Sep 7, 2021
Tips, Discoveries, and Recommendations from our Recent Trip by Laura Ranieri Roy You can’t travel now… certainly not to Egypt??? There’s COVID out there! Pish tosh I say. With the right precautions, good health and a “let’s get on with life attitude” you certainly...
May 8, 2021
Sorting out the three museums in Cairo by Laura Ranieri Roy It seems every week there’s news about another museum in Cairo Egypt. From the iconic Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, that magnificent 1902 “antiquities warehouse”, where the Royal Mummies began their great...
Apr 4, 2021
Glorious Procession – a Sign of a Bright Future for Egypt By:Laura Ranieri Roy Three millennia after the great civilization of Egypt began its rocky descent – though war, division and foreign rule, it shines again. So brightly. A harbinger of great things to...
Jan 5, 2021
A Treasure Trove of Mummies, Coffins – and a Kushite Pyramidion by Laura Ranieri Roy “We have never stopped in the face of Corona”. This inspiring motto is the title of a booklet about the Grand Egyptian Museum, that long-anticipated treasure that should – in...
Sep 22, 2020
British Museum mummy show breathes life into ROM after lockdown. By Laura Ranieri A priest’s spectacular golden mask. A temple singer with three stunning, ornate nested coffins. A roman baby who was given a lavish burial. At the British Mummies show opening this week...
Apr 15, 2020
By Laura Ranieri Tomb of Innerkhau TT359, Deir el Medina. (Innerkau and wife enjoy beautiful music in the afterlife, played by a blind harper) Photo by Laura Ranieri As I wake up, grab my phone and scan another day of terrifying news headlines, spread by the dark...
