Friday, 20 May 2016

Pseudo Mummies or Mummified Foetuses?

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I don't have the answer here but was prompted to write something by the recent interest in a newly discovered foetus mummy in the Fitzwi...
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Thursday, 19 May 2016

Bes the watery deity of betwixt and between

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Carrying on from last week's post on Bes  [1]  and masking, I thought I would explore some ideas on the Bes entity, as a deity associa...
Friday, 13 May 2016

Shamans, Masks and Bes, Again!

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Cippus, notice the Bes head above Horus the Child I've been reading some interesting stuff recently. It all started as I was thinki...
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Friday, 29 April 2016

The Underworld, Anubis and the Greeks

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The Egypt Centre has two shrouds from Deir el-Bahri dated to AD 220-270, the Roman Period. They do look a bit odd compared to typical p...
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...