Christopher Hugh Naunton
Christopher Hugh Naunton is a British Egyptologist, a writer and a broadcaster, and an expert on the life of Flinders Petrie. He studied Egyptology at the universities of Birmingham and Swansea, and obtained his PhD. He has been director of the Egypt Exploration Society and president of the International Association of Egyptologists. In 2013, he presented ''Tutankhamun: The mystery of the Burnt Mummy'' on Channel 4 in the UK. Chris Naunton has been involved in a program for teaching Egyptology and the history of ancient Egypt named ''Playing in the Past'', a T.tv series, based on the reconstructions of the video game "Assassin's Creed Origins", which he considers as "the best visualization of ancient Egypt". Chris Naunton was involved with the 2017 excavation of the Pyramid of King's Daughter Hatshepsut at Dahshur DahshurAlso transliterated ''Dahshour'' (in English often called ''Dashur''; ' ) is an ancient Egyptian pyramid complex and necropolis and shares the name of the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egyptologist
Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , ''-logia''; ) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD. History First explorers The earliest explorers of ancient Egypt were the ancient Egyptians themselves. Inspired by a dream he had, Thutmose IV led an excavation of the Great Sphinx of Giza and inscribed a description of the dream on the Dream Stele. Less than two centuries later, Prince Khaemweset, fourth son of Ramesses II, would gain fame for identifying and restoring historic buildings, tombs and temples, including pyramids; and has subsequently been described as the first Egyptologist. Classical Antiquity Some of the first historical accounts of Egypt were given by Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and the largely lost work of Manetho, an Egyptian priest, during the reign ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Flinders Petrie
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English people, English Egyptology, Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his Irish-born wife, Hilda Petrie, Hilda Urlin. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Undoubtedly at least as important is his 1905 discovery and correct identification of the character of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the ancestor of almost all alphabetic scripts. Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and Ceramic engineering, ceramic findings. Petrie has been denounced for his pro-eugenics views; he was a dedicated believer in the superiority of the Germanic-speaking world, Northern p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egypt Exploration Society
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) is a British non-profit organization founded in 1882 for the purpose of financing and facilitating the exploration of significant archeological sites in Egypt and Sudan, founded by writer Amelia Edwards and coin curator Reginald Stuart Pool. It is based in London and is a registered charity. The organization has worked at many major Egyptian excavation sites, including Deir el-Bahri, Tanis, Abydos, and Amarna. According to the Society, findings from over 150 of their projects and excavations have been published around the world. History In 1873, the English writer Amelia Edwards ventured to Egypt to escape Britain's cold, rainy climate and sight-see. She and several friends traveled up the Nile River, from Cairo to Abu Simbel. On her return in 1876, Edwards published her account of the trip as ''A Thousand Miles Up the Nile''. The book became renowned for its description of 19th-century Egypt and the largely un-excavated antiques she encounter ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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International Association Of Egyptologists
The International Association of Egyptologists (IAE) (German: ''Internationaler Ägyptologen-Verband''; French: ''Association Internationale des Égyptologues''; Arabic: الرابطة الدولية لعلماء الآثار المصرية) is the international professional association of Egyptologists. The association is a non-profit organization for the advancement of Egyptology. The IAE was founded in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 1947. Within the framework of the association, questions relating to Egyptological studies are discussed. The association promotes the study of Egyptology in all its aspects on an international level. The IAE supports projects that are important for the scientific development of Egyptology and the international cooperation of Egyptologists. It also acts as an intermediary in providing funding and human resources for such projects. The association promotes the understanding of Egyptology among the general public by establishing contacts with support associa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including Television advertisement, advertising. It began its transmission in 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC1 and BBC2, and a single commercial broadcasting network, ITV (TV network), ITV. Originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ther ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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History Of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt spans the period of