Newly Opened Tombs in Luxor

Newly Opened Tombs in Luxor

Newly Opened Tombs in Luxor By Laura Ranieri Roy By guest contributor, Egyptologist and photographer Sharon Davidson  These two richly decorated tombs were opened in September 2019, but due to COVID I was only able to visit them recently.  The ticket was originally...
Everything Old is New Again: Travel to Egypt in 2023 and 2024

Everything Old is New Again: Travel to Egypt in 2023 and 2024

Highlights of our Recent Egypt Tour – And Why To Travel to Egypt Soon! By Laura Ranieri Roy It is a very special time in Egypt. I will even venture to say, the most special, perhaps, since after Tutmania hit in the 1920s with Carter’s tomb discovery. With a...
The Giza Pyramid Plateau Reimagined

The Giza Pyramid Plateau Reimagined

     A new experience awaits travelers in 2022 and beyond  By Laura Ranieri                                                                            The Great Pyramid of Egypt of King Khufu and the pyramids of his son, grandson and queens on the Giza...
Queen Elizabeth & Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Pharaohs

Queen Elizabeth & Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Pharaohs

Elizabeth II and Ancient Egypt’s Kings: how they compare by Laura Ranieri Roy The death of 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth has plunged Great Britain and most of the world into a long period of mourning. This extraordinary Queen, with us throughout our lifetimes, has...
The Canadian and the Cow Shrine: An Egypt Discovery Story

The Canadian and the Cow Shrine: An Egypt Discovery Story

Charles Currelly and The Hathor Shine from Deir el Bahri  The Hathor Cow Shine, on discovery  For more than a century, the Hathor shrine with its cow statue has been a unique masterpiece within Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, with its dramatic scenes within a sandstone...
All about the Rosetta Stone

All about the Rosetta Stone

200-year celebration: Champollion, the basalt slab & how the hieroglyphic code was cracked. By Laura Ranieri Roy In September 1822, the eureka moment happened. An impoverished young French scholar, Jean Francois Champollion, made a giant leap forward to solve the...