Antique Tea Caddy – Thank God I Was Not Born Before Tea!
An unusual Regency period tea caddy caught my eye in Sydney in 2011, its shape and decoration revealing the interest which abounded in ancient Egypt at the time
Ancient Egypt
Ptolemaic Art Galleries Re-Open – The Met, Fifth Avenue, NY
Galleries 133 and 134 at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York, re-open on July 1 with a re-installed and much enhanced display expanding knowledge of Ptolemaic art
Sunken Cities: Lynsey Scott Explores Egypt’s Lost Worlds
Lynsey Scott reports Franck Goddio found the sunken Egyptian city of Thonis whose remains on show at the British Museum are reigniting the Indiana Jones’ spirit
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York – Capturing Culture
The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York uniquely captures cultural achievement, showcasing master art works as a reflection of human evolution antiquity – today
The Silver Pharaoh Psusennes I Facing the Afterlife in Style
The tomb of Pharaoh Psusennes 1 is one of the most underrated discoveries in the scheme of things at Egypt, at least in regard to its jewellery and objects.
Nicholson Museum Sydney University – Past Informs the Future
The Nicholson Museum at Sydney University has on display objects from ancient societies we can connect with despite them being created thousands of years ago
Archaeology – Met Show Explores Origins of Egyptian Art
The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth [is] nature* In ancient Egypt their agricultural society, at first, was structured around a King, who embodied the Egyptian belief that their lives were being divinely guided and nurtured. During the ‘Old Kingdom’ in the 3rd millennium before the Christ Event,…
Cultural Key
Ancient Egypt declined and disappeared nearly two thousand years ago. In AD 391 when Roman Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I closed pagan temples throughout the Roman Empire the last vestiges of that culture ceased to exist. It wasn’t until 1798 when French military leader Napoleon invaded Egypt that the ancient culture…
At the Beginnings of Art – Cradle of Civlisation
All cultures on earth, just like individuals, have distinct modes of existence and creation stories are something they all have in common in a logical attempt to rationalise the presence of humans on earth. ‘In the beginning’, the ancient Greek oral Poet Hesiod says somewhere between 750 and 650 years before the Christ event (BCE), ‘there was Khaos, vast and dark.