Egypt
Rutherford Press
- Online: Geoarchaeological Research In Egypt And The Nile Valley
Geoarchaeology Many thanks, as usual, to Charles Ellwood Jones and his AWOL website for pointing to a special open edition of Geoarchaeology. Here's the introduction and see above for a full list of articles which are available in PDF format. Many...
- Book Review: Egyptology Today
Bryn Mawr Classical Review This is a superb book. Wilkinson has brought together some of the current leading Egyptologists to produce a single volume work that introduces the reader to the methods and theories used in the study of ancient Egypt. All aspects...
- Book Review: Egypt In The Byzantine World 300-700
Bryn Mawr Classical Review This book's genesis lies in the annual Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium in Byzantine Studies, which in 2004 was dedicated to the theme 'Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450-700'. Roger Bagnall subsequently expanded the...
- Cre Vii Announced
http://www.currentresearchegypt.fsworld.co.uk/index.htmCurrent Research in Egyptology (CRE) is an annual symposium held in universities in the UK for students from around the world, aiming to provide a forum for the discussion of Egyptological research...
- Ancient Mummies - Secrets To Be Unlocked
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/press/title,26474,en.htm "Two world-renowned teams of experts on Egyptian mummies have joined forces in an international effort to better understand disease and its treatment in ancient Egypt. The University of Manchester's...
Egypt
New Book: Proceedings of Current Research in Egyptology 2008
Rutherford Press
The ninth annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE IX) was hosted by the KNH Centre for Biomedical Research at the University of Manchester in January 2008. The symposium brought together graduate, postgraduate and independent students of Egyptology from many different countries.
The 15 papers presented in this heavily-illustrated volume represent a diverse range of topics and multidisciplinary approaches from both the archaeological and textual areas of Egyptological research.
There's a rather better description on Amazon.co.uk:
The ninth annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE IX) was hosted by the KNH Centre for Biomedical Research at the University of Manchester in January 2008. The symposium brought together graduate, postgraduate and independent students of Egyptology from many different countries. The papers presented in this volume represent a diverse range of topics and multidisciplinary approaches as follows: Perspectives on Travelling in the Texts from Deir el-Medina; The Realities of Battle in Ancient Egypt; Unpublished Coptic Limbo in the John Rylands Library, Manchester; Ancient Egyptian Emic Terms for Wells and Cisterns; Aegyptus, or the Western Conception of Egypt from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century; Water Basins in Middle Kingdom Planned Settlements; Analysis of Black Coatings on a Mummy and Associated Artefact from The Manchester Museum; Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? Preliminary Results of a Radiological Study of Three Museum Oddities; The Tutankhamouse Experiment: Investigating Tissue Changes during Mummification; Re-Materialising Script and Image; A Stylistic Dating Method for Statues of Anubis and other Canine Deities; A Brief Analysis of the Representations of Masculinity within a Case Study of Pre-Amarna Eighteenth Dynasty Funeral Art in Ancient Egypt; Iconographic Programme and Tomb Architecture: a Focus on Desert-Related Themes; Predynastic and Protodynastic Mudbrick Settlement Architecture; A Reassessment of the Landing Place of Hatshepsut s Fleet in Punt.
- Online: Geoarchaeological Research In Egypt And The Nile Valley
Geoarchaeology Many thanks, as usual, to Charles Ellwood Jones and his AWOL website for pointing to a special open edition of Geoarchaeology. Here's the introduction and see above for a full list of articles which are available in PDF format. Many...
- Book Review: Egyptology Today
Bryn Mawr Classical Review This is a superb book. Wilkinson has brought together some of the current leading Egyptologists to produce a single volume work that introduces the reader to the methods and theories used in the study of ancient Egypt. All aspects...
- Book Review: Egypt In The Byzantine World 300-700
Bryn Mawr Classical Review This book's genesis lies in the annual Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium in Byzantine Studies, which in 2004 was dedicated to the theme 'Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450-700'. Roger Bagnall subsequently expanded the...
- Cre Vii Announced
http://www.currentresearchegypt.fsworld.co.uk/index.htmCurrent Research in Egyptology (CRE) is an annual symposium held in universities in the UK for students from around the world, aiming to provide a forum for the discussion of Egyptological research...
- Ancient Mummies - Secrets To Be Unlocked
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/press/title,26474,en.htm "Two world-renowned teams of experts on Egyptian mummies have joined forces in an international effort to better understand disease and its treatment in ancient Egypt. The University of Manchester's...