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Egyptology, Classics, reception, and cultural history.
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Congratulations!
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Poor little thing. Sending fondest thoughts for a speedy recovery, Jx
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Thank you!
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Please add me to this list. Many thanks!
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Agreed!
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As it should be!
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I know the feeling! 😳
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Not quite.
Pierre Montet found a number of intact kings’ tombs at Tanis during the 1939-40 season. An impressive selection of the contents of these tombs went on to be displayed at the Edinburgh City Arts Centre in 1988.
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FALL OF EAGLES is an extraordinary television drama. What a cast! What ambition! They simply don’t make them like that any longer.
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Thank you!
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Montet did an astonishing job at Tanis…and during wartime, which probably explains the distressing lack of press interest in the tombs.
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Don’t pay too much attention to that headline, though! I feel sorry for the shade of the intrepid Pierre Montet, who discovered a plethora of beautifully furnished royal tombs at Tanis during the 1939/40 season but the press have never been able to see beyond the glamour of Tutankhamun.
#Egyptology
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Ah, I’m very sorry to hear this. Mary was a delight in ENEMY OF THE WORLD and absolutely charming in Ronald Neame’s SCROOGE (UK, 1970). Vale!
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Did you take a moment to read the Alt text?
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Absolutely!
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Commentators have suggested that Hadrian’s devotion to ancient Greek culture encouraged him to grow his beard - his nickname was Graeculus, ‘Little Greek,’ while, in life, others suggested, less kindly, that his badly pockmarked skin was the reason for his fashion statement.
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Apologies; that ought to read ‘1937.’ Maths was never my strong suit.
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Thank you, Jx
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Thank you, Jx
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It was a lovely surprise; sorry I was so zoned out; still feeling like Hell. I hope you’re having a wonderful time at Gallifrey One. Please, send my love to all those deserving of it! Jx
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Thrilling!
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I am always all of them!
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Thank you!
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An extraordinary film. Robert Stephens plays Holmes as his, then, wife, Maggie Smith. The nasal intonations and physicality are quite unmistakable!