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Exhibition Review: ‘Golden Mummies of Egypt’ at Manchester Museum

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The new exhibition at Manchester Museum challenges us to view mummified ancient Egyptians as they did.

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Pan-sharpening a composite 3-band 4-3-2 RGB true colour Landsat-8 satellite image of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi

On By hannahpethenIn Asyut Region Project, GIS, Satellite remote sensing3 Comments

How to enhance a composite 3-band satellite image with a panchromatic band, by pan-sharpening in ArcGIS.

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‘I see your true colours . . ‘ creating a composite ‘true colour’ Landsat-8 satellite image of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi

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How to create a natural 'true colour' image from single Landsat-8 satellite image bands.

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Exhibition Review: ‘Tutankhamun the Boy: Growing up in ancient Egypt’ at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology

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A review of the Petrie Museum's new exhibition 'Tutankhamun the Boy'.

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Review of the British Museum’s ‘Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt’ exhibition

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The British Museum's crowd-pleasing exhibition on Hieroglyphs features the Rosetta Stone, but how does it deal with the complexity of decipherment and the role of Egyptians?

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Five years on: Reflections on Reflectance Transformation Imaging research at Hatnub Quarry P in 2017

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Reflection on reflectance transformation imaging at Hatnub in 2017

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Five years on: Reflections on mobile GIS survey at Hatnub Quarry P in 2017

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Results of the mobile GIS survey in 2017 at the Hatnub quarries and links to the published papers.

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Alan Sorrell: Archaeological illustrator of Nubia and illustrator of archaeologists.

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Famous Southend painter and archaeological illustrator Alan Sorrell, drew the monuments of Nubia and the campaign to save them from Lake Nasser.

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Egyptian Artefacts in the Southend Museum

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Did you know that Southend Museum has a small collection of ancient Egyptian objects? Here I look at some on display in the recent Wunderkammer exhibition.

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Wunderkammer: Southend’s Cabinet of Curiosities

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A review of the 2021-2022 Wunderkammer Exhibition at Southend Museum.