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Exploring Amarna: Akhenaten’s Abandoned City
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?
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... »
