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"The largest piece of Egyptian writing in Europe". The Ashmolean 4 (1983), 12-13, ill. [39]

 "Ashmolean cats". The Ashmolean 8 (1985), 12-16, ills. Reprinted in Cats 225 (10-16 July, 1986), 16-17, ills. [49]


 "Egyptian epigraphy as practised at Memphis". The EES Newsletter 3 (October 1988), 4-6, ills. [63]


"Red of ear and purple of behind. The Ashmolean priest and the baboon". The Ashmolean 16 (Summer and Autumn 1989), 5-7, ills. [68]

(with H. Whitehouse) "A home for Egyptology in Oxford". The Ashmolean 16 (Summer and Autumn 1989), 8-9, ills. (Also online.) [69]

"A scene recording the birth of Tutankhamun?" The EES Newsletter 5 (October 1988), 7-8, ils. [71B]

"Adoration of the Great Cat". The EES Newsletter 6 (October 1990), 6-9, ills. [79]

"New photographs of the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb". The Ashmolean 20 (Summer-Autumn 1991), 3-4, ills. [82]

"Egyptian cats as retrievers?" British Museum Magazine 14 (Summer 1993), 24, ill. [100]

"Egyptian hieroglyphs ancient and modern". The Ashmolean 27 (Christmas 1994), 4-6. [109]

"The inauguration of the new Egyptian galleries in the Musée du Louvre, 19 December 1997". Newsletter of the International Association of Egyptologists, 26 April 1998, p. 15. [133]

"The new Roxie Walker Galleries of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology at the British Museum" (originally on the Griffith Institute's website). [138]

"The Greek goddess of travel?" (originally on the Griffith Institute's website). Reprinted in Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East: Notes and Queries 9 (April 2000), 3. [139]

"What wonderful things." Egypt Revealed (March/April 2001), 16-17, ill. (Also online as "A famous collection moves into the digital age") [157]

"Ancient cats". In: Muse 6 [6] (July-August 2002), 18-23. [166]

"Jak jsem se stal egyptologem". Přibyslavský čtvrtletník pro kulturu, historii a ekologii 7 [2] (2007), 3-12, ills. [186]

"The Tutankhamun paradox". Egyptology NZ News 8 [1] (April 2008), 9-11, ills. [193]

"As good as the real thing!" Ancient Egypt 11 [2] (Oct.-Nov. 2010), 36-41. [195]

 “Živé dědictví starověkého Egypta”. Živá historie (Living History), July 2012, 54-7. [200]

 “Hatšepsut. Uzurpátorka, nebo faraonka z nutnosti?” In: Živá historie (Living History), October 2012, 8-12. [206]

“Discovering Tutankhamun: the inside story”. In: Minerva. The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology 25 [4] (July/August 2014), 28-31. [216]

“The golden Pharaoh”. In: Minerva. The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology 30 [5] (September/October 2019), 14-21. [222]