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Amy

Dig Deep!

About Me

I attend the University of Bristol, and will be graduating with a MA in Mediterranean Archaeology next month! My studies occupy much of my time, but I've managed to get out and party once in a while. ^_~

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My Interests

Egyptology (especially the royal tombs of Tanis and the Valley of the Kings), Mediterranean Archaeology, Anthropology, Museums, Art (Ancient and Modern), World Travel, Obelisks, Mummies, Vultures, Magic: The Gathering, and drunken Monopoly. ^_~

I'd like to meet:

Whoever.

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Music:

All classic rock and metal, especially the almighty and powerful Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Motley Crue.

Most recently, I've been listening to... Wolfmother

...Arabic music is good, too. ^_~
..*..AraBiC MuSiC CoDeS..*..

Movies:

Anime: Hellsing and Trigun.

General: Amadaeus, Amelie, Animal House, Army of Darkness, Austin Powers I-III, The Beatles: Help!, The Big Lebowski, Boondock Saints, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, Chasing Amy, Cleopatra, Clerks, A Dangerous Man, Death Race 2000, Dogma, Dracula Movies, The English Patient, Evil Dead I-II, Indiana Jones I-III, It's a Wonderful Life, James Bond (Sean Connery), Kill Bill, Lawrence of Arabia, Mallrats, Monty Python (especially Holy Grail and Life of Brian), Moulin Rouge, Office Space, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Super Troopers, and Wayne’s World.

...And Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.

Television:

Adult Swim, American Dad, ATHF, Bones, Family Guy, Futurama, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Office (UK), Simpsons, South Park, and That 70s Show.

Books:

Adams (1988) Predynastic Egypt.
Aldred (1968) Akhenaten.
Aldred (1965) Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom.
Andrews (1996) Ancient Egyptian Jewelry.
Badawy (1990 repr.) History of Egyptian Architecture I.
Bienkowski & Tooley (1995) Gifts of the Nile (Liverpool Museum).
Bierbrier (1992) Tomb Builders of the Pharaohs.
Bowman (1986) Egypt After the Pharaohs.
Brier (1996) Egyptian Mummies.
British Museum (1964) General Introductory Guide to the Egyptian Collections.
Brugsch (1902) Egypt Under the Pharaohs.
Ceram (1954) Gods, Graves and Scholars.
Ceram (1960) Picture History of Archaeology.
Cottrell (1950) Lost Pharaohs.
Cottrell (1956) Mountains of Pharaoh.
Daniel (1992) Writing for Antiquity.
D'Auria et al (1988) Mummies and Magic.
David (1986) Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt.
Davies (1987) Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
Davis (1907/8) The Tomb of Iouiya and Touyou.
Edwards (1877) 1000 Miles Up the Nile.
Edwards (1991 repr.) Pyramids of Egypt.
El-Fikey (1980) Tomb of the Vizier Re-wer at Saqqara.
Emery (1961) Archaic Egypt.
Evans (1986) Sutton Hoo Ship Burial.
Faulkner (1969) Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts.
Field Museum Chicago (1945) Mummies.
Germer (1997) Mummies: Life After Death in Ancient Egypt.
Grinsell (1998) An Archaeological Autobiography.
Habachi (1977) Obelisks of Egypt.
Hall (1986) Egyptian Textiles.
Harris (1971) Legacy of Egypt, 2nd Ed.
Janssen (1992) The First Hundred Years.
Jordan (1998) Riddles of the Sphinx.
Kemp (1989) Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization.
Killen (1994) Ancient Egyptian Woodworking and Furniture.
Kitchen (1982) Pharaoh Triumphant.
Lehner (1997) Complete Pyramids.
Lichtheim (c.1990) Ancient Egypt Literature, Vols I-III.
Manniche (1987) Tombs of Nobles at Luxor.
Meeks & Meeks (1999) Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods.
Menu (1999) Ramesses II: Greatest of the Pharaohs.
Nunn (1996) Ancient Egyptian Medicine.
Partridge (1994) Faces of Pharaoh.
Partridge (1996) Transport in Ancient Egypt.
Petrie (1991 repr.) History of Egypt, Vols I-III.
Redford (1989) Akhenaten.
Reeves (1989) Ancient Egypt at Highclere.
Reeves (1990) Complete Tutankhamun.
Reeves (1992) Egyptian Medicine.
Reeves & Taylor (1992) Howard Carter Before Tutankhamun.
Reeves & Wilkinson (1996) Complete Valley of the Kings.
Renfrew (1973) Before Civilisation.
Romer (1981) Valley of the Kings.
Schaefer (1986) Principles of Egyptian Art.
Schedel & Shedid (1996) The Tomb of Nakht.
Shaw (1991) Egyptian Warfare & Weapons.
Shaw & Nicholson (1996) British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt.
Silotti (1996) Guide to the Valley of the Kings.
Silotti (1997) The Pyramids.
Snape (1996) Egyptian Temples.
Spencer (1982) Death in Ancient Egypt.
Spencer (1993) Early Egypt.
Stevenson Smith (1981) Art & Architecture of Ancient Egypt.
Sutcliffe, ed. (1978) Chronicle (BBC).
Taylor (1995) Unwrapping a Mummy.
Thomas (1986) Egyptian Gods and Myths.
Trigger et al. (1984) Ancient Egypt: A Social History.
Uphill (1988) Egyptian Towns and Cities.
Vassillika (1995) Ancient Egyptian Art – Fitzwilliam Museum.
Walker & Bierbrier (1997) Ancient Faces.
Watson (1987) Egyptian Tombs and Mastaba Tombs.
Weigall (1910) Antiquities of Egypt (Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt).
Wilkinson (c. 1850) Ancient Egyptians: Their Lives and Customs, Vols I-II.
Wilkinson (1998) Garden in Ancient Egypt.
Wilson (2006) From Tradition to Trend: The Development of a Tanite Repertoire of Mortuary Texts (21st - 22nd Dynasties).

