Travels in an antique land: Mud-brick, mud-brick, glorious mud-brick
Each issue, AE magazine goes off the beaten track to explore some of Egypt’s lesser known sites, new museums, and newly opened monuments, with tips to help the independent traveller. In this issue,...
View ArticleThe meaning of Joseph’s Egyptian name
Joseph L Thimes explores a range of different translations of the Egyptian name given to his namesake, the biblical Joseph.
View ArticleAncient Egypt April listings
PHARAOH In association with the British Museum, this exhibition celebrates 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian art and culture through more than 500 individual pieces from the British Museum’s permanent...
View ArticleHilary Wilson on… Milk
It was not just an important food item for the ancient Egyptians: milk had magical properties.
View ArticleThe Cleopatras – Part 4: The last Cleopatras
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones completes his series on the later Ptolemaic queens and assesses their legacy as women of power in the ancient world.
View ArticlePrecise construction of funerary structures at Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan)
Antonio Tomás Mozas Calvache, Jose Luis Pérez, and José Miguel Gómez show how the creation of 3D models of three adjacent tombs highlights the extraordinary precision of Twelfth Dynasty tomb-builders.
View ArticleRediscovering Egypt – Part 1: The Harrogate Collection in Swansea
Many artefacts from a museum in Harrogate are currently on display in the Egypt Centre at Swansea University in Wales. The Centre’s curator Ken Griffin explains how this three-year loan came about.
View ArticlePalmyra, Blemmyes, Diocletian, and Egypt
Ancient Egypt Magazine explores an often overlooked period of Egyptian history: the short-lived control of Egypt by Palmyra, and the incursions of the Eastern Desert Blemmyes.
View ArticleBeliefs and narratives: Images from Predynastic Egypt
Barbara A Boczar explores the imagery of Egypt’s Naqada periods.
View ArticleAncient Egypt Magazine 142
Zenobia of Egypt: when the Queen of Palmyra ruled the Land of the Pharaohs The last Cleopatras: their legacy as women of power Precise construction of funerary structures: Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan)...
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