Clashing Religions in Ancient Egypt. Exploring Different Layers of Religious Beliefs, edited by Marilina Betrò and Gianluca Miniaci (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025)
The volume, co-edited by Gianluca Miniaci, aims to offer a thorough exploration of Egyptian cultural and religious beliefs, and to explore how these impacted on other areas of daily life.
Contributors explore the connection between religion and central power, the paradigms around burial and access to the afterlife, the interconnections between religion, demonology, magic, and medicine, and the impact of multicultural interaction on the religious landscape. What emerges from this discussion is an understanding that the only truly identifiable clash is that between modern, Eurocentric perspectives and the views of the ancient Egyptians themselves.
The volume is the first issue of the new series “Aegyptologica Pisana”, which encourages cutting-edge research and opens up new intra- and interdisciplinary discussions by offering a particular focus on new methods and concepts, from cultural, socioeconomic and political theories, to archaeological, archaeometric, and anthropological approaches.
Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone is the oldest discovered in Europe
A 500,000-year-old elephant-bone hammer uncovered in southern England has been analysed by archaeologists from the UCL Institute of Archaeology and the Natural History Museum, London.
21 Jan 2026
Report on Visit of D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University Delegation
The UCL Institute of Archaeology welcomed a senior delegation from D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University to strengthen research collaboration & future partnerships in Eurasian archaeology
20 Jan 2026
David Wengrow awarded Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship
Congratulations to David Wengrow (UCL Institute of Archaeology), who has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust for research on A New History of Human Freedoms.
12 Jan 2026