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The Journal of the North Texas Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt
Volume Three Issue Number Fifteen: January 2016
Menhedj
This MonthMarsha McCoySMU
“Where the Heck is It?” Puzzle
Cyberscribe
Schedule of Events
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North Texas Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt Located in Dallas, Texas
In This Issue
Where the Heck Is This Place? Page 3 By Clair Ossian
CyberScribe Page 4 By Clair Ossian
Upcoming Events Page 13
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Marsha McCoySMU
Reunification, Revival, Reimagining: The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt
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This Month
Due to the editor’s unavailability there was no December Issue
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Where The Heck is it? January 2016
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This month we have arrived at a rather desolate place seldom visited by tourists. It is located North of the great pyramid complex and tucked in behind the new Grand Museum. During the 4th Dynasty, crown princes were required to demonstrate fitness for the throne by constructing a mini-pyramid. It was on this unwanted piece of desert that future pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure built their pyramids and passed their test for fitness. Djedefre was a poor sport and refused to cooperate, and therefore his pyramid is missing.
Or perhaps you have a different explanation for this scene?
1. Where do you think it is located?2. Who do you think built each of these pyramids?
a. Left – b. Middle –c. Right –
3. What direction is the camera pointed?
Bring your answers to the January meeting and if you have the right information, you might win prizes!
Last Month’s Answer
During the Second Dynasty, and close beside the pyramid at Meidum, lived a remarkable woman named Nefer-Sobek-Hotep. Her husband gave her this nice flat plot for her own business, and she went right at it.
Unfortunately, her business plan was poorly conceived. She tried to raise night crawlers to sell to the fishermen, but she hadn’t thought ahead. Her basins were dug in the dirt…and all the night crawlers just burrowed out and left. She finally gave up and walked away. Here we see her abandoned worm farm just as she left it.
Or…do you have some other explanation for this spot?
1) Where do you think this place is? Montuhotep II Temple
2) What are those pits Tree Pits; 56 sycamore and 8 tamarisk trees
3) What or who was buried in the flat surface at the top of the ramp? Six princesses: Henhenet, Kemsit, Kawit, Sadeh, Ashayt and Muyet
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By Dr. Clair Ossian
CyberScribe December 2015/January 2016 Number 223
Off we go into another wonder filled year at the North Texas Chapter of ARCE. The end of the year holidays have all passed us now, and because we did not have an issue of the CyberScribe for December, there is a wealth of new and interesting material to share.
Perhaps the most intriguing, I am certainly the most debatable, must be the new investigation into the tomb of King Tutankhamen instigated by Nicholas Reeves. As readers of this column will recall, he has suggested, on the basis of some very faint markings in the plaster walls of the tomb, that the burial chamber we see is only part of a corridor that leads into a yet undiscovered tomb complex, which he declares most certainly must be that of Queen Nefertiti!
While a few Egyptologists really seem to believe his theory, it has found a ready acceptance among some of the Egyptian antiquities personnel. On the basis of Reeves claims, they have gone into the tomb and conducted several types of physical experiments designed to test his hypothesis. While the outcome of these tests have been very ambiguous, the Egyptians have declared them a success.
Now, they must find a way to get behind that plaster wall and see if Reeves was right. No one is ever going to allow him to cut into the plaster of the Kings burial chamber wall, so now it has been proposed that they consider boring a small hole
Photograph by Brando Quilici, National Geographic Channels
“Last week, the Egyptian antiquities minister, the tourism minister, and British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves had a short meeting deep within the tomb of the pharaoh Horemheb. They were surrounded by more than 50 people. There were three American television crews, nearly a dozen Egyptian journalists, and more government officials from both ministries.“All of them had converged on the Valley of the Kings because of reports about Reeves’s new theory that two walls in the burial chamber of Tutankhamun contain blocked-over doorways. Most provocatively, he believes the tomb was originally built for Nefertiti, the stepmother
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through the wall of the so-called treasury room, immediately adjacent to the presumed passageway, and whose walls are undecorated.
