The body, while weak, “learns how to just function.” That is how Laila Soueif, an Egyptian mathematician and professor, describes her hunger strike, which reached 55 days on Saturday.

There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world. As it is extremely sensitive to ...

Barwik, Miroslaw 2018. Dipinti in the relieving chamber above the Bark Hall of the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, Vol. 27, Issue. 2, p. 33.