Ancient Egyptian Burial Practices at the British Museum
A review of my visit to the Ancient Egyptian gallery at the British Museum, London, England.
Did the Ancient Egyptians of the Old, Middle and New Kingdom ever reach Malta and the Central Mediterranean?
A number of ancient Egyptian artefacts have reached the Maltese islands over the centuries. The Phoenicians seem to have been the main importers of these artefacts in antiquity, and yet some archaeological specimens reached the islands before their time.
One accident too many?
Presentation 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.
The Middle Kingdom Stelae Publication Project
Presentation 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.
The role of the chantress in ancient Egypt
The goal of this study is to determine what it meant to be a Sm-r, or chantress, in ancient
Egypt. Very little is known about the specifics of the title or the types of people who held it. Surprisingly, there is also a male version of the title, Smr, but the female version is by far the more prevalent. It is the women who held this title that will be the focus of this study.
The nature of urbanism in Ancient Egypt
These developmental differences in urbanisation, as expressed through evolving nature and functions, are the underlying premise of Wilson
Building pharaoh
In this paper, Egypt is considered in its role as a seafaring nation influencing and interacting with other groups through the perspective of the major tool required: the seagoing ship.
On the Egyptian origin of the domestic cat
The traditional opinion is that the cat was domesticated in place in Egypt from
wild local stock. SCHAUENBERG (1972) contradicted this hypothesis by showing that the
cranial index (ic = cranium length/volume of encephalic cavity) of the modern domestic cat was closer to that of the steppe cat (Felis ornata) of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan than that of the wild Libyan desert cat (Felis libyca).
Pharaonic Egypt and the Ara Pacis in Augustan Rome
Pharaonic Egypt and the Ara Pacis in Augustan Rome Jennifer Trimble (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: September (2007) Abstract This paper…