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Ancient Egypt Magazine issue 157 published, from Theban festivals to the Rosetta Stone's find-spot
Issue 157 of Ancient Egypt Magazine has been published, The Past reports. Its features range from celebrating the dead in New Kingdom Thebes and the dangers of childbirth to Ricardo A Caminos, Ain Khadra and Fort Rashid, the find-spot of the Rosetta Stone.
Source: The Past
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The Collector sets out ten facts about Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt as king
The Collector has published a feature on Hatshepsut, the 18th Dynasty ruler it calls the longest-reigning female pharaoh, whom it dates to 1473 to 1458 BC. The article sets out ten facts about her reign and the succession that brought her to power.
Source: The Collector
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New study argues Meretneith was a female king in early Egypt
A new study revisits the long-running debate over Meretneith, a royal woman buried some 5,000 years ago in a tomb fit for a male ruler. According to The Conversation, the study argues she should be recognised as a female king in her own right.
Source: The Conversation: Ancient Egypt
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The Collector explores Gilles Deleuze's admiration for Egyptian art
The Collector has published an essay on how the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze admired ancient Egyptian art and its resilience. The piece challenges the long-standing Western tendency to treat Greek culture as the true origin of civilisation.
Source: The Collector
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The Collector asks why most female pharaohs have been forgotten
A feature from The Collector examines why so few of ancient Egypt's female rulers are remembered, arguing there were more than popular memory allows. It points to how women such as Hatshepsut presented themselves as male kings, or were recorded only as queens.
Source: The Collector
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The Collector examines how ancient peoples worshipped rivers as gods
The Collector has published a comparative feature on how ancient civilisations came to worship the rivers they depended on, placing the Nile alongside the Tigris, Euphrates, Ganges and Yellow River. The essay argues that peoples deified these waterways to control and pacify them, shaping the religious life that grew up along their banks.
Source: The Collector
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The Collector podcast explores the overlooked women who helped build Egyptology
The Collector has released a podcast episode with Dr Kathleen Sheppard on the women whose notes, correspondence, teaching and research helped build Egyptology yet were often uncredited. The conversation reconsiders who did the work behind the field's famous discoveries.
Source: The Collector
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New book surveys ancient Egyptian textiles in northern English museums
A new book, Weaving for Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Textiles, surveys significant collections of ancient Egyptian cloth held in museums across the north of England. The Past's review notes that these often-overlooked artefacts offer insights into technology, economics, religion, and dress.
Source: The Past
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Cleopatra VII gains a volume in Bloomsbury's Significant Figures series
Cleopatra VII has become the latest subject in Bloomsbury's Significant Figures in World History series, joining Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill and Henry VIII. The new reference guide gathers her life and works into a single accessible volume, according to a review in The Past.
Source: The Past
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Ancient Egypt Magazine issue 156 published, spanning Tutankhamun galleries to the Osirion at Abydos
Issue 156 of Ancient Egypt Magazine has been published, with features on the Tutankhamun galleries at the Grand Egyptian Museum, the origins of carnelian, ancient pain relief, the Litany of Ra, women's literacy, John Gardner Wilkinson and the Osirion at Abydos. The line-up was listed by The Past.
Source: The Past
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The Past reviews a new book on religion in Egypt from pharaonic times to today
The Past has reviewed a new book tracing religious ideas in Egypt from the pharaonic period through the Christian and Islamic eras. Taking Herodotus's description of the Egyptians as the most religious of peoples as its cue, the book explores continuity and change across thousands of years.
Source: The Past
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The Past profiles Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, a pioneer of British Egyptology
The Past has published a feature by Robert R Frost on Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, an antiquary and traveller remembered as a pioneer of British Egyptology. The piece explores his life and why he is regarded as the discipline's 'other founder'.
Source: The Past
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