Nevine El-Aref , Monday 7 Aug 2023 More than 850 scholars, archaeologists, heritage experts, Egyptologists, and students from 32 countries, including Egypt, have converged on Leiden, the Netherlands, ...

So said Harvard’s Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology Peter Der Manuelian ’81, as he gave directions to his office in the Semitic Musuem at 6 Divinity Avenue. The Semitic Museum, Harvard’s showcase ...

After years dedicated to shedding light on the work of the late Harvard Egyptology Professor George A. Reisner, Class of 1889, Peter D. Manuelian ’81 will become the first egyptology professor at ...

Egyptologist whose discoveries at Amarna shed new light on urban life in the ancient world The Egyptologist and archaeologist Barry Kemp, who has died aged 84, transformed our understanding of ...

Public “unwrappings” of real mummified human remains performed by both showmen and scientists heightened the fascination, but also helped develop the growing science of Egyptology, says a historian.

We know how white people in London, Paris and New York viewed the discovery of Tutankhamun - but much less attention is paid to the contemporary Egyptian reaction The canopic jars which contained the ...

British author Toby Wilkinson presents a rogues gallery of early Egyptologists in his new book A World Beneath the Sands The surviving sites and monuments of ancient Egypt have always been a source of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Cal State San Bernardino now has a certificate for that. The university’s Department of History is launching a new Egyptology program for undergraduates and ...

From Napoleon and the Great Pyramid to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb ... archeological explorations and European colonialism In 1880, a ship from Alexandria moored off 23rd Street, New York City ...