egyptian history

Ancient Egypt
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The Cleopatras – Part 4: The last Cleopatras

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones completes his series on the later Ptolemaic queens and assesses their legacy as women of power in the ancient world.

Ancient Egypt
140

Breaking Ma’at: Akhenaten and the battle for Egyptian tradition and identity

Jason S Whitmarsh explores the revolutionary impact of Egypt’s so called ‘heretic king’.

OPPOSITE The Bombardment of Alexandria, 11 July 1882. Admiral Seymour’s ironclads smashed the Egyptian coastal batteries in a few hours. But the Egyptian Army simply retreated inland. An army of invasion would be needed.

Military History
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All Sir Garnet! The Battle of Tel el-Kebir, 13 September 1882

It signalled a new age of empire – an age of armed intervention by industrialised European armies. The Scramble for Africa had begun. In this extended extract from his new book, MHM Editor Neil Faulkner analyses the battle in which Victorian Britain destroyed an Egyptian nationalist movement and took possession of the country.