Ancient Egypt Magazine 155
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Hilary Wilson on… Bread, beer and economics – Part 1
Hilary Wilson explores the importance of grain for wages and taxes.
Beyond Montet: New discoveries in the royal necropolis of Tanis
Following Aidan Dodson’s history of the Libyan pharaohs of Egypt in the last issue, Roger Forshaw explores the latest discoveries from the site of Tanis, their capital city.
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The piety of Ramesses III: Personal religion in ancient Egypt
Diana Liesegang shows us a lesser-known side to the great warrior king of the Twentieth Dynasty.
From fragment to scene: The reliefs from the funerary complex of Mentuhotep II
Maarten Praet is on a mission to track down and document the few surviving painted fragments that once adorned the innovative Middle Kingdom temple at Deir el-Bahri.
The temple of Hathor at Serabit el-Khadim
Geoffrey Lenox-Smith travels to Sinai to visit a temple dedicated to Hathor, ‘Lady of Turquoise’.
The Shasu and Egypt
Sean Rigby explores textual evidence to identify ancient Egypt’s enigmatic neighbour.
Hilary Wilson on… Egypt and what to see in 1912
In our last issue, Hilary described what it was like to visit Egypt just before the First World War, based on a 1911-1912 tourist guide by A O Lamplough. Now she uses archive photos to illustrate how the monuments have changed since Lamplough’s book was published.
The American Petrie: George Reisner
Julian Heath pays tribute to one the world’s greatest Egyptologists.
Ancient Egypt October listings
EGYPT: JOURNEY TO IMMORTALITY An exhibition telling the story of the journey to the afterlife through 110 masterpieces from the Egyptian Museum of Florence (National Museum of Archaeology). Highlights include the mummy
Ani’s life after death – 1: Hymn to Ra and Osiris
Andrew Fulton begins a new series exploring specific vignettes from Ani’s Book of the Dead.
Basin and ewer
Dr Campbell Price describes a small cleansing basin and ewer set from the Musée du Louvre.
The Egyptian collection in Marseille
Simone Petacchi visits the galleries of the Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology (MAM), which houses the second largest collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts in France.
New tombs at Tell el-Deir
Sixty-three burials dating to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty have been discovered by the Egyptian mission working at Tell el-Deir cemetery in New Damietta. Inside the simple graves and mud-brick tombs, the team found
Discovery of the inscriptions of Khnumhotep III
Previously overlooked fragments dramatically change our knowledge of foreign contacts in the Middle Kingdom.
Pharaoh: art and power in ancient Egypt
REVIEW BY SARAH GRIFFITHS This new British Museum publication explores the lives of the ancient Egyptians through objects held in the museum’s extensive Egyptology collection. Having first explained the basics (geography, the
Win a copy of The Pharos Lighthouse in Alexandria by Andrew Michael Chugg or Pharaoh: art and power in ancient Egypt, edited by Marie Vandenbeusch
What and where is this Christian monument? If you know, email the Editor (peter@ancientegyptmagazine.com) before 31 December with your answer, giving your full name, address and contact number. As this is the
The Pharos Lighthouse in Alexandria: Second Sun and Seventh Wonder of Antiquity (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)
REVIEW BY SG The Pharos lighthouse was a feat of ancient engineering. For 16 centuries, its light guided ships through the hazardous rocks safely into Alexandria’s harbour, before finally toppling after a
A Journey through the Beyond: The Development of the Concept of Duat and Related Cosmological Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature
REVIEW BY ROGER FORSHAW In ancient Egypt, death was not regarded as the end of human existence, but rather as a transition to a new state of being in the afterlife. This
Through a glass darkly: Magic, dreams and prophecy in ancient Egypt
REVIEW BY ANNA GARNETT Following a publishing trend of making classic and out-of-print texts available to a wide general audience, this latest reprint was first published in 2006 but is now available
Ancient Egypt news in brief
•A 98-line papyrus text discovered at Gerza (ancient Philadelphia) in the Fayum has been deciphered by researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, and found to contain fragments of two lost tragedies