King Tut’s Golden Death Mask is the greatest thing ever discovered. See it now online and up close in 3D. Click below. Deemed too fragile and precious to travel, Tutankhamun’s death mask will never leave Egypt again. Admire the Golden Death Mask online and up close- in 3D! – on Heritage Key. View the 3D Mask right inside your browser – all you need is the Unity3D plug-in (sort of like Flash). If you haven’t installed it yet, the application below will offer to download and install it for you. Then just refresh the page. King Tut’s Golden Death Mask –…
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Attribution: Zahi Hawass (on Flickr) Zahi Hawass Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities 28 May 1947 World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass currently serves as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and directs ongoing excavations at Giza, Saqqara, and in the Valley of the Kings. Dr. Hawass received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Pennsylvania. He has written numerous scholarly articles and books, and is highly respected as an Egyptologist. Over the course of his long career, he has been presented with numerous awards and honors. In addition, Dr. Hawass is known for his charisma and…
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Nicole Alexanian Egyptologist Dr. Nicole Alexanian holds a PhD in Egyptology from Universität Heidelberg. Since 2000 she has been directing a German Archaeological Institute project at Dahshur in Egypt. The site is known as the location of several pyramids. These include the Bent and Red Pyramids, constructed by the pharaoh Snefru during the Egyptian 4th dynasty. It is also home to the Black Pyramid, constructed by Amenemhat III during the Middle Kingdom. Dr. Alexanian and her team have been reconstructing what the Dahshur landscape looked like in ancient times, examining its topography, geology and climate. They found that the ground…
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Professor – School of Biosciences – University of Exeter Dr. Rob Lee is a Professor in the School of Biosciences at the University of Exeter. His research looks at the study of languages. Recently he led a team that determined that the symbols carved on stones by the Picts, a society that flourished in Scotland from AD 300-843, constitute a written language rather than symbology. The team determined this by assessing the randomness of the symbols. They found that there is some predictability with the symbols, evidence that they constitute a written language. Their results were published recently in the journal…
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Dr Paul G Bahn Distinguished archaeologist and author Dr Paul G Bahn is a distinguished archaeologist, and a prolific writer and broadcaster on archaeology, prehistoric art and early man. In 2003 and 2004, he led the team that discovered Britain’s first Ice Age cave art at Creswell Crags in Nottinghamshire. He holds a PhD from Cambridge, conducting his thesis on the prehistory of the French Pyrénées. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a member of various international organisations, including the Société Préhistorique Française and a variety of rock art research associations. He is also a contributing…
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Attribution: Sandro Vannini Kathleen Martinez Archaeologist Dr Kathleen Martinez, from the Dominican Republic, is an archaeologist and expert in Ancient Egypt. She is famous for her pioneering discoveries at Taposiris Magna, where she believes she has found the tomb of Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Martinez earned a law degree from her home country, but was fascinated from an early age with scholarly discussions about the life and times of Cleopatra. She became angry with the way Cleopatra had been portrayed through the ages, and was determined to find her mysterious tomb. “(Cleopatra) spoke nine languages, she was a…
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Ron Williamson Chief Archaeologist – Archaeological Services Inc. Dr. Ron Williamson is Chief Archaeologist with the firm Archaeological Services Inc. One of the largest cultural resource management firms in Ontario. He holds an MA and PhD in Anthropology from McGill University in Montreal Quebec and a Hon. BA in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario. He has directed over 1,000 surveys, excavations and planning projects in the Great Lakes/Northeastern North America region. This includes remains from 12,000 years ago to modern times. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He’s…
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Attribution: Nico Piazza Hourig Sourouzian Egyptologist, Art Historian and Head of the Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project Dr Hourig Sourouzian is a highly-respected German-Armenian Egyptologist and art historian, and the head of the Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project. She is one of the world’s leading authorities on Egyptian royal statuary. Sourouzian was born in Baghdad, to parents of Armenian descent, and grew up in Beirut. She studied Egyptology and art history in the Louvre and obtained a PhD in art history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne with a thesis on Egyptian royal statuary. Sourouzian additionally studied classical Arabic at the…
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American archaeologist specialising in cultural resource management Tom King is an American archaeologist who has gone beyond archaeology to practice in, and preach about, the evolving field of heritage or cultural resource management. His career includes the conduct of archaeological research in California and the Micronesian islands, management of academy-based and private cultural resource consulting organisations, helping establish government historic preservation systems in the freely associated states of Micronesia, oversight of US government project review for the federal government’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, service as a litigant and expert witness in heritage-related lawsuits, and extensive work as a consultant…
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Salima Ikram Leading Expert on Animals in Ancient Egypt Professor Salima Ikram is one of the world’s leading authorities on animals in Ancient Egypt, and has published several books about the culture, which she has loved since childhood. Dr Ikram currently holds the post of Professor of Egyptology at Cairo’s American University, and frequently appears in magazines and on television to discuss Egypt. She is also a grantee of the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1965, Dr Ikram studies Egyptology and Archaeology at Pennsylvania’s Bryn Mawr College. She then earned a M.Phil.…