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The Sun Queen’s Trademark: A Study of the Tall Blue Crown of Queen Nefertiti

The Sun Queen’s Trademark: A Study of the Tall Blue Crown of Queen Nefertiti By Rachel Benkowski Master’s Thesis, University of Memphis, 2011 Abstract: The iconic tall blue crown favored by queen...

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Ancient Egyptian sun dial discovered

During archaeological excavations in the Kings’ Valley in Upper Egypt a team of researchers from the University of Basel found one of the world’s oldest ancient Egyptian sun dials. The team of the...

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The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom The Highest Titles and their...

The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom The Highest Titles and their Holders Nigel Strudwick The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom: , KPI Limited (1985) Abstract Previous studies of...

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Little women: gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels

Little women: gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels  Ann Macy Roth In The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology: Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31–June 4, 2004,...

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The Egyptian Inscriptions at Jebel Dosha, Sudan

The Egyptian Inscriptions at Jebel Dosha, Sudan W. V. Davies BMSAES, 4 (2004), 1-20 Abstract Jebel Dosha is situated a few kilometres (about three miles) north of Soleb on the west bank of the Nile...

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The Second Intermediate Period model coffin of Teti in the British Museum (EA...

The Second Intermediate Period model coffin of Teti in the British Museum (EA 35016) Wolfram Grajetzki BMSAES, 5 (2006), 1-12 Abstract The British Museum possesses in the collection of the Department...

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Glassware from Roman Egypt at Begram (Afghanistan) and the Red Sea trade

Glassware from Roman Egypt at Begram (Afghanistan) and the Red Sea trade BMSAES: Issue 18: August (2012) Abstract In the 1930s, excavations by the Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan...

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Research sheds light on ancient Egyptian port and ‘ship graveyard’

New research into Thonis-Heracleion, the remains of a port-city that served as the gateway to  ancient Egypt, has revealed dozens of sunken ships, which may help give us a better understanding of how...

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“Semantic Homicide” and the So-called Reserve Heads: The Theme of...

“Semantic Homicide” and the So-called Reserve Heads: The Theme of Decapitation in Egyptian Funerary Religion and Some Implications for the Old Kingdom Nicholas Picardo JARCE, 43 (2007)   Abstract...

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High society and lower ranks in Ramesside Egypt at home and abroad

High society and lower ranks in Ramesside Egypt at home and abroad K.A. Kitchen BMSAES, 6 (2006), 31-36 Abstract In Ramesside Egypt, international cosmopolitanism extended to various ranks of society...

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The ‘Eternal Treaty’ from the Hittite perspective

The ‘Eternal Treaty’ from the Hittite perspective Trevor Bryce BMSAES, 6 (2006), 1-11 Abstract In 1259 BC, 15 years after the battle of Kadesh, the Hittite king Hattusili III drew up with the pharaoh...

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Forerunners of the Hattusili-Ramesses treaty

Forerunners of the Hattusili-Ramesses treaty Dietrich Sürenhagen BMSAES, 6 (2006), 59-67 Abstract The Hattusili-Ramesses treaty from 1259 BC was preceded by only one earlier agreement. This becomes...

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Ancient Egyptian sun dial discovered

During archaeological excavations in the Kings

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Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans

Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans John Younger Sexuality in the Classical World, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey (Oxford: Berg Publishing 2011) Abstract: This study looks at...

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‘Foremost of Noble Ladies’: The dental identification of the Egyptian Queen...

‘Foremost of Noble Ladies’: The dental identification of the Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut By Xavier Riaud Dental History Magazine, Vol.4:1 (2010) Abstract: In 1922, Howard Carter, the British...

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Ancient Egyptians accessorised with meteorites

Researchers at The Open University and The University of Manchester have found conclusive proof that Ancient Egyptians used meteorites to make symbolic accessories. The evidence comes from strings of...

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Did the Ancient Egyptians of the Old, Middle and New Kingdom ever reach Malta...

Did the Ancient Egyptians of the Old, Middle and New Kingdom ever reach Malta and the Central Mediterranean? Anton Mifsud and Marta Farrugia Ancient Egypt, Vol vi, no 5, April/May 2006: 38-44 Abstract...

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A brief journey into medical care and disease in ancient Egypt

A brief journey into medical care and disease in ancient Egypt Richard Sullivan J R Soc Med, 1995;88:141-145 Abstract Ancient Egypt was one of the greatest civilizations to have arisen, becoming the...

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Ancient Egyptian herbal wines

Ancient Egyptian herbal wines Patrick E. McGoverna, Armen Mirzoianb, and Gretchen R. Halla (Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and...

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The Role of Birds across the Religious Landscape of Ancient Egypt

The Role of Birds across the Religious Landscape of Ancient Egypt Foy Scalf Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt, Oriental Institute Museum Publications 35 (Chicago: Oriental Institute,...

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