Tag: cool stuff

Demon Advent Calendar

The Demonology Project has come up with a cool way to promote themselves over the festive season: the Demon Advent Calendar. Each day, they’ll post a different Egyptian demon, and they’re certainly drawing from eclectic sources. Day 1 featured “He Who Drives Off Those Who Would Demolish” from the Book of Two Ways, while Day 2 featured an unnamed man-eating hippo demon from a magician’s wand in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This is a great example of how academic projects can engage with the public in a fun and interesting manner. One of my big gripes about the Academy is its tendency to ignore the little people outside the ivory tower, so I’m always happy when I see academics bucking that trend. I also like that the Demonology Project hasn’t felt the need to dumb things down. They provide just the right amount of info to get the point across without burying non-specialists in a bunch of extraneous details.

Now if only the Demon Advent Calendar came with chocolate… 🙂

The Theban Mapping Project

I promise I won’t turn this into Jason’s Boring Ass Egyptology Blog, but I encourage any of you who have even a passing interest in ancient Egypt to check out the website of the Theban Mapping Project: http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/.

While you’re there, I suggest you try out the Atlas of the Valley of the Kings.  It’s an interactive map that shows you every tomb in the valley and, in many cases, there’s a little video narrated by Kent Weeks (Director of the TMP) giving a bit of info about the tomb.  The 3D reconstruction of KV 14 (Taworset and Setnakt) is also worth a look.