Archaeologist at Large: Books

Historical Novels

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:55:45 GMT

An intersting article on whywe all love to read historical novels

Knowledge of Latin may be in decline, but novels, films and documentaries about the Romans have never been more popular. We are still dimly, unconsciously, aware that our culture grew out of classical civilisation

Allan Massieby @ http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7889

Egyptology News

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 21:39:33 GMT

Construction Begins on UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology

Egyptologists and UCLA's best technology centers commence the heavy lifting of rewriting ancient Egypt's history.

The project, though, is a huge undertaking. The editorial board is planning to create 4,000 entries, about 6,000,000 words of completely original content covering 4,000 years of history from 3500 BC to 400 AD. The UEE is slated to be in English, German, French and, unlike the Lexikon, in Arabic as well. Scholars from around the globe -- Egyptologists from across the United States, Egypt, and Europe -- will serve as the living encyclopedia's 500 authors. Wendrich says, "The whole idea is to make this a cooperation of the field."

I am hoping to have a article or two included, Inshallah

THE ETHICAL TRAVEL GUIDE

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:12:10 GMT

Hey Guys, this book is great and guess who wrote the entry for Egypt, yours truly

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Books: Photograph as Artifact

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:23:20 GMT

Photograph as Artifact	Volume 59 Number 1, January/February 2006
Extended online-only version by Mark Rose

Assessing the achievements of nineteenth-century pioneers

In 1839, the scientist François Arago introduced Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre's new way of capturing images to an excited audience in Paris. Arago himself was enthusiastic about it: "To copy the millions of hieroglyphs that cover even the exterior of the great monuments of Thebes, Memphis, Karnak, and others would require decades of time and legions of draftsmen. By daguerreotype, one person would suffice to accomplish this immense work successfully." That dream was never achieved, but the recording of archaeological monuments began almost as soon as Daguerre's and other photographic techniques were devised. More than 100 such images, made between 1840 and 1880, appear in Antiquity & Photography. Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites (2005: J.Paul Getty Museum, $65.00 hardcover).

Books: Photograph as Artifact