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The article focuses on 200 years on from the deciphering of the most famous piece of rock in the world, what does reading the Rosetta Stone reveal. It mentions three different scripts it carries Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic Egyptian and Greek but perhaps that is as intended. It also mentions Rosetta Stone's ancient purpose and modern magnetism depend on the opacity of its meaning far more than on its legibility as a document and stone's inscriptions is conventionally credited to Bouchard.

The article focuses on one of the non-royal elite people from Pharaonic Egypt, Senenmut, linked with the Eighteenth Dynasty female ruler Hatshepsut. He is believed to play an essential role in her kingship's political and monumental presentation. He rose to the advancement with his role as the tutor to Hatshepsut's only child, the princess Neferura. He has possessed an extraordinary number of statues; about 26 are known.

The article reviews the international touring exhibition "Golden Mummies of Egypt," being presented by the Manchester Museum at the Buffalo Museum of Science in New York until June 21, 2020.

The article describes the significance of the findings of the next-generation DNA sequencing of the Two Brothers, the mummified bodies of ancient Egyptians Khnum-nakt and Nakht-ankh, at the Manchester Museum in England. It describes the tomb chamber where the brothers were buried at Deir Rifeh in Cairo, Egypt and discusses the expectations and conceptions of the afterlife they represent, their association with Osiris, the god of rebirth, their hieroglyphic filiations and maternal relation.

The article focuses on the restoration of a limestone panel in collection of Manchester along with creation of stone replica for public display, and mentions family of Archers from Dendera shown in the stela after restoration.

The article offers information about the basalt stela of Mery-Ra, ancient Egyptian noble known as the superintendent of Queen Nefertiti. It mentions that dedication to Satet, the local goddess of Elephantine, and the graffiti at nearby Sehel point to an original location in a temple or chapel near Aswan.

The article focuses on the fourth son of Ramesses II, Khaemwaset, who undertook building work on behalf of his father. It discusses a small block placed in Manchester Museum, which workers found for Flinders Petrie near the temple of Ptah at Memphis in Egypt. The block has Khaemwaset's name inscribed along with a royal cartouche on the same object and also on many other monuments of his father.

The article discusses Manchester Museum's Egyptology collection that holds material not only from Egypt, but contains almost seven hundred objects from ancient Sudan. These come from a range of sites and entered the museum by a variety of means. In the case of a small number royal shabtis, these were donated to Manchester from the Sudan Museum.

The article offers information on the Middle Kingdom jewellery at the Manchester Museum in England. Topics covered include the discovery by Egyptologist Reginald Engelbach of the jewellery in a tomb at Riqqeh which is located close to the mouth of the Fayum region, the possibility that a robber has been crushed in the act of riffling for valuables and the technique used in creating the Riqqeh Pectoral chest ornament.

The article focuses on elements of rulership that are commonly associated with Osiris and clear that this gilded figurine represents Osiris. It also mentions use of gold leaf to cover the statuette indicates not that this was a cult image used as a focal point of rituals. It also mentions interesting feature of religious culture in Egypt during the First Millennium BC was the growth and expansion of the popular cult of the god Osiris.

A review is offered for the Manchester Museum, England which featured Statue of Senenmut.

The article presents a two-sided Fayum Portrait taken from the collection of the Manchester Museum in Manchester, England. It informs on the practice of the mummification in the Roman Period of the Egypt, offered with great outside and inside care. These Roman Period mummies were provided with the painted portraits of the deceased under the tradition. It examines the double-sided image of a man on the portrait with dates discovered from Hawara, near the Fayum lake, Egypt.

The article focuses on black granite offering table made for Queen Tiye in honour of her late husband Amenhotep III, which preserved at Manchester Museum in Manchester, England. Topics discussed include excavations of W. M. Flinders Petrieat the site of Gurob in Faiyum, Egypt; hieroglyphs in offering table; and divinity of Amenhotep III in the form of individually named colossal statues.

The article describes the significance of Busts of Jesse and Marianne Haworth statue busts on display in the Manchester Museum 28. It mentions that marble busts hold an important place in the history of Manchester Museum's Egyptology collection. It also mentions that it represent Jesse Haworth and his wife Marianne, two major sponsors of Egyptian archaeology.

The article focuses on objects from excavations at Gurob, Egypt directed by British archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie. It mentions that shallow bowl is made from faience, a glazed ceramic often colored bright green-blue with a copper compound. It also mentions that Egyptians' dexterity in the practicalities of retrieving produce are clear on the bowl.

The article describes a tool mallet once used by an ancient Egyptian stone-mason, now in Manchester Museum's collection. It mentions that mallet were found during the course of digs organised by the Egypt Exploration Fund excavators, Henry Hall and Edouard Naville which recognised that these were not the tools of the workmen who built the temples of Deir el-Bahri.

The article focuses on the preparations by museum curators and staff for the opening of the new Ancient Worlds galleries at the Manchester Museum. It says that the Ancient Worlds galleries consist of three main parts which are the first space introducing archaeological methods, called the Egyptian Worlds wherein objects are arranged chronologically, and the Exploring Objects displaying artifacts in different categories. It mentions the museum's dedicated and knowledgeable team of volunteers.

The article describes one of the Egypt Manchester Museum's lesser-known objects. Topics include stick shabtis are ancient Egyptian ushabtis made of wood; and shabtis were buried close to the deceased in the inaccessible parts of the tomb chapel.

The article describes unobtrusive limestone stela, which was found by Egyptian workmen employed by Blackburn-born Egyptologist John Garstang at the sacred site of Abydos in Egypt. It mentions that the object can be assumed to be a tribute to the local god, Osiris, and also mentions about the scene that shows the worship of Amun.