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Egyptology QLD: Conference - Ancient Cultures at Monash University
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Friday, September 27, 2013. Conference - Ancient Cultures at Monash University. The Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History is holding a conference on ‘Ancient Cultures at Monash University’ on the 19th and 20th of October 2013. The conference is celebrating a new BA major in Ancient Cultures is to be introduced at Monash University in 2014. It also aims. On Friday the 18th a keynote ...
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Egyptology QLD: March 2014
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Friday, March 21, 2014. AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR EGYPTOLOGY - 2014 Annual Mini Conference. The Australian Centre for Egyptology 2014 Annual Mini Conference is almost here. It will be held on. Sunday April 6, 2014. At 12:30 for start at 1.00 pm sharp at the Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club Auditorium. Cost: is $30 per person which includes afternoon tea. Before 12.45 pm). A/Prof. Boyo Ockinga.
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Egyptology QLD: March 2011
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Friday, March 4, 2011. Zahi Hawass thinking of resigning? Zahi Hawass has a new blog entry :. Http:/ www.drhawass.com/blog/status-egyptian-antiquities-today-3-march-2011. Http:/ artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/egypt-antiquities-chief-says-he-may-quit/. It starts off with:. It then quotes him as saying: “During the revolution nothing happened, but after the revolution many thi...
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Egyptology QLD: April 2013
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. NEW 2013 BEGINNER’S HIEROGLYPH STUDY GROUP. For some time, I’ve been trying to learn Middle Egyptian grammar and read hieroglyphs through a Yahoo Group called Glyphstudy. NEW 2013 BEGINNER’S HIEROGLYPH STUDY SECTION. GlyphStudy, a yahoogroup student run study group, will be offering a Collier and Manley hieroglyph study section for Beginners starting JUNE 10, 2013.
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Egyptology QLD: November 2013
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Friday, November 22, 2013. Has a nice little article titled “. Pyramid-Age Love Revealed in Vivid Color in Egyptian Tomb. The “love” is based on a photo of decoration in an Old Kingdom Saqqara tomb of a priestess named. Meretites and her husband Kahai showing them “embracing”. The tomb is described in "The Chapel of Kahai and his Family" by Miral Lashien. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Egyptology QLD: January 2014
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Friday, January 31, 2014. Third Australasian Egyptology Conference. As I posted in August last year. The next Australasian Egyptology Conference is being hosted by the Australian Centre for Centre for Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney. As the date is now getting closer, I thought it worthwhile to repeat the details here. It will run from Wednesday 16 July to Friday 18 July 2014.
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Egyptology QLD: Pyramid-Age "Love" Revealed
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Friday, November 22, 2013. Has a nice little article titled “. Pyramid-Age Love Revealed in Vivid Color in Egyptian Tomb. The “love” is based on a photo of decoration in an Old Kingdom Saqqara tomb of a priestess named. Meretites and her husband Kahai showing them “embracing”. The tomb is described in "The Chapel of Kahai and his Family" by Miral Lashien. Australian Centre for Egyptology.
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Egyptology QLD: Mallawi Museum Looting Update – man arrested. UNESCO launches restoration campaign
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Wednesday, September 18, 2013. Mallawi Museum Looting Update – man arrested. UNESCO launches restoration campaign. There are a number of reports, such as this one in the Luxor Times. Of an arrest of someone who had allegedly been. Trying to sell 13 artefacts belong to the looted Mallawi Museum. Provides some further details on the arrested man, reporting that he is. Reports that the dire...
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Egyptology QLD: May 2013
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Friday, May 10, 2013. Secrets of the Afterlife: Magic, Mummies and Immortality in Ancient Egypt. It is apparently a “slimmed down” version of the Book of the Dead exhibition at the British Museum in 2010. There are two mummies featured in the exhibition, one of which is the priest Irthorru. British Museum curator of Ancient Egypt and Sudan John Taylor is accompanying the exhibition.
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Egyptology QLD: June 2013
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News and information about Egyptology, and particularly Egyptological research in Australia, especially in Queensland. Friday, June 7, 2013. Underwater remains of Heracleion. Ninemsn.com.au has a great photo story on the ancient Egyptian port city of Heracleion, which is now underwater in Aboukir Bay, north-east of Alexandria. There’s also a video. A bronze statue of Osiris is also fascinating as it’s wonderfully preserved and still has gold sheets in the eye sockets. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Darryl h...