This cigar box, containing several wooden splinters that make up a piece of cedar discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza, was…
Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley, Thames and Hudson, £19.95 How powerful were women in Ancient Egypt? To judge by…
Pharaoh's suffering statue now re-erected at Giza…
A new exhibition in Hamburg, Germany is investigating one of the worlds most notorious women…
A radar survey project in the Valley of the Kings may have revealed a new tomb…
The excavations at a fashionable Old Kingdom cemetery lying just behind the step pyramid of Zoser, Saqqara, Egypt…
Let us learn a few hieroglyphs. Let us start with a straight line. This obviously means ‘land’ because in Egypt all the…
CWA look into the origins of the unique and beautiful yellow-green glass that has been produced in the Egyptian Sahara for thousands…
Mystery surrounds the discovery of KV-63…
Nigel Hetherington guides us through the latest developments at the Valley of the Kings…
How did a high-class Egyptian tomb work? All is revealed at the tomb of Senneferi who lived at the height of the…
Biological and artistic evidence suggests that dwarfs held a privilaged position in Ancient Egyptian society…
Egypt – How a lost civilisation was rediscovered. Joyce Tyldesley BBC Books, £17.99 In 1400 BC, the three pyramids at Giza, were…