Aug 5, 2022
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...
May 25, 2022
By Laura Ranieri Roy It was my extreme pleasure this May (though the displeasure of my feet, which trod more than 4 hours through this massive complex) to visit the great Vatican Museum in the Vatican City, Rome. What an embarrassment of riches it holds...
May 28, 2021
Our Top Five List of Iconic Egyptian Archaeologists – from la Belle France by Laura Ranieri Today in Egypt, so many brilliant Egypt-born Egyptologists lead important excavations. It’s high time! Native Egyptians have finally climbed to the “top of the pyramid” on...
