Dr. Amy Calvert is the Contributing Editor for Ancient Egyptian art. Amy holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has been involved in several excavations in Italy, Egypt, and the U.S. She has acted as registrar in the field for the Osiris Temple Project with the Yale-University of Pennsylvania-New York University Expedition to Abydos and has worked at The British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The quality of the carvings on the Middle Kingdom White Chapel is exceptional.
There was a huge range of experimentation that occurred over Egypt’s long history of mummification, some techniques being far more successful than others.
Mortuary texts represent an ongoing, ever-evolving tradition that provides valuable insight into the afterlife beliefs and goals of the ancient Egyptians
In ancient Egypt, below the king were administrative officials, such as the vizier, overseers, scores of scribes, and regional governors who handled local resource management.