof. Rodolfo Fattovich
(UNO/IsIAO), and Prof. Kathryn Bard (BU) ... In 2005-06 excavations were
conducted on the eastern terrace near the seashore and along the western and
southern slopes of the coral terrace."
BMCR online book review of:
Richard Jasnow, Karl-Th. Zauzich, The Ancient Egyptian Book of
Thoth: A Demotic Discourse on Knowledge and Pendant to the
Classical Hermetica. Volume 1: Text. Volume 2: Plates. Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2005. Pp. xx, 581; x, pls. 67. ISBN 3-447-05082-9.
EUR178
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-05-19.html
Online review of:
Arthur Verhoogt: Regaling Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt. A Dramatic
Reading of Official Accounts from the Menches Papers, Leiden /
Boston / Tokyo: Brill Academic Publishers 2005
in: Sehepunkte 6 (2006), Nr. 2
http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2006/02/8121.html