Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Animal mummies, Jasmine Day, Alex the Cat, and our poor croc.

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I've been photographing our croc in the Egypt Centre , in readiness for the visit of renowned Egyptologist and anthropologist Jasmine D...
Tuesday, 8 July 2014

The power of the ugly?

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Throughout history and in various cultures ugly beings have often been thought protective. Think of the gargoyles on churches, or even Bes ...
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...