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Interview: Egyptologist Barry Kemp

Interview: Egyptologist Barry Kemp

By Laura Ranieri Q: What brought you to Amarna initially? A: I first became interested in how the towns and cities of ancient Egypt worked following a [1970] conference in London called “Man, Settlement and Urbanism.” I was asked to write a paper: “Temple and Town in Ancient Egypt.” I came

Erasing Mankind’s Heritage: the Monuments of Palmyra and their Devastation

Erasing Mankind’s Heritage: the Monuments of Palmyra and their Devastation

Dr. Clemens Reichel speaks at the San Antonio Museum of Art about the impact that the current conflicts in Syria and Iraq have had on cultural heritage sites and museums zones and what their loss would mean to all of humanity. While focusing on the intentional destruction of temples, monuments and

Names

Names Names went in and out of fashion in Ancient Egypt, even as they do in modern times. (For example, Florence was not used as a woman's name until Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale decided to call their little girl after the city in Italy. Kim was a very rare name in the English-speaking world befor

Textiles

Textiles All ancient Egyptians, rich or poor, male or female, wore linen clothing.. The lists of offerings in tombs almost always mentions linen as something that the deceased would need in the next world. There are many steps required to make linen from flax. Great skill was required to turn the s

Kay Sunahara

Pyramid Texts

ars, dwell in the underworld with Osiris, and that he will sail the sky in the boat of Re. There appear to have been several major religious ideas in Ancient Egypt; one focused on the sky, where the deceased king would join the gods, one on an afterlife with the god Osiris, and a third in which the

Kings

the King was a semi-divine figure, an embryo god, identified as "Son of the Sun". Despite this, at least one king was assassinated, and the Ancient Egyptians felt comfortable to tell stories about their rulers. King Khufu and the Magicians is one of the best. In this story, kings are

#ROMSpace Weekend is out of this world!

e! So let’s do this! Let’s be bold! See you at Space Weekend! Upcoming Family Fun Weekends 2012 to watch for… May 5-6: Space Weekend May 12-13: Ancient Egypt Weekend May 19-21: Awesome Animals Weekend June 9-10: Ancient Rome and Greece Weekend Follow ROMkids on twitter and tumblr for the

My Favourite Object: A "Tell Minis" Style Lustre-Ware Bowl

This beautiful bowl, ROM Accession number  960.219.2,  was made in Syria between about AD 1075-1125, and if you read this story, you will find out why I would really like to meet the person that made it.     The first thing you notice about this bowl is its decoration. It looks lile a sphinx, a

I found the Baby Bison and now I’m on my way to Grasslands National Park

cause I am very interested in the kind of things that are there. This past winter, my class went on a trip to the ROM to see the Maya exhibit and the Ancient Egypt stuff.  We entered through the school entrance, so I never saw the sign that said, “Find the Baby Bison”.  After our Maya tour