by mqbssnna | Mar 25, 2019 | Uncategorised
One of the benefits of teaching online is that lectures can (and should!) be pre-recorded some time in advance of the actual scheduled class taking place (as already discussed in Behind the Scenes #1). This means that there is a greater degree of flexibility in...
by mqbssnna | Mar 21, 2019 | Uncategorised
The Manchester Museum collection houses more than 18.000 objects from Egypt and Sudan – one of the largest collections in the United Kingdom. Unlike many museums, most of this collection comes not from auctions, but from known excavations – mainly those conducted by...
by mqbssnna | Mar 18, 2019 | Uncategorised
When Flinders Petrie arrived at the site of Tell Nabasha in early February 1886 he found that the site consisted of a tell (a hill of degraded mudbrick) surrounded by salt flats and swamps. He set to work excavating a large cemetery, a Ptolemaic ‘town’ and a large...
by mqbssnna | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorised
It’s the time of year, the time when hundreds of thousands of prospective students around the UK and the world are making up their minds about which courses to pursue and what universities to apply for. As preparation for our move from the Faculty of Biology, Medicine...
by mqbssnna | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorised
Perhaps amongst the most unusual objects from ancient Egypt are golden flies. These objects are pendants that appear in the form of a stylised fly as seen from above. They are generally small, averaging 1.2cm in length, but larger examples do exist...
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