Dominique Navarro's Blog, page 28
September 2, 2013
Review of Birds of the Nile Valley; An AUC Press Nature Foldout
Katy, the winner of the Goodreads Book Giveaway Contest, had this to say about the Birds of the Nile Valley Nature Foldout:
This is an excellent foldout detailing the birds of the Nile Valley. It would be so easy to tuck it into a suitcase or backpack and take it along on your birding expedition. The color and quality is excellent. I particularly like the way there are notations on which birds to look for in each season.
Thanks so much Katy!
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August 27, 2013
AUC Press Nature Foldouts – Special Offer till end of September 2013
Buy all four AUC Press Nature Foldouts for just LE120 (instead of LE180)!
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August 20, 2013
NEW Egypt Nature Foldouts – Available for Preorder from Amazon!
NEW to the AUC Press Nature Foldout Series:
Ancient Egypt’s Wildlife, with Scientific Consultant Egyptologist Salima Ikram – PREORDER from AMAZON
and
Egypt’s Prehistoric Fauna, with Scientific Consultant Paleontologist Matthew Lamanna – PREORDER from AMAZON
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout Update Tagged: American University in Cairo Press, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Whales, AUC Press Nature Foldouts, Bioarchaeology, Crocodiles, Dominique Navarro, Ecology, Ecotourism, Egypt, Egyptology, Environment, Lake Nasser, Matthew Lamanna, Nature, Prehistoric Dinosaurs, Salima Ikram, Temples, Wadi el Hitan
About: Scientific Consultant Salima Ikram
Salima Ikram is the scientific consultant for Ancient Egypt’s Wildlife; AUC Press Nature Foldout
From her website: www.salimaikram.com
Dr. Salima Ikram is a leading expert on animal mummies. As founder and co-director of the Animal Mummy project at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, she has emerged as one of the leading scholars in Egyptian funerary archaeology. Combining an interest in and understanding of the past with a passion of preserving it for the future, she has brought the little known world of animal mummies to light.
Dr. Salima Ikram is a professor of Egyptology at The American University in Cairo, a grantee of the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration, and an international guest speaker. Highlights of her professional career include a visiting scholar at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), a consultant Egyptologist at Giza, Saqqara, Abu Sir, Valley of the Kings, and Co-Director of the North Kharga Oasis Survey.
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About: Scientific Consultant Matthew Lamanna
Matthew Lamanna is the scientific consultant for Egypt’s Prehistoric Wildlife; AUC Press Nature Foldout
Matt Lamanna is Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA.
From the Carnegie Museum of Natural History website:
In 2000, Lamanna was on the team led by fellow Penn graduate student Joshua Smith that searched western Egypt for a lost dinosaur site first discovered by a German paleontologist in 1911. There, at Bahariya Oasis, they discovered a sauropod (a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur) as long as 80 feet and weighing 40-50 tons. Called Paralititan (“tidal giant”) because it died in an ancient coastal environment, it was one of the largest animals ever to walk the earth. The expedition was funded by the A&E network and resulted in a two-hour documentary, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt, and a book published by Random House. It also gave Lamanna immediate professional visibility, and it was one of the best examples of a new approach to finding financial backing for scientific field work—entertainment networks such as A&E have begun to sponsor research that could later produce popular material about science.
“Most Egyptians don’t know that their country is a rich source of dinosaur fossils,” Lamanna says. “Antiquities have mostly overshadowed paleontology in Egypt for a long time. A giant carnivorous theropod dinosaur, Spinosaurus, and other fossil animals discovered by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer in the early 20th century, were taken to Munich where they were completely destroyed during Allied attacks on the city in World War II.” Lamanna hopes to help bring paleontology to the forefront in Egypt, and he plans to return to the Bahariya Oasis again to continue his research.
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August 19, 2013
Egyptians are not Arabs, they are Egyptians.
Reblogged from Mathilda's Anthropology Blog.:
Modern Upper Egyptians
A strange title for a blog entry I know. But this is a result of a little nosing through the DNA studies available of modern Egypt, and some irritation at modern Egyptians being incessantly called 'thieving Arabs' by on-line Afrocentrists.
This is more focussed on the Egyptians around Luxor, where old upper Egypt was located. A recent DNA study by Cruciani…
August 18, 2013
Diwan Bookstores in Egypt Carrying AUC Press Nature Foldouts
Diwan Bookstore is a unique bookstore chain that spearheaded growth in the booktrade industry in the Middle East. Diwan is not just a bookstore, it is an organization with a mission. With 10 branches in Cairo and Alexandria, Diwan is an essential catalyst in the production and dissemination of culture, hosting events for local authors, providing workshops and lectures, screening the works of emerging artists and filmmakers, promoting alternative and independent musicians. Our mission is and continues to be bringing back reading and books as a fundamental aspect of our culture and broadening the cultural horizons of an entire generation. Shop online at http://www.diwanegypt.com/
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