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Wilbour and the Stela of the Seven Years’ Famine: Part II
The first part of this story showed the American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour discovering and translating a long rock-cut text on the island of Sehel. Wilbour was very excited by the text. It described a seven year long famine in … Continue reading
Wilbour and the Stela of the Seven Years’ Famine: Part I
Wilbour’s letters to his family, kept in the Museum Archives, give a vivid picture of his travels in Egypt and the research he carried out there. Much of this work consisted of his checking earlier publications of Egyptian monuments against … Continue reading
Wilbour in Egypt: The Maiden Voyage of The Seven Hathors
In her introductory blog Deirdre discussed Charles Edwin Wilbour, the American Egyptologist whose collections form the backbone of the Museum’s Egyptian holdings. This post is about Wilbour’s interest in Egypt. Some of the photographs and documents illustrated here are in … Continue reading
Wilbour: One Man’s Obsession with Egypt
It’s a well known fact that the Brooklyn Museum has a great Egyptian collection but did you know that we have one of the best libraries devoted to the study of Ancient Egypt that is open to the public? We … Continue reading
Egyptian Objects Before Egyptology: Discoveries in the Wilbour Library
My work in the Wilbour Library involves keeping an eye out for books the Library needs, and carrying out archival research into the history of the Egyptian collections in support of the Library’s educational mission. In the Library’s Special Collections … Continue reading
The world through Goodyear’s eyes: photographs from the 1890’s to 1923 from the Brooklyn Museum Archives
Seeing the response to historic photographs that we have posted on Flickr Commons begs a look back on why we have these images and who created them. Being an art museum library and archives our mission is to collect and … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, collection, egypt, flickr, flickrcommons, goodyear, history, italy, wilbour
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The Description de l’Egypte in the Wilbour Library of Egyptology
If you have been following the numerous blogs on this website you are aware that the Brooklyn Museum has organized an exhibition of Egyptian objects entitled To Live Forever which is now on tour. Among the objects in the show … Continue reading
A Titanic–Egypt Connection in the Wilbour Library of Egyptology
Like people, books have histories. Bookplates, inscriptions and marginal notes all tell us something about where the book has been and who owned it. The Brooklyn Museum’s Wilbour Library of Egyptology recently received a gift from the Museum’s Director of … Continue reading
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Tagged books, egypt, mummy, mummychamber, titanic, wilbour
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