Hilary Wilson on… Milk
It was not just an important food item for the ancient Egyptians: milk had magical properties.
divine kingship
The Book of the Heavenly Cow
Andrew Fulton investigates the ancient Egyptian myth that tells how humanity
was saved by red-coloured beer.
A family of god-kings: divine kingship in the early Nineteenth Dynasty
Peter J Brand begins a new series focusing on the Ramesside Period by exploring the divinity of the early Ramesside kings.
This week: Pharaohs
For almost 200 years, visitors to the British Museum have stood in awe in front of the statue known as the Younger Memnon – one of two colossal granite heads which originally flanked the entrance to the Ramesseum mortuary temple…
Luxor temple: where kings become gods
After coronation, the new pharaoh would head to the temple at Luxor to assume the royal ka that flowed from the gods Horus and Re all the way down Egypt’s line of rulers. Nigel Fletcher-Jones takes us on a procession through this all-important site, developed by kings strengthening their claims to divine ka.