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Oct-Dec 2018 Newsletter Howard Carter: The Lesser-Known Gods Bristol’s Egyptian- Norfolk Connection Style Bridge “The Carter family name has Meet Anat & Anukis, two How Ancient Egyptian been well known in Norfolk more obscure Egyptian architecture inspired for generations.” deities. Isambard Kingdom Brunel. egypt.swan.ac.uk Syd Howells Dulcie Engel Editor in Associate Editor A former French and linguistics lecturer, I have volunteered at the Egypt Centre since April 2014. I am Chief a gallery supervisor in both galleries, and author of the Egyptian Writing Trails. Apart from language, I am particularly interested in the history of collecting. I won the 2016 Volunteer of the Year award. And now as we draw towards the end of a busy year in the life of the Egypt Centre, it is Rob Stradling perhaps time to reflect on all the fantastic Technical Editor work which has been carried out by our A volunteer since 2012, you can find me supervising the House of Life on Tuesday & Thursday mornings; at the marvellous volunteers. computer desk, lovingly crafting this eagerly-anticipated quarterly; or ensconced in Cupboard 8, performing It’s been an action-packed 12 months for the quality control on the biscuit collection (this unfortunately requires some destructive testing). museum with our 20th anniversary, the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service and us winning the Swansea Life Award for best heritage establishment (we were up against Sue Cane some impressive and much larger Department Features Editor competitors). I started volunteering 8 years ago and now work as a Gallery Supervisor in House of Death. I’m currently Add a gargantuan and ever-increasing amount studying hieroglyphs with one of our MA graduates, and also doing an on-line course in Egyptology. My of schools visiting us to taste the Egypt Centre particular areas of interest are admission to the Afterlife experience and the evidence is there as a and the solar barque. testament to your impressive efforts. Once again thank you to all our volunteers Rhodri Protheroe-Jones without whom the Egypt Centre would not be the inclusive, lively environment it is. Department Features Editor I started volunteering 8 years ago at age 10 and for some reason management has kept me around. I can Here’s to the next 20 years! usually be found in the House of Life on a Saturday. I am particularly interested in shabtis, especially their progression from handcrafted, one-off and personal SYD objects to mass-produced miniatures. If you would like to contribute to the newsletter or submit articles for consideration please contact: [email protected] The Newsletter will be published every three months—Next issue due Mar 2019 Visitor Comments “I can write my name in hieroglyphs now! Interesting, funny & entertaining; we’ll come back soon.” - Claire & Jade, Angers, France The Egypt Centre was a “Fantastic explanation of winner at the Swansea Life mummification. Our questions Awards 2018, recognizing were answered expertly and with “outstanding quality, patience.” customer service and - Naomi, W. Sussex innovation”. The awards are decided by public vote, and “Read about this on the internet. TEC won in the Leisure & Well worth the visit - amazing Tourism category. displays and helpful staff.” - R. Haythornthwaite, Burnley Syd Howells and Luke Keenan are seen (twice!) “Very interesting, and cool - nice accepting the award at the job!” glitzy ceremony at Brangywn - Laurie, Melbourne, Australia Hall on 14th September. “I ♥ it! ☺” - Mary, England. “Very nostalgic as I came here On November 3rd, TEC when younger. I insisted on volunteers took part in the bringing a friend from uni, and he Swansea Science loved it!” Festival event at The - Lizzie & Matt, Swansea / Lancaster Waterfront Museum. “Beautiful Museum.” - Sarah Forbes, Barcelona, Spain The event promised to “...take visitors on a “First visit - really impressed. journey of discovery, as Volunteers amazing. 5 Stars!” researchers explore the depths of the sea, land, air and space.” - O’Sullivan family, Swansea Thankfully our volunteers limited their activities to terra firma and “Extremely good fun! the Writing, Senet and Mummification activities proved popular Mummification was really with all ages. interesting.” - Lara, Bristol More on this event inside... Volunteer of the Month July Jordan Hawkes August Brenda Senior September Chris Harrington Egypt Centre Volunteer Student Volunteer Brenda Senior Alexandra Pinagli I come from: Merthyr Tydfil I come from: London I started volunteering: 2012 I started volunteering: Dec 2016 I chose to volunteer because: I I chose to volunteer because: I enjoy meeting people, and the subject really enjoy learning new thigs, interested me. especially learning about the ancient world. My Favourite artefact is: Pottery hedgehog (HoD). My Favourite artefact is: Lower- Palaeolithic hand axe AR50/2883. How volunteering at the Egypt Centre helps me: Learning How volunteering at the Egypt something new is always an Centre helps me: Practical advantage! experience