Wednesday Weekly # 57

Welcome to the Wednesday Weekly, your weekly dose of links to Egyptology news, articles, blogs, events and more!


THE ANCIENT WORLD ONLINE

Open Access Journal: Egypt Exploration Society Newsletter
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.nl/2009/12/open-access-newsletter-egypt.html

The Virtual Mummy: Unwrapping a Mummy by Mouse Click
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.nl/2014/11/the-virtual-mummy-unwrapping-mummy-by.html

The Reconstructed Chronology of the Egyptian Kings
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.nl/2014/12/the-reconstructed-chronology-of.html

EGYPTIANS

New blogpost by Timothy Reid:

The Highlites of 2014
http://tim-theegyptians.blogspot.nl/2014/12/the-highlites-of-2014.html

AHRAM ONLINE

239 artefacts to be returned to Egypt from France
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/116541/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/-artefacts-to-be-returned-to-Egypt-from-France.aspx

Mummy wearing gold jewellery unearthed in Egypt's Luxor
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/116533/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Mummy-wearing-gold-jewellery-unearthed-in-Egypts-L.aspx

Huy tomb open to public soon
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/116971/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Huy-tomb-open-to-public-soon.aspx

AL-AHRAM WEEKLY

Searching for Sesostris
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/7844/23/Searching-for-Sesostris.aspx

New Port Said Museum
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/7805/47/New-Port-Said-Museum.aspx

Pyramid truth revealed
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/7804/47/Pyramid-truth-revealed.aspx

DAILY NEWS EGYPT

Conflict surrounds Khufu Cartouche sentence
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2014/12/02/conflict-surrounds-khufu-cartouche-sentence/

THE EGYPTIAN HISTORY PODCAST

Episode 40: Feasting, Laughing and Dancing

Interlude: Celebrating the Divine.
http://egyptianhistorypodcast.com/episode-40-feasting-laughing-and-dancing

GEBEL EL SILSILA SURVEY PROJECT

Sherdy Season
http://gebelelsilsilaepigraphicsurveyproject.blogspot.nl/2014/11/sherdy-season.html

THE ASOR BLOG

By: Ashley Fiutko Arico, The Johns Hopkins University, George A. Barton Fellow

The Context of Ancient Egyptian Statuary in the Levant
http://asorblog.org/the-context-of-ancient-egyptian-statuary-in-the-levant/

KELSEY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY

My Favorite Artifact

Favorite Artifact: Hawk Mummy. Ptolemaic Period (332 BC–AD 100). Egypt (Bayview Collection). KM 1971.2.182
https://kelseymuseum.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/my-favorite-artifact-4/

GARSTANG MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Ancient Egypt In Focus: The Photographic Archives Of John Garstang
https://garstangmuseum.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/ancient-egypt-in-focus-the-photographic-archives-of-john-garstang/

THE CAIRO POST

239 smuggled Egyptian artifacts retrieved from France
http://thecairopost.com/news/129749/travel-antiquities/239-smuggled-egyptian-artifacts-retrieved-from-france

US approves Egyptian request to impose restrictions on smuggled antiquities
http://thecairopost.com/news/129761/travel-antiquities/u-s-approves-egypts-request-to-impose-restrictions-on-smuggled-antiquities

PAIDES

Uptown Girls in Roman Oxyrhynchos?
http://paidesblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/being-a-girl-in-roman-oxyrhynchos/