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Brain-be 2.0 Project: SURA - Unlocking the Photographic Archives of the Pioneering Years of Egyptology at the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels

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[#OpenAccess] Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie no 170 (décembre 2022) : Archéologie et photographie (dir. Anissa Yelles @anissayel) #archéologie @OpenAccessArch @OpenEditionActu journals.openedition.org/nda…
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The "Our Lady of Heliopolis Co-Cathedral" needs your help. The "Amis de la Basilique" initiative by @BelgiumCairo has kickstarted a campaign to fund the much-needed restoration of this unique Belgian-Egyptian heritage site. Please share and donate. 1/5 amisdelabasilique.com/
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New Book! Sura: Egypt through a Belgian Lens Aude Gräzer Ohara, Athena Van der Perre, Marleen De Meyer & Wouter Claes, Ghent: Snoeck, 2023 Hardback, 247 p., 240 mm x 270 mm Price: €40
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Available in English, French, and Dutch, each with an Arabic translation of the introductory chapter. Aude Gräzer Ohara, Athena Van der Perre, Marleen De Meyer & Wouter Claes. 2023. Sura: Egypt through a Belgian Lens. Gent: Snoeck. ISBN : 9789461617767, snoeckpublisher.be/product/s…
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Another week, another exhibition designed with the collaboration of the SURA project: 'Expedition Egypt' will open next week at @ArtHistoryBRU in Brussels! Info & tickets 👉 artandhistory.museum/en/expe…
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🤩 The Queen and the Princess discover the petroglyphs on the ‘Rock of Vultures’ and the Temple of Amenhotep III, just like Queen Elisabeth in 1930.
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On International Women’s Day, we put the spotlight on Marcelle Werbrouck, Belgium’s first female #Egyptologist. She studied Egyptology with Jean Capart and quickly became one of his closest collaborators, both in the @ArtHistoryBRU & the Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth.
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Jean Capart appointed Marcelle Werbrouck field director for the excavations at #Elkab but this was rejected by Étienne Drioton, head of the Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte, because she was a woman.
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Marcelle Werbrouck wrote several books & more than 150 papers, many of which focused on the role of women in ancient #Egypt. Although she always worked in the shadow of her mentor Jean Capart, her contribution to the development of Egyptology in Belgium can not be underestimated.
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VERSCHIJNT BINNENKORT: 31 maart 2023! Aude Gräzer Ohara, Athena Van der Perre, Marleen De Meyer & Wouter Claes, Sura: Egypte door een Belgische lens, Gent: Uitgeverij Snoeck, 248 p.
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PUBLICATION À VENIR: 31 mars 2023! Aude Gräzer Ohara, Athena Van der Perre, Marleen De Meyer & Wouter Claes, Sura: L'Égypte sous l'optique belge, Gand: Snoeck, 248 p.
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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION: 31 March 2023! Aude Gräzer Ohara, Athena Van der Perre, Marleen De Meyer & Wouter Claes, Sura: Egypt through a Belgian Lens, Ghent: Snoeck Publishers, 248 p.
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Jean #Capart was not only instrumental in the development of the Egyptological collection of @ArtHistoryBRU . By donating his personal collection of over a thousand books and journals to the museum in 1901, he also laid the foundations for its famous Egyptological library.
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With the creation of the Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth (FÉRÉ, aere-egke.be/) in October 1923, the library soon developed into one of the best Egyptological libraries in the world.
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This photo was recently discovered in the archives of the RMAH & shows part of the workspaces in the library prior to the creation of the FÉRÉ. It is annotated by #Capart (“affectueux souvenirs des belles heures de travail, Jean Capart, Octobre 1923”). #suraproject #egyptology
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Jean Capart retired On September 30th, 1946, Jean Capart officially retired from a long, fruitful carrier dedicated to the development of Egyptology in Belgium. This photo illustrates his keen interest for the documentation of Egyptian monuments & sites. #sura #egyptology #karnak
Karnak December 21, 1900

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Taken from the top of the first pylon of the great temple of #Amun, we see a large area located to the north of the temple where Georges #Legrain (Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte) and his team stored the column and architrave blocks from the dismantled great hypostyle hall.
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Decauville railways were used for carting off rubble & blocks from the northern gate of the great hypostyle hall towards this storage yard. Along the enclosure wall of the complex, one also sees the remains of the temple of Ptah, being cleared by Legrain's team since 1899.
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