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    The Extraordinary life of Amelia Edwards

    The Petrie Museum is celebrating International Women’s Day by honouring Amelia Edward’s contributions to Egyptian archaeology and the Petrie Museum with the new installation of her bust against an image of her study, followed by a one-woman show written and performed by the actress Kim Hicks. Kim Hicks has enjoyed a wide-ranging career, on radio, TV, film and stage. She was inspired to bring Amelia Edwards back to life in celebration of her 175th birthday. This event is organised by the Friends of the Petrie Museum to celebrate the life of Amelia Edwards and support the world-class museum of Egyptian…

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    Nigel Hetherington’s blog

    I have spent the majority of the last 6 years working between Egypt and London; during this time my archaeological career has changed track somewhat from working on heritage protection strategies in Luxor to assisting media production companies in producing documentaries set in the historical realm. The journey from archaeologist to televising producer has enabled me to travel both metaphorically and physically between the worlds of the media and archaeology while attempting to be part I hope of both, a sometimes difficult undertaking. Generally I spend most of the year, some eight or nine months in Egypt during the archaeological…

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    Missing the revolution but making the party!

    I have spent the majority of the last 6 years working between Egypt and London; during this time my archaeological career has changed track somewhat from working on heritage protection strategies in Luxor to assisting media production companies in producing documentaries set in the historical realm. The journey from archaeologist to televising producer has enabled me to travel both metaphorically and physically between the worlds of the media and archaeology while attempting to be part I hope of both, a sometimes difficult undertaking. Generally I spend most of the year, some eight or nine months in Egypt during the archaeological…

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    SCA releases full list of treasures missing from the Cairo Museum

    A month and a half after the Cairo Museum break-in, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities has posted online a listing of sixty-three objects that were found to be missing following the looting. Amongst the missing Ancient Egyptian treasures are ritual statues and a fan belonging to King Tut, Yuya’s shabtis, amulets, as well as amulets and jewellery. Final List of Objects Missing from the Egyptian Museum, as released by the SCA, March 15th 2011: Gilded Wooden Figure of Tutankhamun on a Skiff, Throwing a Harpoon (the figure) – Carter no 275c? Gilded Wood Statue of Tutankhamun Wearing the Red Crown…

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    New Face for 5,300-year-old Otzi the Iceman

    About 5,300 years ago, a man travelling the Alps was hit by an arrow. Roughly 5,280 years later, two German tourists exploring the Italian-Austrian border discover the world’s oldest and best preserved mummy. Since, Ötzi has been examined by innumerable scientists and has received almost three million visitors. To celebrate the natural mummy’s twentieth year as a global sensation,  the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano is dedicating a special exhibition to the Iceman. The show’s highlight – besides a peek at Ötzi’s refrigerated corpse – is a new, naturalistic reconstruction of how Ötzi would have looked, based on…

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    New Clues to Welsh Origins of Stonehenge Bluestones

    The source of Stonehenge’s bluestones a distinctive set of stones that form the inner circle and inner horseshoe of Stonehenge has long been a subject of fascination and considerable controversy. In the early 1920s, one type of bluestone, the so-called spotted dolerite, was convincingly traced to the Mynydd Preseli area, in north Pembrokeshire. However, the sources of the other bluestones – chiefly rhyolites (a type of rock) and the rare sandstones remained, unknown. Now geologists at Amgueddfa Cymru, the National Museum Wales, have further identified the sources of one of the rhyolite types. The find also provides the opportunity for…

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    Six missing pieces of Pharaoh Amenhotep III & Queen Tiye statue found at king’s funerary temple

    Egyptian Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny announced today that six missing pieces from the colossal double statue of the 18th Dynasty King Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye, have been discovered at the kings mortuary temple on Luxors west bank. The fragments were found during excavation work by an Egyptian team under the direction of Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). The pieces from Amenhotep III‘s statue that were recovered come from the right side of his chest, nemes headdress, and leg. Statue fragments of Queen Tiye that were uncovered include a section…

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    Esther Jacobson-Tepfer

    Esther Jacobson-Tepfer Professor of Asian Art at the University of Oregon, Expert on the Archaeology of Mongolia Esther Jacobson-Tepfer is Maude I Kerns Professor Emeritus of Asian Art at the University of Oregon, where she taught undergraduate courses in the History of Indian Art, Art of the Silk Road, and Nomadic Art of Eurasia, and undergraduate and graduate courses in Scythian Gold, North Asian Rock Art, and Judaic Art. Dr Jacobson-Tepfer is a past recipient of the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, and was the first director of the University’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. Dr Jacobson-Tepfer received her…

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    Athens

    Key Dates Athens has been inhabited continuously for over 7,000 years. It became ancient Greece’s leading city in the 5th century BC, and went on to enjoy a period of cultural richness beyond parallel, before experiencing mixed fortunes in the Byzantine, Crusader and Ottoman periods. It became the capital of an independent Greek state in 19th century. Athens Greece Key People Athens is named after the Greek goddess Athena, daughter of Zeus. It’s associated with almost every great name from classical Greece and beyond: philosphers such as Socrates, Aristotle and Plato, dramatists such as Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, statesmen…

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    Derry Brabbs

    Acclaimed heritage photographer Derry Brabbs is regarded as one of England’s finest published photographers within the spheres of heritage and landscape, with over 25 books to his credit. Known for his acclaimed collaborations with James Herriot and Alfred Wainwright, he has also written and illustrated several titles celebrating England’s rich architectural and cultural legacy, including English Country Churches, Abbeys & Monasteries, English Country Pubs, Landmark, and A Year in the Life of the Welsh Marches. He is also the author and photographer of Hadrian’s Wall, in which he charts the Roman frontier from west to east, from the Solway Firth…