Tag: Peter Der Manuelian

  • Nation & World

    Life seeking answers at Giza, Nubia

    Egyptologist George Reisner transformed the field, and a biography by Peter Der Manuelian explores not just his career, but his life during what some consider the golden age of Egyptian archaeology.

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    George Reisner with a bronze vase from a 1923 excavation.
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    The boy king’s throne

    On the 100th anniversary of discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb, an Egyptian jewel comes to Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

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    Detail of replica of King Tut throne.
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    A new name for the Semitic Museum

    Harvard Museum of Ancient Near East more “accurately reflects the diversity of the collection.”

    8 minutes
    Image foundin the Coffin of Mut-iy-iy
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    Good things come in ancient packages

    Project to make complete visual digital records of three 3,000-year-old coffins turns up a painting of a deity.

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    Dennis Piechota (left), Jane Drake, and Adam Aja view the inside of the coffin of Ankh-khonsu.
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    Places we love

    Harvard students, professors, alumni, and staff talk about the places on campus they love most.

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    Harvard square as seen from above
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    Armchair travels with a purpose

    Digital Giza Project lets scholars virtually visit sites in Egypt and beyond and, even print them in 3-D.

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    Students wearing 3D glasses view a visualization of an Egyptian tomb.
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    The search for a California sphinx

    At what other event would you hear, “This time there would be no Jell-O?” mused Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian last Wednesday at the Harvard Art Museums. It sounded like a…

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    Scene from “The Ten Commandments,” 1923.
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    A cast fit for an Egyptian king

    Harvard students have created a replica of the ‘Dream Stela’ that rests between the paws of the Great Sphinx in Giza.

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    Casting new light on ancient epics

    The exhibition “From Stone to Silicone” — the only exhibit of its kind in North America — features striking silicone replicas of millennia-old reliefs that preserve the history of present-day Iraq.

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    bas-reliefs
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    Egyptian-style handiwork with a digital past

    Harvard is behind the re-creation of a chair from a 4,500-year-old tomb.

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    How to recast antiquity

    With help from a Harvard grant and a class on the ancient Near East, Harvard students are re-creating casts of Mesopotamian masterpieces.

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    The old, made new

    The Harvard Semitic Museum, hosting a retrospective exhibit on its long history and founder David Gordon Lyon, is refurbished, reordered, and increasingly ready for the future.

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    Sampling the scholar’s life

    Eleven Harvard undergraduates worked closely with Harvard faculty and administrators this summer as part of the Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program. The second-year program connects students seeking research opportunities in the arts and humanities with Harvard scholars and experts looking for help.

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    ‘Wonderful things,’ indeed

    Bob Brier of Long Island University traced the history of “Egyptomania” in a Harvard talk.

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    The queen and the sculptor

    French Egyptologist Alain Zivie, a visiting scholar at the Semitic Museum, told a Harvard audience of his discovery of the tomb of Thutmose, who he believes is the artist who created the iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti.

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    The watchword is innovation

    Innovation, whether it’s large, small, solo, or institutional, is an increasingly important part of Harvard, a university working to maintain its clearly defined sense of self and at the same time evolve to meet future needs.

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    The modern opens the past

    In the inaugural lecture of a series organized by Harvard’s Digital Futures consortium, data-publishing entrepreneur Eric Kansa lays out a case for archaeology to “get on the map” of disciplines sharing data widely on the Web.

    7 minutes
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    Dimensions of ancient Egypt

    The Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak isn’t the most famous ancient site in Egypt — that honor goes to the Pyramids at Giza — but newly developed reconstructions using 3-D virtual reality modeling make clear its architectural importance and rich history.

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    A different take on Tut

    French Egyptologist Marc Gabolde offered a different interpretation of the DNA evidence on King Tut’s lineage in a talk at Harvard’s Science Center.

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    Giza in Another Dimension – Innovation at Harvard

    What if you could enter a decorated tomb chapel in a Giza pyramid, descend down an ancient burial shaft, or see 5,000-year-old inscriptions come to life—without ever having to travel?

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    Gen Ed connects the dots of life

    Harvard’s Program in General Education aims to tie what students learn at the College to the lives they will lead after graduation. A hit with both students and faculty, Gen Ed has expanded to more than 400 courses in less than three years, and now includes some of the most popular classes on campus.

    12 minutes
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    The future of archaeology

    Smitten as a boy with the wonders of ancient Egypt, archaeologist Peter Der Manuelian deep into excavations but also wedded to the Web.

    5 minutes
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    Breakthrough

    In science and medicine and across the humanities, Harvard has a legacy of transformative intellectual breakthroughs.

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    Revolutionizing Egyptology

    Peter Der Manuelian Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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    Generally, a happy anniversary

    As Harvard’s Gen Ed curriculum expands, it’s drawing ever-widening interest from students and faculty after its first year.

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    Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces 2010-11 full professors

    The following faculty members have been named full professors with tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Stephen Burt, Peter Der Manuelian, David Howell, Martin Puchner, and Gu-Yeon Wei.

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