Dr Carolyn Graves-Brown

The fragmentary evidence allows us only tantalising glimpses of the sophisticated and complex society of the ancient Egyptians, but the Greek historian Herodotus believed that the Egyptians had 'reversed the ordinary practices of mankind' in treating their women better than any of the other civilisations of the ancient world. Carolyn Graves-Brown draws on funerary remains, tomb paintings, architecture, and textual...