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January/February 2024 • Issue 140
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12 BREAKING MA’AT The ‘heretic pharaoh’ Akhenaten was determined to sweep away the rules and conventions that had been the basis of ancient Egyptian civilisation for centuries, as Jason S Whitmarsh explains.
20 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SURGERY Rosalie David and Roger Forshaw examine the efficacy of the surgical procedures that were carried out by ancient Egyptians.
28 PYRAMID MAN: CHARLES PIAZZI SMYTH John J Taylor recounts the scientific achievements and extraordinary beliefs of an Astronomer Royal for Scotland who went on to invent the ‘pyramid inch’.
32 CLEOPATRA III: THE FEMALE KING Continuing his series on the later Ptolemaic queens, Lloyd LlewellynJones examines the life and times of the ruthlessly ambitious Cleopatra III.
40 CARTER’S LINEN TUNIC Rachel Cotton describes a very rare item of clothing discovered by Howard Carter in 1909 – a bagtunic dating to the Third Intermediate Period.
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5500 BC
3000 BC
Predynastic Period Archaic Period
2500 BC
2000 BC
1st Intermediate
Period
1500 BC
2nd Intermediate
Period
1000 BC 1000 BC
1000 BC 1000 BC
1000 BC 3rd Intermediate
Period
Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
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DYNASTIES 1 2 34 5 6 11 12
13-14 15-17
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