Egyptology BlogEgyptology news from around the world.Nefertiti's Eyes- February 15, 2008 All eyes were on the Valley of the Kings the morning of February 5, 2006, when our expedition first looked into the chamber now known as KV63, the first tomb found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since that of Tutankhamun (KV62) in 1922. read morehttp://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/2008/02/15.html#a3187 I, Obelisk- February 2, 2008 I the obelisk of Seti I and of his son Ramses II, was born and raised a devoted Egyptian in spite of my current address. At birth, I weighed more than 250 tons, and I measured more than 24 metres&8217; (78&8217;) in length. It took an army of chanting men with chisels and heavy hammers to labour me out of the granite quarries near Elephantine. Workers swarmed over me for months, midwives on a mission, as the parent rock was cut away, and I was delivered, cut by cut, blow by blow. Great levers...http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/2008/02/02.html#a3186 UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara's prehistoric art- February 2, 2008 Spectacular prehistoric depictions of animal and human figures created up to 6,000 years ago on Western Saharan rocks have been vandalised by United Nations peacekeepers, The Times has learnt. read morehttp://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/2008/02/02.html#a3185 Desertification and Civilization- February 2, 2008 Three reddish-brown giraffe images watch over Nick Brooks as he struggles, hunched over, to shovel sand from the rock shelter&8217;s floor. Some 150 meters (500&8217;) above a sweeping, flat and desolate Western Sahara landscape, the burly environmental scientist is hoping these cliffs of Bou Dheir will reveal just when those animals roamed the plains. Three thousand years ago Four thousand Five thousand read morehttp://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/2008/02/02.html#a3184 |