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A Tawaret talisman for perilous pregnancy

Retired obstetrician W Benson Harer Jr explores the role of a special magic talisman in protecting pregnant women in ancient Egypt.

Vestiges of Ancient Egypt: The Bubasteion Votive Cachette at Saqqara

REVIEW BY CAMPBELL PRICE The book’s introduction sets the scene by briefly describing the find, with a chronological sketch of the archaeological landscape of Saqqara the subject of the first chapter. The caching phenomenon – the deliberate gathering and deposition…

Left The digital unwrapping of ‘The Golden Boy’ mummy, which revealed many golden amulets hidden within his bandages. below The remains of the gilded mummy of Hekashepes, thought to be the oldest ‘golden mummy’ discovered so far.

Golden mummies share their secrets

Many of the amulets are made of gold, including a golden tongue inside the mouth

Megalithic Malta

There is much we don’t know about the people who lived in Neolithic Malta, but they left their mark on the islands through vast temples and tombs. Luc Amkreutz and Sharon Sultana explore what these impressive structures and the figurines found in them can tell us about a vanished civilisation.

Above Beneath the waters of Egypt’s Aboukir Bay, archaeologists found the remains of a small tholos, a Greek round temple. Among the fallen Doric columns were ritual artefacts and statuettes, including this 3rd to 2nd century BC Isis Aphrodite anasyromene.

New discoveries from the lost cities of the Nile delta

Underwater archaeologists have taken to the waters of Egypt’s Aboukir Bay once more, revealing remarkable new finds from a temple at Thonis-Heracleion. Franck Goddio told Lucia Marchini about the latest results from this year’s excavation at the sunken city.