A scientific approach to the study of ancient Egyptian mummies.…
Peter J Brand begins a new series focusing on the Ramesside Period by exploring the divinity of the early Ramesside kings.…
The international ScanPyramids team has published a paper revealing more details about one of the voids discovered in the Pyramid of Khufu in 2016/2017 (see ‘News’, AE 93). Several large anomalies were discovered after the pyramid was bombarded with radiographic muon particles, a non-invasive method of visualising the pyramid’s internal…
• Min, the God of the Eastern Desert
• Temple of Mentuhotep II: an innovative building at Deir el-Bahri
• Divine kingship: Sety I, Ramesses II, and their colossal alter egos
• Pharaoh’s chariot wheel
• Exploring tomb distribution in Upper Qurna
• Horemkhauef of Hierakonpolis…
Ancient Egyptians believed that the foods and goods listed in their tombs would magically become available to them for eternity. Hilary Wilson reports.…
Review by Sarah Griffiths The city of Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great (c.331 BC), was strategically situated on the Mediterranean coast at the junction of three continents, protected by reefs, headlands, and the Pharos Island to the north, and by Lake Mareotis to the south. The city quickly grew…
Do you recognise where in Egypt this photograph was taken?…
Your thoughts on issues raised by the magazine, plus what’s coming up in future issues. Email the Editor: peter@ancientegyptmagazine.com with your comments.…
A round-up of some of the latest news from the ancient Egyptian world.…
Review by Campbell Price This finely produced book from AUC Press is written with eloquence by statue scholar and curator Simon Connor. Opening with recent debates about the role and identity of ‘public’ statues, the book sets out to investigate not just the iconographical meaning of statuary, but how it…
The complex dates to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.…
In the first of an occasional series focusing on remarkable people of their period, Wolfram Grajetzki introduces the ‘First Inspector of the Priests’ at Nekhen during the Second Intermediate Period.…
Sean Rigby traces the worship of this distinctive-looking ancient Egyptian god.…
Review by Anna Garnett Traditional Egyptological narratives often placed Egypt at the centre, to the detriment of neighbouring cultures, with the result that our understanding of the complexities of those cultures can be partial and biased. It is always refreshing to see a new volume that seeks to remedy this…
The face of the sphinx could possibly represent the Roman emperor Claudius…
Geoffrey Lenox-Smith explores the innovative Middle Kingdom monument that inspired Hatshepsut’s famous Deir el-Bahri temple.…
Some of the ingredients, such as elemi and dammar resins, are thought to have been imported from the tropical forests of south-east Asia…
Review by Anna Garnett The past two decades have seen greater recognition that the cultures of Nubia represent the earliest complex societies in inner Africa in their own right: scholars of ancient Nile cultures now more frequently seek to look beyond the traditional Egyptological centring of Egypt in the historical…
Review by Hilary Forrest Oh no – not another book about Tutankhamun! This one, however, is rather different. The first sections of the book cover the history of the Valley of the Kings, the early desecrations of the tombs, and the two robberies of the Tomb of Tutankhamun that occurred…
Other tasks carried out by the team this season included conservation work on the murals of the basilica on site…
Kim Masters traces the development of the chariot wheel from its humble origin as a tree log under a stone block.…