Egyptology

Art

The digital Ozymandias: Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian on his mission to make Giza last forever

‘I’d like to say we’re trying to be the repository for Giza’s past, Giza’s present and Giza’s future’

William Newton

Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra girlbosses against historical fact

Watching it felt alarmingly like witnessing the death of scholarship

James Walton

Netflix’s black Cleopatra is ahistorical

The wish to find female African heroines is understandable — but it is also vital to get the facts right

David Abulafia

In defense of Joshua Katz

A mother-in-law’s manifesto

Kari Jenson Gold

Books

The scholars who solved the riddles in the sands

A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson reviewed

A.S.H. Smyth