_http://www.touregypt.net/chemicals.htm_ (http://www.touregypt.net/chemicals.htm) Leyden papyrus - Methods For Whitening Pearls Method 1: If the pearls have a...
I've tried various methods of removing ancient resin. Some work and some don't. Ancient resins have deteriorated and really can't be identified. Some of it...
Oil will only work for new resin. Old resin becomes hard like varnish. A solvent will be necessary, and it will not melt gold, nor gold foil... but I'm sure...
The Egyptology Society Presents: 100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian A Lecture by Ahmed Seddik Refreshments will be served. Tuesday, December 5, 2006 ...
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6202342.stm Last Updated: Saturday, 2 December 2006, 17:11 GMT Egypt to dig up pharaonic tombs By Heba Saleh BBC...
This is a very interesting issue. It brings up quite a few ethical issues. While relocating these people may violate personal ethics, not doing so violates...
To Everyone, If you're like me, this story will burn you up. Remember how we discussed the merits of DNA testing on the royal mummies, and whether it would be...
To everyone, I just saw a movie on ArchaeologyChannel.org that I think you'll all find interesting. Here's how they describe it: "This is the fictional story...
Could these arguments be used to free the Valley Temple of King Khufu at Giza? It is known to lie under an area of Cairo. I would assume that there are many...
whenever i see some artifact listed on ebay it simply breaks my heart because morally it was part of a burial tomb mostly and it should have been left ...
HI, Arsine, IF enough people contact ebay to complain they might withdraw it. A while ago someone had a Catholic communion wafer for sale that the Pope had...
Hi Arsine, I too have mixed feelings about digging up someone. Grandma should stay put a little longer. To me Great-great-great-great-grandma is due for a...
allison - i agree and it is a sin that the black market apparently is now infiltrating ebay. you are also right about human hair being against ebay's ...
doug, thank you for the words of wisdom and i believe we all would like to be looked on in future years and realized we lived as we can with the egyptian ...
Stealing hair from a mummy is souvenir hunting. The sins of the unscrupulous aside (Howard Carter and sponsor- Lord Caernarvon, et al), the Society of ...
thanks for the guide and stealing from the dead is unscrupulous in any manner of speaking. there should be an air of reverence when dealing with artifacts and...
All the discussion of archeological propriety gets me wondering. I realize that the Egyptian belief system changed through time and varied from location to...
The website has a new message from Otto Schaden posted on 5th February. Here Dr Schaden reports he had a heart attack at the end of last year and the next...
Sawy Culture Wheel in Zamalek presents: Think Like an Egyptian: 100 Hieroglyphs A Lecture by Ahmed Seddik. In Arabic and In English Date: Tuesday, February 13,...
Archaeologists find Akhenaten-era tomb The tomb belonged to the official named Ptahemwi and was discovered during a Dutch team's excavation in the Sakkara...
Hi I know I have not posted so much in the last year or so but in the next month in Compariive Governments class I have to write a paper on Stollen Art mainly...
... posts and that burns me up that someone could do that or try to do that. jolean ... whether ... these ... which ... from ... Council ... France. ... ...
Hi JOLEAN, here You will find some more stuff on this subject: http://www.egypt.cd2.com/html/trading_artefacts.html of special interest is egypt's relatively...
I just came back from egypt :-) I was real disappointed to learn that cameras of any kind are not allowed in the museum. I did go to the mummy rooms though,...
The museum policy must have changed. I was able to purchase a camera permit with my ticket. I visited in 1992, and it was the same at every site. Seems to...
... allowed in the museum. ... doesn't really sink in till you see them. They looked so little! You should understand it, that camera is strictly forbidden....
I just returned from Cairo where I and my colleague, Sergej Ivanov, made an extensive photographic study with flash of objects from the "Tomb of the Royal...
Dear Edward, The 2000 images correspond to objects in TT320, you mean? Or do those include pictures of the mummies as well? Any pictures of the mummies from...
they sure are friendly there, I loved being in Egypt. My purpose for pictures was to get references to paint, I doubt that's a good enough reason to get...
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