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Egyptology

August 2024

  • Mummy of woman with a wide-open mouth

    Egyptian mummy with screaming expression ‘may have died in agony’, say researchers

    Archaeologists say wide open mouth of woman who died about 3,500 years ago may be caused by rare, immediate form of rigor mortis

June 2024

  • Ancient illustrations of Egyptian people and a jackal-headed god, with Egyptian language above

    Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says

    Higher incidence of damage to hips, jaws and thumbs reveals their writing efforts may have taken a toll
  • Five statues on display

    Pyramid scheme: the Pharaoh show comes to the National Gallery of Victoria

    After eight years of discussion the British Museum’s biggest international show is the largest Egyptian exhibition yet staged in Australia
  • The house of Panehsy at Tell el-Amarna also known as Akhetaten, horizon of the Aten, Middle Egypt<br>BGR408 The house of Panehsy at Tell el-Amarna also known as Akhetaten, horizon of the Aten, Middle Egypt

    Barry Kemp obituary

    Egyptologist whose discoveries at Amarna shed new light on urban life in the ancient world

May 2024

  • The pyramid of Khafre on the Giza plateau in Cairo, Egypt.

    Scientists find buried branch of the Nile that may have carried pyramids’ stones

    Discovery of the branch, which ran alongside 31 pyramids, could solve mystery of blocks’ transportation

February 2024

  • Restoration works on pyramid of Menkaure, Egypt

    Egypt scraps plan to restore cladding on one of three great pyramids of Giza

    Antiquities authority drops proposal for Menkaure pyramid after review prompted by international outcry

November 2023

  • The upper half of a faience shabti inscribed for a man named Hor-sa-Iset, discovered in the school grounds.

    That’s not a potato: mystery of Egyptian treasures found buried in grounds of Scottish school

  • 'Ramses &amp; the Gold of the Pharaohs' Exhibition Preview Sydney - 16 Nov 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Christopher Khoury/Australian Press Agency via ZUMA/Shutterstock (14215244ai) The Coffin of Ramses II on display during an exhibition preview of 'Ramses &amp; the Gold of the Pharaohs' at the Australian Museum on November 16, 2023 in Sydney, Australia 'Ramses &amp; the Gold of the Pharaohs' Exhibition Preview Sydney - 16 Nov 2023

    Australian arts in focus
    Mummy dearest: priceless Egyptian treasures go on display at Australian Museum in Sydney

September 2023

  • The Plaque of Amenemhat IV, probably Byblos, Lebanon. 12th Dynasty, reign of Amenemhat IV, about 1808-1799BC Gold H 2.9cm, W 3.1 cm, D 0.1cm.

    Egyptian treasures bound for Melbourne as NGV announces 2024 blockbuster Pharaoh exhibition

  • illustration: an old stained piece of parchment-style paper featuring a silhouette of a man's face

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel – podcast

August 2023

  • A canopic jar depicting a woman’s head, seen from the front

    ‘Scent of eternity’: scientists recreate balms used on ancient Egyptian mummy

    Museum-goers to be transported back to 1450BC by odours of oils, resins and beeswax with which noblewoman, Senetnay, embalmed

May 2023

  • Adele James in Queen Cleopatra

    TV review
    Queen Cleopatra review – the idea that you need a white actor is utterly insidious

    Adele James, who stars in this curious Netflix docudrama about ancient Egypt’s most famous queen is the best thing about it – despite the furore around her race

April 2023

  • Mrs Desroches-Noblecourt Egyptian Departement Curator Of The Louvre Museum In 1955<br>FRANCE - JANUARY 01: Mrs Desroches-Noblecourt, Egyptian Department Curator Of The Louvre Museum Ne (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

    Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olson review – the unsung heroine of Egyptology unearthed

    A vivid biography of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, France’s real-life ‘Indiana Jones’, lays bare her defiance of the Nazis and her ancient world discoveries

March 2023

  • The statue is uncovered at the temple of Dendera.

    Sphinx-like statue and shrine discovered in southern Egypt

    It is thought the Roman emperor Claudius could have inspired work found in the temple of Dendera

February 2023

  • Manchester Museum’s ‘Golden Mummies of Egypt’ exhibition Gilded Mummy Mark, photo by Julia Thorne

    Golden Mummies of Egypt review – ancient faces meet your eye across millennia

    Banish thoughts of horror films and bandaged zombies, this exquisite exhibition shows us ancient Egyptian artefacts that were loving portraits of unique people

January 2023

  • CT scans of a mummy

    Digital scan unwraps secrets of mummy from 2,300 years ago

  • Detail from a 1961 drawing by John Foster of a scene in Egypt

    Other lives
    John Foster obituary

November 2022

  • An ancient mummy in the Valley of the Golden Mummies in Cairo.

    Dead wrong: Victorians ‘mistaken’ about why Egyptians mummified bodies

    Colonial Egyptologists assumed the mummification process was to preserve the body after death. But new evidence asserts it was to steer the body towards divinity

October 2022

  • ‘Clear the sand from around my body’ … the Sphinx at Giza with the slab of hieroglyphs deciphered after the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.

    Ancient Egypt unleashed: how the gods, pharaohs, monsters and murderers shattered their silence

    As a new show at the British Museum celebrates the monumental discovery that blew a 3,000-year-old mystery apart, our writer finds magic and malice on a code-cracking ride into antiquity

September 2022

  • The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum.

    The Guardian view on the Rosetta Stone: a monument to code-breaking

    Editorial: If it weren’t for humanity’s passion for cryptography, one of the world’s most famous artefacts would just be a broken slab of stone
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