Professor Richard Parkinson's blog for the British Museum discusses his current work in connection to a new commentary on the famous ancient Egyptian poem, The Tale of Sinuhe. This narrative about an official’s troubled life-story was written in about 1850 BC and survives in many manuscripts, including one in a collection of texts that was buried in a tomb at Luxor in around 1680 BC, and is now known as the Ramesseum papyri.
Digitization Project of the Inscriptions of the National Museum of Iran
The National Museum of Iran (NMI), in collaboration with the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), have presented their efforts to digitize and disseminate all available documentation on NMI’s extensive cuneiform collection.
The Faculty of Oriental Studies hosted a celebration to mark the renaming of the Oriental Institute’s Faculty Room as the Spalding Room, in honour of the distinguished philanthropist H.N. Spalding (1877-1953).
The latest in our series of Research Conversations took place on 21 November 2017. Please click here for further details and links to the video recordings.
