Hi! This is Yun Ju Chen again.
At the INT95 lecture yesterday, we had Professor
Stewart Smith to present about his researches in various locations around Egypt.
He is the chair of Anthropology of our school and he is an expert in Anthropology
and Archaeology. He shared a lot of interesting pictures of the bones and tombs,
and he also demonstrated that people were buried in various positions in
different areas. One word that he summed up for those discoveries is “context”
because they tell the whole story of the past event. He also mentioned of two
essential preparations before starting a research are to find funding resources
and obtain all the permits needed to conduct the research. One of the main
resources that he requested for funding was the National Science Foundation.
I could tell that he really has passion in
his previous researches through his presentation, because he was so excited
when he showed us pictures of him working in the tombs. I was fascinated when
he told us that he had worked with the Hollywood industry because of his profession
in old Egyptian language and knowledge of the Egyptian culture. When he said
that he had helped the movie Stargate and The Mummy to translate the scripts, I
felt that it was so amazing because I had always wondered how movies in those historic
settings were created. I had never learned about the actual Egyptian culture,
so I was always stunned by those special customs and landmarks in the movie.
After all, I was really glad to learn about Professor Smith’s researches
through his presentation and I hoped that I will have that kind of passion
toward my profession in the future.
Yun Ju, Chen J
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