Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, Possibly the First Same-Sex Couple in History
Two men from Ancient Egypt in a shared tomb. Lovers, brothers, or twins?
Ancient Egypt
Were Idet and Ruiu a Lesbian Couple in Ancient Egypt?
A statue of two women from the 15th–14th centuries BCE. What their titles and pose suggest.
A Queer Lexicon of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian words for same-sex intercourse and how Egyptologists translate them.
Same-Sex Intercourse Between Gods in the Ancient Egyptian Myth of Horus and Seth
How Seth tried to take Horus and what the episode told Egyptians about power.
Was the Ancient Egyptian Goddess Nephthys a Lesbian?
What myths and texts say about Nephthys and her closeness to Isis.
Pharaoh Pepi II and General Sasenet in an Ancient Egyptian Homoerotic Tale
Secret night meetings of a ruler and a commander in one of literature’s earliest same-sex plots.
An Erotic Ostracon from Ancient Egypt with a Possible Scene of Sex Between Two Men
Two men, or a man and a woman? What is depicted on an Egyptian potsherd.