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Exploring Amarna: Akhenaten’s Abandoned City

By Ben Morales-Correa

Image via Wikipedia Exploring Amarna: Akhenaten’s Abandoned City is a course directed by Professor Barry Kemp, a renowned Egyptologist and Director of excavations at the site since 1977. This will be a unique opportunity to hear Professor Kemp give a week of lectures in addition to guided tours of Tell el-Amarna. Course Description This course will be... »

Cleopatra's true face?

By Ben Morales-Correa

Image by mharrsch via Flickr The world seems to have this pervading fascination with Cleopatra’s beauty, but how did she really look like? Using images from ancient artefacts including a ring dating from Cleopatra’s reign 2,000 years ago, Cambridge University’s Sally Ann Ashton has pieced together an entirely different image that shows her as a mixed... »