THE SPLENDOURS OF LUXOR
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...
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