tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380Thu, 29 Aug 2013 05:26:39 +0000Kate PhizackerleyBrian PlayfairMiddle KingdomThe Age of Pyramids was the first time Upper and Lower Egpt combined into a single, unified Kingdom. Rather than strictly adhering to estblished chronology, this blog will also cover Pre-Dynastic Egypt and Dynasties I and II.http://old.ae4all.org.uk/noreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)Blogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-986492805433441770Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:58:00 +00002010-01-14T21:58:09.803ZKate PhizackerleyFurther tombs have been found in the graveyard in the area south of the Wall of the Crow. If you prefer text, Dr Hawass has written about it on his blog.http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2010/01/tombs-of-pyramid-builders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-3343097158688581096Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:55:00 +00002009-12-14T00:55:10.183ZKate PhizackerleyThere's a nice post from Tim about the Courtiers of Khufu and Khafre, including little-known royalty like Princess Merytyetes.http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/12/courtiers-of-khufu-and-khafre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-4021516883049078361Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:33:00 +00002009-12-03T21:33:06.282ZKate PhizackerleyAndrew Collins is advertising 78 signed editions of his book on a first-come-first-served basis. I've just ordered mine.  It's not just the signed copy that motivated me, in the UK Andrew is only charging £16.99 which is the cover price and I'd rather buy direct so the money goes straight to Andrew (I presume) rather than to a bookseller.  (I notice though that Amazon has discounted copies if http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/12/signed-copies-of-beneath-pyramids.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-2519822768658815617Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:58:00 +00002009-11-29T20:58:30.751ZKate PhizackerleyWith thanks to Bennu (Vincent Brown) on Twitter, I'd recommend the Tour Egypt article about the burial of Queen Hetepheres.  It's a very good piece which not only reports the facts but also outlines the competing theories.http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/11/mysteries-of-queen-hetepheres-burial.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-6129984227647038615Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:13:00 +00002009-11-28T17:13:20.271ZKate Phizackerley Just found this picture of the Sphinx in 1849 and thought I'd share it. It's from the Brooklyn Musuem collection of lantern slides. The link will take you to one set if you would like to see more of them - this isn't the only set either.http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/11/sphinx-1849.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-7291575906723458312Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:50:00 +00002009-11-21T20:50:38.703ZKate PhizackerleyDr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that the seal impression bears the name of a top governmental official who lived during the old Babylonian era, during the reign of king Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC). There's not much news about the 5th Dynasty when the Old Kingdom started to collapse so this press report is important. (OK, Hummarabi was 1st Dynastyhttp://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/11/new-discovery-at-tel-el-daba.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-7767997881727464533Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:37:00 +00002009-11-21T20:37:33.201ZKate PhizackerleyDr Hawass has posted about the plans for site management at Giza now the boundary wall is in place. Each visitor center will have parking spaces for vehicles, so that all vehicles but the electric cars will be kept outside the site. From the visitor centers, electric cars will take the new roads to the monuments, making the site more pedestrian friendly, and enhancing the visit, as there will no http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/11/site-management-at-giza.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-2035023217892558821Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:30:00 +00002009-11-19T23:30:02.844ZBrian PlayfairHere is a special article by Brian Playfair. If anybody else has anything they would like to publish here, please get in touch with me. ******************************** We all know the image of Anubis, we see it in every tomb but how many of these images are wrongly interpreted ? Listed as Anubis the jackal headed god but are we sure that is correct ? In many Old and Middle Kingdom tombs at http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/11/anubis-and-golden-hunting-hounds-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-616631123335864758Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:42:00 +00002009-11-13T02:42:06.245ZKate PhizackerleyThis is the original video of exploration of the Tomb of Birds by Andrew Collins and his colleagues. It was removed at the request of his publishers but is back. http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/11/tomb-of-birds-and-giza-cave-system.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-1098578025254364844Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:57:00 +00002009-11-04T22:57:11.072ZKate Phizackerley A rather nice video from Heritage Key with Dr Hawass talking about the basement of the Egyptian Museum and how he has developed it. Not really Old Kingdom as such, but pretty general so this is as good a place to post it as any.http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/11/basement-of-egyptian-museum-in-cairo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-5638112072358118186Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:52:00 +00002009-11-04T22:52:07.699ZKate PhizackerleyAuthor Andrew Collins talks about his discoveries on the Giza Plateau.  