Sunday, September 23, 2007

Eternal Egypt

IRRT Executive Board member Sarah Beasley recommended this link to Eternal Egypt http://www.eternalegypt.org/. It's a very rich, multimedial site available in English, Arabic, and French. From the opening page you can select a high-bandwidth version or a text version.

1 comments:

LaVerne L. Poussaint said...

This New York Times slideshow feature I initially conveyed to the Rare Books and Manuscripts section last week. There is an accompanying Premium Archive article:

From: LaVerne Poussaint
To: llpoussaint@canada.com
Subject: Slideshow: Ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu collections
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:50:30 -0700 (PDT)

Greetings, All.

I found to be of superlative interest this presentation of preservation efforts of private and public collections of Timbuktu. Subject matters of these centuries'-old treasures cover the range of
"religion, philosophy, astrology, physics, chemistry, geometry, biology, herbal cures for impotence, law, good governance, women's rights, apothecar, botany,.." Gorgeous graphics, frame-worthy photography.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/06/world/africa/20070807_MALI_FEATURE.html