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Hedgehogs in ancient Egyptian art
Magda van Ryneveld explains why the humble hedgehog features so often in ancient Egyptian art.

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August/September 2006 VOLUME 7, NO 1: ISSUE NO. 37 EDITOR: Robert B. Partridge, 6 Branden Drive Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 8EJ, UK Tel. 01565 754450 Email ancientegyptmag@aol.com ASSISTANT EDITOR: Peter Phillips CONSULTANT EDITOR: Professor Rosalie David, OBE EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Victor Blunden, Peter Robinson, Hilary Wilson EGYPT CORRESPONDENT Ayman Wahby Taher PUBLISHED BY: Empire Publications, 1 Newton Street, Manchester, M1 1HW, UK Tel: 0161 872 3319 Fax: 0161 872 4721 ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER: Michael Massey Tel. 0161 928 2997 PRODUCTION EDITOR: Ashley Shaw PRINTED BY: Warners (Midlands) plc, The Maltings, Manor Lane, BOURNE, Lincolnshire, PE10 9PH, UK DESIGN AND SETTING: Peartree Publishing and Design, 56 Albert St, Manchester M11 3SU, UK FRONT COVER DESIGNED BY: David Soper Main image: The obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut in the temple of Amun at Karnak. Photo: R. Partridge TRADE DISTRIBUTION THROUGH: Diamond Magazine Distribution Ltd. Rye Wharf Road, Harbour Road, Rye, East Sussex TN31 7TE, UK Tel: 01797 225229 Fax: 01797 225657 ISSN: 1470 9990

Harvesting a pharaoh

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An unexpected discovery in the Eighteenth Dynasty tomb of Anen at Thebes brought a lost painting back to life. Lyla Pinch-Brock describes how.

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Clothing culture: dress in Egypt in the first millennium AD
Frances Pritchard reports on a new exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.

Menkaura’s anthropid coffin

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A wooden coffin found in the pyramid of Menkaura bears the king’s name. But was it really his? Paul Broughton investigates.

Vivant Denon’s “mysterious cache”

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Marriane Luban reports on the activities of one of the first collectors of Egyptian antiquities, at the end of the eighteenth century.

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The New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings
Another update from Roxanne Wilson, a member of the excavation team, on the recent discovery and the progress made in clearing the small chamber.

Friends of Nekhen News

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Renée Friedman looks at the decorated tombs at Hierakonpolis, whose inscriptions and decoration can tell us so much about life in the city in Dynastic times.

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Two Sphinxes of Amenhotep III in St Petersburg

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