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THE BOY KING RETURNS
130 Rare Objects Go on Display
Actually, the fabled regent Tuthankamun's remains will stay in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, but 130 of the more than 5,000 Egyptian artifacts found in King Tut's tomb will go on tour. "Tutankhamun is back," says secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass. Hawass was referring to the last and only tour of the young king's royal treasures in the 1970s.
Click the image above for more on Dr. Hawass
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The exhibition has toured Germany and Switzerland, and makes its U.S. debut at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16 and run through Nov. 15. From there the exhibition goes to the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Chicago's Field Museum and possibly to a fourth museum yet to be identified. In 2006, the exhibit goes to London's Dome of the Millennium and on to Japan.
If you have yet to visit Egypt, then this exhibition -- whether it stops in your town or not -- is not to be missed. In addition to the many pieces made of gold and precious materials, there will be an interactive room for exploration of the king's life, his death and the world of Osiris.
Click the golden mask directly above for more on Tutankhamun. For more on the death of Tutankhamun click on the image above right. Image Courtesy The Discovery Channel
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND LOST CITY UNDER THE SANDS
The Latest News from Egypt.
A lost ancient Egyptian town that was home to the workmen who built the pyramids has been found buried in the sand by a group of Scottish archaeologists working with the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project.
Located about 15 miles from Cairo, the town is situated near the necropolis of Saqqara and measures approximately one mile by three-quarters of a mile. There are large temples, some of which are nearly 200 square feet in size, and a number of tombs. The houses are both large and small, indicating the wealthy lived alongside artisans. The Scotsman newspaper described the remarkable discovery as "a 'real' town that will offer a unique insight into Egyptian life unaffected by the glamour of the royal and aristocratic classes." The town most likely evolved from the Old Kingdom, beginning in about 2,500 B.C., through the reign of Cleopatra and beyond the birth of Christ to about 54 A.D.
"I do not believe we will recover any chariots of gold or fabulous pharaoh masks, but in archaeological terms it is stunning; a hitherto undiscovered town, complete, buried beneath the sand," Ian Mathieson, a scientific archaeologist from Edinburgh and the director of the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project, told The Scotsman. Experts are confident that artifacts of "immeasurable importance" will be found.
There's just one problem: The town is still buried 20 feet deep in the sand. The team, which is comprised of volunteers who spend their annual vacation time digging in the sands of Egypt, doesn't have the money to excavate the lost city. It's been operating since 1990 on a shoestring budget of about $16,000 a year. Compare this to teams from other countries that spend $1.6 million annually on archeological exploration.
Mathieson knows the town is down there thanks to geo-thermal equipment, but he says it's a miracle they even found it. They began looking for it when they saw a one-line reference to it in the papers of Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan, two archaeologists who worked in the area more than 110 years ago. "That was all there was to go on, and we found it. However, it needs resources greater than ours to excavate it," Mathieson told The Scotsman. "But if there's anybody out there with spare cash, we'd be happy to hear from them."
Even without excavating the lost Egyptian city, the Scottish team has solved an enduring mystery that has long puzzled historians. To try to find the town, they hunted for an ancient road that would have been capable of bearing the extremely heavy loads of building materials needed for the pyramids and tombs. They didn't find a road. They found a lake. "The materials were carried by boat, and on the edge of the lake, there was the town," Mathieson explained. One more mystery solved about how the pyramids were built.
--Cathryn Conroy
Photo: Saqqarra area.
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More news from Egypt: cairolive.com
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NEWS IN EGYPT
NEW TOMB DISCOVERED IN BAHARIYA OASIS
Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said an excavation team, working in the village of Bawiti last week, had found the mummy of Naas, the wife of Gad (Zed) Khensu Eyuf Ankh, the ruler of the Bahriya oasis between 589 and 570 BC.
This update courtesy Egyptologists Electronic Forum. Follow the link below for more:
IOL News
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READ CAIRO LIVE
For the latest news, arts and cultural trends, read CairoLive
cairolive.com
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Egypt--Ancient Egypt's Origins Lie In Savannah
"British archaeologists ... have found 30 sites rich in art chiselled into rocks up to 6,000 years ago in the desert east of the Nile ..." Toby Wilkinson is quoted saying: "What this does is open up a completely new chapter in the study of Egyptian civilisation and its origins."
