Description
In this issue:
– News from Egypt – Egypt Correspondent Ayman Wahby Taher on the lastest news from Egypt. Included in this issue is the major discovery of a hoard of gold cartouches bearing the name of Thutmose III in the Temple of Karnak, and news of the project to lower the ground water in and around the temple of Karnak and Luxor.
– Hedgehogs in ancient Egyptian art – Magda van Ryneveld explains why the humble hedgehog features so often in ancient Egyptian art.
– Menkaura’s anthropid coffin – A wooden coffin found in the pyramid of Menkaura bears the king’s name. But was it really his? Paul Boughton investigates.
– Harvesting a pharaoh – An unexpected discovery in the Eighteenth Dynasty tomb of Anen at Thebes brought a lost painting back to life. Lyla Pinch-Brock describes how.
– Clothing culture: dress in Egypt in the first millennium AD – Frances Pritchard reports on a new exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
– The New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings – Another update from Roxanne Wilson, a member of the excavation team, on the recent discovery and the progress made in clearing the small chamber.
– Vivant Denon’s “mysterious cache” – Marriane Luban reports on the activities of one of the first collectors of Egyptian antiquities, at the end of the eighteenth century.
– Friends of Nekhen News – Renée Friedman looks at the Decorated tombs at Hierakonpolis, whose inscriptions and Decoration can tell us so much about life in the city in Dynastic times.
– Two Sphinxes of Amenhotep III in St Petersburg
– Per Mesut – for younger readers
Plus: News, Reviews, Comment, Diary, and more!
Cover Date: Aug / Sep 2006, Volume 7 Issue 1