The caves he found in April 2008 are subject of his latest book but British readers can also get signed copies direct from the author, although Andrew's latest newsletter says that he is waiting for stock from the States. The caves, which Andrew Collins has called the Tomb of the Birds from mummified bird remains, are http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/11/tomb-of-birds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-6561823870011036312Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:11:00 +00002009-11-03T02:11:20.871ZKate PhizackerleyKeith Payne has a great article up on the archetypal Old Kingdom image - the sphinx. Not just the Great Sphinx at Giza, but the history of the sphinx in Ancient Egypt from Old Kingdom days right through to the New Kingdom such as the famous avenue of sphinxes in Luxor.  A really great articlehttp://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/11/sphinx.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-577117278598245351Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:54:00 +00002009-10-28T21:54:50.072ZKate PhizackerleyThis is a nice video from 1929 of the expedition to the Old Kingdom Pyramid of Senefru at Meidum in 1929. (Thanks to Bennu.)http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/10/excavating-pyramid-of-senefru-1929.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-715320354958922631Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:59:00 +00002009-10-19T23:59:59.947+01:00Kate PhizackerleyNice photo of Dr Hawass with mummies at Saqqara.  Personally I'd have preferred a photo panned down onto the mummies though.  Perhaps of more interest is an article on his blog about the work of the SCA restoring Saqarra. It says that restoration work is about to start on Djoser's Step Pyramid and mentions that restoration of the Serapeum is ongoing.http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/10/restoring-saqqara-djosers-step-pyramid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-5269135285376885843Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:54:00 +00002009-10-16T22:54:49.869+01:00Kate PhizackerleyThis is a video starring Mark Lehner and Dr Hawass, probably the top experts today on the Giza Plateau.  Photography is by Sandro Vannini so very high production standards. It's not going to dispel an theories of hidden chambers beneath the Sphinx however.http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/10/sphinx-and-groundwater.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-5828500128802951478Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:07:00 +00002009-09-26T22:07:17.496+01:00Kate PhizackerleyFor British readers, I've just noticed that a "special one-off documentary" called Engineering Ancient Egypt is about to start on More 4 covering the work of Khufu during the Old Kingdom and Ramesses II in the New Kingdom.  (More 4 usually repeat things so it's worth watching out for repeats if you've missed it.)http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/09/engineeing-ancient-egypt-uk-tv-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-1602734681986493522Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:02:00 +00002009-09-26T22:02:28.357+01:00Kate PhizackerleyI'd not heard of human sacrifice before so I was surprised to read if it when Keith Payne interviewed Dr David O'Connor for Heritage Key.  There has always been a debate as to whether these hundreds of people were killed at the time of the king’s burial and buried then, or whether they all died natural deaths and were buried at different points in time around the royal monument. We’ve discovered http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/09/ancient-egyptian-human-sacrifice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-4211613108020557817Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:02:00 +00002009-09-25T18:02:10.481+01:00Kate PhizackerleyIn my first post I mentioned that Old Kingdom ceramics had been found in a Syrian royal tomb.  I've since found some better sources of information.  The cyrpt is beneath the royal palace in the ancient city of Qatna.  Since a crypt had been found earlier in the expedition by the team from the University of Tübingen, this second stone-cut crypt was unexpected.   The old Kingdom vessel are ceramichttp://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/09/old-kingdom-ceramics-in-syrian-tomb_25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-4372204880754641458Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:13:00 +00002009-09-26T00:17:59.969+01:00Kate PhizackerleyIf you are interested in Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom why should you write for this blog?  In simple terms, to get yourself noticed and your articles read.  At launch, this new blog ranks #14 on Google, midway down the second page for a search on Old Kingdom.  Out of 145 million matches (correction 1.3 billion if I drop the capitals), that's an astonishingly successful launch.  My first article ishttp://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/09/attention-old-kingdom-writers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-5044244935783024765Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:10:00 +00002009-09-25T01:10:27.414+01:00Middle KingdomDr Hawass has bravely stepped into the Abraham debate again in an article, addressing such thorny questions as: Here we come to an important question that is often asked by archaeologists when meeting with Egyptologists. Considering the fact that the ancient Egyptians recorded all aspects of their lives, from the important to the minute, as well as the historic events of the time, on the walls ofhttp://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/09/ibsha-is-not-prophet-abraham-middle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-3376242382836643774Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:29:00 +00002009-09-24T20:29:17.342+01:00Kate Phizackerley If you want the URL, you can find the video here on YouTube.http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/09/mark-lehner-on-pryamid-builders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035801314133680380.post-8372231122377530235Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:27:00 +00002009-09-23T01:27:21.982+01:00Kate Phizackerley Archaeologsts have excavated a tomb in Syria which dates to the Egyptian New Kingdom but which contains pottery a 1,000 years older from Egypt's Old Kingdom.  See Momento 24. http://old.ae4all.org.uk/2009/09/old-kingdom-ceramics-in-syrian-tomb.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kate Phizackerley)0