A HGIS of Nubia (website launch)!

A Historical GIS of Nubia based on the William J. Bankes Archive (1815-1822). I finally published my research project carried out at the Dahlem Research School, Freie Universität Berlin. Check it out and send feedback!

A huge thanks to the Dorset History Centre thgat allowed for the on-line publication of the images!

https://sites.google.com/view/hgisnubia/home

L'Egitto di Belzoni | Exhibition in Padova

25 October 2019 to 28 June 2020
Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano
Via Altinate, 71 - Padova
An exhibition curated by Francesca Veronese

Website: https://www.legittodibelzoni.it/

Catalogue Biblos

https://www.amazon.fr/LEgitto-Belzoni-gigante-piramidi-illustrata/dp/8864481427

NEW BOOK: "From Siena to Nubia. Travels of Alessandro Ricci, 1817-1822"

Daniele SALVOLDI (ed), "From Siena to Nubia. Travels of Alessandro Ricci, 1817-1822", The American University in Cairo Press, 480 pages, 20x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-9-774167-854-3

800 LE, 59.95 $, 45 GBP, 72.08 EU

https://aucpress.com/product/from-siena-to-nubia/

Nubian Gazetteer: KML file download

Salvoldi, Daniele; Geus, Klaus: A Historical Comparative Gazetteer for Nubia. In: Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 4 (Summer 2017), 59–182 [ISBN-13: 978-1-947447-20-2; free pdf in open access here]. With sixteen colour maps.
  
While HERE is the basic .kml file for download. Please share and let's make it standard!

Best to download the file and upload it using Google Earth; for reasons I do not know, if you click on the link and use the Google map automatically generated you won't be able to see the labels with the toponyms] 

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Papiers et dessins du voyageur et égyptologue Nestor
L’Hôte (1804–1842), IX. Dessins et plans, 6–18.

IFAO - Répertoire des fonds d’archives égyptologiques

IFAO - Répertoire des fonds d’archives égyptologiques (89 entries)

http://www.ifao.egnet.net/bases/archeg/ 

Travellers and Early Sources Papers and Posters at the upcoming 11th International Congress of Egyptologists (23-30 August 2015, Florence)

August 25

11:45-12:15

C. Naunton

The Egypt Exploration Society’s Archives: a progress report

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 12:15-12:45

S. J. Allen

The Photographic Archives of the Excavations of George Andrew Reisner in Egypt and Nubia

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14:30-15:00

G. Cafici

Bernard von Bothmer and Ptolemaic sculpture: Papers on Ptolemaic art from his archives held at the Università degli Studi di Milano

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15:00-15:30

S. Cincotti

"Karnak is in peace": the european excavations in the manuscripts of Jean-Jacques Rifaud

August 26

11:45-12:15

P. Piacentini

News from the Serapeum: An unknown album by Auguste Mariette in the Egyptological Archives of the Università degli Studi di Milano

August 27

12:00 (POSTER)

C. Johansson

The first Swede in Nubia and the Collection that went up in Flames

August 28

9:30-10:00

M. Maitland

Servant in the Place of Truth: A.H. Rhind’s innovative Theban excavations and collections in National Museums Scotland

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15:00-15:30

D. Salvoldi, S. Delvaux

The Lost Chapels of Elephantine. Methodology for a Reconstruction Study through Archival Documents

August 29

14:30-15:00

A. Stevenson, J. Baines, E. Libonati, S. Glover

Developing a resource to understand the international distribution of finds from British excavations 1880-1980: the Artefacts of Excavation project

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15:30-16:00

F. Ugliano

The Predynastic collection of the Turin Egyptian Museum: an integrated study of artefacts and archives for a new exhibition

Full program here: http://www.ice11florence.org/program

NEW BOOK: "American Travelers on the Nile. Early U.S. Visitors to Egypt, 1774–1839"

Andrew OLIVER, "American Travelers on the Nile. Early U.S. Visitors to Egypt, 1774–1839, The American University in Cairo Press
424 pages, 15 x 23 cm 

 

ISBN: 978-9-77416-667-9

44.95 $/200 LE

http://www.aucpress.com/p-4918-american-travelers-on-the-nile.aspx