By Thais Rocha da Silva, Research Fellow at the University of São Paulo and Harris Manchester College (University of Oxford) and archaeologist of the Amarna Project. When talking about Egypt, it is inevitable to think about mummies and pyramids. It seems that everything that comes to us from this civilization refers only to the world of the dead, as if Egypt were a great graveyard. But what was the Egypt of the “living” like, their homes and cities? The "dead" Egypt excludes

By Fábio Duarte Joly, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. The Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to being a serious health crisis that the world is currently experiencing, brought to light social inequalities that were already present, but which have now become more explicit. For example, in Brazil, as elsewhere, the term "invisible" has been applied to the informal workers – those without any record in official government data and who, therefore, would be as if they "did not exi

By Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira, Universidade de São Paulo. “Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?” In this 1935 poem, the German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht imagined the questions of a reading worker who noticed the absence of workers in the history books. "Who built the pyramids of Egypt?" was not one of those questions, but what the worker in the poem said about Thebes would