Nefertiti lived and reigned during the 14th century BCE as a Queen of Egypt and the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV. While her birth place remains unconfirmed, her origins are believed to be have been in Syria. Her husband Pharaoh Amenhotep had reinvented himself as...
Mehet-Weret was the deity of the sky in ancient Egyptian religion, whose mention dates back to the Pyramid Texts of Unas. These are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious texts that were created with the intention of helping the Pharaoh into the Egyptian...
Hatshepsut absolutely fascinates me, for the simple fact that she was one of Egypt’s greatest Pharaohs and until recently, had remained relatively unknown. Her reign was during the 18th Dynasty in the New Kingdom and ran from approximately 1478 to...
I came across this dress in the first week I moved to London and the first week of my studies in Archaeology. It fascinated me straight away. It is made from linen, comes from Egypt and dates to around 3000BC – which means it’s...
Whenever I travel to a new city I always try to visit at least one museum, however the British Museum in London remains my favourite to date, I can easily spend days in there and still find something new and exciting. The British Museum holds a very large and varied...
