Category Archives: Egyptian Art

What drew you to the Egyptian Galleries?

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Tessa Hite

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 on view in the Museum’s 3rd … Continue reading…

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Repairing the Book of the Dead

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Rachel Danzing

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 the lab. One method … Continue reading…

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35 Animal Mummies meet Twitter and Instagr.am

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

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 and curators and … Continue reading…

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Animal Mummies – X-radiography, and coming soon – CT scans!

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Lisa Bruno

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. In earlier blog posts we described the … Continue reading…

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Lady Gautseshenu goes to the Hospital

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Tina March

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 blogs about the previous mummies). Lady Gautseshenu, … Continue reading…

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Name That Bronx Zoo Cobra? “Wadjet” Of Course!

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Madeleine Cody

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, if not the whole … Continue reading…

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Radiocarbon (carbon-14) Dating of Book of the Dead of Sobekmose

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Rachel Danzing

Our research to further understand the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose continues. Carbon-14 (C-14) dating was one of the first scientific analytical techniques that we employed to confirm the date for this piece, thought to be … Continue reading…

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The end of a short season

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Richard Fazzini

Because of potential unrest, no foreign missions were allowed to work in the field on Saturday, January 29, so we weren’t able to get back to the paving until Sunday. By late morning Abdel Aziz and Mamdouh had taken down … Continue reading…

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Our last full week

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Mary McKercher

This is the posting intended for January 28 but not sent because of the lack of internet service in Egypt at that time. Richard and I have decided to post this dig diary entry as originally written and will follow … Continue reading…

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Looking for Adhesives and Identifying Binders in the Book of the Dead Using FTIR

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Caitlin Jenkins

Another scientific analytical technique commonly used in art conservation is called Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy, or FTIR.  The Brooklyn Museum’s Paper Conservation Lab employed this technique to continue analysis of the Brooklyn Museum’s Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of … Continue reading…

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Analyzing Pigments in the Book of the Dead Using XRF Spectroscopy

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Caitlin Jenkins

One of the many scientific analytical techniques used in art conservation is called X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy, or XRF.  The Paper Conservation Lab here at the Brooklyn Museum is using this technique to study the Brooklyn Museum’s Book of the Dead … Continue reading…

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The Second Week

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Richard Fazzini

On January 15 we finished removing the baulk stub over the remains of the southern boundary wall of the Taharqa Gate approach. In this view to the northeast, you can now see that we have a single, wide wall that … Continue reading…

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Season 25 is underway

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Mary McKercher

We began what will be mainly a study season on January 11 with the traditional cutting of the camel thorn. Fortunately there isn’t much as we had arranged with the SCA and Reis Farouk to have our part of the … Continue reading…

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2010 Mut Reports and Dig Diary 2011

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Richard Fazzini

The formal report on the 2010 season of work at the Mut Precinct, in English and Arabic, is now available online in the Mut feature on our website. As those of you who followed the 2010 dig diary will remember, … Continue reading…

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IR and UV Examination of Egyptian Papyrus

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Pavlos Kapetanakis

Following Rachel’s previous discussion on pigments and inks used in our Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose, I will begin here our discussion of the different examination and analytical techniques we employ in conservation and the … Continue reading…

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