for my (hopefully) future career. International Volunteer International Volunteer Natalie Chomitz Qing Chen Liu I come from: Cobourg, Canada I come from: China I started volunteering: Jul 2018 I started volunteering: July 2018 I chose to volunteer because: My I chose to volunteer because: It masters program from Leicester was a school placement. I have an requires 120 hours of museum interest in collection management. placement. Sam Wale wanted someone to help with student My Favourite artefact is: The coffin engagement... of the musician (Iwesemhesetmut). My Favourite artefact is: Offering How volunteering at the Egypt tables because they show continuity Centre helped me: Promoting my over time. career of Museum Studies. Providing opportunities for communication. How volunteering at the Egypt Centre helps me: TEC is helping me gain much-needed experience in the museum sector. It is also giving me an excuse to learn about Egyptology, that I have never had before! used to produce more efficient sensors and solar cells. New Exhibition at The Met, New York Mummification workshop found in Saqqara A highly ornamented 1st century BCE coffin was A burial shaft, five mummies in sarcophagi, recently acquired and is the centrepiece of a new figurines, human-headed canopic jars and a exhibition ‘Nedjemankh and his Gilded Coffin’. It is designed to illustrate the life and role of the coffin gilded mask provide new information on the owner, a high-ranking priest of the ram-headed mummification process. Labelled measuring cups god Heryshef of Herakleopolis. still contain oils, which can be chemically analysed. The finds date from the Saite-Persian Symbols of Ancient life in Modern Egypt period (664-404 BCE). The Asahi Shimbun Display ‘The Past is Present: Alexandria black sarcophagus disappointing Becoming Egyptian in the 20th Century’ brings together 31 objects collected through the British The discovery was reported in our last edition, but Museum’s Modern Egypt Project, to explore the the recent opening revealed just three skeletons ways a nation brands itself by drawing on its whose mummies had decomposed, probably due to ancient past. It includes posters, signs, cigarette sewage water entering the sarcophagus. One and food packaging. Cleopatra features as the shows an arrow wound, suggesting they may have symbol of Banque Misr, the first bank fully owned been warriors. There are no objects buried with the and run by Egyptians. bodies, and no inscriptions on the sarcophagus. Has a second sphinx been discovered? 4000 year old pottery workshop found near Aswan Construction workers in Luxor have discovered a statue of a sphinx, a few miles from the Valley of The workshop, uncovered near Kom Ombo, dates the Kings. If genuine, it could date back as far as from the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Finds 2500 BCE. Experts have long believed that more include a potter’s wheel consisting of a limestone than one sphinx to honour a pharaoh might exist turntable with a hollow base. in addition to the Khafre’s Great Sphinx at Giza. Artefacts hidden in WW2 discovered in Alexandria Museum grounds Ancient Egyptian Cheese discovered… Hundreds of pottery items have been uncovered Traces of a solid white substance in a jar from a during restoration to the museum garden. They 13th century BCE tomb of a mayor of Memphis were probably buried by British archaeologist Alan appears to be a kind of goat’s cheese, the world’s Rowe, to protect them from bombing and looting. most ancient cheese sample at 3,200 years old. Lord Carnarvon’s snake ring Papyrus reveals rare details of ancient medical practices A recent edition of the BBC 1 programme ‘Antiques Roadshow’, filmed in Belfast, featured a Roman The previously untranslated text from the gold ring in the shape of two entwined snakes. It Carlsberg collection in Copenhagen gives was a gift from Lord Carnarvon to a Portuguese details of, among other things, a pregnancy test. banker who helped finance his excavations in the Valley of the Kings. Mummy recipe uncovered! Great Pyramid can focus pockets of energy in Chemical analysis of a 3700 year old embalmed its chamber mummy at the Museo Egizio in Turin has revealed the vital ingredients for successful Using a model of the pyramid, Russian scientists mummification: plant oil, root extract, plant gum tested how wave energy is scattered or absorbed and tree resin. by the pyramid. If this ability could be reproduced on a nanoscale size, the same science could be Prehistoric village discovered in Nile Delta Imaging tool sheds light on Ancient Egyptian dyeing & weaving techniques At Tell el Samara, archaeologists have discovered a settlement dating back approximately 7000 years. Scientists at the British Museum have been able to use Multispectral Imaging (a new non-invasive technique) to Ancient Egyptian losses in Rio museum fire analyse an Egyptian child’s stripy sock dating from 300AD: it was coloured with madder (red), woad (blue) The fire which swept through Brazil’s Museu Nacional and weld (yellow).
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