In an earlier column the CyberScribe gave a rather negative authors opinion of the the project, so in fairness, the article below, abbreviated, from the National Geographic Magazine (http://tinyurl.com/p5k5j7o) provides a much more positive appraisal of the state of the project. Writer Peter Hessler, for the National Geographic, states:
He has no archaeological expertise, but he wasn’t shy about his own theories—he told me that he has “a strong feeling” that additional rooms will be found. “I think that this will have a huge impact on tourism, which is unfortunately suffering tremendously,” he said.
“All of this can be worrying to an archaeologist. When I asked Reeves if he was trying to tone down expectations, he winced and said, “Desperately!”
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of Tutankhamun, whose burial site has long been one of the great mysteries of Egyptology. Reeves believes that her mummy could still lie within one of the Tutankhamun tomb’s hidden chambers, behind a wall that is now covered with a painted scene. Mamdouh Eldamaty, the antiquities minister, had announced that an inspection of the tomb seemed to confirm Reeves’s theory—a preliminary finding that inspired the tourism minister to fly in from Cairo, hoping for good news in a country desperate“In Horemheb’s tomb, Reeves stood on a small wooden platform and pointed out an architectural feature that, in his opinion, supports the new theory. Horemheb, who died in the early 13th-century B.C., was the last pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, whose royal figures also included Nefertiti and Tutankhamun. Halfway into Horemheb’s tomb, the passage to the burial chamber had been blocked off and covered with a painted scene, but roughly 3,000 years ago, intruders figured out the trick. They broke through the painting, removed the wall, and found the pharaoh’s sarcophagus.
““This tells us that in antiquity this wall was painted completely,” Reeves said. “With the tomb of Tutankhamun, this is obviously still intact. So that would mean that whatever is behind it is also still intact.”
“Eldamaty spoke up: “If we’re sure 100 percent that there’s a chamber behind the wall, a complete tomb, it means that we have to find a way to reach it.”“The Egyptian economy has been devastated by post-revolution instability, and last month, not long before Reeves’s visit, the army accidentally killed 12 Mexican tourists after mistaking them for terrorists. In the valley, Zazou, the tourism minister, seemed energized by the opportunity to talk about something else.
Reeves, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh Eldamaty, and others examine the painted north wall of the burial chamber. In Reeves’s theory, the right side of this wall—the section containing the three right-most figures—was plastered and painted atop a blocked-in passageway.
“Reeves first began to develop his ideas after studying laser scans of the tomb that had been prepared by Factum Arte, a Spain-based team of conservators and artists who created a facsimile of the Tutankhamun tomb. The facsimile is at the site of Carter’s former home, outside the entrance to the Valley of the Kings, and the conservators hoped that this alternative destination would help reduce traffic in the original tomb. Factum Arte also wanted to contribute to scholarship by making its scans publicly available on a website.
“While studying these images, Reeves noticed that the burial chamber contains some unusual features that are invisible to the naked eye, including a series of straight lines beneath the
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“The beard of the ancient mask, which was reportedly broken by cleaners back in August 2014, had been glued by epoxy causing damage to the mask. Minister Mamdouh al-Damati said the restoration process resulted in a new archaeological discovery relating to the original technique used to attach the beard to the mask. It revealed that a golden tube used by ancient Egyptians to attach the beard was discovered inside.
“The minister said ancient Egyptians had used beeswax to stick the beard to the mask. He added said that a detailed study is being prepared to review the steps used in the restoration of the mask, which will be issued in a booklet.
“Chr i s t i an Eckmann , a German conservator who led the restoration, said no chemical material was used in the process. Instead mechanical methods and wooden tools, were used to remove the epoxy to avoid scratching the mask, he said.
““It took two weeks to separate the glued beard from the mask, Eckmann added. Finally, beeswax was used to reattach the beard back on to the mask.”
The next article that the CyberScribe wishes to discuss covers a new set of discoveries at the famous quarry sites of Gebel el-Silsila. A number of the people in our chapter have been to this site, experienced its beauty and it’s heat, which prompted them to declare our visit the “Death March”! the Cyberstribe wishes to protest and declare that it was a place of great beauty and interest.
Once we got in the boat and went across the Nile, we were able to visit a series of famous shrines carved into the sandstone walls. The article below relates some new discoveries by a
plaster that correspond to the size and shape of doorways.
