The Eloquent Peasant

Here in the UK these days, most people are preoccupied by the widespread unrest in our cities. Now I don’t write about politics, but I do research and write about social differences in ancient Egypt. I find it interesting to note that the debates we’re having today about criminality, deprivation, & social responsibility can also [...]

Games in ancient Egypt “God moves the player and he, the piece.
 What god behind God originates the scheme?” – Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) One of the things I love most about studying ancient Egypt is that although mummies and pyramids make the Egyptians seem exotic, the more you learn about them, the more that [...]

London has always had a fascination with ancient Egypt dating back to the ‘Egyptomania’ of Victorian times and today the city is recognized as one of the foremost centres of Egyptological research. The collection of the British Museum is world renowned, as is its most famous exhibit, the Rosetta Stone. But there are many other [...]

I stumbled across the weblog of an acquaintance of mine and found that he’d written a quite nice ‘History of Ancient Egypt in Ten Paragraphs’. It’s just a summary so obviously much is left unsaid, but it is still a good overview of an astonishing 3000 years of history.