History through every lens
Diary of Merer
The Diary of Merer is a papyrus logbook found at Wadi al-Jarf in 2013 recording the transport of limestone from Tura to...
Saqqara
Saqqara is the vast necropolis of ancient Memphis, home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser and tombs spanning from the Early...
Colossi of Memnon
The Colossi of Memnon are two seated quartzite statues of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, once the...
Library of Alexandria
The Library of Alexandria was the great research institution of the Ptolemaic capital, founded under Ptolemy I or II in...
Great Sphinx of Giza
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining lion with a human head on the Giza Plateau, conventionally...
Christiane Zivie-Coche — Sphinx: History of a Monument (1997 EN; 1976 FR)
Christiane Zivie-Coche — Sphinx: History of a Monument (1997 EN; 1976 FR)
Colin Reader — A Geomorphological Study of the Giza Necropolis (1997)
Colin Reader — A Geomorphological Study of the Giza Necropolis (1997)
Mark Lehner — Archaeology of an Image: The Great Sphinx of Giza (1991)
Mark Lehner — Archaeology of an Image: The Great Sphinx of Giza (1991)
Richard Parkinson — Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment (1999)
Richard Parkinson — Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment (1999)
Stephen Quirke — Going Out in Daylight (2014)
Stephen Quirke — Going Out in Daylight (2014)
Thomas Young — Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature (1819)
Thomas Young — Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature (1819)
Fall of Rome
Conventional date (476 CE) for the deposition of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer, marking the traditional end of the Weste...