Read about the plight of those who fled Vesuvius.
The heat from Vesuvius, 79 CE
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Category Archives: Antiquities
A mummy’s voice
From The Washington Post, with a link to the sound:
And from Hyperallergic:
Follow the links in the article to read more and hear the voice.
Mycenaean tombs
Ancient tombs in Pylos are evidence of great wealth and trade with Egypt. Read more here.
New views of Tut’s coffin
Not seen since 1922…read and see more here.
Objects from daily life found in Pompeii
Or rather, objects from a sorcerer’s daily life.
Global Guides at Penn Museum
“Refugees Connect Their Personal Stories with a Museum’s Ancient Artifacts”
“The Global Guides program at the Penn Museum hires recent refugees from the Middle East to give personalized tours. The leader of my tour was Moumena Saradar, a refugee from Syria who has lived in Philadelphia for two years.”
By Olivia Jia for Hyperallergic, 2/20/2019
Read the above article to see how one museum is connecting with refugees from the Middle East by hiring them to teach visitors about their culture, both ancient and contemporary.
Who translated cuneiform?
“You have to go back 4,000 years, colleagues said, to find someone as fluent in Sumerian as Miguel Civil. A Catalonian-born professor with a purported photographic memory, he spent decades studying ancient cuneiform tablets, examining the last wedge-shaped traces of what is probably the world’s oldest written language.” Read more here.
Queens in Ancient Egypt…now in Washington, D.C.
“Queens of Egypt” at the National Geographic Museum, Washington, D.C., March 1 to Sept. 2, 2019 focuses on seven women who ruled ancient Egypt.
Fire devastates museum in Brazil
Guardian graphic. Image: Google Earth. Source: Museu Nacional
A fire has completely destroyed the 200-year old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. Once the home of Brazil’s monarch, the palace became the largest history museum in Latin America. Its collections included art and artifacts of indigenous peoples, as well as Egyptian and Greco-Roman works, fossils, and so much more.
Google Arts and Culture has created a virtual museum. Visit it here.
Ancient mosaics from a synagogue
Mosaics dating to the late Roman period have been found in a synagogue in modern Israel “challenge current notions of ancient Jewish aesthetics and the art of depicting scripture.”
Fish swallowing Pharoah’s soldier in the Parting of the Red Sea
