This week’s Digest is dedicated to the American Petrie—George Andrew Reisner. Inside: Khafre’s Valley Temple, Menkaure’s complex, Hetepheres’ “tomb”, Reisner in Nubia, fantastic artifacts, tons of photography and a special supplement by Yvonne Buskens on finding online textual resources.
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Tags: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, George Reisner, Giza Archives Project, Harvard University, Mastabas, Menkaure, Menkaure Triads, Nubia, Pyramid Temples, Valley Temple of Khafre
This week Em Hotep BBS, our daily Facebook presence, took up the subject of Hathor—the beautiful, the bovine, and the beastly. Herein we explore her temples, we examine her iconography, and we appreciate her art. There is a museum hop, suggested links and good reads, plus the wonderful photography.
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Tags: Deir el Bahri, Deir el-Medina, Dendera, Hathor, Nubia, Philae, Sistrum
In the last photo essay I posted, I stated that Egypt’s most important natural resource was her history. That was incorrect.
The number one most important natural resource of any country is its people, and its most important people are its children.
This photo essay is dedicated to Egypt’s children.
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Tags: Felucca, Islamic Egypt, Mausoleum of Aga Khan, Mortuary Temple of Djoser, Nile River, Nubia, Saqqara, Waterwheel
