A little news from the far north and the green and fertile land of Egypt.
Roman skeleton found in York is, it appears, of a lady of African origin, which suggests that Roman Britain was a teense more ethnically diverse than had previously been thought.
Also, Amenhotep III had an enormous head. Well, his actual head was probably normally proportioned, but archaeologists have found the head of a previously-uncovered large-scale statue of the pharoah. It is remarkable for being quite large (the head alone is about as tall as a standing person) and also for being complete, and of excellent craftsmanship. Dr Hourig Sourouzian, the head of the team, says that it is possible that the beautifully-worked features of the head found by his team are due to the stylistic advances of the time, but that the pharaoh may just have been a “very beautiful, very handsome man.”
