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Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer from New York, she was originally a fashion model during the 1920s but moved to Paris where she changed her career to becoming a fashion and fine art photographer. Elizabeth was married to Aziz Eloui Bey, a wealthy Egyptian man whom she met whilst photographing Eloui’s first wife Nimet. After her marriage to Aziz, Lee moved to Cairo. Miller and Aziz divorced in 1947, and her second husband, Sir Roland Penrose was an English artist, historian and poet and during WWII used his artistic skills to teach camouflage. By U.S. Army Official Photograph - http://astro.temple.edu/~gurwin/hist.0690syb2005.html, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77888314 Lee was a war correspondent during the Second World War for Vogue and covered events including the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris and concentration camps Buchenwald and Dachau. Miller was part of the surrealist movement, which had developed post-W...

  I recently read Chris Naunton’s ‘Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt’, and I must admit that I could not put it down. I hate to admit it but I tend to struggle reading historical fiction, part of me thinks it was down to my four years at university just ‘skim’ reading, training myself to pick out certain parts of the text focusing on my assignments, so this was a pleasant surprise. I found the book to be clear and concise whilst considering opinions from other historians. I must also comment on the images used in the book, which are visually stunning and allow the reader to visualise certain artefacts mentioned throughout each chapter. As I delve deeper into my ancient Egypt interest, the chapters based around Imhotep, Amenhotep I, Tutankhamun (of course), Cleopatra, and Alexander the Great were informative. I was able to learn a lot more about the Greek involvement in Egypt, which I did not know a lot about. I also liked how at the end of the book there is a timeline of th...

Jumping straight into this blog post, it has been a wonderful week for Egyptian history!  The Pharaoh's Golden Parade Firstly, On the 3rd April 2021, there was a live stream that was broadcast (I will attempt to attach the URL to the English live stream I watched below) which showed the movement of eighteen kings and four queens of Egypt from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC). The spectacle saw music from the United Philharmonic Orchestra with traditional instruments as well as those that are more 'common', with short clips describing some of the historic sites of Egypt, and dancers in costume dancing at locations including:  * The Giza Pyramids Plateau  * The Grand Egyptian Museum * Deir El Bahari Temple, Luxor The 22 Kings and Queens were transported in chronological order to their new resting place, find King Ramesses II pictured below:  *To make this clear, this is NOT my image, I got it from here:  https:/...