Archaeology news
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"Bar des
Sciences" on African Archaeology in Archéa (Louvres) |
[01/10/2010] |
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The Archéa
museum has just opened in September 2010 in the city of
Louvre near Paris. The museum proposes in collaboration
with the Departmental Service of Archaeology of
Val-d'Oise a series of three "bars des sciences", opened
to all, for discussing with archaeologists and
researchers on themes connected with the archaeology in
Africa..
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Tribute to Serge Cleuziou (1945-2009) |
[08/10/2009] |
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Serge Cleuziou, professor of oriental archaeology at
“Université Paris I” and researcher at the CNRS passed
away this Wednesday, October 7 2009, causing an immense
loss to relatives, friends, and to science. In more than
30 years, he greatly enriched the knowledge of
"formation periods" in Arabia and Oman in particular. A
tribute to archaeology and to a great thinker [read
more].
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Archaeological travels 2009-2010 |
[25/09/2009] |
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GREPAL proposes its new season for
cultural and archaelogical travels 2009-2010.
Discover Fayoum sites during your
adventure travel: marine beds and petrified forests,
temples and cities from the Middle empire to the roman
period, and other exceptional sites, far from touristic
bottlenecks.
[cultural and archaeological
travels] |
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Conference
lecture cycle at "Université de
Compiègne" |
[21/09/2009] |
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Following the success of the 2008 cycle dedicated to
recent excavations and discoveries in Egypt,
specifically in prehistory, the NGO « Université dans la
ville », proposes for the 2009-2010 season a new cycle
of conferences along with screenings and dedicated to
research and discoveries in the Nile valley. [read
more] |
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The
Sesostris III of Pinault's collection : a Pyrrhus style
victory ? |
[28/01/2009] |
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Mr. François Pinault
and those who defended him just won a decisive battle in
the Sesostris III statue affair after 10 years of legal
procedures. In the sales catalogue, the statue was
represented as an effigy of king Sesostris III. It is,
in fact, a statue made of stone, of medium size, 57cm in
height, with the sovereign’s name engraved on the belt.
This pale copy of the great Egyptian king who directed
Egypt with a hand of bronze – with all due respect to
Mrs. Desroches-Noblecourt, iron was not used in the
Middle empire – at the start of the XIXth century B.C,
was auctioned for about 5 million francs. It was
apparently a very good deal, since according to very
specialized sources, if it had been an original, a royal
statue of its kind in such a perfect state of
conservation, it would likely be sold around 50 million
francs; in other words about 10 times as much.
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Wild
oxen at the Qurta
cliff |
[15/06/2007] |
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Cliffs in Upper-Egypt,
located at some 10km
from Djebel Silsileh,
in 2005 revealed prehistoric
rock decorations:
Qurta I, Qurta II
and Qurta III. The
team of Dirk Huyge,
The Royal Art and
Brussles History museums
(Belgium), reidentified
in 2007 numerous representations
of animals, both engraved
and hammered [read
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Opening
of the unpublished objects
section |
[16/05/2007] |
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Discover two
unpublished predynastic
objects, published by
the GREPAL and revealed
for the first time. You
can discover the earliest
known representation of
a lion, a miniature palette,
as well as a red ceramic
with black rim etched with
the figure of a wild ox,
the ealiest animal representation
found on a neolithic Egyptian
vase. .
Also, a new travel
program to the Oasis
is proposed.
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| Online
publication of the Bamiyan Buddha
file |
[29/03/2007] |
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You can now read a new file about
the destruction of the
Bamiyan Buddhas, in 2001.
In that year, Taliban forces used
explosives to destroy two colossal
and unique statues representing
Buddha, to the west of Kabul,
in the name of a Fatwa issued
by the mollah Mohammed Omar.
We also draw your attention to
the online publication of articles
by our members, which you will
find in the publications.
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The site back online! |
[23/01/2007] |
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Dear visitors, the updated version of
the GREPAL internet welcomes you. Those
familiar with our site will notice that
it has been overhauled. It has been
enriched with new categories and offers
of new services. We hope that you will
take the time to discover it and that
our online communications will respond
to your expectations.
Thank you.
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| Egypt
building its first prehistory museum. |
[23/01/2007] |
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Egyptian Supreme Counsel of Antiquities
(SCA) has decided to construct a museum
dedicated to the prehistory of the Egyptian
Nile area. The governor of Quena, in
Upper Egypt, has offered to host the
building, not far from the Qena bridge.
This museum is slated to expose more
than a thousand objects that are currently
conserved by the SCA. The opening date
remains to be announced. |
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| From
the Sahara to the Nile |
[23/01/2007] |
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Illustrated by several photographs,
this work by Jean-Loïc Le Quellec,
Pauline and Philippe de Flers explores
the early art of the Egyptian Sahara.
The authors, through new mythologies,
heighten understanding of the relations
between the Nile Valley and the luxurious
savannah which in Neolithic times stretched
from the Atlantic to Egypt. The Sahara
was fertile. [read
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Tell
el-Farkha |
[23/01/2007] |
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February 2006, the Polish archaeology
establishment made two major discoveries
in the predynastic layers of Tell el-Farkha
in the eastern Delta. Two statues with
lost wooden cores and covered with gold
foil were unearthed in a habitation
layer dated to Naqada IIIb. One is 65cm
long and the other is 35cm, and they
have lapis-lazuli eyes. They are the
only such examples for predynastic archaeology
in Egypt. [read
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Congrès ICOM, janvier 2007 |
[23/01/2007] |
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The 2007 international Egyptological
event took place in Upper-Egypt
at Naqada. The ICOM organized
a convention on the history of
the regions of Naqada and of Qus.
25km North of Luxor, Naqada was
the seat of a powerful chiefdom
of the 4th millennium. Most of
the communications deal with Egyptian
prehistory. The Italian school,
in particular, presented the results
of its excavations at Naqada.
The academic sessions took place
the 24, 25 and 26 January. [read
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In
brief…
The GREPAL is an
association under French law of 1901
and was created in 1997. It is made
up of archaeologists, trained in Europe
and in the East, as well as professionals
from other scientific disciplines and
communications specialists. The GREPAL
addresses an informed public seeking
greater knowledge of the origins, the
relationships, and the civilizations
of the Near-East and Egypt. |
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