The Grand Egyptian Museum: Visiting the Main galleries
Geoffrey Lenox-Smith pays a second visit to the new Grand Egyptian Museum.
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Colourful Costumes: Clothing of goddesses, gods, kings, and queens
Textiles specialist Nancy Arthur Hoskins recreates royal and divine clothing from New Kingdom tomb paintings.
Hilary Wilson on… Horned beasts: 2
In the second part of an article on the symbolism attached by the ancient Egyptians to beasts with horns, Hilary looks at goats, sheep, and wild animals.
The lost Egyptian labyrinth
Sean Rigby investigates the mysterious monument that impressed Classical writers more than the Great Pyramid.
Tutankhamun and Carter: Assessing the Impact of a Major Archaeological Find
REVIEW BY CAMPBELL PRICE It is a frequent complaint that, despite the great fame of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb (KV62) in 1922, the rate at which material from the tomb has been published in any depth has been very…
Unveiling Female Social Power in Early Egypt (c.3080-2180 BCE)
REVIEW BY ANNA GARNETT This volume is the first to be published from BAR International’s exciting new specialist sub-series focused solely on the archaeology of Egypt and Sudan. Sue Kelly explores the roles of women at the very beginning of…
Ancient Egypt: A Photographic History
REVIEW BY ROGER FORSHAW Nigel Fletcher-Jones’ Ancient Egypt: a photographic history offers a visual overview of more than 3,000 years of Egyptian civilisation. With 200 well-presented photographs, the book provides a chronological record that spans from Egypt’s earliest beginnings to…
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The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome
REVIEW BY SARAH GRIFFITHS Students of Egyptian history have been denied books on the Ptolemaic rulers as, according to Guy de la Bédoyère, ‘some Egyptologists visibly wince when pressed by publishers to include a section on Ptolemies’. This has been…
Ancient Egypt April listings
TIMELESS GAZES: FROM PHARAOHS TO THE PRESENT DAY Timeless Gazes is a new exhibition celebrating ancient Egypt and contemporary art in relation to the African continent, featuring 130 paintings, photographs, and sculptures from the prestigious collection assembled by Jean Claude…
What can ancient skulls tell us?
Rachel Cotton investigates why some early Egyptologists collected skulls, and shows how the analysis of one particular skull can reveal much about the deceased person’s life.
Ani’s life after death – 4: in the field of reeds
Ani reaches the end of his journey through the underworld in the fourth of Andrew Fulton’s series exploring this famous Book of the Dead.
The ‘Israel Stela’ of Merenptah
The only reference to Israel ever found in Egypt, inscribed on a stela discovered in 1896 by Flinders Petrie.
Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figurine
Campbell Price describes a statuette in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and considers what it meant to its owner.
New Abydos pharaoh
Following the discovery of the Tomb of Senebkay at Abydos in 2014 (see ‘News’ in AE 82 and AE 89), a new mystery pharaoh has been found at the site, providing further evidence of a separate Abydos Dynasty (c.1700-1600 BC)…
Military commander’s tomb?
An Egyptian mission has discovered a new mud-brick tomb at the site of Tell el-Maskhuta, in the eastern Nile Delta (about 16km west of Ismailia). The tomb, consisting of a burial chamber linked to three other rooms, contained a skeleton,…
Sohag pottery workshop
A complete Byzantine-era pottery workshop has been found in the village of Banawit, 24km north of Sohag, by an Egyptian mission. The complex, one of the largest pottery- and glass-manufacturing centres ever found, included a large range of ovens and…
Karnak pot of gold
The team from the French-Egyptian Centre for the Study of the Temples of Karnak (CFEETK) has uncovered a large collection of gold jewellery and amulets, which was in a broken pot. The treasure, found during recent excavations at Karnak, is…
Gebel Sukari gold mine
An Egyptian team has completed a two-year project to excavate a 3,000 year-old gold-processing centre found on the site of the modern Sukari gold mine, near Marsa Alam on the Red Sea coast. The complex consisted of grinding and pulverising…
New town at Kom el-Nugus
The Hellenistic site of Kom el-Nugus (Plinthine), 27km from Alexandria, was first discovered in 2013. Now a team from Université de Lyon has uncovered a settlement dating to the New Kingdom, as well as traces of settlement from the Late…
Inclusive pyramids
Research from Leiden University in the Netherlands has revealed that pyramid burials may not have been exclusively for the elite. The pyramid burials of ancient Egyptians at the site of ancient Tombos in northern Nubia, near the Third Cataract, were…
Ancient Egypt Magazine 147
• 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
The human race: New research is discovering how fast our ancient ancestors could run.
The emergence of bipedal walking has long been recognised as a central aspect of hominid evolution, but much less is known about the development of running. Recently, a team of researchers from the UK and the Netherlands set out to…
The exultation of discovery
‘The unknown town now had a name… All that day “Naukratis” rang in my mind, and I sprang over the mounds with that splendid exultation of a new discovery, long wished for and well found.’ The prospect of discovering ancient cities, lost for centuries in the depths of jungles or deserts, was part of the original lure (and original sin) of archaeology.
Lost pharaoh’s tomb discovered
Excavations in Egypt have identified the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II, the fourth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. Thutmose II is believed to have ruled for just a few years around 1493-1479 BC, and is perhaps best known as…
Memorial commemorating South African war dead inaugurated in Cape Town
A new memorial honouring the contribution of South African military labourers in the First World War has been inaugurated in Cape Town. The monument, which was funded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) and is called the Labour Corps…
Tomb of Thutmose II
The discovery of a new Egyptian royal tomb in Western Valley C (adjacent to the Valley of the Kings) has been confirmed.
The magic and power of hair in ancient Egypt
Amandine Marshall investigates the magical significance of the various hairstyles that ancient Egyptians adopted.
Senusret I: The Twelfth Dynasty king who transformed Egypt
Wolfram Grajetzki explores the life, reign, and legacy
of one of Egypt’s lesser-known pharaohs.
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Robert Talbot Kelly – Egypt: Painted and Described
Lee P Ruddin explores the life and work of an artist whose beautiful paintings of Egyptian life are now sadly overlooked.
The rediscovery of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut
Aidan Dodson retraces the very first discoveries and excavations that restored these two New Kingdom pharaohs to their place in ancient Egyptian history.
Illuminating Antiquity: The Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria
Andrew Michael Chugg explores and reconstructs this famous architectural wonder, the inspiration for spectacular feats of Alexandrian science.
Hilary Wilson on… Horned beasts: 1
In the first of a two-part article on the symbolism attached by the ancient Egyptians to beasts with horns, Hilary looks at cattle.
Ani’s life after death – 3: Declaration of innocence and weighing the heart
Continuing his series exploring specific vignettes from Papyrus of Ani, Andrew Fulton focuses on the most famous scene from the Book of the Dead.
Cycling Around Malqata
Karl Harris sets off on two wheels to visit the site of Amenhotep III’s palace on the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor.