Highlights:

• Anticipating Tutankhamun - An update on information about the forthcoming “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” Exhibition in London later in the year.
• Cairo a Century Ago - Sigrid M. van Roode looks at how the city of Cairo became oriented towards Europe in the nineteenth century, and at surviving buildings from that time.
• The Great Royal Wives from Akhmim - Marta Farrugia and Anton Mifsud ask how a small town in Middle Egypt produced some of the greatest Great Royal Wives of the New Kingdom.
• The Ancient Stones Speak: Part Three - Pam Scott, in her third and final article on hieroglyphs, explains how to read inscriptions found on funerary objects.
• A Woman of Old Akhmim - Jonathan Elias, Carter Lupton and Heather Gill-Robinson investigate a mummy from Akhmim.
• A Visit to Serabit el Khadim - Stewart White visits an important site in the Sinai Peninsula, sacred to the goddess Hathor.
• From our Egypt Correspondent - Ayman Wahby Taher with the latest news from around Egypt, including exciting discoveries in the necropolis of Saqqara.
• The Dakhleh Oasis Project - In the third of a series of articles on the Project, Jennifer Smith shows how the geology of the Oasis reflects huge climate changes over the millennia.
• Per Mesut: For younger readers - This issue Hilary Wilson looks at bread.