Geoffrey Lenox-Smith attends the ‘soft opening’ of Giza’s new blockbuster museum.…
• Hunting lions: in search of Nubia’s endangered monuments
•Crown Prince Ramesses: pharaoh-in-waiting
• Hathor’s healing talismans: tattooed female figurines
• Tutankhamun: the lost mansion of the golden pharaoh
• Predynastic warfare: violence in the Nile Valley
• The origins of silver: the bracelets of Hetepheres I
• The meanings of life: the ankh hieroglyph…
Dylan Bickerstaffe investigates the evidence for Tutankhamun’s long-lost mortuary temple.…
Karl Harris travelled to Sudan on an expedition to identify the original locations and find-sites of objects now in museum collections.…
For the first time in nearly a century, these famous Old Kingdom bracelets were scientifically analysed by an international team led by Macquarie University in Sydney, with surprising results, as Karin Sowada explains.…
Do you recognise this place?…
Your thoughts on issues raised by the magazine.…
What was the origin of the ankh hieroglyph and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians?…
AFRICA & BYZANTIUM An exhibition of nearly 180 works exploring the tradition of Byzantine art and culture in North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms, from the 4th century to the 15th century and beyond. On display are masterworks in mosaic, sculpture, pottery, metalwork, and painting, along…
A series of elegant female figurines, the subject of ongoing research, had been wrongly identified in the past as ‘brides of the dead’. W Benson Harer Jr proposes a new theory to explain their purpose.…
Continuing his series of articles on Predynastic Egypt (see AE 127, 135, and 137), Julian Heath now looks at evidence for the disputes that arose between different groups of early settlers.…
For this issue, Dr Campbell Price examines a sculpture in the Brooklyn Museum whose original purpose is unclear.…
Peter J Brand looks at how Sety I ensured his son and heir became the most well-prepared of all Egypt’s pharaohs.…
Revealing the remains of a tightly packed complex of previously unknown temples and tombs.…
A selection of the latest publications on Egypt and Egyptology, assessed by AE’s team of experts.…
REVIEW BY HILARY FORREST William Flinders Petrie, known to many as the ‘Father of Egyptology’, left a huge legacy of Egyptological material – not only artefacts, but also many writings. He also produced many typological catalogues based on his excavations. These contained detailed descriptions of items representing all aspects of…
REVIEW BY CAMPBELL PRICE The book’s introduction sets the scene by briefly describing the find, with a chronological sketch of the archaeological landscape of Saqqara the subject of the first chapter. The caching phenomenon – the deliberate gathering and deposition of ritual objects – is attested from sacred sites throughout…
Dinosaur bones discovered in 1977 in the Kharga Oasis have recently been identified as a species of herbivorous dinosaur new to science. The remains, which included vertebrae and limb, pelvis, and shoulder bones, date to about 75 million years ago, and belong to a titanosaur measuring around 10 to 15…
Egyptian researchers have used three spectroscopic techniques for rapid analysis of gemstones from Egypt, revealing their origins and providing a window into historical trade routes. Gemstones peridot (olivine) and emerald, and semi-gemstones beryl, amazonite, and amethyst, from mines in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, were analysed and compared with stones…
A round-up of some of the latest news from the world of ancient Egypt.…
A joint team from the Ministry of Antiquities and the University of Colorado have completed the restoration and reinstallation of a number of huge granite columns at Ashmunein, in Minya Governorate. Known as Hermopolis Magna in the Graeco-Roman era, the city was the centre of worship for the god Thoth…