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The dramatic origins of ancient Egypt

September 4, 2013 By Jo Marchant Leave a Comment

Abydos cemetery

As well as the awesome temples, tombs and treasure that ancient Egypt has left to us, this civilisation has another claim to fame. It was the world’s first territorial nation, and it set the template for countries of today. Now a carbon dating study suggests that this powerful and efficient state was built surprisingly quickly. […]

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A longevity hotspot in Costa Rica

September 3, 2013 By Jo Marchant Leave a Comment

Nicoya fishing

The isolated Nicoya peninsula in northwest Costa Rica is one of my favourite places in the world – where rainforests populated by parrots, monkeys and armadillos meet golden beaches decorated with shells and coconuts. Perhaps its beauty is rubbing off on the residents. I’ve just written an article for Nature News about a study to […]

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Tales of baking and cosmic lovers

August 6, 2013 By Jo Marchant 1 Comment

Glossodahlia

I was exhausted when I woke up this morning (thanks to a teething nine-month-old) but then I saw this, and felt ready to embrace the day. It’s a free e-book called Glossodahlia. On its pages, strange and wonderful plants blossom from battered, retro tins and cans. The flowers are taken from the pages of the […]

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“The people’s will”: Yehia Gad on Morsi’s fall

July 4, 2013 By Jo Marchant 1 Comment

Tahrir Sq

Last night, after days of anti-government protest, Egypt’s army ousted the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, with the apparent blessing of the people. To me, the events seemed hard to understand. After fighting so hard for democracy in the first place, why were the Egyptian people so happy for the army to step […]

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The discovery of tomb KV64

June 10, 2013 By Jo Marchant 2 Comments

KV64 coffin

“We started cleaning around the shaft mouth of tomb KV40,” Egyptologist Susanne Bickel told a rapt audience at the Ancient World conference in London yesterday. “And then we fell into something new.” That “something new” turned out to be the first new tomb to be unearthed in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings since the treasure-filled […]

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A long-lost piece of King Tut

June 4, 2013 By Jo Marchant 8 Comments

mummy samples

King Tutankhamun is famously the only Egyptian pharaoh who still occupies his original tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and since 2007 his mummy has been proudly displayed in a smart, glass case. What’s less well known, however, is that this isn’t the whole King Tut: a tiny piece of his mummy was removed […]

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