The University of California at Los Angeles will unveil plans on Friday for what appears to be the world’s first online, peer-reviewed encyclopedia devoted to ancient Egypt. The UCLA Encyclopedia of ...

PYRAMID SCHEME: The University of California at Los Angeles unveiled plans last week for what appears to be the world’s first online, peer-reviewed encyclopedia devoted to ancient Egypt. The UCLA ...

So said Harvard’s Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology Peter Der Manuelian ’81, as he gave directions to his office in the Semitic Musuem at 6 Divinity Avenue. The Semitic Museum, Harvard’s showcase ...

There are over 5,000 institutions of higher education in the United States. But just one - Brown - boasts a free-standing Egyptology department. Almost 60 years after its founding, Brown's Department ...

The significance of the mythological Greek character Oedipus to the development of Sigmund Freud’s theories is inarguable. But 80 years after the psychoanalyst wrote his seminal work “Moses and ...

After years dedicated to shedding light on the work of the late Harvard Egyptology Professor George A. Reisner, Class of 1889, Peter D. Manuelian ’81 will become the first egyptology professor at ...

Public “unwrappings” of real mummified human remains performed by both showmen and scientists heightened the fascination, but also helped develop the growing science of Egyptology, says a historian.

We know how white people in London, Paris and New York viewed the discovery of Tutankhamun - but much less attention is paid to the contemporary Egyptian reaction The canopic jars which contained the ...

In January 2013, allegations emerged of an affair between Egyptology professor John Darnell and Associate Professor Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05 while Manassa was a student under Darnell’s supervision.

The third season of Egyptology in Arabic initiative, which has recently opened, delved into the origins of fuul (fava beans), food columns, and the Egyptian kitchen. It was a full house at the French ...

Monica Hanna is Egyptology's equivalent of a rights campaigner. The 42-year-old is feisty, articulate and with a disarming smile; tools she uses to fuel her drive to rid Egyptology from the shackles ...