“This wall is covered by the painting that Reeves believes is similar to the one that formerly hid a passageway in the tomb of Horemheb. In Tutankhamun’s tomb, if you stand close to this painted wall, you notice that the texture of the left side is much smoother and more regular than that of the right. This could indicate that the plaster on the left covers solid stone rather than a filled-in passageway. There’s also a lot more mold on the right side. It’s logical that mold would grow thicker on a section of the wall with an open space behind it, which would result in a wider range of temperatures and humidity levels.”
(As a postscript, the CyberScribe wished to note that the critical testing was completed in November, but aside from some very vague announcements, nothing more has been heard of the project. It may well be that on re-examination, the data were not quite so clear, and the project has been put on hold?)
By the way, the fabulous golden death mask of Tutankhamen is back on display…all repaired and better than ever! A brief note in a publication called “Egyptian Streets” (http://tinyurl.com/jmyq58k) tells us about what happened in the laboratory:
Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s famous golden mask was fully restored and is currently back on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, said Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities on Wednesday.
team studying this stone quarry, recording its inscriptions and rock carvings, and looking for new features. And they had just made a new major find!Stephanie Pappas, a ‘Live Science’ Contributor wrote an account of the new work (http://tinyurl.com/hhqkx5g) which is presented below with a little abbreviation (for space reasons):“Six ancient statues of Egyptians, some with round faces and big ears, have been found near the Nile River in Upper Egypt. The statues, which were once sloughed off their original bluff in an earthquake and buried in Nile silt, are of a man named Neferkhewe and his family. Neferkhewe bore the titles of chief of the Medjay (northern Sudan) and overseer of the foreign lands some 3,500 years ago, during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III. The statues, and the carved alcove in which they reside, had been open to the elements for at least 1,500 years before being buried, but the carvings are in incredible condition, said John Ward, the assistant director of the Gebel el Silsila Survey Project that uncovered the statues.
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A statue of an ancient Egyptian power couple (a man named Neferkhewe and his wife) from the 18th Dynasty graces a cenotaph at the ancient Egyptian site Gebel el Silsila. Credit: Gebel el Silsila Project, courtesy the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities
“"To be there when their faces look back at you after 2,000 years of being covered with silt is an experience that can't be put into words," Ward told Live Science "It's just a pure honor."
“The newly discovered statues sit inside two cenotaphs, or "false tombs." Thirty-two cenotaphs line the Nile River at the Gebel el Silsila site, which is also where many of the sandstone blocks used to build Egypt's temples were quarried over the centuries.
“These carved alcoves were a bit like memorials for certain elite families, Ward said. No one was buried in them, but family members or well-wishers could come to leave offerings to the dead, to perform rituals and perhaps to grieve.
"We don't know why these 32 families chose Silsila to place their cenotaphs here," Ward said. The two newly discovered cenotaphs contain the most well-preserved statues ever found at the site, he said. In one, the cenotaph owner and his wife sit side by side on a chair, the man wearing a shoulder-length wig and posing with his arms crossed over his chest — a pose known as the "Osirian" position after Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife. The man's wife has one arm on her husband's back and the other on her own abdomen.
“The second cenotaph holds four statues and carvings identifying the patriarch as Neferkhewe. He is flanked by his wife Ruiuresti and two children, but the couple must have had more kids, Ward said, because other children are depicted in carvings bringing offerings to their parents.
“For Neferkhewe and his family, the re-discovery of their names would have been an event of great religious significance.
“"We bring them to life again," said Maria Nilsson, the survey project's mission director.
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“"To preserve one's name, it's pivotal to the religion," Ward said. "Without a name you wouldn't have an identity in the afterlife, so you wouldn't exist. "Speaking Neferkhewe's name out loud for the first time in at least 2,000 years "gives him the immortality that he dreamed of," Ward said.
“"We bring them to life again," said Maria Nilsson, the survey project's mission director.
The discovery helps personalize Silsila in other ways. The statues hint at what the family may have looked like, with their round-cheeked faces and large ears. With further work, it may be possible to find the actual tombs of the family or their relatives in Luxor or Thebes, Ward said.
“"It's like a window into their life," he said.”
