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Name That Bronx Zoo Cobra? “Wadjet” Of Course!
Last Friday, my husband came home with a New York Post article announcing that the young female cobra who escaped from the Bronx zoo, thus becoming probably the most famous snake in the New York area,...
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Lady Gautseshenu goes to the Hospital
Yesterday, a team of curators, conservators, and art packers and handlers took the last of our human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be CT scanned. (See Lisa Bruno and Ed Bleiberg’s...
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Animal Mummies – X-radiography, and coming soon – CT scans!
These past few weeks we have been steadily packing and preparing to transport a group of animal mummies to the Animal Medical Center (AMC) for CT scanning with radiologist Anthony Fischetti, DVM, MS....
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35 Animal Mummies meet Twitter and Instagr.am
If you read Lisa’s post on the animal mummy field trip to the Animal Medical Center and got as excited as we did, follow us on Twitter and Instagr.am because we are going to accompany the conservators...
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Repairing the Book of the Dead
Repairing papyrus can be a little like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. In order to make sense of the many small pieces at hand, we take advantage of the various examination techniques we have here in...
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What drew you to the Egyptian Galleries?
One morning in late September, I went to Lan Tuazon’s studio in Bushwick with Pierce Jackson, who is making the videos for Raw/Cooked. Lan was talking us through her sculptural combines, which are now...
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Vetting Wikipedia for WikiLink
In Shelley’s previous post, she announced the installation of QR codes installed in exhibitions that lead visitors to Wikipedia articles for further information. These QR codes are now found in Egypt...
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Where is our Bird Lady?
Many of you may be wondering where our beloved Female Figurine, nicknamed the “Bird Lady” is. One of the stars of our Egyptian collection, she normally greets visitors to the Egyptian Galleries’...
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Meet Another Charming Lady
All of us were a little sad to see “Bird Lady” go, even if it is only for a brief period of time, but we were able to take this opportunity to conserve another female figurine and introduce her to you....
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A New Addition from our Old Collection
Every museum strives to enrich its collection even further, but acquiring new objects is not always possible. Luckily, our storerooms have much to offer and with new research and conservation we are...
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Back at Mut – How things have changed!
Our first day at the site this year was February 6, so most of this first posting will be about how the site has changed since we left in January 2011. In February 2012 the American Research Center in...
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Our first week
According to the late French scholar, Agnes Cabrol, these 3 badly damaged sphinxes sitting east of Chapel D date stylistically to the reign of Ramesses III and probably had originally been part of a...
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Old projects, new projects
Jaap’s wife, Egyptologist Julia Harvey, arrived on February 15, completing this season’s small team. Julia has agreed to take on the pottery, with which she has considerable experience. She already...
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Our last week of excavation
Our last day of excavation was February 28, but we still have work to do. Since we are leaving Luxor next week, this will be our last post from the field. We will do one last wrap-up posting on March...
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The End of the Season
Working together with the ARCE project team we got a great deal accomplished this season in preparing the site to open to visitors. Most of the work consisted of organizing a mass of inscribed and...
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Is Bigger Better? Some Most-ASKed About Artworks
In a recent conversation with colleagues from the Peabody Essex Museum, Sara and I fielded a question that frequently arises: which works of art do people ask about most often via ASK? We’re able to...
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ASK and Young Museum Visitors: On the Hunt
Sometimes we plan and execute ASK-related projects on a long timeline, but occasionally a project will happen organically and almost take us by surprise. Using ASK for group tours is an example of a...
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