Highlights:

• The Efficacy of an Egyptian Contraceptive Containing Crocodile Excrement - Amandine Marshall investigates another strange ancient prescription.
• Sir Peter Le Page Renouf - Channel Islander John J. Taylor tells readers about an Egyptologist born in Guernsey, whose contribution to the subject is often overlooked.
• Tanis: A Photographer’s Paradise - Sharon Janet Hague is inspired by the capital of Third Intermediate Period Egypt.
• A Soul House with a Story to Tell - Rose Smith and Alan Hayward investigate the soul houses in West Park Museum, Macclesfield.
• Old Kingdom Settlement in Nubia - Buhen’s Middle Kingdom fort is well known, but there was an Old Kingdom town there, as Betty Winkelman describes.
• Early Dynastic Period Tomb Security - Reg Clark explains the way in which the evolution of early tomb design was influenced by the need to protect them from robbers.
•  Per Mesut: for Younger Readers - From earliest times the ancient Egyptians were expert in crafting objects from ebony, says Hilary Wilson.