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Archaeology and Archives - Carl Graves and Stephanie Boonstra select the glass-plate negatives of Abydos in the EES archives and Margaret Mountford explains how they were made. Meritptah: the World’s First Female Doctor? - No so, says Wolfram Grajetski – she never existed, although she appears in several books and has a crater on Mars named after her! Highlights of Manchester Museum: 14 - Campbell Price describes a cartonnage mummy cover from Hawara. Tutankhamun: The Extra-Terrestrial Connection - A jewel in one of the boy king’s pectorals may have come from a comet, according to the latest research reported by Colin Reader. The Sohag National Museum - Geoffrey Lenox-Smith takes us on a tour of a newly-opened museum in Egypt. The Manchester Autopsy of Mummy 1770 - The evolution of the Manchester Mummy Project is described by Jenefer Cockitt and Rosalie David The Manchester Autopsy of Mummy 1770 - The evolution of the Manchester Mummy Project is described by Jenefer Cockitt and Rosalie David
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INSIDE THE STEP PYRAMID OF DJOSER
Sean McLachlan explores the recently reopened interior of this iconic Third Dynasty Saqqara monument.
PER MESUT: for younger readers
She Who Loves Silence
Highlights of the Manchester Museum 29: An Offering by Queen Tiye for her Husband
Campbell Price describes an offering table with a touching significance.
Highlights Of The Manchester Museum 28: Busts Of Jesse And Marianne Haworth
Campbell Price describes the significance of two statue busts on display in the Museum.
TAKABUTI, the Belfast Mummy
Rosalie David and Eileen Murphy explain how scientific examination of the ‘Belfast Mummy’ is revealing much new information about her life and times.
Lost Golden City
An Egyptian Mission searching for the mortuary temple of Tutankhamun has discovered a settlement – “The Dazzling of Aten” – described as the largest city ever found in Egypt (see above). Finds bearing the cartouches of Amenhotep III (see opposite, top) date the settlement to his reign, c. 1390-1352 BC – making it about 3400 years old.
Jerusalem's Survival, Sennacharib's Departure and the Kushite Role in 701 BCE: An Examination of Henry Aubin's Rescue of Jerusalem
BOOK REVIEWS
Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period by Campbell Price
BOOK REVIEWS
Old And New Kingdom Discoveries At Saqqara
An Egyptian team working on a Sixth Dynasty pyramid complex near the Teti pyramid at Saqqara has made a series of important discoveries.
Map Of Egypt
What’s in a name? It is easy for us to forget that the names we associate with the pyramids – such as the Meidum Pyramid, the Bent Pyramid or the Black Pyramid – would have been meaningless to their builders.