Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher
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For our new virtual tour, blog and film of this amazing place see:
#ancientegypt
#valleyofthekings
#boltonsegypt
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😢As
#Egyptian
priestess Tutu mourns her husband Ani the scribe, her carefully applied kohl eye makeup starts to run down her cheeks - take a look at Tutu's actual kohl tube and applicator in our new blog 'Secrets of an Ancient Beauty Box' at:
(image: BM)
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😍 The 'Two Ladies' Wadjet the cobra & Nekhbet the vulture, heraldic deities of northern & southern
#Egypt
, protecting an Eye of Horus pectoral necklace of
#Tutankhamun
with exquisite cosmetic lines - part of our forthcoming talk (image: Cairo Museum)
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😮Superb bronze figure of the
#Egyptian
falcon god Horus c.1069-664 BC, from the ancient capital Memphis. Such power... and what a face! (image: Louvre)
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'Come on! Move off!' says this handsome
#Egyptian
lad, herding his cattle c.1380 BC. Loved him since school days when he inspired my
#Egyptian
-themed Art 'O' Level project over 40 years ago(!), & he'll be with us
@WiganMuseum
for our talk very soon 😍
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The great Queen Tiye, grandmother of
#Tutankhamun
(looking like she has heard of my 'admiration' for her husband Amenhotep III😍) - her portrayal with the body of a lioness is part of our forthcoming talk
@WiganMuseum
(image: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
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@AlisonFisk
...and for an even tinier frog, check out this teeny
#Egyptian
beauty from
#Amarna
c.1340 BC, now in the collection
@BoltonLMS
with curator
@trumerz
finger for scale! (Image:
@trumerz
)
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🐊 Our old friend Kha, foreman of the royal tomb builders, with his very handy 'Spell for Repelling a Crocodile' - part of his 14m long Book of the Dead as featured in our talk 'Pharaoh's Creatures: the Animal World of Ancient Egypt' coming soon
@WiganMuseum
(image: Museo Egizio)
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For
#Caturday
, this image by the brilliant
@msar_qedut
is a close-up of the Book of the Dead of Yuya, great-grandfather of
#Tutankhamun
. Almost 20 metres long & full of superb details, it's now in Cairo Museum - with more cats at
😻
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🐍Stunning protective uraeus representing Wadjet the
#Egyptian
cobra goddess c.1880 BC, found in the Lahun pyramid of Sesostris II & likely once part of the royal headgear (image: Egyptian Museum Cairo)
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Nice to be quoted in this
#Newsweek
article about the Asyut tomb of Edi, daughter of nomarch Hepdjefa/Djefaihapi recently discovered by the joint team from the universities of Sohag & Berlin (image: Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities)
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The
#Egyptian
priestess Tutu, 'chantress of Amun' c.1250 BC - so much superb detail from the red ties of her headband to the Hathor-head sistrum, her precisely applied cosmetics and what an amazing hairstyle/wig! (image: BM)
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Our new blog 'Ancient Egypt in the North: the Valley of the Kings in Bolton' is now at with our new film at
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@AlisonFisk
We were lucky enough to handle this kohl tube along with Merit's matching perfume pot and the rest of her
#cosmetics
set - see 8 minutes 20 seconds into (image is ours) 🤩
#ancientegypt
rocks!
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Today is
#GlobalCatDay
♥️🐈♥️ so lets celebrate with this wonderful
#Egyptian
amulet featuring a cat & her 8 kittens c.1070-664 BC - all this detail at less than 7cm tall! (image: MMA)
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🐈The BM's famous
#Egyptian
bronze cat c.600 BC representing goddess Bast aka Bastet ‘She of the perfume pot’, & with perfumes usually stored in pots of alabaster to keep cool, Bast's name is the likely origin of the word 'alabaster'
(image: Nic McPhee)
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I think I'll take this one😍 For
#Caturday
Eve I give you
#Sekhmet
surrounded by diamonds, made by Cartier in 1923 and part of our talk
@WiganMuseum
in October (image: Getty)
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Telly time - the first episode of our 4-part series 'Immortal Egypt' is on BBC4 tonight at 9pm
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😍 Superb
#Egyptian
'tweezer razor' aka hair/wig curler c.1550-1450 BC, rendered in gold rather than the usual bronze, with more ancient Egyptian hair action at and (image: MMA)
#AncientAdornmentsProject
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Coming soon...... 😊
In the company of expert Egyptologist, author and tv presenter Professor Joann Fletcher
@ImmortalEgypt
we travel through history and gain new perspectives on the sites and people who inhabited them. This is more a journey of discovery than mystery.
