The Oxford Handbook of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is thus the first major handbook to collect and synthesise the wide-ranging scholarship
The first Dutch exhibition about mummy portraits aka Fayum portraits opens at the Allard Pierson in October
A new Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, MagEIA – Magic between Entanglement, Interaction, and Analogy
The analysis of silver bracelets found in the tomb of queen Hetepheres I reveals ancient trade networks involving Greece and Lebanon
The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins — which were imaged using a non-invasive technique — are described in a study
Allard Pierson starts international research on twelve mummy portraits, two from its own collection and ten from partner museums in Europe
An Egyptian-German research team has uncovered more colorful ceiling paintings at the Temple of Esna in Upper Egypt
A new study ratifies that carnivores did not participate in the accumulation of human remains in the Sima de los Huesos
New insights into the chemistry of embalming show how globalized trade relationships had already become nearly 3,000 years ago
‘Golden boy’ mummy was protected by 49 precious amulets, CT scans reveal; the study has been published in Frontiers in Medicine