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A Categorisation of Ancient Egyptian Watercraft, from Predynastic Petroglyphs to the Khufu Boats
Egypt · Egypt

A Categorisation of Ancient Egyptian Watercraft, from Predynastic Petroglyphs to the Khufu Boats

REVIEW BY J PETER PHILLIPS This extremely detailed and complex work is exactly what it says on the cover, and supplements the author’s previous books, published by BAR in 2012 and 2022, which categorise watercraft of the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms. Stephens begins by recounting the various attempts that have been made previously to…Read Article
Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays
Disability · Egypt

Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays

REVIEW BY ANNA GARNETT This important new collection of essays explores what disability meant to the people living in the Nile Valley thousands of years ago, and the lived experience and reception of disability within the field of Egyptology over the past two centuries. By telling the story of ancient Egypt and Egyptology through the…Read Article
Chicago on the Nile: A Century of Work by the Epigraphic Survey of the University of Chicago
Work · Cairo

Chicago on the Nile: A Century of Work by the Epigraphic Survey of the University of Chicago

REVIEW BY ALAN L JEFFREYS Emily Teeter’s book, which accompanies a recent exhibition at the ISAC Museum (see ‘Exhibitions’ in AE 145), relates the story of the University of Chicago’s Epigraphic Survey expedition to Egypt, and the team’s efforts to save endangered texts and reliefs on the ancient monuments. Chicago House was the dream of…Read Article

Yearning For Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife

REVIEW BY CAMPBELL PRICE The goal of the afterlife – towards which so many wealthy ancient Egyptians apparently strove, and in the attainment of which so many objects and monuments were created – is fundamental to our idea of ‘ancient Egypt’. Rune Nyord very persuasively traces the reasons why this concept depended on partial Classical…Egypt · EgyptRead Article

From Objects to Histories: Studies in Honour of John H Taylor

REVIEW BY ROGER FORSHAW This monumental Festschrift, four years in preparation, celebrates John H Taylor’s distinguished career at the British Museum, both as a curator and a scholar. Aptly titled, the volume captures John’s remarkable dual expertise: his keen ability to analyse an artefact’s physical presence, and his talent for unravelling the intricate historical…London, England · LondonRead Article

New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia

REVIEW BY ANNA GARNETT The histories, cultures, and archaeologies of ancient Nubia remain a source of much scholarly debate, and centring our research on the people of the ancient Nile Valley is especially important at this time of political turmoil in modern-day Sudan. Based on a series of Zoom lectures led by Aaron J Brody…Culture · SudanRead Article

Tomb of a prince

A new Fifth Dynasty tomb has been discovered at Saqqara by an Egyptian mission led by the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage. The 4,400-year-old tomb belongs to Userafra, a previously unknown son of King Userkaf (the founder of the Fifth Dynasty, c.2494-2487 BC), whose titles describe him…Tomb · EgyptRead Article

Tomb of a tax collector

The owner of a tomb discovered in the 1970s in el-Assasif has finally been identified by a joint Egyptian-Canadian (University of Ontario) mission. Following the first archaeological work since the discovery of the tomb, known as Kampp 23, the team has now identified the owner as Amenmesse, a mayor of Thebes who served Ramesses IV…Archaeology · EgyptRead Article

Fortress of the East

Recent excavations at Tell Abu Saifi in the Qantara region (Ismailia) have revealed new military architecture at the site of two fortresses dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Located in the northern Sinai Desert, the ‘Fortress of the East’ was a strategic site built to protect Egypt’s eastern borders. The Egyptian mission has…Ismailia · IsmailiaRead Article

Multiple finds at the Ramesseum

A number of well-preserved Third Intermediate Period tombs have been uncovered at the Ramesseum by a French-Egyptian mission (the Supreme Council of Archaeology and the French National Research Centre and Sorbonne University). The tombs, discovered in the north-eastern area, contained canopic jars, nested coffins, and 401 ceramic shabti figures, as well as scattered human remains.…Tombs · LuxorRead Article

Ramesses III in Jordan

The cartouches of an Egyptian king, discovered on a rock face in Jordan a decade ago, have now been documented, and confirmed as an inscription of Ramesses III (c.1184-1153 BC). The first such Egyptian inscription to be found in Jordan, the carving was found in the south-east section of the Wadi Rum Reserve, near the…Jordan · JordanRead Article

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