Excavations at a rather little known site called Tel Al-Dafna, an archaeological site located at the Al-Qantara West area in Ismailiya. Work there has revealed extensive habitations and walls of a massive fortress built I the time of the Pharaoh
Psamtik I. He ruled in the Saite Period, in the 26th Dynasty. His greatest achievements are probably the repelling of the Nubian invasions from the south, and the freedom of Egypt from control by the Assyrians. It is easy to see why he needed powerful fortresses for this work and the article below by Nevine el-Nerif from AhramOnline (http://tinyurl.com/zpzhofg) (abbreviated somewhat) provides an interesting look at the current excavations:
Overview of a portion of the Tel Al-Dafna site
During excavation work carried out at the Tel Al-Dafna archaeological site located at the Al-Qantara West area in Ismailiya, 11 kilometers (about 7 miles) west of the Suez Canal, an Egyptian archaeological mission led by Egyptologist Mohamed Abdel-Maqsoud stumbled upon what is believed to be lava remains from the San Turin volcano.
(NOTE FROM THE CYBERSCRIBE: The San Turin is actually the island volcano of Santorini near Crete. The statement of finding ‘lava’ at this site is misleading. What was actually found was volcanic ash and a small amount of pumice, which were identified as ejecta from the Santorini eruption. There were no active volcanos in Egypt during human habitation times)
“The oldest archaeological evidence discovered in Tel Al-Dafna dates back to the
ancient Egyptian 26th dynasty, though the lava remains can be from an era before the 26th dynasty.
Archaeologists unearthing fossils
“Abdel-Maqsoud told Ahram Online that the mission has also uncovered part of a fortified island surrounded with mud and brick shields used as wave breakers as well as to protect the west side of King Psamtik I’s citadel from floods.
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“Abdel-Maqsoud continued to say that the citadel was built in such an area so as to protect the country’s eastern gate from any invasion. Its fence (perimeter wall?) area is 20 meters thick, and inside it houses a collection of fortified residential houses.“In addition to the citadel, King Psamtik I built two other forts; one in the Marya area on the north coast to protect the country from Libyan invasion, and the other on Elephantine Island in the Upper Egypt's Aswan to stand against Ethiopian threat. These sites are Tel-Habwa, Tel-Abu-Saify, Pelusium and Tel l-Maskhouta.
General view of the excavated area
“Abdel-Maqsoud pointed out that a collection of mastaba remains, the ruins of industrial workshops, ovens used in smelting metals, and baking bread were also found. A collection of fish and crocodile fossils was also unearthed.
“Eldamaty added that the mission would help research and study along Pelusium branch of the Nile, as well as possibly work on archaeological sites on the banks of the Nile that have not yet been revealed.”Speaking of excavating, illicit digs are still quite active, and at least occasionally finding something truly grand! An Egyptian was digging around the edge of his house when he struck gold! Or rather he would have struck gold if he could have gotten his discovery out over the country
The discovery was a magnificent royal statue, of a size and quality that might have been sold for millions on the underground art market. Nothing like this has been sold legitimately for years, but when such large statues appear on the market, the buyers go wild!
A quality statue of Sekhmet from the temple of Mut near Karnak sold about six weeks ago at Sotheby’s in New York for $4,170,000! Something new to the market like this royal statue would be a super-star.What was it? Police accidentally discovered this treasure while on a house raid and the report by Nevine el-Aref in AhramOnline (http://tinyurl.com/hdsurrn) tells us the story:
“In collaboration with Edfu police, Egypt's antiquities ministry has succeeded in recovering a black granite colossus of the 18th Dynasty King Amenhotep III.
“Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty told Ahram Online that the statue was found by chance when Edfu police entered a residential house in the Upper Egypt village of Al-Nakhl in Edfu, Aswan, to catch red-handed weapons and drugs traders. He went on to say that after inspecting the statue, the ministry’s archaeologica l committee ver ified its authenticity.“The statue is now in an antiquities storehouse in Edfu for restoration before transferring it to be put on display in Luxor Museum. Investigations are also pending to know where the statue was taken from, likely in illegal excavations.
“Nasr Salama, director of Aswan Monuments, explained that the statue is carved in black granite and depicts King Amenhotep III standing with his left leg forward wearing the short skirt and a nemes headdress. The middle part of the statue and its reverse side are engraved with hieroglyphic text while its base is decorated with the king’s various titles.”
