This latest volume in the Cambridge Elements series offers a snapshot of what we understand about connections between Egypt and the Levant in the early to mid-Bronze Age, a period that covers the Levantine Early Bronze Age (Egypt’s Predynastic and…
Julian Heath recounts the remarkable discoveries made by a French mining engineer and archaeologist.
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Campbell Price describes a small figurine dating to the Middle Kingdom.
James A Harrell investigates the peculiar popularity of purple during the Middle Kingdom.
In the last of his series of articles on the Twelfth Dynasty, Wolfram Grajetzki investigates the reigns of Amenemhat IV, and Sobeknefru, Egypt’s first female king.
• 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
Although there are some statues of Amenemhat III as a young man, others depict him in later years with large ears and what appears to be a careworn expression. AE recounts the life and times of this, the last major king of the Twelfth Dynasty.
Wolfram Grajetzki continues his series with one of the most important and best known kings of the Twelfth Dynasty.
Geoffrey Lenox-Smith visits an isolated temple in the desert north of the Fayum.
Continuing his series focusing on the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty, Wolfram Grajetzki explores the reign and innovations of Khakheperra Senusret II.
• 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
Wolfram Grajetzki continues his series on the Twelfth Dynasty pharaohs with one of the lesser-known kings of the Middle Kingdom: Nubkaura Amenemhat II.
Karl Harris continues his ‘Travels in an Antique Land’ with visits to the First Intermediate Period Tomb of Ankhtify at Mo‘alla, and a multi-era temple complex dedicated to the god Montu at Tod.
Sean Rigby investigates the mysterious monument that impressed Classical writers more than the Great Pyramid.
Wolfram Grajetzki explores the life, reign, and legacy
of one of Egypt’s lesser-known pharaohs.
Intact burials containing a collection of beautiful jewellery have been discovered by the joint Egyptian-American South Asasif Conservation Project in a tomb located near the Twenty-fifth Dynasty Tomb of Karabasken (TT391). This is the first Middle Kingdom burial to be…
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.
Geoffrey Lenox-Smith travels to Sinai to visit a temple dedicated to Hathor, ‘Lady of Turquoise’.
Previously overlooked fragments dramatically change our knowledge of foreign contacts in the Middle Kingdom.
Dr Campbell Price describes a stunning Eleventh Dynasty relief in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
New research published in Nature Geoscience suggests that a sudden major shift in the course of the Nile, 4,000 years ago, created a greatly enlarged area of fertile land. The team from Sweden’s Uppsala University and the University of Southampton…
Barbara Gai investigates the diet of ancient Egyptians and the ways in which their meals were prepared.
Many artefacts from a museum in Harrogate are currently on display in the Egypt Centre at Swansea University in Wales. The Centre’s curator Ken Griffin explains how this three-year loan came about.
Dr Campbell Price describes an unusual lamp stand from the collection of the Petrie Museum in London.
REVIEW BY HILARY WILSON Histories of ancient Egypt have traditionally been written from a royal perspective, due largely to the availability of source material. This approach underestimates the role of the provinces, their administration and social structure, in the overall…
What was the origin of the ankh hieroglyph and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians?
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.
Among the many treasures recovered by archaeologists and antiquarian collectors from Egypt are papyrus copies of a remarkable text written more than 4,000 years ago: The Teaching of Ptahhatp. Bill Manley investigates this often-overlooked survival from ancient Egypt and one vizier’s contributions to the dawn of literature.
Ancient Egyptians used honey in cooking, especially to sweeten dishes in the absence of sugar, and in medicine, for its healing properties and to soothe coughs. They also used it for more unusual purposes, as Amandine Marshall reveals.
Mirrors, as we know them, did not exist in ancient Egypt, so what did the elite use to check their elaborate make-up?
In the second of his series focusing on remarkable people of their period, Wolfram Grajetzki introduces us to an important official whose tomb has recently been discovered.
Geoffrey Lenox-Smith explores the innovative Middle Kingdom monument that inspired Hatshepsut’s famous Deir el-Bahri temple.
The team analysed the contents of 90 jars from eight European museums
Tutankhamun and Howard Carter: two men whose lives are separated by more than three thousand years, but now and forever intertwined in the annals of history. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in November 1922 would seal the fate of both men and have long-lasting implications for the study and popularity of ancient Egypt. But Carter’s contribution to Egyptology goes much further than his leading role in the world’s most famous archaeological discovery, as Carl Graves reports.
The sands of ancient Nubia, a region over-lapping southern Egypt and northern Sudan, are home to remains of cities, forts, and numerous pyramids. It was to these archaeologically rich sands that the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition headed…