Ancient Egypt Magazine 139

• 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…

A tale of two lions

Karl Harris travelled to Sudan on an expedition to identify the original locations and find-sites of objects now in museum collections.…

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Ancient Egypt October listings

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…

Hathor’s healing talismans

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.…

Objects of Daily Use (Oxbow Classics in Egyptology)

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…

Vestiges of Ancient Egypt:  The Bubasteion Votive Cachette at Saqqara

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…

Egyptian dinosaur and whale discoveries

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…

Gems and trade

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…

Basilica columns

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…

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