Did you know that one the European Space Agency's satellites is called Cheops? The link between Egyptomania and space is as strong as ever! 🔭

The book edited by our PI, A.I. Fernández Pichel, "Imagining the Past in Fiction: Reception of Antiquity in Contemporary Popular Culture", is currently undergoing peer review. We hope the book will be published soon and that it will be available in bookstores shortly!

The conference Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games will take place on 13 June Saturday at the Oxford Classics Faculty (OX1 3LU), from 9am-5pm. Our colleague Jennifer Cromwell, will be giving a paper at this conference, so make sure to check it out!

A new thriller/suspense novel in Spanish has been published on Ancient Egypt! Check out more info at: www.penguinlibros.com/es/novela-ne... #egyptomania #ancientegypt

Lee Cronin's The Mummy’ is being released in cinemas across almost all of Europe today, marking one of the major highlights of this year's Egyptomania. We're going to watch it this afternoon and will let you know what we thought of it. If you're planning to watch it soon, tell us what you think!

Just one week to go until the online I Congreso Internacional RIIPOA en Didáctica del Próximo Oriente Antiguo. If you’d like to attend, please be sure to email [email protected]. More info at: chul.letras.ulisboa.pt/evento/congr....

Our PI has finally finished Silent Hill 1 and was pleasantly surprised to discover that there are also Egyptian-themed references! In the final part of the game, you have to find, among other symbols, the Egyptian ankh in order to progress through this level. Have you played this game before?

A new Egyptomania videogame is coming soon to PC! Alternate between an archaeologist exploring the temple in 3D and a painted figure navigating the 2D frescoes etched into the stone. Watch the trailer at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxV7...

CfP open until Friday 1st May 2026 for an online symposium examining the god Anubis in contemporary popular culture, organised by Jennifer Cromwell and Arnaud Quertinmont! If you're interested in participating, check out: manchestergamecentre.org/blog-db/2026...

Check out this newly published volume on Ancient Egypt and video games, edited by Jennifer Cromwell. This volume is the first to focus solely on the portrayal of Ancient Egypt in video games. More info at: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

How are mummies and vampires similar in Egyptian-inspired fiction? Are they different, or do they combine in different works of popular culture beyond frequent crossovers? Abraham Fernández Pichel and Nolwenn Corriou analyse this in their future article, more info soon! @/Image by Jesús C. Gan.

"The Dog-Eared God" traces the story of an Egyptologist, Professor Dewey, who has been smuggling mummies out of Egypt for a number of years. Want to know more? Check out our database entry written by our new collaborator, Lawrence Webb: database.egypopcult.pt/the-dog-eare...

In the game Tomb Raider (1996), Lara Croft has to find a lost ancient artifact, the Scion of Atlantis. Her search for the remaining pieces takes her to Greece and ultimately to Egypt, where the third fragment is hidden. Check out our entry by Tara Sewell-Lasater: database.egypopcult.pt/tomb-raider/

Meet one of our collaborators! Víctor Sánchez Domínguez, professor and researcher in the Department of Specific Didactics at the University of Córdoba, is a leading specialist in the application of gamification in history as a teaching strategy at different educational levels.

Dr. Daniel Rafaelić has recently published a book in Croatian on the relationship between Ancient Egypt and cinema, from which we can expect an English version very soon! More info at: dzepna.com/product/drev...

French Nouvelle Vague film "Ma nuit chez Maud" (1969) alludes to the transcendence of love, the force of seduction and its power to shape History by reflecting on... the importance of Cleopatra's nose! See more at our database: database.egypopcult.pt/ma-nuit-chez-maud/

Exciting upcoming events in February 2026. 🔸ISSE Book Club Launch Event - 19 February 2026 at 7pm UK time, online 🔸Lecture - Chris Wood 'Egyptomagia. An exploration of the influence of Ancient Egypt on Western Magic' - 24 February 2026 at 7pm UK time, online

The Egypopcult team likes travelling around! ✈️ Can you guess where our social media CM, Esperanza, is right now finishing her PhD? P.S.: There is a hint in the picture ;)

Don't forget to submit your proposal to participate in the "I Congreso Internacional RIIPOA en Didáctica de Próximo Oriente Antiguo" by February 2nd (Monday) to the following emails: [email protected] and [email protected]!!

Just ten days after the death of Erich von Däniken, we would like to revisit this article by Arnaud Quertinmont on the DC universe and ancient astronauts: egypopcult.pt/batman-and-t... Comment on what you think about the role of this populariser in science fiction and popular culture in general!

The University of Zagreb and the Archeological Museum in Zagreb will held their first international conference on the perceptions and receptions of Ancient History on November 3-7th 2026. For more info, check out: www.starapovijest.eu/en/2025/08/2...

The ERAE project, led by Florian Ebeling, Julia Budka, and Miguel John Versluys, confirms academia's interest in the reception of Ancient Egypt. If Egypopcult was a first step, ERAE is the confirmation of this. More info at: www.erae.gwi.uni-muenchen.de

We are republishing information about the 1st RIIPOA International Congress on Ancient Near Eastern Didactics, which will be held on 21-22 April 2026. Contributions can be sent to [email protected] or [email protected]. These email addresses replace the previous email address!

Compartimos de nuevo la información sobre el congreso de abril, con nuevas direcciones de correo electrónico, ya que las que se facilitaron anteriormente daban error. @egypopcultlisboa.bsky.social @uahes.bsky.social @neferchitty.bsky.social

Happy New Year 2026🎉🎉 Egypopcult is back with recharged batteries and eager to bring you new events and news! @issegyptomania.bsky.social has organized a Research Roundtable on Egyptomania in Ireland in March 2026, and the deadline for the CfP is today. Don't hesitate to sign up!

