Ancient Egypt Archive
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Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Posted on March 17, 2013 | No CommentsThis study looks at ancient Greek and Roman sexual practices from the point of view of their (implied) differences from modern western practices. There are eight major themes: sex and status, the ubiquity of sex, the body, body modification, violence and pain, having sex, viewing sex, and transgressions. -
One-third of ancient mummies had heart disease, study finds
Posted on March 11, 2013 | No CommentsAtherosclerosis -
“Lost City” of Tanis Found, but Often Forgotten
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsThe treasures found in the 'lost city' of Tanis rival those of King Tut's. Yet for more than six decades the riches from its rulers' tombs have remained largely unknown. -
One accident too many?
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsPresentation of a skeleton discovered in the Sudan in the 1996/7 season of the Northern Dongola Reach Survey, sponsored by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society, in a small Kerma period cemetery (P37), south of Kawa. This skeleton exhibits an unusually interesting range of injuries, which are listed and discussed. -
A question of authenticity and date: Roman copies and Ptolemaic originals
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsEgyptian-style sculptures from the Roman period are often dismissed as modern forgeries on account of their unusual proportions and stylised features. This article considers the Imperial Roman fashion of using Egyptian and Egyptianising sculptural representations concentrating on three statues of questionable authenticity. -
Daily Life of Ancient Egyptians examined in Qubbet el-Hawa research project
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsThe ancient Egyptians did not live in such good conditions and were not surrounded by such opulence as was thought up to now, but, rather, suffered from hunger and malnutrition, a whole range of infectious diseases and an extremely high infant mortality rate. -
The Middle Kingdom Stelae Publication Project
Posted on March 4, 2013 | No CommentsPresentation of a new project to publish 176 Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period stelae of non-royal origin in the British Museum. The example of stela EA 226 is presented so that the format to be adopted may be examined. -
Some aspects of the non-royal afterlife in the Old Kingdom
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsThough textual evidence is meager, the difference between royal and non-royal funerary architecture clearly reflects two different visions of the afterlife. The tombs of the elite -
Tomb and social status: The textual evidence
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIn archaeological theoretical literature it has been stressed that tombs might rather show the status of the living persons who organized the burial than the status of the buried person. This is of course an important argument but in Ancient Egypt we have the anthropologically quite exceptional situation that the tomb-owner already began the construction of his tomb and the organisation of his burial equipment when he was still alive. -
Hieratic Inscriptions from the Quarry at Qurna: an interim Report
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsHieratic inscriptions in a Theban quarry north of the road to the Valley of the Kings were first noticed by Petrie. It has subsequently been shown that stone from this quarry was used for the construction of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III. This article presents drawings and photographs of graffiti noted during recent examination of the site.
