Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Guest Post by Beverley Rogers: Peering Beneath the Layers

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Peering beneath the Layers or The day we took ‘Rover’ for a walk by Beverley Rogers As Carolyn, Wendy and myself walked into ...
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Thursday, 1 May 2014

A Mummified Baby?

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Addendum: since this article was written a slightly older foetus has been found at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, What both show is that we sh...
Friday, 11 April 2014

Something I don’t know much about: Predynastic Pottery

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Egypt Centre’s volunteer documentation assistants have just started audit checking a group of material from Armant. I have briefly blogged ...
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Ammut- not such a bad girl?

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Poor old Ammut, the Devourer, gets such a terrible press normally. She eats the hearts of the deceased who are bad people so that they d...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Science, Technology and Innovation

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This week is science and engineering week (we have plans to celebrate at the Centre ) and I have just been reading Ian Shaw’s Ancient Egypti...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Tattoos, Sex and Dancing Girls - With a Nubian Connection

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The title reflects a few myths about tattoos in ancient Egypt, and a few debatable points. There are lots of myths about tattoos in anci...
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Wednesday, 2 October 2013

More Nubian Stuff - Faience Head, a Talisman for Children

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EC537 is a faience head of a Nubian. The head can be recognised as Nubian by the treatment of the eyes and by the cruciform hairstyle. T...