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Have you ever looked at some ancient Egyptian object or wall painting and marveled at the intensity and brilliance of the ancient colors? Most of us know that this pallet of color was derived from mineral pigments that don’t fade with time. One of the most appealing colors is the intense blue. Blue was not easy to obtain in Egypt as there are really only two sources of brilliant blue minerals. One would be azurite, a mineral containing copper, but azurite is uncommon, especially in the copper ores found in Egypt. The second possibility would be lapis lazuli, a brilliant blue mineral from Afghanistan and Turkey, but it was so valuable that it could never have them justified for use as a pigment.
So where did Egypt get it’s blue pigment? The source was a material called Egyptian blue, a man made material, one of the first manufactured materials ever attempted by humans.In a prize winning article titled “Egyptian blue more than just a color”, Paul Brack (http://tinyurl.com/hvrene7) gives a nice overview of this pigment and its history. The CyberScribe feels that his readers may enjoy the review, so read on:
“200 years ago, chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy went to the ruins of Titus’ baths in Rome. There, ‘amongst some rubbish, [he]
found several large lumps of a deep blue frit’.1 Soon after, Davy found the same material on a pot in Pompeii. He realized that he had rediscovered the material ‘of which the manufacture is said to have been anciently established at Alexandria’, the first synthetic pigment, Egyptian blue. The tale of Egyptian blue’s discovery, ‘disappearance’ and rediscovery is a fascinating one, and illustrates beautifully how art can act as a facilitator for the advancement of chemistry.
The blue pigment was first used by Egyptian artist 2600 BC. “Let’s start at the beginning. For the ancient Egyptians, blue was a very important color. It was associated with the sky and the river Nile, and thus came to represent the universe, creation and fertility.
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However, in ancient times, only the earth colors (colors provided by the surface soil) were used as pigments – blue could not be easily obtained by Egyptian artists. Indeed, the only natural source of blue was the rare and expensive mineral lapis lazuli, which was mined in what is now Afghanistan.
“However, at around 2600 BC, Egyptian blue enters the historical record, and use of the pigment gradually spread across the ancient world as far as Mesopotamia and the Roman empire before being apparently lost in the dark ages. Sadly, no Egyptian recipe for the pigment remains, but Vitruvius, a Roman writer in the 1st century BC, stated that sand, copper (from a mineral such as azurite or malachite) and natron (a naturally occurring mixture of sodium compounds, including sodium carbonate) were the ingredients. Modern experiments show that Egyptian blue (chemical formula: CaCuSi4O10) can be obtained by heating these chemicals to 800–900°C with the addition of lime, a calcium-containing material, which must have been present in the ancient method,
probably as an impurity in the sand. “Whether its discovery came about by design or chance, the synthesis of Egyptian blue was a seriously impressive accomplishment. Achieving the necessary temperature control for a successful reaction would have been a major challenge, as indeed would the correct addition of oxygen. Another testament to the skill of Egyptian chemists is the consistency of the pigment throughout history. The composition in artworks such as the mastaba (or tombs) of Mereruka, from the Old Kingdom (~2600–2100 BC), is almost exactly the same as that found in a mummy coffin dating from the Greco-Roman period (~330 BC–AD 400), and there are other examples dated between these two that show similar compositions. “In an exciting development for chemists and artists, it was reported in 2009 that Egyptian blue shows exceptional luminescence in the near-infrared region.
This means that the pigment can be easily detected in a completely non-destructive fashion simply by illuminating ancient works of art with near-infrared radiation. The luminescence is so strong that the presence of minute amounts of Egyptian blue can be detected even when no blue color is visible to the naked eye. The British Museum was able to use this technique to provide the first proof that the Elgin Marbles had once been painted, finding the pigment on several sculptures from the Parthenon.
“This technique has also been used to detect Egyptian blue in works of art dating to time periods when it was thought the ability to synthesize the pigment had been lost. For example, a group of Danish scientists found Egyptian blue in a painting by the Italian artist
Giovanni Battista Benvenuto dating from 1524.4 Understanding how Benvenuto managed to come across a pigment, whose method of manufacture had been ‘lost’ for so long, is a matter for art historians but chemistry has provided them with a tantalizing challenge.”
