Description
In this issue:
– Highlights of Manchester Museum: 21 – The significance of the stela of Pricess Isis in the collection is revealed by Campbell Price.
– What Lies Beneath? – Pauline Carroll explores the use of digital techniques to display artefacts in the Turin Egyptian Museum.
– The Slain Soldiers of Tomb 507 – Julian Heath asks whether the warriors found in a tomb at Deir el-Bahri met their death in a civil war between Thebes and Herakleopolis.
– A Load of Old Bull: the Serapeum of Saqqara – Part 2 – Aidan Dodson describes the last four centuries of the burial place of the Apis bulls.
– Rev. Edward Hincks – John J. Taylor recounts the life story of the parish priest from Ireland who was the first to Decipher the name of the ‘Belfast Mummy’.
–Â Per Mesut: for Younger Readers – Hilary Wilson looks at the meaning of lions in ancient Egyptian art and theology.
Plus: News, Reviews, Comment, Diary, and more!
Cover Date: Feb / Mar 2020, Volume 20 Issue 4