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A New discovery in North Sinai including imported amphorae from Rhodes Island. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/ZkWhxZ
Barbara O’Neill’s interview with Dr Maria Nilsson (Gebel Silsila Epigraphic Survey Project) is now on Egyptological: http://bit.ly/15GEepB
Interview in Spanish with Alejandro Jiménez, Director of investigations into tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan. Ushebtis http://bit.ly/10zN1sz
Research
[For those interested in this topic there was a really good article in Nature by Jo Marchant (November 2011) about New Kingdom leather pieces and what they revealed about chariots, again from pieces found in the Cairo Museum. Summary at http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-egyptian-chariot-trappings-rediscovered-1.9388]
Greek, Greek / Demotic and Demotic Mummy Labels: A Survey Version 1.0 March 2013. K.A. Worp. What’s New in Papyrology http://bit.ly/12IgJcW
Free PDF press kit about the Egypt and Sudan galleries at the Ashmolean Museum website with lots of info and photos. http://bit.ly/XQMI8U
More re the recently re-opened 1920s Egypt-influenced Louxor cinema in Paris: “Luxor-on Seine.” The Economist. http://econ.st/ZgLOnf
Review of Cathie Bryan’s @PetrieMuseEgypt tour of Egyptianized + Masonic tombs at Kensal Green Cemetery. Petrie Mus. http://bit.ly/ZIkb5Z
New websites and apps
New archaeology apps may make you an armchair Indiana Jones. Fox News http://fxn.ws/Zlqo9p