Heroes:

Howard D. Mann (1910 - 2005), Robert K. Wilson (1919 - 2005), and Donald W. Ferris (1943 - 2005).

My Blog

Man Held for 'Pharaoh Relic' Sale

Man held for 'pharaoh relic' sale A man has been arrested in France after advertising what he said was a lock of hair from Egyp...
Posted by Amy on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:15:00 PST

Peer Gynt!

The Memnon Statue, the stone colossus, He, you know, who sang a piece, We visited one morning; But the old one held his tongue. It is now a bard's whim From the time of Cambyses judgingly Examined him...
Posted by Amy on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:26:00 PST

Balloon Letter

We met Karnak's forest of pedestals Like prehistory's giant bones; Ramesseum's capitals Lay like skulls of camels; Luxor's hall with a hundred columns, Slaves' poor bent corpses Witnessed mutely of th...
Posted by Amy on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:02:00 PST

A 6-7 Weeks Dream

From Cairo up the Nile We flew on "Ferus" like an arrow, Visited the Cheops pyramid Where Napoleon proclaimed, While the sphinx meditated Both before and then since. Beni Hassan's royal tombs We crep...
Posted by Amy on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:13:00 PST

Thieves Lead to Discovery of Egypt Tombs

Thieves Lead to Discovery of Egypt Tombs Thieves Are 1st to Discover 3 Royal Dentists' Tombs in Shadow of Egypt's Oldest Pyramid By SIERRA MILLMAN The Associated Press SAQQARA, Egypt - The arres...
Posted by Amy on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:41:00 PST

Is America Civilized?

Since the Second World War These Countries Have Been Bombed by the U.S. Government: China: 1945-1946, 1950-1953 Korea: 1950-1953 Guatemala: 1954, 1960, 1967-1969 Indonesia: 1958 Cuba: 1959-1961 Congo...
Posted by Amy on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:22:00 PST

This Futile "War on Terror"

Opposition to War is Growing in America and Britain The American people are turning against Bush, mainly because over 2,550 US soldiers have died in Iraq. Families are demanding to know "what for?" T...
Posted by Amy on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:51:00 PST

Dissertation Abstract

Throughout the Egyptian dynastic period, the tomb not only functioned as the final resting place for the deceased, but also constituted an embodiment of the alternate cosmos of the afterlife. Such a c...
Posted by Amy on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:12:00 PST

Greece to Loan Minoan Antiquities to British Museum

Greece to loan Minoan antiquities to British Museum Friday September 8, 12:59 PM ATHENS (AFP) - Greece has agreed to loan London's British Museum a collection of priceless Minoan-era antiquities ...
Posted by Amy on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:47:00 PST

Ramesses Walks!

Egypt moves 3,200-year-old Ramses statue 1,500 soldiers protect pharaoh's route across Cairo to Great Pyramids The Associated Press Updated: 12:44 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2006 CAIRO, Egypt - Engineers on Fr...
Posted by Amy on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:07:00 PST