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 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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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