In search of the lost Kingdom of Yam
Following in the footsteps of Harkhuf, desert explorer Mahmoud Marai discovers – along with his colleague Mark Borda – an inscription at Gebel Uweinat that sheds light on the whereabouts of the fabled kingdom.
expeditions
An intrepid lady traveller: Amelia Edwards ventures A Thousand Miles up the Nile in 1873.
Towards the end of the 19th century, when wives were regarded as the property of their husbands and not expected to have a university education or an independent career, several remarkable women emerged as influential in the field of Egyptology.…
Francis Frith in Egypt
Julia Skinner explores the life and work of the pioneering photographer
who documented the great monuments of ancient Egypt.
Jeanne Dieulafoy (1851-1916)
“The Dieulafoys were unconventional to the point of scorn: Jeanne routinely wore male clothes…”