Installation view of the 2024 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® Pharaoh, a collaboration between the British Museum and the NGV, on display from June 14 – October 6 2024 at NGV International, Melbourne.
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Many exhibitions of ancient Egyptian art have been held in Australia. Pharaoh, at the National Gallery of Victoria, is outstanding for its scope, scale and presentation.
The pyramids at Giza, like dozens of others, are located several kilometres west of the current path of the Nile.
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Some of popular culture’s most famous ghosts and demons have roots in ancient Mesopotamia. What did ancient humans believe about the supernatural? And what stories did they tell?
Basil Rathbone in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939).
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It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
Many snakes were probably much more widespread in ancient Egypt.
Composite image. Mamba: W. Wüster. Pyramids: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0. Montage: W. Wüster.
Some time measurements, like months and years, use the movements of the moon and sun, respectively. But other time measurements, like the hour, aren’t clearly connected to astronomical phenomena.
Jewelry of the kandake Amanishakheto from a pyramid at Meroe.
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We uncovered evidence of a rebellion so significant, that events such as Cleopatra’s affairs and the rise of Christianity may not have come to pass without it.
Several studies have upended what we thought we knew about mummification using scientific dating techniques to reveal some fascinating – and surprising – insights.
An archaeologist works at the site of the discoveries in Saqqara.
Mohamed Hossam Eldin