The National Gallery of Victoria's winter blockbuster exhibition, Pharaoh, showcases their extravagant lives and concerns afr.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from afr.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Archaeologists excavating at Amarna have discovered more evidence of the opulence of this ancient city, built by Akhenaten as the capital of his new Egyptian world.
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Anyone can have too much of a good thing, as our poodle-cross Fizzy found out on Boxing Day.
Not satisfied with the scraps from every plate, she somehow levitated onto a table and stole half a Toblerone. Dogs and chocolate are a bad combination, so I’m grateful the consequences were nothing worse than an hour spent shampooing the stair carpet.
Pooch Perfect (BBC1), the dog grooming contest hosted by Sheridan Smith, suffered a similar fate. It crammed in so much sweetness that it ended up being a little bit sick-making.
The basic idea was to take four professional groomers and set them two challenges prettifying a shih tzu, then giving a ‘teddy bear’ trim to a cockapoo or some other woolly poodle-cross (Toblerone not included).