Egyptian history from the early prehistoric Egypt, prehistoric settlements of the northern Nile valley to the Roman Egypt, Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. The pharaonic period, the period in which Egypt was ruled by a pharaoh, is dated from the 32nd century BC, when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified, until the country fell under Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonian rule in 332 BC. Chronology ;Note: For alternative 'revisions' to the chronology of Egypt, see Egyptian chronology. Egypt's history is split into several different periods according to the ruling dynasty of each pharaoh. The dating of events is still a subject of research. The conservative dates are not supported by any reliable absolute date for a span of about three millennia. The following is the list according to conventional Egyptian chronology. * Prehistoric Egypt (prior to 3100 BC) * Naqada III ("the protodynastic period", approximately 3100–3000 BC; somet ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Twitch
Twitch may refer to: Biology * Muscle contraction ** Convulsion, rapid and repeated muscle contraction and relaxation ** Fasciculation, a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction ** Myoclonic twitch, a jerk usually caused by sudden muscle contractions ** Myokymia, a continuous, involuntary muscle twitch that affects the muscles of the face ** Spasm, a sudden, involuntary contraction ** Tic, an involuntary, repetitive, nonrhythmic action ** Tremor, an involuntary, repetitive, somewhat rhythmic action * Twitching motility, a form of crawling some bacteria use to move over surfaces Entertainment * Twitch (service), an American live streaming video website * ''Twitch'' (film), a 2005 short directed by Leah Meyerhoff * Screen Anarchy, formerly Twitch Film or Twitch, a film news and review website * Maximilian "Twitch" Williams, a character in the comic series '' Sam and Twitch'' *"Twitch", a fictional character from the book ''How to Eat Fried Worms'' and its 2006 film adaptat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Assassin's Creed Origins
''Assassin's Creed Origins'' is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth major installment in the ''Assassin's Creed'' series and the successor to ''Assassin's Creed Syndicate'' (2015). Principally set in Egypt, near the end of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, Ptolemaic period from 49 to 38 BC, the story follows a Medjay named Bayek of Siwa and his wife Aya as they seek revenge for the murder of their son. It also explores the origins of the Order of Assassins, Assassin Brotherhood—referred here to as the Hidden Ones—and of their millennia-long conflict with the Order of the Ancients—forerunners to the Knights Templar in popular culture, Templar Order. The framing story, set in the 21st century, follows a new character, Layla Hassan, who relives Bayek and Aya's memories using a modified Animus device. The game's development began following the release of ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' (2013). Ubisoft Montreal led it ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hatshepsut (king's Daughter)
Hatshepsut was the name of one or several ancient Egyptian ''king's daughter(s)'' of the 13th Dynasty. There are three instances where a person named Hatshepsut is mentioned. It is not known if these items refer to the same or different individuals. Attestations with King's Daughter Hatshepsut Three items referring to a King's Daughter Hatshepsut are known. All attestations seem to date to the early 13th Dynasty. Stela of Nedjesankh/Iu, husband of King's Daughter Hatshepsut At Abydos, a limestone stela was found mentioning a King's Daughter Hatshepsut. In the stela it is stated that she was the daughter of a '' king's wife'' Nofret. The name of her royal father is not recorded here. The queen Nofret is not known from other sources. K.S.B. Ryholt: ''The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800–1550 BC'', Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997, , p. 246 On stylistic grounds, the stela can be d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dahshur
DahshurAlso transliterated ''Dahshour'' (in English often called ''Dashur''; ' ) is an ancient Egyptian pyramid complex and necropolis and shares the name of the nearby village of Manshiyyat Dahshur () in markaz Badrashin, Giza Governorate, Giza. Dahshur is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is located on the Western Desert (Egypt), Western Desert plateau at the edge of the cultivated plain, and along with the pyramid complexes at Saqqara, Abusir, and Giza pyramid complex, Giza, to its north, forms the Memphite Necropolis, pyramid fields of the ancient capital city of Memphis, Egypt, Memphis. It is known chiefly for several pyramids, mainly Sneferu, Sneferu's Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid, which are among the oldest, largest and best preserved in Egypt, built from 2613 to 2589 BC. Pyramids The Dahshur pyramids were an extremely important learning experience for the Egyptians. It provided them with the knowledge and know-how to transition from step-sided pyramids ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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British Egyptologists
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