Zahi Hawass, Archaeologist

"World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass serves as secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and director of excavations at Giza, Saqqara, and the Bahariya Oasis.


He is responsible for many recent discoveries, including the tombs of the pyramid builders at Giza and the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya. At Giza, he also uncovered the satellite pyramid of Khufu. In 2005, as part of the National Geographic Society-sponsored Egyptian Mummy Project to learn more about patterns of disease, health, and mortality in ancient Egypt, he led a team that CT scanned the mummy of King Tutankhamun. His team is continuing to CT scan mummies, both royal and private, and hopes to solve some of the mysteries surrounding the lives and deaths of such important figures as Hatshepsut and Nefertiti.

Hawass is extremely concerned about the conservation and protection of Egypt's monuments. He has supervised a major conservation project on the Great Sphinx and developed site management plans for a number of important sites, including the unfinished obelisk quarry in Aswan and the temples of Kom Ombo, Edfu, and Dendera. He currently is completing site management plans for the West Bank of Luxor, Giza, and Saqqara.

Hawass, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, has brought the world of the pharaohs into the homes and hearts of people around the world through numerous television appearances and books. His TV and film credits include programs with National Geographic, Discovery, NOVA, The History Channel, FOX, Good Morning America, and the Today Show. He is the spokesman for CNN on archaeological news in Egypt.

In 2006, Hawass received an Emmy for a special on ancient Egypt. He has been featured on many TV shows in Europe and Japan and has been profiled in numerous newspapers.

Among Hawass's many books on ancient Egypt are Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt, Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt, Secrets From the Sand, and Mountains of Stones: History of the Pyramid Builders. His book about his excavations in Bahariya, The Valley of the Golden Mummies, is a best seller. Many of his books have been translated into multiple languages. He also has written books for children, contributes regularly to several magazines and journals, and has published countless scholarly articles". National Geographic.com

Black Rose would LOVE to work with him just once!!!

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Hi everyone,  just a quick note tonight.  Black Rose has been getting inquiries from School about her pendents!  Wahoo.   I have also been asked to bring some to work to share.  I have been wearing her creations all week (sorry Gwen) and others have asked. 

She got her report card today too!  She is soooooooooooooooo  pumped (and so are we as parents)! She has done awesome!  We can't tell you how well right now as Grams may read it before Black Rose gets to tell her.  They are attending the Red Hatter's Tea Saturday, so she will share then.

She was also to information day re: Universities and has found one that she can major and minor in her preferred fields.  (More on that later).

What a week!   Take care everyone.

Black Rose Creations

Black Rose Creations

Authentic Sea Glass & Poreclain

Handmade Jewellery

Pendants & Earrings

Black Rose is beginning a new endeavour to help her raise money for her upcoming trip to Ireland, England and Wales.  She walks the beach looking for glass and porcelain. She has dug into her jars (shown to you in an earlier post) and has begun making Pendants and Earrings.  Each is unique and no two are the same. 

She has been making them for friends and herself for awhile now, but has been invited to take part in an upcoming Craft Sale.

I have yet to print her Business Cards -example above. Wouldn’t ya know it, the ink ran out. The photo featured on her cards was taken on the beach in St. Martins were Black Rose collects her treasures. Thank you Gwen for allowing us to use it.    It means so much that it's the beach from which her pieces come. 

King Tut

King Tut
Photograph by Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic

King Tut, depicted here by a gold funerary mask, was a frail pharaoh, according to a new DNA study. Tutankhamun was beset by malaria and a bone disorder—and possibly compromised by his newly discovered incestuous origins, researchers say. (Read the full story: "King Tut Was Disabled, Malarial, and Inbred, DNA Shows.")

Released Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the report is the first DNA study ever conducted with ancient Egyptian royal mummies. It apparently solves several mysteries surrounding the 14th-century B.C. pharaoh, including how he died and who his parents were.

"He was not a very strong pharaoh. He was not riding the chariots," said study team member Carsten Pusch, a geneticist at Germany's University of Tübingen. "Picture instead a frail, weak boy who had a bit of a club foot and who needed a cane to walk."

Published February 16, 2010 - National Geographic.com

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In 1922 one of the most important archaeological discoveries of modern times occurred at Luxor, Egypt. It was the tomb of Egypt’s child-king, Tutankhamen, who became pharaoh at the age of nine and died, probably in the year 1352 bc, when he was 19. Perhaps the only ancient Egyptian royal tomb to have escaped plundering by grave robbers, it was discovered more than 3,000 years after Tutankhamen’s death by English archaeologist Howard Carter, leader of an expedition financed by Lord Carnarvon. The priceless relics yielded by King Tut’s tomb were placed in Egypt’s National Museum at Cairo.



http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/countries-places/egypt/king-tuts-tomb.html

GeoCaching

Geocaching (pronounced geo-cashing) is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure. A geocacher can place a geocache in the world, pinpoint its location using GPS technology and then share the geocache's existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS device can then try to locate the geocache.

For those that don't GeoCache pictured on the left is a Travel Bug (Trackable) he's an example of a Hitchiker that is moved from cache to cache. The middle piece of paper tells his story.  On the right is our GPS system.  He was our first Travel Bug find! :)

This Travel Bug is Mr Lemon.  He came from Pennsylvania, United States.  His note says he hopes his Travel Bug goes to every country in the world, but if that does not happen then he hopes it gets to Denmark. He's currently on the move in Canada.

We enjoy Geocaching because it uses different tallents (you have to use a Compass/GPS, able to read and figure out clues, and one of the biggest is that it gives us time in the outdoors (and sometimes indoors) to enjoy and appreciate our country and community.  It's a great opportunity to spend time together as a family and that's why we enjoy it most.  Always bring the camera because you never know what you will find or where you will go. We enjoy it for it's history lessons.  We have learned so much about new places and 'old' places.  We then return home to log our 'finds'.  It's free to join and all you need is a sense of adventure and a GPS.  

Maybe we will see you out and about in this 'new sport'.

We are neo-geocachers, we are newbies to the sport.  The thing is now that we have begun, we have to return to places we had previously visited because when we were there the first time(s) we weren't geocachers. We sometimes wondered why those folks were wondering about looking at the trees or in the bush, and now we know.

CITO - Cache In Trash Out is an on-going environmental initiative adopted by Geocachers to encourage good outdoor civic responsibilty.  While out Geocaching, carry a trash bag to pack whatever trash you find along the trail. 

For more informaiton, please visit http://www.geocaching.com/