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Tales of Antiquities at the Luxor Hotel - Sylvie Weens traces the source and fate of some important statuary that once could be seen in the garden of Luxor’s first hotel. Highlights of Manchester Museum: 15 - Campbell Price describes a face-mask, found at Kahun, that was worn in life. Egypt in Cuba - The Egyptian collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana is described by Mila Álvarez Sosa and Irene Morfini. Name and Title Scarabs - In the first of a two-part series, Fred Vink explores an important source of information about the late Middle Kingdom. The Pharaoh’s Treaure: When Papyrus Ruled the World - John Gaudet praises a plant that brought wealth to ancient Egypt by providing the world with writing-paper for four thousand years. The Opet Festival, Linguistic Confusion and Temple Names - Andrew Fulton discusses an important annual procession in ancient Egypt and its relationship to the names of the temples it visited. Per Mesut: for Younger Readers - Hilary Wilson describes “Feathers in Their Hair” – the different feathered crowns seen on ancient Egypt’s gods, kings and queens.
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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
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Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period by Campbell Price
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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.