Para aquellos/as colegas y seguidores hispano-lusoparlantes vinculados a la educación de la Historia del Próximo Oriente Antiguo en cualquier nivel educativo, les invitamos a participar en este I Congreso Internacional RIIPOA (21-22 de abril de 2026). Más información: riipoa.web.uah.es/actividades/

Dear friends and followers of Egypopcult, we would like to wish you a happy holiday season and a break from your activities. We all deserve a rest. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎉🎉 Abraham & Esperanza.

Holiday season is getting closer! At a time when we can (sometimes) leave work behind and focus on less pressing matters, we recommend this book by Gregory N. Daugherty. Highly recommended, we wish you a happy reading! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

In this TV series set in Rome during the Flavian period, a few Egyptianising motives are depicted and Egypt is the backdrop for part of the storyline. Check out more at: database.egypopcult.pt/those-about-... #receptionstudies #egyptomania #egiptomania #ancientegypt

For heavy metal fans who collaborate with Egypopcult or simply visit our social media pages, below you can find Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio Rivas' contribution to the theme ‘Metal and Ancient Egypt’: egypopcult.pt/metal-and-an...

We are back after our stay in Luxor and will soon have news to share, so stay tuned!!

We love reception studies, but we also enjoy field work. From this 5th expedition in Luxor, we send you all warm greetings from Karnak! 🐫🐫

Egypopcult would like to congratulate and thank the Fábula research group for the wonderful second conference which took place last Wednesday. Their work are making a fundamental contribution to the study of the reception of Antiquity in children's and young adult literature.

For all enjoyers of mythology, tarot and anime, we recommend playing the Persona game series (1996-2024), where the main characters can summon powerful beings known as Persona. Many of them allude to Egyptian mythology, among others! For + info, check out: database.egypopcult.pt/persona-games/

Egypopcult is celebrating today! 🎉 Since our website and database returned at the end of August, our webpage has reached more than 50,000 visits 🥳🥳 Don't forget to take a look at it: database.egypopcult.pt

Although Halloween is over, we want to recommend this Spanish film, which has all the ingredients for a good time: aliens, Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein... and a plan to destroy Earth. Don't miss it, it's available for free on YouTube. More info: database.egypopcult.pt/los-monstruo...

We invite you to join our partner organization, @saveancientstudies.bsky.social for their Halloween Bash. This extended event is in full swing and runs through this Thursday, October 31st! More info here: www.saveancientstudies.org/halloweenbash Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃

Grupo de Pesquisa FABULA is organizing their second cycle of conferences on reception of Antiquity in children's and teenage literature taking place on November 12th! Sign up here before November 5th: forms.tic.ufrj.br/index.php/69...

We invite abstracts of roughly 300 words regarding Roman, Mesopotamian and Biblical Antiquity in music videos. Abstract proposals are due 15 November 2025 and the email address to which submissions must be sent is [email protected].

Europa Expo and the Royal Museum of Mariemont are lifting the veil around Cleopatra VIIth via an unprecedented exhibition at the Liège Guillemins railway station’s exhibition centre. Check out more info about the expo at: caracascom.com/wp-content/u...

A reminder to check out our "Events" page (egypopcult.pt/events/) so that you don't miss out on any recent events related to Egyptomania! For this month, we have a talk on pop culture and Egyptomania by our PI Abraham Fernández Pichel and a talk on mummies given by @issegyptomania.bsky.social

There are many mummies in fiction, but this one from the comic book "The Mummy: Palimpsest" by Peter Milligan and Ronilson Freire has some ingredients to pique our interest. A Coming soon to our database.

Our PI Abraham Fernández Pichel will be giving a talk on the methodological aspects of studying Egyptomania fiction in media studies such as literature, cinema and comic at LAOP on October 23rd. For more info, check out: docs.google.com/forms/d/174A...

Today's post would like to congratulate Claire Mercier, on your recent doctorate, and Sílvia Catarina Pereira Diogo on your master's degree dissertation. We will continue to follow your work closely, as we are sure it will be of great interest and quality!

Don't miss this new monograph on the dissemination of Cleopatra's image in popular culture and marketing, written by Claire Mercier and François de Callataÿ! More info at: academie-editions.be/arts/583-793...

In "The Spirit" vol. 18: "Curse of the Mummies", mummies from the Cairo Museum have disappeared and only Spirit can solve the case. Our protagonist will have to carry out different investigations to find out what these mummies are hiding. More info at: database.egypopcult.pt/curse-of-the...

In this lecture organized by @issegyptomania.bsky.social on October 28th, Lauren R. Bruce and Michelle Keeley-Adamson discuss one of the most recognisable so-called ‘monsters’ in cinema: the Mummy. Sign up at: www.eventbrite.com/e/he-who-rob...

Aimed at Spanish-speaking audiences, but sure to interest all fans of Egyptomania, we present ‘Destripando la Historia’ (Unraveling History), with 3 short video clips dedicated to Ra, Isis and Horus. Thank you, dear Esperanza, for your contribution. + Info: database.egypopcult.pt/destripando-...

This fascinating comic offers the opportunity to travel back to Ancient Egypt and take part in the conspiracies of the Old Kingdom court, thanks to magic and Einsteinian science. What a combination! Check it out at: database.egypopcult.pt/timothee-oct...

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