fertility

Below A painting on an ostracon of a dancer bending backwards to reveal her pelvic area, dating to the New Kingdom.

Ancient Egypt
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Hathor’s healing talismans

A series of elegant female figurines, the subject of ongoing research, had been wrongly identified in the past as ‘brides of the dead’. W Benson Harer Jr proposes a new theory to explain their purpose.

Ancient Egypt
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Ancient Egypt 138 Letters

Your thoughts on issues raised by the magazine.

Opposite The god Min with the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, in a scene from the Red Chapel at Karnak. right A Late Period copper alloy statuette of the god Amun Min, depicted holding his phallus in his left hand, with his right hand held aloft. From the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. far right The god Amun Min depicted with black coloured skin, in a scene originally from the Thutmose III temple in Deir el Bahari, and now in the Luxor Museum.

Ancient Egypt
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Min: the most popular deity in the Eastern Desert?

Sean Rigby traces the worship of this distinctive-looking ancient Egyptian god.

World Archaeology
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CWA Letters – Janurary 2022

Your views and observations...

Minerva
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Aztecs: where eagles dare

Buried beneath Mexico City lie the remains of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and its sacred centre. Lucia Marchini reports on an exhibition investigating wealth, worship, and empire in pre-Hispanic Mexico.