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Ancient Egypt Magazine 154

April 16, 2026
  • Libyan Pharaohs: how foreign kings came to rule Egypt
  • Auguste Mariette: founder of Egypt’s first museum and antiquities service
  • Old Kingdom tomb scenes: rare painted scenes from Dahshur
  • Reconstructing the furniture found in the Tomb of Hetepheres I
  • Reassembling Tutankhamun’s tomb: a new digital platform
  • The tentmakers of Old Cairo
  • Depictions of birds in ancient Egyptian tomb scenes
  • Out and about: a visitor’s guide to Amarna
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 153

    February 19, 2026
  • Purple fever: was this just a Middle Kingdom fad?
  • Terenouthis: a Roman town in Egypt
  • Dows Dunham and the tomb of Queen Hetepheres
  • Cancer in ancient Egypt
  • The development of the postal system in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
  • The last of the Twelfth Dynasty kings
  • Out and about: visiting the archaeological museum in Alexandria
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 152

    December 18, 2025
  • Amenemhat III: last of the great Middle Kingdom pharaohs
  • In the shadow of Hathor: exploring the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri
  • Harry Burton: sculpting the ancient history of Egypt with light
  • Medicine in ancient Egypt…and Wales
  • Exploring the treasures of the Pharaohs in Rome
  • Dates: the taste of sweetness in ancient Egypt
  • Out and about: taking a steep walk up to the Temple of Horus at Thoth Hill
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 151

    October 16, 2025
  • King Scorpion: ritual and power at the dawn of Egyptian kingship
  • The obelisk of Antinous: clues that might lead to the location of Antinous’ tomb
  • Hesyre the Dentist: the life and career of a court official, scribe, and world’s first dentist
  • Senusret III: warrior and innovator, one of the best known kings of the Twelfth Dynasty
  • The dragon roars: exploring the long and brilliant legacy of the Welsh Egyptologists
  • Egypt in Rovigo: Egyptian treasures of the Accademia dei Concordi in Rovigo, Italy
  • Out and about: the ‘Art of Cusae’ in Middle Kingdom tombs at Meir
  • The next best thing: the preservation of Egypt’s cultural heritage through 3-D replicas
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 150

    August 21, 2025
  • Hierakonpolis: the Predynastic ‘City of the Falcon God’
  • Tattooing in the New Kingdom
  • Palestrina GraecoRoman Egypt in a stunning Nilotic mosaic
  • The reign and innovations of Khakheperra Senusret II
  • Aquila Dodgson, the oft-forgotten collector and polymath
  • Oxyrhynchus Papyri and the ordinary people of late ancient Egypt
  • Hands: not everything is as you would expect!
  • Out and about: The isolated Temple of Qasr el-Sagha
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 149

    June 19, 2025
  • Amenemhat II: the pharaoh behind the Great Sphinx of Tanis

  • Tattooing in the ancient Nile Valley

  • Ani’s life after death: Hathor and Opet

  • Cleopatra’s children: who survived?

  • Egypt in Constantinople: examining the monuments

  • Christiane Desroches Noblecourt: a legendary life

  • The Nile perch: the ‘King of Fish’
  • Travels in an Antique Land: hidden treasures
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 148

    April 17, 2025
  • The search for Thutmose II: finding the pharaoh’s lost tomb
  • Thutmose II: who was he?
  • Colourful costumes: clothing of goddesses, gods, kings, and queens
  • The lost Egyptian labyrinth: unpicking an ancient puzzle
  • Ani’s life after death: in the field of reeds
  • What can ancient skulls tell us?
  • Egyptian ginger cats: honorary soldiers of Rome
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 147

    February 20, 2025
  • Magic and power: the symbolism of hair in ancient Egypt
  • Illuminating antiquity: the Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria

  • The rediscovery of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut

  • Senusret I: the Twelfth Dynasty king who transformed Egypt

  • Ani’s life after death: declaration of innocence and weighing the heart

  • Robert Talbot Kelly: Egypt – painted and described

  • Horned beasts: cattle and cow deities

  • Out and about: cycling around Malqata
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 146

    December 19, 2024
  • The Silver Pharaohs: intact tombs and royal treasures
  • The papyrus of Ani: mummification and burial
  • Watercraft in ancient Egypt: development and construction
  • Antinoöpolis: why did Emperor Hadrian build a city in Egypt?
  • The first Egyptologists: studying ancient Egypt in antiquity
  • Earrings: for women and men
  • The Hurghada Museum: face to face with the ‘White Queen’
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 145

