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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rush

This exhibition at Horniman Museum calls for the reclamation of Egyptian artefacts, as well as our narrative.

Despite efforts to improve vetting procedures, the persistence of vague ownership points to an industry still grappling with its past.

In light of its reflection on its role as a contemporary archaeological museum, the Museo Egizio, on the occasion of...

In this fascinating book, Zainab Bahrani charts the devastation, cultural cleansing and targeted erasure of Iraq’s past, and argues that the topics of archaeology, history and memory must be analysed ...

Artistic interventions are now a popular means of delivering fresh perspectives on museum displays, including in galleries devoted to ancient Egypt. Installations are commonly said to put the past and...

Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa

Rethinking what and how I know the past through an unexpected piece of ephemera in the archives of an Egyptian museum.

The Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge mourn the death and celebrate the extraordinary life of Professor Colin Renfrew, Lord

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from...

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