If someone on this list is interested in similar material, I have found more than 100 new (or better: unpublished) engraving sites in the Eastern Desert (I have about 1000 dias on this subject).
Note: The "Saharan" rock-art association (AARS) has a new web site (still under construction): http://digilander.iol.it/aars/
Giancarlo Negro
(co-editor of Sahara magazine)
Hindustan Times-Egypt
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Discovery.com
Scientific discoveries in the ancient land.
Discovery News-Egypt
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Webhotep.com feature, contributor pages. Due to the great response to author Ben
Elder?s page on Tut-mania, we are adding pages written by Suzi Spencer, Petra Szilagyi
and Nataki Scott Rasheed. If you have a specialty or a burning desire to explore some part of the
amazing whole of ancient Egypt, let us know. While there is no pay for contributor pages and
acceptance is at the editor?s discretion, you retain the rights to your stories and/or photos.
For submission requirements, write us:
Contributor Page info
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Egyptian Monthly Calendar
Courtesy of TourEgypt.net, this online calendar displays a month-to-month view of the holidays and special events taking place in contemporary Egypt.
http://www.touregypt.net/egyptcalendar.htm
TourEgypt-Calendar
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Read about the impact of excavation and more dubious human forces on the monuments of ancient Egypt, in "Thieves of Times", an insightful essay by Ralph E. Vaughn.
Ancient Egypt Resources
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VISIT THE webhotep.com SCROLLS
The latest discoveries and documentaries.For past articles, follow the link to The webhotep.com Scrolls. Currently, you'll find , Ramadan by Dr. Fathy Shalaby, Coptic Easter in Egypt and Tut-Ankh-Amun Ukulele by Ben Elder.
The Scrolls
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EGYPT LINKS
If you haven't already, take a look at our EGYPT LINKS page: You can find some of the best Egypt sites on the worldwide web. From Dr. Zawi Hawass, to Guardian's Egypt, to Victor's Egyptology and more . . .
Go to EGYPT LINKS
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PAGES, PAGES, PAGES!
MediaEGYPT--Film, video & television listings.
THE GALLERY--Features a visit to the Bowers Museum's Egyptian Treasures Exhibit and a visit to the Cairo Museum's Animal Mummy Project.
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MAKE PLANS! It's time to make your plans to visit Egypt--Some of us are planning a 2 week-long stay in the Two Lands for late-November 2002. We're planning to visit the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, the Great Pyramids, Sphynx and Saqqara, the Old City, Islamic Cairo and Luxor, Karnak, The Valleys of the Kings and Queens, Hathshepsut's temple, Abydos, and Abu Simbel. If you're interested, send us your name, mailing address and daytime phone number, so that you'll be one of the first to get the brochure . . .
Thinking about The Next Egypt Trip
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If you're thinking about joining us, or taking a trip to Egypt, anytime this year, let us know. We're planning to arrange a special in-depth tour of the Cairo Museum's Animal Mummy room. If you haven't heard, webhotep.com's adopting an animal mummy! For details, go to the Animal Mummy Project page in the Gallery:
The Animal Mummy Project
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IF YOU WOULD KNOW A KING
A PHARAOH OF ANCIENT EGYPT, WHO WOULD IT BE? IF YOUR IMAGINATION COULD MAKE IT SO, AND YOU WOULD HAVE HIM SPEAK: WHAT WOULD A KING ANSWER--
CALL HIM FORTH AND SEE:
The List of Kings
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PROFILE OF A KING
Who dares to call me from my resting place? Since Ptah spit out the lands and the seas and spoke the beginning, no one has spoke it.
I have been.
If you would know me, you would know my father, Osiris! Great and gracious God! Betrayed by his evil brother, Seth, killed and dismembered, every part of his body hidden, lost, until my mother, the great goddess Isis, with her sister Nepthys, traveled the world, found and gathered up his parts and with Thoth, the great god, the great cackler, brought life to the great father, long enough for him to give me life in the form of his seed. Oh, and then, my father Osiris, descended into the land of the dead to rule, while I grew hidden from the evil eye. I would grow to manhood, where I would avenge my father, and though Seth ripped out my one eye, the God Thoth gave me another, that I should watch over all Kemet and pharaohs to follow . . .
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