Egyptian Museum of Cairo

Museum Syndicate is a independently owned and operated website that showcases over 75 museum's collections from around the world.  You can search the Brooklyn Museum to the National Portrait Gallery in London.  Naturally, I checked out the Cairo Museum.

There are 122 objects images from the Cairo Museum on Museum Sybdicate. They are photographed and thumb-nailed in a simple but clear catalog format.  While this catalog is nowhere near a definitive collection of the thousands of objects in the Cairo Museum, it can give a person a taste of what is housed inside.  

Here is a sample:

	Funerary Mask of Yuya		Unknown Artist
	Geese		Unknown Artist
	Giant Statue of Akhenaten	1350 BC	Unknown Artist
	Gold Cobra		Unknown Artist
	Gold Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun		Unknown Artist

If you are particularly interested in the "Giant Statue of Akhenaten" , for example, click on the name of the object, and  it brings you to a page with that looks like this:

TITLE:	Giant Statue of Akhenaten
OWNER:	Egyptian Museum of Cairo
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:	Egypt
DATE OF CREATION:	1350 BC
TAGGED WITH:	Ancient Egypt Sculptures and Carvings
JIGSAW PUZZLE	Click Here to Play

Happy hunting!

The Big Picture: A harrowing, historic week in Egypt

The Boston Globe's Big Picture series is amazing. 

In February of this year the Big Picture a ran a piece on the Egyptian Protests titled, A harrowing, historic week in Egypt .  The pictures are all high resolution and each has a clear caption describing what we are viewing. 

As a collection the pictures can give a person a taste of what it was like "on the ground" in Tahrir square and throughout Egypt.

Here is a sample:

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Once again here is the link to the Big Picture web page.  Enjoy!

Dr Zahi Hawass

Dr. Zahi Hawass is the current Secretary General of The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.  He stepped down from this position because of his close ties to the Mubarak regime; however, he returned to the position less than a month later.

As a larger than life personality, he is never far from controversy.

Here he is in 2009 discussing his role in managing the tourist crowds, his relationship to the pyramids, and copy-righting the pyramids.



In 2007 he appeared on Al Jazeera to discuss Egypt's policy on stolen artifacts.


More recently, he was interviewed by CNN on the telephone describing what was looted and destroyed in the Cairo Museum during the protests.


As it turns out, Dr. Hawass now admits that looting and thievery is more widespread and more of a serious problem than he originally stated.

Dr. Hawass has posted on his blog a list of sites and antiquities that are in danger of being damaged.