by Laura Ranieri Roy Soaring, gleaming – elegantly modern and refined. A repository of the greatest archaeological treasures in the world. I am speaking of course about the Grand Egyptian Museum – the GEM — a wondrous edifice that now rises at the foot of the...
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...
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...
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...
How Egypt’s enduring antiquities give us hope, insight, and inspiration. Ahhh…The pyramids of Egypt. Their magnificence, antiquity, and unfathomable human accomplishment inspire awe and amazement. Can you imagine how divine they would have appeared when still covered...
A few highlights from the 73rd annual American Research Centre in Egypt (ARCE) Conference, April 22-24, 2022 By Laura Ranieri Roy Tutankhamun stories, Highclere gin and the palpable excitement of new discoveries, fresh research insight – in equal measure with...
