Egypt
Eastern Desert Conference
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If you are interested in the Eastern Desert, you may be intersted in an update from Hans Barnard who syas that the first abstracts for the conference on "The History of the Peoples of the Eastern Desert" are now on-line at the above address:
Your questions and comments are welcome, as are additional contributions. The perspective of this conference aims to be from the desert outward, with emphasis on the history of the native inhabitants of the region, rather than the usual prespective from the Nile Valley or beyond.
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Desert Rats 2nd Edition
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Online: Bir Abu Safa, Eastern Desert
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New Blog - The Archaeology Of Egypt's Deserts
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Backdirt 2007
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology UCLA Normally the news items on this site are a day or two old. This newsletter from the IOA at UCLA is nearly two years old. It is also over 40mb in size (110 pages of A4 if you're tempted to print it out). But I have...
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Conference: The History Of The Peoples Of The Eastern Desert
archbase.org Thanks to Kim Duistermaat for forwarding the following details to me. I don't usually publish calls for conference papers, because EEF are so much more efficient at collating and publishing that type of material, but the Eastern Desert...
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