    October 17, 2024
  • Ramesses III: piety and personal religion in ancient Egypt
  • From fragment to scene: the reliefs from the funerary complex of Mentuhotep II
  • Ani’s life after death: hymn to Ra and Osiris
  • The Shasu and Egypt: textual evidence for an enigmatic neighbour
  • George Reisner: the American Petrie
  • The Egyptian collection in Marseille
  • Visiting Egypt in 1912: how the monuments have changed
  • The Temple of Hathor at Serabit el-Khadim
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 144

    August 19, 2024
  • Ancient Egyptian cats: hunter, pampered pet, divine goddess
  • Faking it: the New Kingdom’s faux-stone funerary vessels
  • The tale of an Amarna fresco: attempting to save a masterpiece
  • Current research in Egyptology: women in the workforce, and ethnicity in ancient Egypt
  • Abu Rowash: a forgotten royal necropolis of the early Old Kingdom
  • Visiting Egypt in 1912: a guided tour
  • Travels in an antique land: newly opened tombs on the West Bank at Luxor
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 143

    June 20, 2024
  • A conundrum: what are these enigmatic golden cylinders from Nubia?
  • Dating the dead: chronology and context at Saqqara’s Sacred Animal Necropolis
  • Cooking recipes and drink preparation in ancient Egypt
  • Current research in Egyptology: burial practices, Kamal and Erman, and black coffins
  • Rediscovering Egypt: diving deeper into the Harrogate Collection in Swansea
  • Lapis Lazuli: precious stone from Afghanistan
  • The Temple of Hibis at Kharga Oasis
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 142

    April 18, 2024
  • Zenobia of Egypt: when the Queen of Palmyra ruled the Land of the Pharaohs
  • The last Cleopatras: their legacy as women of power
  • Precise construction of funerary structures: Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan)
  • Predynastic art: Egypt’s earliest imagery
  • Rediscovering Egypt: the Harrogate Collection in Swansea
  • The meaning of Joseph’s Egyptian name
  • Travels in an antique land: two under-visited sites in Abydos
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 141

    February 15, 2024
  • Celestial Harmonies: astronomical cycles at the Temple of Dendera
  • Queen Tiye: Great of Dread
  • The modern resurrection of the Kushite kings of Egypt
  • A Taweret talisman for perilous pregnancy
  • Rome versus the Egyptian priesthood
  • Athribis: the Temple of Ptolemy XII
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 140

    December 14, 2023
  • Akhenaten: the battle for Egyptian identity
  • Surgery in ancient Egypt
  • Pyramid Man: Charles Piazzi Smyth
  • Cleopatra III: the female king
  • Carter’s rare linen ‘bag-tunic’
  • The sidelock of youth: the significance of a curious hairstyle
  • A journey through Sudan: the royal road to Meroë
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 139

    October 12, 2023
  • 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
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 138

    August 10, 2023
  • Poisonous paint: exotic but dangerous pigments in ancient Egyptian art
  • House of Life: the central repository of knowledge
  • Cleopatra II: the ‘traditionally untraditional’ queen
  • Huy: the High Steward Amenhotep
  • Magical honey: unusual uses in ancient Egypt
  • Reflecting ancient life: precious mirrors
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 137

    June 8, 2023
  • Saints or sinners? Priests behaving badly in ancient Egypt
  • The first Cleopatra: Syrian princess
  • The Thirteenth Dynasty: the remarkable Vizier Ankhu
  • Tell el-Farkha: an exceptional Predynastic site in the Nile Delta
  • The Book of the Heavenly Cow: investigating an ancient Egyptian myth
  • Unexpected Egypt: encounters with artefacts in unlikely places
  • Travels in an Antique Land: the rock-cut tombs of el-Hawawish
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 136

    April 13, 2023
  • 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
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    Ancient Egypt Magazine 135

    February 10, 2023
  • Gold and the afterlife: reconsidering mummies from Graeco-Roman Egypt
  • Francis Frith: the pioneering photographer of Egypt’s monuments
  • Akhenaten and Nefertiti: reinterpreting the reign of Egypt’s ‘Golden Couple’
  • Stone Age Egypt: exploring Neolithic settlements of the Western Desert
  • Golden flies: are they really military awards?
  • Exploring the afterlife of ancient Egyptian furniture
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