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Lady in Pink - Jan van Daal and Branko van Oppen de Ruiter examine the mummy portrait of a young woman in a pink tunic and try to date it. Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh - Sarah Griffiths reviews the London exhibition and interviews its curator and the Egyptian Minister for Antiquities Tutankamun: Enter The Tomb - Joel Newton and Chadwick Turner describe how they developed a VR tour of KV62. Highlights of Manchester Museum: 20 - Campbell Price thinks that a stela from Abydos might once have depicted Tutankhamun. A Load of Old Bull: the Serapeum of Saqqara – Part 1 - Aidan Dodson explores the the early history of this iconic monument. Naukratis: ‘the Shanghai of Ancient Egypt’ Roger Forshaw makes the comparison. The Tomb of Khentkawes at Giza - Neither mastaba nor pyramid – Geoffrey Lenox-Smith describes the monument. Per Mesut: for Younger Readers - Hilary Wilson looks at the different types of writing in ancient Egypt.
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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.