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Ancient
#Egyptian
priestess Anhai, 'Chantress of Amun, Leader of the Musicians of Osiris, Nebtu & Khnum' c.1100 BC, whose superb cosmetics, wig, jewellery & perfume all subjects we'll be covering in future events...... can't wait! 💋💄💍💅
(image: BM)
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Massive THANKS to every one of the 57,416 people who came to see our Tut’22 exhibition in Barnsley during its 5-month run
@EBMuseum
@BarnsleyMHT
@BoltonLMS
For more see
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Honoured to be featured in the new exhibition 'A Life Imitating Art' which has just opened
@CannonHall1760
showcasing the work of Andy Dunkley, photographer for the Tate Gallery and RAF
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Quoted in CNN story about a 4000 year old red ‘lipstick’ from Iran pointing out that it may alternatively have been used to colour the cheeks, and that such red cosmetics first appear in
#Egypt
some 2000 years before this new find (photo mine)
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Hugely honoured to have been appointed patron of the north's leading environmental &
arts festival BIG IDEAS BY THE SEA! It’s brilliant to be working with
@bigideassea
@yorkarchaeology
@heritageadvUK
@MarieEWoods
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For
#WorldLionDay
everyone needs a little Sekhmet in their life, this head of the mighty Egyptian goddess part of one of the hundreds of Sekhmet statues created by the equally mighty Amenhotep III c.1380 BC 😻😻😻
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@AlisonFisk
...and these beads here, found in a Bronze Age Danish burial, are now known to have been originally produced at the
#Egyptian
city of Amarna, birthplace of
#Tutankhamun
(image: National Museum of Denmark)
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Presenting
@BoltonLMS
Museum's stunning wine goblet c.1300 BC, the star of our new YouTube film at
Subscribe for free to start following us on our journey 😊(image courtesy of the wonderful Yorkshire Post)
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Honoured to feature on the cover and inside
@TheEES
magazine 'Egyptian Archaeology' with the article '
#Tutankhamun
, Art &
#Yorkshire
' (with a fair few mentions of
#Barnsley
obviously) 😍
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🤩The mighty female
#pharaoh
#Hatshepsut
as a
#lion
-bodied sphinx - see her today in our '
#Egypt
's Lost Queens' on PBS and in our talk
@WiganMuseum
coming soon, details at: (image: MMA)
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🏆Beyond honoured to be 1st recipient of the 'Lotus Chalice Award' presented by Mayor of Bolton on 140th anniversary of the opening of Bolton Museum - enormous thanks to everyone involved ♥️♥️♥️
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🥰Delighted to be heading back to
#Wigan
again next month to give our annual July lecture for the fabulous
@horuswigan
with details at:
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Back on BBC4 tonight for episode 2 of 'Immortal Egypt'
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👑Coming soon! Our 'Egypt's Lost Queens' on PBS
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It's almost time... 🍷come & share an ancient vintage in
#Scarborough
with our talk about Ancient Egyptian Wine, part of the fabulous Books by the Beach Festival, tickets at & our wine films at where you can subscribe for free! 🍷🥰
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😍Brilliant image of
#Hatshepsut
, one of
#Egypt
's most famous female pharaohs - enthroned in this life-sized sculpted figure, she can also be seen sprinting around the sacred race track in our new blog at: (fab image by R.Koopman)
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🍷Join the wine-loving cat goddess Bastet for '
#Wine
in Ancient Egypt: from the gods' temples to
#Cleopatra
's table’ at ‘Books by the Beach’ festival - tickets at: & til then subscribe for free to our wine films at (image: E.Corsi)
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💋💋💋In our new blog coinciding with
#LondonFashionWeek
, check out the amazing ancient
#Egyptian
#beauty
box containing the secrets to priestess Tutu's 'signature look' -
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📷Cheers! 📷
@ImmortalEgypt
's
#YouTube
channel is NOW LIVE! 📷 Watch Prof Joann Fletcher reveal Tutankhamun's white wine secret at
@BoltonLMS
. 📷 Like, subscribe, and hit the bell to join us for more on a journey through time!📷📷
#Egyptology
#SubscribeNow
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😍Totally in love with this jewelled pectoral necklace & counterpoise which royal scribe Hunefer offers to the
#Egyptian
gods c.1285 BC - you can even make out seated deities, a scarab & the individual beads!
