How did Egypt build the pyramids? It is a question that has excited the imagination of scholars and visitors for millennia. Now…
A hundred years after its first Egyptian exhibition, Manchester Museum has reopened its Ancient Egypt and Archaeology collections to the public following…
High-resolution CT scans of an ancient Egyptian mummy have revealed that the young man suffered from terrible dental problems – and that…
Excavations at Abusir, south of Cairo, have identified the 4,500-year-old tomb of an ancient Egyptian princess called Sheretnebty. More than a mile…
An undisturbed tomb in the Valley of the Kings reveals its 3,000-year-old secret…
Margaret Maitland British Museum Press, £9.99 ISBN 978-0714119984 This small book takes on a huge subject: the role of the pharaoh as…
Ed. Morris L Bierbrier Egypt Exploration Society, £35 The Egypt Exploration Society has updated their compendium of Egyptologists after a gap of…
Tales of the French Foreign Legion in the deserts of North Africa have fired the imagination of many an adventurous school boy.…
A fossilised face and two lower jaws excavated in Kenya may confirm that Homo erectus, our direct ancestor, coexisted with multiple species…
Garry J Shaw Thames & Hudson, £24.95 ISBN 978-0500051740 Garry Shaw’s guide to ancient Egyptian kingship is beautifully illustrated with colour photographs of…
What was life like under the shadow of the pharaohs? The realities of life and death under Egypt's rule…
‘Expect the unexpected’ is a good maxim for any archaeologist. But nothing could have prepared Terry Hardaker and his team for their…
Michaela Binder discovers what the dead can tell us about living.…