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Ece Karakas

Oct 24, 20224 min read

The Mystery of Akhenaten’s Body

When Napoleon’s soldiers stumbled across a site in Egypt called Tell el-Amarna, they were the first Europeans to see the wide hips, soft,...

The Wandering Womb: The much entertaining, ideological female disease of ancient Greece

Linda Persson

Oct 24, 20224 min read

The Wandering Womb: The much entertaining, ideological female disease of ancient Greece

The Hippocratic Corpus is a series of medical treaties, dated around the second half of the 5th century BCE to the first half of the 4th...

Cindy Levesque

Oct 24, 20224 min read

The City Asklepieion

Asklepios is the Greek god of medicine and healing. The god was worshipped all over Greece and his sanctuaries, called Asklepieions,...

Moon Knight: An Egyptologist’s Guide to a Disney+ Original

Megan Kumorek

Oct 24, 20225 min read

Moon Knight: An Egyptologist’s Guide to a Disney+ Original

Beware: Slight Spoilers Ahead! After its release on Disney+ with over a million views in the first week alone, Marvel Comic’s Moon Knight...

The Harem Conspiracy: The Assassination of an Egyptian King

Megan Kumorek

Oct 24, 20224 min read

The Harem Conspiracy: The Assassination of an Egyptian King

The assassination of a king, a royal coup, and an infamous trial; these themes have prevailed throughout human history and continue to be...

Christofer Ek

Oct 24, 20223 min read

Owuo and the Hungry Man

Owuo, the god of death in the Asante and Akan mythology, has often been depicted as a terrifying giant with hair all over his body and a...

The Female Nude in Mesopotamia: Representations of Women and Nudity.

Olivia Berry

Oct 24, 20225 min read

The Female Nude in Mesopotamia: Representations of Women and Nudity.

Welcome back to the Female Nude series! In the previous article, we explored the representation, visibility and understanding of...

Women in Classical Greece: The Life of Athenian Women during the Classical Period.

Linda Persson

Oct 24, 20225 min read

Women in Classical Greece: The Life of Athenian Women during the Classical Period.

When one thinks about ancient Greece, especially during the Classical period (c. 480-323 BCE), what immediately comes to mind are the...

Christofer Ek

Oct 24, 20223 min read

Gemstones in ancient Egypt: Amethyst

The color purple has always played an important role in societies across the world. In the past, purple was seen as an expensive and...

Gynaecology in the Roman Empire: Soranus of Ephesus

Anna Sunneborn Gudnadottir

Oct 24, 20225 min read

Gynaecology in the Roman Empire: Soranus of Ephesus

Female anatomy and gynaecology have been poorly understood through-out history, but there are examples of thorough gynaecological text...

A local’s top pick and tips at the Egyptian museum

Ece Karakas

Oct 24, 20225 min read

A local’s top pick and tips at the Egyptian museum

MENAM Archaeology teamed up with Wendy who runs the Instagram account Egypteverafter to get the locals favourite picks and tips for...

Perseus and the Gorgon: A tale of parricide, love and dieties.

Christofer Ek

Oct 24, 20222 min read

Perseus and the Gorgon: A tale of parricide, love and dieties.

We have all heard stories about the flying horse Pegasus, and the terrifying gorgon, Medusa. But who was the person that actually...

False doors: gateways to the other world

Josefin Percival

Oct 24, 20223 min read

False doors: gateways to the other world

Without a doubt, any visitor to a museum with a larger Egyptian collection, or indeed to Egypt itself, has failed to notice the large...

Womens right in the ancient world: Accounts from ancient Egypt.

Menam Archaeology

Oct 24, 20223 min read

Womens right in the ancient world: Accounts from ancient Egypt.

Today's political climate, where recent laws regarding women's right to govern their own bodies have been overturned, is threatening the...

Myth or More? The Story of an Ancient Egyptian Queen’s Ultimate Revenge.

Megan Kumorek

Oct 24, 20224 min read

Myth or More? The Story of an Ancient Egyptian Queen’s Ultimate Revenge.

The revenge story of Nitocris is one which has been told by Manetho (Egyptian priest who wrote Egyptian history in Greek) and the “Father...

Glynnis Maynard

Oct 24, 20226 min read

‘Demons’ in the ancient Middle East

From the title antagonist in The Exorcist to sporadic cameos on Ancient Aliens, as Dungeons & Dragons characters and as the originating...

Anna Sunneborn Gudnadottir

Oct 24, 20224 min read

The mystery of Thoth Hill

Thoth Hill is a hilltop temple that is located in the mountains on the west side of the Nile and is named after fragments of a statue...

Ece Karakas

Oct 23, 20225 min read

Rock Art: Human history etched in stone

For over thousands of years, humans all over the world have been creating and imprinting images across the landscape. Each one of those...

Archaeogaming: A Modernists’ Solution to the Armchair Archaeologist

Megan Kumorek

Oct 23, 20224 min read

Archaeogaming: A Modernists’ Solution to the Armchair Archaeologist

Archaeogaming is a fast developing sub-discipline of archaeology that has been growing in popularity, both within academia and well...

The Female nude in Mesopotamia: Identifying and understanding ancient women

Olivia Berry

Oct 23, 20225 min read

The Female nude in Mesopotamia: Identifying and understanding ancient women

In the previous article of the Female Nude Series, we explored the issue of women within the archaeological record not being taken...