Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Warrior queens, beautiful princesses and gentle Hathor: various aspects of women in ancient Egypt

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With Mothers’ Day coming up, and of course International Women's Day, I thought it might be fun to take a quick peak at the varied ways...
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Friday, 12 February 2016

Marble Footprint. Guest blog by a child volunteer

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Marble Footprint I like this object because it is interesting seeing a person’s footprint from ancient Egypt (and it reminds me of bi...
Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Gruesome rites? Book of the Dead Fragment.

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I thought in this blog I would concentrate on what is going on in the illustrations to this piece of the Book of the Dead. And, if an...
Thursday, 21 January 2016

Thank you Griffith Institute -it's amazing what you can find out online!

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Last term we had a few MA students in the Egypt Centre looking at 'real' hieroglyphs (instead of ones in books). One of the things w...
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Wednesday, 20 January 2016

A bit of a shrine with an unknown king

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I am trying to find out more about this item. It is number EC485 in our collection and measures 264 by 164 mm. It has been mounted on a p...
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Friday, 13 November 2015

Daemon snakes and green skinned goddesses

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Been finding out a bit more about this, W1307. I thought is showed the ouroboros, a symbol of eternity,  surrounding Isis. It appears ...
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Thursday, 22 October 2015

Amarna, looking at flints, playing with dogs!

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I know loads of you will disagree but I find the whole business of the royal family at Amarna, who succeeded whom, etc., a bit dull. I'...