Egypt
BBC (Joann Fletcher)
- Another Report Re Proposal That Arsinoe Was Pharaoh
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new...
- Book Review: Sex And Gender In Ancient Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Danijela Stefanovic) Carolyn Graves-Brown (ed.), Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don your wig for a joyful hour'. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2008. This collection contains essays presented at...
- Was A 'mistress Of The Lionesses' A King In Ancient Canaan?
Lab Spaces A female Canaanite ruler known from the Amarna letters as "mistress of the lionesses" may have been identified on a plaque discovered at Tel Beit Shemesh: Tel Aviv University archaeologists Prof. Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr. Zvi Lederman of the...
- Tattooing In Ancient Egypt
Originally published by Smithsonian.com in January 1, 2007, I found this article posted two days ago on the Brief and to the Point blog. The interview by Cate Lineberry is really interesting and I want to pass on the information regarding the practice...
- Review: Earl Ertman Article On Amarna Period In Kmt
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/visual_arts/16334079.htm"Earl Ertman -- The University of Akron emeritus professor of Egyptian art has written an article featured in the new KMT: a Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt (Vol. 17, Winter 2006-2007)....
Egypt
Online: Careers for Women in Ancient Egypt
BBC (Joann Fletcher)
In order to understand their relatively enlightened attitudes toward sexual equality, it is important to realise that the Egyptians viewed their universe as a complete duality of male and female. Giving balance and order to all things was the female deity Maat, symbol of cosmic harmony by whose rules the pharaoh must govern.
The Egyptians recognised female violence in all its forms, their queens even portrayed crushing their enemies, executing prisoners or firing arrows at male opponents as well as the non-royal women who stab and overpower invading soldiers. Although such scenes are often disregarded as illustrating 'fictional' or ritual events, the literary and archaeological evidence is less easy to dismiss. Royal women undertake military campaigns whilst others are decorated for their active role in conflict. Women were regarded as sufficiently threatening to be listed as 'enemies of the state', and female graves containing weapons are found throughout the three millennia of Egyptian history.
- Another Report Re Proposal That Arsinoe Was Pharaoh
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new...
- Book Review: Sex And Gender In Ancient Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Danijela Stefanovic) Carolyn Graves-Brown (ed.), Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don your wig for a joyful hour'. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2008. This collection contains essays presented at...
- Was A 'mistress Of The Lionesses' A King In Ancient Canaan?
Lab Spaces A female Canaanite ruler known from the Amarna letters as "mistress of the lionesses" may have been identified on a plaque discovered at Tel Beit Shemesh: Tel Aviv University archaeologists Prof. Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr. Zvi Lederman of the...
- Tattooing In Ancient Egypt
Originally published by Smithsonian.com in January 1, 2007, I found this article posted two days ago on the Brief and to the Point blog. The interview by Cate Lineberry is really interesting and I want to pass on the information regarding the practice...
- Review: Earl Ertman Article On Amarna Period In Kmt
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/visual_arts/16334079.htm"Earl Ertman -- The University of Akron emeritus professor of Egyptian art has written an article featured in the new KMT: a Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt (Vol. 17, Winter 2006-2007)....