#AncientAdornmentsProject
(image: BM)
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With today's Thames
#boatrace
, worth pointing out
#Egypt
has long produced champion rowers, from
#Tutankhamun
’s great-great grandfather Amenhotep II to Emma Benany, first female head coach of Egypt’s male & female rowing teams
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To celebrate
#WorldLionDay
, this 5,000 year old
#Egyptian
board game in Cairo Museum features small ivory lions as gaming pieces, more of which can be found in collections like the wonderful
@BoltonLMS
♥️🦁♥️ (image: Egypt Museum)
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And as our blinged up ancient
#Egyptian
weekend continues, possibly the most awesome perfume bottle in the world...... 🤩 (image: Parfumo)
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Although the marathon is associated with ancient Greece,
#ancientegypt
's armies undertook training runs of up to 100km long & even the
#pharaohs
required to run to demonstrate their prowess as early as c.3000 BC (see 9 minutes into )
#LondonMarathon
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So honoured to be giving the annual Barbara Canham Turner lecture for
@UniOfHull
in April, celebrating our long term work with the university and the many links between ancient Egypt and Yorkshire
#AncientEgyptYorks
#hullunieventsuu
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@AlisonFisk
They also have a lovely Egyptian ceramic hedgehog in the brilliant
@BoltonLMS
collection, a great favourite of
#Bolton
curator
@trumerz
- it has a tiny bead or stone inside suggesting it was a child's rattle perhaps...
#BoltonsEgypt
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@AlisonFisk
There's just something about an ancient blue drinking vessel........ this superb example
@BoltonLMS
(image Yorkshire Post)
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All 4 episodes of our 'Immortal Egypt' series now available on BBC iPlayer at:
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@AlisonFisk
And exactly the same 'sprang' technique was used in
#Egypt
- check out the detail on this fabulous
#Egyptian
woollen head cover from Karanis c.30 BC–AD 395 with its red & cream detail, part of
@BoltonLMS
world-class Egyptian
#textile
collection 😍
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Fab news! 🥳Delighted to announce our touring exhibition 'Resurrecting
#Ancient
#Egypt
: a Monumental
#Yorkshire
Journey' will be coming to the Treasure House in beautiful
#Beverley
in the autumn accompanied by Egypt-related content from
@ERMuseums
collections
#ancientegyptyorks
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@ExploreWellcome
Hmmmm... a make up palette? Not really. It is a slab for the Seven Sacred Oils used in temple and tomb rituals - for further information see this complete example at
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Just been quoted by CNN in a story about a 4000 year old red ‘lipstick’ discovered in Iran, pointing out that evidence for red cosmetics in
#Egypt
dates back to the Neolithic some 2000 years earlier (image Museo Egizio) 💋
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Wow! Finally received the
#Chinese
edition of
#StoryofEgypt
- love the dust jacket, although the black & gold inner cover is even more beautiful ❤️
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Tonight on BBC4, the final episode of Immortal Egypt takes us from the blue seas of Alexandria to the pyramids of Sudan via subterranean Sakkara, ending on the Thames Embankment with Cleopatra’s Needle
