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119 - Volume Twenty Issue Five April/May 2020 Scarabs for the Children - Maria Nilsson and John Ward look at the scarabs in the graves of two children in the Thutmoside cemetery at the Gebel el-Silsila site. Nefertari and Puduhepa - Diana Liesegang explores the part taken by these two queens, one Egyptian and one Hittite, in peace negotiations between their counties, The Local Governors - Wolfram Grajetzki attempts to identify the governors of the Tenth Upper Egyptian Nome up to the Eighteenth Dynasty. Highlights of Manchester Museum: 22 - The gilded mummy of Lady Isaious, now touring the USA, is described by Campbell Price. Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt - Bob Brier and Pat Remler explore upheaval and chaos in the ancient society Petrie and Edwards - Anna Garnett, Frances Potts and Catriona Wilson describe a new entrance gallery to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Anubis - Was this god a jackal, wolf, dog, fox or hyena, asks John Wyatt. Per Mesut: for Younger Readers - Hilary Wilson traces the generations of inhabitants in Deir el-Medina.
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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.