2010’s well underway now, and with it the new decade. At Heritage Key we’ve begun the teenies by asking a cross-section of heritage experts to get their crystal balls out, in a bid to try and predict what they think (or at least hope) will be the big discoveries, themes, advances and breakthroughs in their individual fields – and in archaeology and heritage studies at large – over the next ten years.
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"Ten years ago only birds tweeted, then Stephen Fry started and now even museum staff are doing it."
Ancient Egypt comes to the southern US state of Arkansas, as the Little Rock's Arkansas Arts Center hosts 'World of the Pharaohs...', a celebration of life and art in Ancient Egypt through a wild variety of authentic pieces. Most of the exhibition's 200-plus artefacts come from the empire's Old Kingdom, during the time of the Giza Plateau's construction. Headline pieces include a royal decree, a bead dress, funerary shabti figures and a colossus of Ramesses the Great.
The exhibition also includes an extensive events program, including lectures and videos from some of the world's foremost Egyptological figures. Bob Brier shows how to make a mummy, Salima Ikram talks about what mummification meant for Egyptians, and Kathryn Bard enlightens visitors on the Egyptian seaport to the hallowed Land of Punt. Many more events pack out the museum's schedule, including evening sessions such as 'Mummies, Martinis and Music' and 'Mummies and Milkshakes Family Night.' Most if not all Egyptian tastes will be catered for, as the Art Center aims to put Arkansas on the Egyptology map.
Submitted by Sean Williams on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 18:37
With King Tut's road trip hitting no fewer than three North American cities in 2009/10, you'd think the continent was getting its fill of Egyptian treasures. Not so Arkansas' capital city Little Rock, whose Arkansas Arts Center currently plays host to 'World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed', a celebration of all things Egyptian.
Beginning September 25 and running until July 5 next year, the show combines ancient artefacts with a packed events calendar, comprising lectures, films and much more.
Want to know how to mummify a body but don't know where to start? Well, you've come to the right place.
Following on from our video featuring Dr Zahi Hawass, in which he gives Heritage Key a fascinating insight into how mummies are made (see the video embedded below), and an enlightening interview with Bob 'Mr Mummy' Briers on mummification, we've condensed millenia of wisdom into 7 not-so-easy and certainly not pleasant steps.
Egyptian embalmers were masters of their craft, and while we possess a lot of clues about the long and laborious procedure they went through in order to ensure the deceased’s safe transit into the afterlife, much also remains unknown about how, exactly, they managed to wrap corpses so well that they have managed to survive for millennia.
Bob “Mr Mummy” Brier is an American Egyptologist and the world’s leading authority on mummies. He’s a familiar face from documentaries on channels such as National Geographic and Discovery Civilizations, and has investigated some of the most famous embalmed corpses in history, including Tutankhamun, Ramesses the Great, the Medici (a powerful ruling dynasty of the Republic of Florence) and Eva Perón. In 1994, he carried out the first mummification in 2,000 years achieved exclusively by use of Egyptian tools and techniques.
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"It wasn’t just, you know: 'let’s mummify!' We asked: 'how do you take the brain out through the nose?' and 'can you take a liver out of a three and half centimetre incision in the abdomen?'"
"My invitation to Dr Hawass to lead a simple survey with non-destructive techniques is still on the table. That survey could be his last and most remarkable discovery while at the head of the SCA." -- Jean-Pierre Houdin
We know lots about the Great Pyramid of Giza – it’s age (about 4,569 years), who it was built for (the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian King Khufu), who designed it (Khufu’s brother, the architect Hemienu) and even who rolled up their sleeves and did the work (tens of thousands of skilled labourers from across the kingdom, as opposed to slaves as was once believed). But ask a room full of experts how it was built, and you can expect a whole lot of head-scratching and beard-stroking, followed by heated argument and possibly some light fisticuffs.
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“A green light from Cairo and the Great Pyramid mystery is over,” -- Jean Pierre Houdin
Want to know how to mummify a body but don't know where to start? Well, you've come to the right place. 
Bob “Mr Mummy” Brier
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