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Immortal Egypt: The Series is back on BBC telly - Thursday nights on BBC4
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STUNNING! 😮 A golden face from the Golden Age of
#ancientEgypt
, star of our BBC2 series Immortal Egypt & new galleries
@WiganMuseum
- find out her link to
#Wigan
-born John Scott, whose reforms ended forced labour in Egypt after almost 5000 years, at:
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Did you know
#Tutankhamun
's royal palace was adorned with these replica glazed grapes? 🍇🍇🍇Join me as we explore
#AncientEgypt
wine art treasures
@BoltonLMS
. Watch the full video and subscribe to my brand new
@ImmortalEgypt
YouTube channel at
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So looking forward to our event ‘ANCIENT EGYPT: NEW STORIES’ at this year’s Filey Literature Festival on 12th May in beautiful
#filey
, tickets at:
(image: Radio Times/Lion Television)
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Come and spend the day with us
@BoltonLMS
for talks, handling sessions and a film ‘all about mummification’ ('Mummifying Alan') on 7th September, supported by
@UniOfYork
and
@TheEES
– details at the end of our new blog
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Sad to see the news about Yorkshire legend Sir Michael Parkinson - honoured to feature in the same exhibition 'Yorkshire Made Me' created by
@kytephotography
held at
@CooperBarnsley
and
@YSPsculpture
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Great to be able to contribute to this
#CNN
article about the missing
#sarcophagus
of
#Ramses
II at:
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🐍Superb
#Egyptian
cobra wand/staff in the Louvre collection, part of our talk 'Pharaoh's Creatures: the Animal World of Ancient Egypt' coming soon
@WiganMuseum
(with possibly a few felines too....🐈🐈🐈)
Book at 01942 828128 or at:
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Beyond honoured to feature in this line up of inspirational
#Barnsley
women by
@DanJarvisMP
marking
#InternationalWomensDay
- thank you so much!
#ProudofBarnsley
@BarnsleyMuseums
@BarnsleyCouncil
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For more
#ancientegypt
in the North, enter the
#ValleyoftheKings
in
#Bolton
! Our virtual tour of the burial chamber of
#pharaoh
Tuthmosis III - the only replica royal tomb outside
#Egypt
- is now at thanks to the magicians
@FrontRowLive360
&
@GW1962
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@AlisonFisk
....and check out the gazelle head diadems worn by Henut and Nehemet c.1380 BC, two of the beautiful daughters of
#Egyptian
royal scribe Menna - such breath-taking detail! (image: MMA )
#AncientAdornmentsProject
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Great to be cited in this new article about an individual from the Senenmut tomb group we studied back in 1997 – & yet another example of the ancient use of multiple hair extensions (as we discuss at ) (image: Frontiers in Medicine)
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@AlisonFisk
Plus the dog's distinctive pose is very reminiscent of the Egyptians' guardian-like black jackal god Anubis shown here. And since by Roman times Anubis was a close companion of Egypt's goddess Isis, who of course had a temple at Pompeii, it does make you wonder.......
