By Laura Ranieri Roy A lot of people assume Egypt’s great Valley of the Kings is an exclusive old boys club. Or “old dead Pharaoh’s club”, shall we say. The truth may surprise you. The royal burial ground of the ancient Egyptians for 500 years during the New Kingdom...
A pastiche of stories from our journey through Sudan, October 2021 by Laura Ranieri Roy We were honoured to be part of a small group of travel experts and journalists to travel through the unfathomed land of North Sudan in October 2021 – and met with wonders each step...
Special guest blog by Jeanne Whitehurst, English Egyptologist living in Aswan Temples were built for over 3,500 years in Ancient Egypt, the earliest, mostly, open courts sun temples to the sun god Re while the last one to be built was the cult Temple to Isis at Philae...
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...
by Amtul Jabeen and Laura Ranieri ‘You Greeks are children infront of us’, said an Ancient Egyptian Priest to a Greek in 6th Century BC. His words prophesied the beginning of the great civilization of Greece, and the domination of Greeks in Egypt from...
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...
