This one was very tricky and I am still dissatisfied with the ( result )

Your love is in my heart ( Read more... )

All night and day ( Read more... )

Part of my job includes checking the English of some articles from Egypt we put on our web (and translating them). Sometimes it's hard to understand what the people are trying to say in these articles. Sometimes, they're just funny. The last one spoke about a deceased tomb. Poor thing ( Read more... )

Egypt has been a fairy tale this time. With a few beasts lurking along the way, of which the flight home has been the worst, but still, a fairy tale ( Read more... )

Today, the electricity fell out while I was working 20 meters below the surface in a shaft in the burial chamber and I was left in a completely dark, silent tomb. It was a very weird feeling ( Read more... )

I'm thinking some of you guys might enjoy this little treasure I've just dug out of my dissertation corpus. Unedited, about 3,500 years old.

This is a communication that it has been said to the humble servant ( Read more... )

Small things make the heart of an Egyptologist happy. BBC has a (simple, but beautiful) game entitled The Mummy Maker, where you are an embalmer's assistant and must, with some clues, make a dead body into a mummy. It takes five minutes and is absolutely worth playing.

Good luck and remember, Ramoses's eternal life is in your hands.

My paper on ancient Egypt is reaching enormous proportions. For those interested, the beginning can be found ( here )