Thursday, 2 September 2021

Magic in Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egyptians firmly believed in “heka”, the power of magic,  Nothing in the Universe was conceived without being animated by that power...
Thursday, 19 August 2021

Set the Murderer

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 Set the Murderer Set  was the son of Nut the Goddess of the sky and Geb the God of the earth, he was the brother of Osiris, whom he murdere...
Monday, 19 July 2021

Senenmout and the courageous Hatshepsut

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Senenmout, was not a noble, he came from a lower background, but he rose to become the man of the utmost importance during the reign of a ve...
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Saturday, 10 July 2021

The Pharaoh Tutankhamun's Personal Photographer: Harry Burton

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In 1913 Theodore Davis expressed his opinion that  the "valley had been exhausted" (the Valley of the Kings) unfortunately  he was...
Monday, 5 July 2021

May your Spirit Live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes - Howard Carter & the Curse of Tutankhamun

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  On a cold day in March 1939 a small congregation of nine people stood around a gravestone which had the following inscription: 'May yo...
Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Margaret Benson a 19th Century Amateur Egyptologist & her Discoveries at the Temple of Mut

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 At the age of twenty Margaret Benson was taken ill with scarlet fever, and by the time she was twenty-five she had developed the symptoms o...
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Sunday, 20 June 2021

Theodore Davis Egyptologist & Emma Buttles Andrews mistress & Travelling Companion, who recorded all Davis' discoveries in her Diaries

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After her husband was admitted to a mental hospital, and his subsequent death,  Emma Buttles Andrews became the mistress and travelling comp...