Egypt Centre, Swansea

The Opening of the Mouth ritual was used to bring the mummified dead and also statues 'back to life', or rather to imbue them with s...

Ptah, the god of craftsmen has a green face. You can see him second from the right on this tomb fragment (more about that through clickin...

I've just come across Betsy Bryan's uploaded paper here  (Bryan 2014). I had heard about her work, but shame on me, I never read her...

If you are looking for a gift associated with this season of revival why not buy a hippo! It seems well known that hippopotami are dangero...

So Easter is coming up and the Egypt Centre is preparing. The festival of Easter originally derives from earlier pagan festivals associated...

Is this a rare souvenir? Or is it an attempt to deliberately deceive?  This artefact is made from pottery and shows the prenomen of R...

The figure to the right has his finger to his mouth. This is Horus the Child, or in Greek, Harpocrates (from the Egyptian Hor-pa-khered l...