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March 1, 2013
February 27, 2013
Egypt’s Flora and Fauna; An AUC Press Nature Foldout – Now Available for Purchase
with Scientific Consultant Richard Hoath
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
From AUC Press: http://www.aucpress.com/p-4760-travel-literature-and-guidebooks.aspx
From Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Egypts-Flora-Fauna-Nature-Foldout/dp/9774165780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357261277&sr=8-1&keywords=dominique+navarro
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout Update Tagged: American University in Cairo Press, Egypt, Fauna, Flora, Richard Hoath
February 26, 2013
Birds of the Nile Valley; An AUC Press Nature Foldout – Now Available for Purchase
with Scientific Consultant John Wyatt
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
From AUC Press: http://www.aucpress.com/p-4759-birds-of-the-nile-valley.aspx
From Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Birds-Nile-Valley-Nature-Foldout/dp/9774165799/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357261351&sr=1-3
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout Update Tagged: American University in Cairo Press, Birds, Egypt, John Wyatt, Nile Valley
February 25, 2013
About: Scientific Consultant Richard Hoath
Richard Hoath is the scientific consultant for Egypt’s Flora & Fauna; AUC Press Nature Foldout
He is one of Egypt’s leading naturalist, as well as an author and artist.
From his Faculty Profile Page at American University in Cairo:
Hoath’s big passion is natural history and he has published extensively on the fauna of Egypt in scientific journals, in popular magazines, and as a monthly environmental columnist for Egypt’s leading English language magazine Egypt Today. His latest book A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt went into its second edition in 2009. He was elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1995.
Hoath is currently working on a further book on Egypt’s mammals incorporating the stunning lithograph’s from John Anderson’s Zoology of Egypt: Mammalia (1902) accompanied by his own narrative.
Richard Hoath is a confirmed Africanophile and has travelled extensively throughout the continent in pursuit of its unparalleled natural and cultural heritage.
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout Update Tagged: Richard Hoath
About: Scientific Consultant John Wyatt
John Wyatt is the scientific consultant for Birds of the Nile Valley; AUC Press Nature Foldout
John Wyatt is a specialist in African birds and mammals, and formerly a deputy director at the British Trust for Ornithology. Trained as an anthropologist and ethnographer, he is the world’s only ornithologist working full time on the birds of ancient Egypt.
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout Update Tagged: John Wyatt
February 13, 2013
AUC Press Spring 2013 Catalog – Cover Art by Dominique Navarro
AUC PRESS SPRING 2013 Catalog now available: http://www.aucpress.com/t-seasonscatalog.aspx
New AUC Press Nature Foldouts Featured Inside:
Ancient Egypt’s Wildlife; AUC Press Nature Foldout, with Salima Ikram, page 8
Egypt Prehistoric Fauna; AUC Press Nature Foldout, with Matthew Lamanna, page 9
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout Update Tagged: American University in Cairo Press, Matthew Lamanna, Salima Ikram
February 12, 2013
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.
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout Update Tagged: Salima Ikram
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.
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout Update Tagged: Matthew Lamanna
January 30, 2013
Conference on the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt
Conference on the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt
31 January – 2 February 2013
American University in Cairo
Including Lecturers Egyptologist Salima Ikram
and Ornithologist John Wyatt
Filed under: Egypt News Tagged: Ancient Egypt, Bioarchaeology, John Wyatt, Salima Ikram