One of many “proofs” of the size of Nephillim and other gigantic races.
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In more modern writings, they are aliens that came to Earth to conquer it, but were the reason the flood of Noah’s time…to drown the Nehillim! More prosaically, the Bible considers them inhabitants of Earth before Adam and Eve…the PreAdamaite peoples.
Well, such people must have left record and other indication of their presence, and fortunately for us, there is a group of specialists who have found such evidence. Where else but in ancient Egypt!
Let’s have a look at their “evidence”! The bit below was written by Matt Slick, of the “Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry” and he says (https://carm.org/what-are-nephilim)(abbreviated slightly):
“The Nephilim are mentioned in Genesis 6. They are often identified with the Anakim of Numbers 13:33 and the Rephaim of Deut. 2:20. Let's take a look. (plus Gen. 6:1-4).
“The word, "Nephilim," is the untranslated pronunciation of the Hebrew םיליפנ . It means giants and was translated in the Septuagint into the Greek γίγαντες, gigantes. The word is found in only two places, Genesis 6:4 (pre flood) and Numbers 13:33 (post flood).
“Some people believe that the Nephilim are the offspring of sexual relations between fallen angels and human women. This would mean that the fallen angels (The Hebrew naphal means "to fall") had sexual intercourse with women. Whether or not this is possible is not explicitly stated in Scripture. However, we do know that angels can appear as humans (Hebrews 13:2) and are exceedingly powerful (2 Peter 2:11), so it is conceivable that they can manifest with total biological capabilities as well.“Another view held by Christians is that the Nephilim are the descendants of Seth, the son of Adam. In this view, the men, who were supposed
to be godly, took wives who were unbelievers, and their offspring are said to have been fallen ones.
“Finally, there are others, non-Christians, who believe that the Nephalim are aliens from other worlds. This last view is certainly un-biblical.
“One issue is the use of the term, Nephilim, before and after the flood. If all of the inhabitants of the world were destroyed, except for those on Noah's Ark, then where did the Nephilim of Numbers 13:33 come from?
(And then, notes the CyberScribe, it really starts to get weird!)
But what about the evidence from ancient Egypt. According to the believers, it’s everywhere. Let’s see!
Various scenes of gigantic Nephillim with ordinary sized people serving them. Egyptologists have erroneously interpreted these setting for many decades.
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Pharaoh Akhenaten and wife Nefertari, both Nephillim, playing with ordinary sized humans, possibly being kept as pets
And of course the temple of Abu Simbel represents Nephillum sized kings attended by normal sized humans.
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Surely by now you are all believers in Nephillum!
(And hopefully everyone understands that the CyberScribe is just fooling around with the nonsense captions in the article above. The Nephillim people actually believe that stuff, but they are a few bundles of papyrus short of a boatload, he fears)
And that’s probably enough for this month. The CyberScribe will be back with a mix of the most import, the most informative, and sometime the most lunatic stories from and about Egypt!.
BY THE WAY, if you ever want to read more of an article where it notes that the CyberScribe has abbreviated it, send the CyberScribe a note and he will try to send along the missing information.
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Upcoming Schedule
Lectures are at 7:00SMU Campus, Fondren Hall
(building 29 on the campus map)Room 123
Evening lectures are free and open to the public.Seminars require tickets.
For more information, visitwww.arce-ntexas.org
January 23 , 2016: Marsha McCoy (SMU) Reunification, Revival, Reimagining: The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt
February, 2016: Lecture: John M. Adams (OC-ARCE), The Millionaire and the Mummy: Theodore Davis and the Transformation of Egyptian Archaeology based on his recent book, "The Mummies: Theodore Davis' Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings".
March 11-12, 2016: Spring Seminar: Kathryn Bard (Boston University) TBA Friday Free Lecture 7PM Saturday Seminar 9AM - 3PM
April 14, 2016 (Th) - NT-ARCE/AIA-DFW joint meeting: Karl Petruso (UTA), Libyans and Egyptians: A Northwest Passage to Alexandria.
May 21, 2016 (Sa) - Clair Ossian (TCC Emeritus): The Egyptian Court of London's Crystal Palace.
October 21-22, 2016 (F-Sa) - Fall Seminar: Colleen Manassa Darnell: Egyptian Religion.
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