Everyone wants to visit the Valley of the Kings, understandably. The worker’s village of Deir el-Medina is just as interesting and should not be missed …
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Ninety Years Ago Today – 26 November 1922
Ninety years ago today, 26 November 1922, Howard Carter got the first glimpse of what was to become in the days to follow what is arguably one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries. It is certainly one of the most well known and more celebrated – still to this day. The discovery is of course [...]
My Bucket List: Great Zimbabwe Ruins
Having grown up in Zimbabwe, like many children I went on a school trip to the archaeological site of Great Zimbabwe. I remember little of that trip other than the rain. Well, it was sometime in the first half of the 1970s. A decade later I went on to study archaeology at the University of [...]
A Day Trip to Cairo
As far as archaeological attractions go, the pyramids of ancient Egypt must surely rank amongst the most iconic of them all, along with sites such as Pompeii in Italy and Stonehenge in England. Iconic sites usually achieve their status because of their mystical capital. And as mythological baggage goes, the pyramids have more than their [...]
Women in Archaeology and Travel
Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day, the 100th anniversary in fact. For the last hundred years this annual event has been celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future; as necessary a cause today as it was in the early 1900s. A century on the various events planned around [...]
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