Description
In this issue:
– Archaeology and Archives – Carl Graves and Stephanie Boonstra select the glass-plate negatives of Abydos in the EES archives and Margaret Mountford explains how they were made.
– Meritptah: the World’s First Female Doctor? – No so, says Wolfram Grajetzki – she never existed, although she appears in several books and has a crater on Mars named after her!
– Highlights of Manchester Museum: 14 – Campbell Price describes a cartonnage mummy cover from Hawara.
– Tutankhamun: The Extra-Terrestrial Connection – A jewel in one of the boy king’s pectorals may have come from a comet, according to the latest research reported by Colin Reader.
– The Sohag National Museum – Geoffrey Lenox-Smith takes us on a tour of a newly-opened museum in Egypt.
– The Manchester Autopsy of Mummy 1770 – The evolution of the Manchester Mummy Project is described by Jenefer Cockitt and Rosalie David
– Per Mesut: for Younger Readers – In “Strike a Light!”, Hilary Wilson continues her exploration of the uses of fire in ancient Egypt.
Plus: News, Reviews, Comment, Diary, and more!
Cover Date: Dec 2018 / Jan 2019, Volume 19 Issue 3