Submitted by Sean Williams on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 18:07
A panel of Japanese experts recently revealed what they considered to be the world's greatest chat-up line, based upon reams of psychological and sociological research. The result? "This time next year, let's be laughing together."
Apparently the sure-fire phrase is based on keywords guaranteed to get the romantic juices flowing. I'm not convinced: it's hardly Shakespeare, barely even Barbara Cartland.
Submitted by veigapaula on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 00:34
CRE XI's Religion Day - if you've missed day 1 of the Egyptology conference, read up here - started off with Susanne Töpfer from Leipzig. In this very very interesting session, we all heard about how some papyri describing embalming rituals can have direct connections to religion myths as the body and the afterlife were treated with the best care.
Fiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon, takes us into the recreated tomb of King Tutankhamun at Highclere Castle, and explains what some of the wall paintings inside KV62 mean, and their significance in ancient Egyptian beliefs. She talks about the various Gods portrayed in the King Tut's path to the afterlife, and how building the tomb out of stone preserved the knowledge of this amazing past for us to understand today.
Submitted by Sean Williams on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 09:20
"In most Egyptian tombs you've either got the wall paintings or the coffin." Fiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon says, stressing the uniqueness of Tutankhamun's tomb, the greatest discovery in history.
Three ritual beds were found inside the Tomb of King Tutankhamun (KV62), made up of four pieces of gilded wood and bound together with hooks and staples. Assembly instructions were painted on the beds in black paint, with each bed representing a different animal deity.
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 year old site in Nubia that dates to an ancient 'Dark Age' - a time when the Egyptian Empire had collapsed and civilizations around the Mediterranean had been conquered by a group called the 'Sea People'.
The settlement was found in the lowest layers of Qasr Ibrim, a site well known for its medieval era remains. Today what's left of Qasr Ibrim is an island on Lake Nasser - a man-made lake created when the Aswan Dam was built in the 1960’s.
Dr Zahi Hawass talks about some of his favourite artefacts from the Tomb of King Tutankhamun (KV62), including the Golden Mask of King Tut, the External Trappings of the Mummy and the Golden Throne. He speaks of his fascination of the combination of different precious stones and gold incorporated into artefacts, and how Ancient Egyptian art was influenced by religion.
When Howard Carter said he spied “wondrous things” upon cracking open the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, he wasn’t joking. KV62 was filled with probably the most fantastic collection of ancient treasures ever discovered in one place – all from beautiful golden coffins, to giant statues, canopic shrines and a golden throne.
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 year old site in Nubia that dates to an ancient 'Dark Age' - a time when the Egyptian Empire had collapsed and civilizations around the Mediterranean had been conquered by a group called the 'Sea People'.