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Fab turnout last night in C.12th St Mary's for film highlights of this year’s
@bigideassea
festival including
@DavidSillitoBBC
- plus an exhibition of finds from the accompanying Big Dig and exciting plans for
@bigideassea
2024 with
@yorkarchaeology
,
@MarieEWoods
,
@heritageadvUK
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Our new blog at features the classic book ‘Isis in the Ancient World’ by Rex Witt, tracing the spread of the goddess’ worship from Egypt across the ancient world, with unexpected links to the surrealist art of Chorley-born Leonora Carrington 😍
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Tonight we bring you the awesome Amenhotep III, and the stunning gold coffin face of our 18th dynasty 'Wigan Lady'
@WiganMuseum
- episode 3 of Immortal Egypt tonight on BBC4
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@AlisonFisk
And check out this wonderful alabastron with its 'marine landscape' - made in Greece c.1500-1450 BC and found at Armant in southern Egypt (image: BM)🐙😍
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And for
#Caturday
, this fabulous
#cat
within the main East Window of
#Scarborough
's St Marys church - perfect backdrop to our recent talk 'Paradise by the Pyramids' for this year's
@bigideassea
festival & the window even featuring
#pyramids
themselves! (Image: D.Webster) 😻😇🐈⬛
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At this time of year, we look at some of the best Egyptian-inspired architecture in Yorkshire
@undercliffecem
inspired by this wonderful sphinx-in-the-snow image taken by John Dewhirst
@jpdewhirst
and our work with
@kytephotography
and
@BarnsleyMuseums
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This superb 18th dynasty
#Egyptian
carnelian cat set on a gold ring - admittedly not one of our raffle prizes
@CatsShelter
, but we do have one
#Egyptian
item 😻with tickets now available at:
(image: BM)
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Delighted that our touring exhibition for
@BarnsleyMuseums
‘Resurrecting Ancient Egypt: A Monumental Yorkshire Journey’ has now arrived at the Holding Space Gallery in Saltaire, combining our research on
#AncientEgyptYorks
with images
@undercliffecem
etc. by
@KytePhotography
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What a great night, concluding a very successful
#Filey
Literature Festival with our ‘Story of Egypt’ for an audience of old/new friends & the Mayor of Filey. Next stop
#Scarborough
with two amazing festivals, Big Ideas by the Sea & Books by the Beach - see you there! 📚😍📚
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Really looking forward to our annual pilgrimage to The Horus Egyptology Society
@horuswigan
this week to look at some of
#Egypt
's golden faces - including this local beauty
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For a little 'Paradise by the Pyramids' in May 🌞🌴🌞tickets for this Big Ideas by the Sea event now available at with the full fabulous programme at
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For
#InternationalCatDay
tomb scenes of Egyptian official Nebamun c.1360 BC show him hunting by the Nile while the cat beside him catches birds amidst the butterflies, the cat's eye originally overlaid with gold to shine out within the tomb's darkness
@CatsShelter
@CatsProtection
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All hail Sekhmet! Such an incredible image that really conveys what she must have meant to the ancient
#Egyptians
- stunning! (image by
@li_hendodo
)
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Wonderful to see Stephen's work on the chemistry of mummification featured in this brilliant initiative by
@RoySocChem
and
@EnableScience
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Our wine-themed journey through ancient Egypt now continues at (image (c) 20th Century Fox)
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Joann's fascinating 'Egypt's Lost Queens' is coming your way again on BBC4 at 8pm this Thursday (June 21st) - covering some of the greats - Hatshepsut, Nefertari Arsinoe.
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@AlisonFisk
And for a rather more unnerving hippo this figurine of
#Tutankhamun
's grandmother Queen Tiye c.1370 BC, portrayed as the fearsome goddess Taweret 🦛🥰 🦛 & now in Turin (image: Immortal Egypt)
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HAPPY YORKSHIRE DAY ♥️♥️♥️ - the joint best place on the planet.......
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@wmarybeard
Amelia remains a huge inspiration for so many reasons, so it was a massive honour to help unveil this blue plaque on one of her homes with
@TheEES
colleagues back in 2015 -
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@AlisonFisk
@BoltonLMS
@trumerz
@horuswigan
@GW1962
@HazelMcGuinness
@jlivemowl
@WiganMuseum
And just when you thought the tiny frog was as small as
#Egyptian
amulets get, check out this fabulous teeny
#hedgehog
c.1500-1300 BC found at Hu/Diospolis Parva 1898-1899 & presented to
@BoltonLMS
, with curator
@trumerz
finger for scale! (Image:
@trumerz
)
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The golden mask that can be seen in Wigan Museum. Sadly we don't know the name of the lady on the left - the one on the right is Prof Joann Fletcher
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