NILE 8, June-July 2017
NILE 8, June-July 2017
THE TOMB
1000 years of robbery and reuse; plundered and repacked with new tenants over and over. This tomb was discovered in 1857 with its last burial intact.
FUNERARY GARDEN FOUND
Egypt's first ever funerary garden has been discovered–a 4,000-year-old grid of garden beds was recently unearthed in Luxor.
BACK FROM THE BLITZ
Liverpool's World Museum opens its new ancient Egypt gallery, featuring artefacts on show for the first time since 1941, when they became wartime casualties.
ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
These two worlds meet in the hands of the Oriental Institute epigraphic artist, Susan Osgood.
THE ROYAL TOMBS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
From Aidan Dodson’s new book we explore Egypt’s pharaonic beginnings: the Early Dynastic Period.
ASWAN DISCOVERIES
New members of a powerful Middle Kingdom family stationed on Elephantine Island are coming to light.
THE “LOST PYRAMID” SARCOPHAGUS
The official opening of King Sekhemket’s sarcophagus delivered a big surprise!