Tag: Egyptology

  • Nation & World

    Life seeking answers at Giza, Nubia

    Egyptologist George Reisner transformed the field, and a biography by Peter Der Manuelian explores not just his career, but his life during what some consider the golden age of Egyptian archaeology.

    9 minutes
    George Reisner with a bronze vase from a 1923 excavation.
  • Nation & World

    What coin tells you about realm

    New classics professor Irene Soto Marín mines answers to question about ancient Egyptian life, economy from everyday artifacts.

    5 minutes
    Irene Soto Marín.
  • Nation & World

    The boy king’s throne

    On the 100th anniversary of discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb, an Egyptian jewel comes to Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

    4 minutes
    Detail of replica of King Tut throne.
  • Nation & World

    Brewery fit for a king

    The remains of a 5000-year-old brewery found in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos are providing insights into the relationship between large-scale beer production and the development of kingship in Egypt.

    4 minutes
    Zoom presentation.
  • Nation & World

    Good things come in ancient packages

    Project to make complete visual digital records of three 3,000-year-old coffins turns up a painting of a deity.

    6 minutes
    Dennis Piechota (left), Jane Drake, and Adam Aja view the inside of the coffin of Ankh-khonsu.
  • Nation & World

    Tut, tut!

    Ralph Mitchell, a Harvard professor and authority on cultural heritage microbiology, investigates “fingerprints” left on the walls of Egyptian King Tutankhamen’s tomb by ancient microbes.

    5 minutes