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On June 8, the students in Professor Willeke Wendrich's seminar on Egyptian archaeology presented their projects at a symposium"Ancient Egyptian Architecture and Use of Space"held in the Lenart Auditorium. An ancient Egyptian term, Wep-waut means "Opener of the Ways"; it is ... the name of an Egyptian god depicted in the form of a jackal. It was a common practice in Egyptian religion to harness potentially threatening powers into forms of help and protection. Hence, the jackals that ravaged Egyptian cemeteries were transformed into religious figures that watched over the deceased and served as Openers of the Ways to the netherworld. Professor Wendrich highlighted this explanation with an anecdote. Once while exploring the high desert, she became disoriented: the surroundings appearing uniform in all directions.
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If you've got any interest in things Egyptian, you'll love this quiet and oft-overlooked gem, where some 80000 objects make up one of the most impressive collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. Behind glass and amid an atmosphere of academia, are exhibits ranging from fragments of pottery to the world's oldest dress (2800 BC).
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In the early 1800s, around the same time Egyptian Archaeology was maturing, the Middle Passage (slave trade) was in full swing. In order for Europeans to justify the economic drive of the slave trade, blacks had to be viewed as non-humans. Animals. Tools for building the dreams of Europeans.
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Rob Hughes, a graduate student in the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department studying Egyptian archaeology, spoke about a frequently overlooked element of urban development, the street. He presented several sites from different periods in Egyptian history including Hierakonpolis, Kahun, Thebes, Berenike, and Alexandria. He focused on the streets themselves, the type of structure they created in the urban fabric, and the roles it played in Egyptian society as suggested by archaeology.
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