Fascinating faces: two brother mummies dated to about 1800 BC, in Manchester Museum
Today I’ve spent my morning exploring Egypt. I started with a tour of the tomb of Menna, a farm overseer who lived over 3,500 years ago in Luxor’s West Bank. After that I nipped over to Alexandria to visit the 4-7th Century BCE Roman ruins, before rounding out my tour in a 14th Century mosque in Cairo.
As you’ve probably guessed by this point, this wasn’t a physical tour of Egypt, but a virtual one. Quite apart from the distances travelled in a morning, global travel restrictions thanks to Covid have made the very idea of visiting another country feel distant at the moment.