Meroë – situated on the Nile in Sudan, two hundred kilometers north of present-day Khartoum – was an important royal capital where African, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences mingled fascinatingly between 270 BC and 350 AD. The Louvre will for the very first time present an exhibition dedicated exclusively to this ancient seat of regional power, comprising loans mainly from the Museum of Khartoum as well as the British Museum in London, the World and Garstang museums in Liverpool, and other institutions in Munich, Berlin and Leiden. Highlights will include a celebrated gilt bronze statue of an archer-king, and a special focus on the discovery of the ruins of the Meroë pyramids by Frédéric Cailliaud in 1821.
Submitted by Sean Williams on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 11:22
It's the most exciting project in Egypt, and one that's captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world: could Kathleen Martinez have discovered the tomb of Cleopatra? The Dominican expert certainly thinks so, and tells Heritage Key all about it in this special video.
Dr Kathleen Martinez, a young archaeologist from the Dominican Republic, has been excavating a site near Alexandria in the search for the tomb of Cleopatra. After being given permission to conduct a dig at the site for 2 months, Dr Martinez's team have discovered two chambers which has won them the right to continue the dig into the next season. Describing the tomb that was discovered at Taposiris Magna, Dr Martinez remains confident that she will uncover the tomb of Cleopatra and Marc Anthony.
Founded in 1941, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art has grown to become one of the top ten regional museums in the United States. It's collections span over 4,000 years and include works from Greco-Roman antiquity, Asia (China, Japan, India and Tibet), 19th and early 20th century England and France and 19th and early 20th century America. It also has galleries featuring International Modernism, Works on Paper, Photography, and Contemporary Art. In addition, it is home to the Alice Schott Doll Collection, which includes dolls from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Many of the pieces in it's collection of Greco-Roman figural works, as well as Luristan bronzes and architectural fragments, were donated by Wright S. Ludington. Of particular note is a monumental Hermes, formerly in the Lansdowne Collection.
Submitted by Mary Harrsch on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 11:06
A new state-of-the-art animation entitled The Mummification Process features a digital reconstruction of a 20-year-old man from the Greco-Roman period of Egypt. The animation, produced by the J. Paul Getty Museum, illustrates each step in the process from the removal of the organs (displayed as virtually disappearing without the hook through the nose procedure that some squeamish visitors may find upsetting) to the application of the distinctive red pigment to the cartonnage outer wrapping.
Highlighted Quote:
Most of the mummies you get in the end [Greco-Roman Period] are not even Egyptians
Submitted by Scott Shields on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 14:26
http://drhawass.com- Join Zahi Hawass at the temple of Taposiris Magna near Alexandria, where he and Dominican scholar Kathleen Martinez are searching for the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony!
Damascus is the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world and was part of the ancient province of Amurru in the Hysksos kingdom from 1720 to 1570 BC.
Excavations at Tell Ramad have revealed that Damascus was inhabited as early as 8,000 - 10,000 BC, although it was not documented as a significant city until the arrival of the Aramaeans - Semitic nomads who traveled from Mesopotamia.
