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Janet and I also managed to acquire a new travelling companion who followed us all the way from the Eastern Cemetery of Khufu’s pyramid, and all the way back to the bus at the end of our visit (we ran out of time and had to go back before we’d finished, so the western part of the Central Field will have to wait till next time). She got barked at every time she crossed into others dogs’ territory but gallantly stayed with us throughout. The hieroglyphic inscription ‘beloved sole companion’ seemed appropriate. And she helpfully did a little digging at one point too. We’ll call her Khentkaus. Eventually we came upon the huge pyramid of queen Khentkaus (tomb LG100) who lived at the end of the fourth dynasty and seems perhaps to have been king’s daughter, king’s wife, king’s mother and possibly regent or even pharaoh. Then pyramid is partly formed of the natural rock with a huge cut on the northern side creating a spectacular trench, into the other side of which two levels of tombs have been cut. The pyramid was built up with local limestone into a two-stepped structure, and cased in fine white limestone from Tura. The weathering of the natural rock has created some much-room like shapes here and there. Fantastic adventure wandering around the Central Mastaba field at Giza this morning. It’s a vast jumble of mastaba tombs to the south of the causeway of Khafra, their rectangular shapes created via great cuttings into the natural bedrock, some also built up / cased with stone blocks. They come in all shapes and sizes - and the biggest are HUGE - and wandering down the ‘streets’ you frequently come across monumental doorways, false doors, the odd inscription or relief, and statues, some some free-standing, others ‘engaged’. LOVED this and somehow never explored this part of the site before. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Little bit late perhaps but here are some highlights from 2022, mostly otherwise unrecorded in Insta. It wasn’t all plain sailing last year but there were some great moments and a lot for me to be thankful for, firstly and most importantly that after three COVID postponements / changes of plan @suzehaworth and I finally got married. 1) Here she is, the wonderful Suzanna. 2) Mark, Milo and I had the @britishmuseum to ourselves one evening in January during a week’s filming for @historyhit’s STORY of EGYPTOLOGY doc. 3) Funny to think now but this time last year my colleagues at @ancientworldtours and I still didn’t know if tours to Egypt would be possible given the lingering threat of COVID but we decided to take the plunge in January and never looked back. I did seven in the end. This is the tomb of Sety I by the way but I could have chosen any from 100s of photos. 4) The only down side to so many Egypt trips is that I’m away from home a little more than I’d like so it was great that Suzanna could come along for AWT’s Nile Cruise - the one we were originally due to do in 2020 - in April/May. Such a beautiful & peaceful way to see the country and almost like a pre-wedding honeymoon for us. 5) A couple of weeks later we got married in Chelsea Old Town Hall. Here’s us mooching round the streets of Notting Hill afterwards. 6) We had decided to forego a big wedding as originally planned in favour of a smaller affair and more time with family and close friends. In the last year or so Suzanna has - like my Mum, another Mrs Naunton before her - become probably the biggest Arsenal fan in the family which has reignited my interest too, and we got tickets for the last game of the season as part of the celebrations. This is Suze with her football-mad nephew at his first ever game. 7) Honeymoon part 1: Scotland. On our way up towards Suilven in the Assynt region. 8) Honeymoon part 2: the Laugevegar trail in Iceland. 9) Stunning view from the top of Skiddaw in the Lakes at sunset last month. Looking forward to more hiking in 2023, and more running (missed my 1000-mile target for ‘22), cycling (nowhere near enough), Egypt, Arsenal & Suzanna in the coming year. Something silly to round off the year… I think, if there’s any good reason why I’ve been asked to be in TV docs (11 of them in 2022!) it must be because I’m brilliant at walking around things. At the start of this year, after we’d finished filming The STORY of EGYPTOLOGY for @HistoryHit in London, I was tasked with doing some self-shot walking shots on my next trip to Egypt. So, armed with a @GoPro controlled from my phone, I got to play location scout, presenter, director and DoP. And now editor and music supervisor on the outtakes. Enjoy! Btw no prizes for guessing the locations but if you want to… Mahmoud Farouk also took me up and onto the top of the east tower of the tenth pylon in which talatat bocks coming from buildings of Akhenaten. A few scattered pieces of a temple of Tutankhamun have still yet to be reclaimed. Great to see old pal Mahmoud Farouk, guardian of the southern portion of the Amun enclosure at Karnak. He kindly showed the group some of the statuary discovered during the work he and his father before him have been involved in, and some recently-cleaned rooms within the temple of Khonsu. Medinet Habu, temple of Ramesses III. It’s been fascinating to see the progress of the cleaning in the last year or so… This is the king before an image of the jackal-headed god Wepwawet. Delighted to announce a new tour for 2023: AMENHOTEP and AKHENATEN focusses on the sites that tell the story of the transition from the singular reign of Amenhotep III to the radical new Egypt of his son and successor, Akhenaten. We’ll explore Amenhotep’s palace and temple complex at Malqata and Kom el-Hetan, Akhenaten’s new capital at Amarna that followed, and we’ll visit the tombs of both kings, Amenhotep’s in the Western branch of the Valley of Kings and Akhenaten’s in the royal wadi at Amarna. And much more of course. Full details: LINK in BIO

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