Ancient Egypt

The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 reopened arguments about the presumed race of the ancient Egyptians.

Recently discovered papyri give unprecedented insight into the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Despite the belief of their Pharaohs, not every ancient Egyptian was convinced of the certainty of an eternal afterlife.

The ancient Egyptian gods of creation and knowledge vanquish the ‘Lord of Chaos’.

Despite a total lack of evidence, the belief that grains of wheat found in Ancient Egyptian tombs could produce bountiful crops was surprisingly hardy. 

Kate Wiles surveys one of the world's oldest surviving maps, prepared for a quarrying expedition led by Ramesses IV.

Egyptian artisans produced work that continues to amaze millennia later, but they were human and fallible, too, and their work was often far from perfect.

The archaeologist Howard Carter died on 2 March 1939.

In the year 30 BC one of the most remarkable women who have ever lived, Cleopatra, the Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt, perished by her own hand.