The Beautiful Festival of the Western Valley
Katherine Slinger explores one of the most important Theban religious festivals.
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Gebel Barkal Burial place of the god Amun
Some 370km (230 miles) north of Khartoum lies a large, flat-topped rock (mesa) that was one of the most sacred places in Egypt and Nubia. The distinctive feature of this 100m-high (330ft) hill is a gigantic free-standing pinnacle (shown on…
A Golden Statuette
In each issue of Ancient Egypt magazine, Dr Campbell Price describes a key artefact from Egyptology collections around the world. His choice for AE 135 is from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA).