• Tutankhamun galleries: the crowning glory of the Grand Egyptian Museum
• Carnelian: the uncertain origins of ancient Egypt’s most popular gemstone
• Pain relief in ancient Egypt: physical and magical interventions
• The Litany of Ra: an important New Kingdom text
• Were women literate in ancient Egypt?
• John Gardner Wilkinson: the life and legacy of a pioneer of British Egyptology
• The Osirion at Abydos: a cenotaph for Sety I
Geoffrey Lenox-Smith pays a return visit to the Grand Egyptian Museum to view the new galleries.
Colin Reader is a geologist by profession, but became fascinated by ancient Egypt, particularly the earliest phases of the civilisation. He has studied the Great Sphinx of Giza for nearly 30 years, applying his professional expertise to all the available…
In the last issue, AE 153, Peter Lacovara celebrated the meticulous work of Dows Dunham in excavating the Fourth Dynasty (c.2613-2494 BC) Tomb of Queen Hetepheres I at Giza. In this issue, marking the 100th anniversary of the tomb’s discovery, Geoffrey Killen explains how William Arnold Stewart reconstructed the furniture found in the tomb.
REVIEW BY J PETER PHILLIPS This extremely detailed and complex work is exactly what it says on the cover, and supplements the author’s previous books, published by BAR in 2012 and 2022, which categorise watercraft of the Old, Middle, and…
Geoffrey Lenox-Smith pays a second visit to the new Grand Egyptian Museum.
Evidence for the world’s first case of metal contamination has been discovered in the sediments of an ancient harbour at Giza. The harbour, close to the Great Pyramid of Khufu, was located on a now defunct branch of the Nile,…
Following a public outcry over new ‘renovation’ work on the Pyramid of Menkaura at Giza, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has decided not to approve the continuation of the project. The original aims were to restore, document, and…
• 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
Kim Masters traces the development of the chariot wheel from its humble origin as a tree log under a stone block.