Highlights:

• Slander in the Museum
• John J. Taylor recounts how the calm of the British Museum was shattered when Wallis Budge was taken to court by Hormuzd Rassam.
• Serabit el-Khadim
• Betty Winkelman explores the site in the Sinai the Egyptians called ‘the turquoise mountain’.
• I, Ushabti: “I shall do it, here I am”
• Jan Summers Duffy explores the history of these ubiquitous artifacts.
• Unwrapping the Identity of the Macclesfield Mummy
• Bryony Renshaw investigates the life and times of Shebmut, ‘Singer in the Interior of Amun’
• Highlights of the Manchester Museum: No. 7
• Campbell Price chooses a bronze statuette that represents the Apis bull.
•  Per Mesut: for Younger Readers
• Hilary Wilson looks at Busy Bees.
• Excavating at the Ramesseum
• Amandine Marshall summarises the history of the temple as revealed by the work of the French Archaeological Mission of Thebes.
• The Nome Symbols of Egypt
• In the second part of his exploration into the origins of nomes, Andrew Fulton looks at the meaning and significance of their names.