On 12 February, the eminent Egyptian Egyptologist and dean of Egyptian archaeologists Ali Radwan, emeritus professor of Egyptology at Cairo University, passed away. His death is a great loss to the fields of archaeology and Egyptology and to all of (...)
The German archaeologist Rainer Stadelmann passed away on 14 January, and all those who knew him or knew of him will recognise this great loss to the field of archaeology, Egyptology, and to all of us in Egypt, Germany, and the rest of the world.
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum (BAAM) in Alexandria opened in 2002, and it is probably the only museum in the world built in a library. It houses antiquities found in situ during the construction of the Library of Alexandria.
Having (...)
The Saite Period was one of the last glorious periods of ancient Egyptian history and lasted for 138 years (664-526 BC). The dynasty came to rule Egypt due to various factors, including the flight of the Kushites to the south under Assyrian attacks (...)
The writing of the non-royal self, or life-writing, is one of the most ancient literary practices through which individuals wished to express their identity and leave their fingerprints on time to avoid forgetfulness and ensure survival.
This genre (...)
Ancient Egypt was a splendid society that alternated between glory and debility. Life at the royal court saw events driven by jealousy, ambition and hectic conspiracies where the attempt to gain the throne could give rise to the most florid (...)
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have visited Japan twice in the last two years. The first time was in 2017 when I accompanied the Egyptological exhibition the “Golden Pharaohs and Pyramids: Treasures from the Egyptian Museum” about the Pyramid builders and their age to the (...)
The colossal statue of the legendary Pharaoh Ramses II moved to its final destination in the grand hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on the Giza Plateau this week, ready to receive visitors when the GEM opens its doors in the near future. But (...)
Civilisation began in Egypt's Nile Valley and Delta. The ancient Egyptians, the builders of this unique civilisation, were distinguished for their skill, perseverance, calmness, forbearance, faith and tolerance.
Egypt is also a meeting place for (...)
Self-presentation, the most ancient and crucial component of high culture, existed in ancient Egypt. Elite members of this culture presented themselves through language, art and other material expressions. The study of this phenomenon seeks to (...)
The distinguished Egyptian archaeologist and Egyptologist Ahmed Abdel-Kader Al-Sawy passed away on the morning of 30 September after a long journey with illness.
Al-Sawy was born in Imbaba in Giza, the son of a mayor of the villages of the Imbaba (...)
On 16 July this year, Tohfa Handoussa, often called the “mother of Egyptian archaeologists” and a distinguished emeritus professor of Egyptology at the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University, passed away after a long illness.
Handoussa was one (...)
It is a great pleasure to write about Mervat Seifeddin, the mistress of the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria.
I first met Seifeddin at the Graeco-Roman Museum in 1996 when I was starting my early career at the Supreme Council of Antiquities (now (...)
A great friend of Egypt
The renowned American Egyptologist and lover of Egypt professor William Kelly Simpson passed away recently at the age of 89. Simpson was a great friend and lover of Egypt. He spent his whole life and distinguished career in (...)
Egypt and the academic world as a whole is mourning the passing of a leading figure in historical studies and one of the few scholars who pointed the way to discovering Egypt's glorious as well as unfortunately not very well-known past.
In February, (...)
The Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was one of the greatest novelists ever to have written about ancient Egypt. It is not strange that he was a big fan of ancient Egypt, as even when he was a child his mother used to take him on visits (...)
Mohamed Abdel-Halim Noureddin, a pioneer in Egyptology, died Wednesday 16 November. He was 73.
Noureddin, who taught at Cairo University, was born in the village of Al-Ramlah in Benha in 1943. He graduated from the Department of Egyptology, the (...)
More than 50 years have passed since the Egyptian request to the UN cultural organisation UNESCO to launch an international campaign to safeguard the monuments of Nubia by the late Tharwat Okasha, a former minister of culture.
The campaign (...)