Wednesday, 6 July 2016

My first week at the Egypt Centre/ Mi primera semana en al Centro Egipcio

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Guest blog from Juan Dawber, MA student on placement from the Department of Languages, Translation and Communication at Swansea Universit...
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Thursday, 23 June 2016

A head, a collector, leeches and dwarves

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W351 I photographed this object on Monday in advance of a talk, and have just found out a little bit more about its history which I wo...
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Friday, 17 June 2016

A Magic Wand

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This is a fragment of a magic wand on loan to us from the British Museum. B ritish Museum  EA38192 is16cm long, and made from a  hippo...
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Guest Blog: Swansea University Heritage Skills Placement, Sean McGrevey

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Sean with 3000 year old coffin of a lady musician Starting from the 24 th May 2016, I’ve been involved in a work experience programme ...
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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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