Egyptian Archaeology

Between 1987 and 1990 the EES published a 'Newsletter', scanned copies of which are now available here. The 'Newsletter' was so well-received by members that in 1991 the EES started publishing a colour magazine to present EES and other fieldwork and research in Egypt to members and other readers in an attractive, easy-to-read and well-illustrated format. Originally EA appeared annually, was only 32 pages long and only partly in colour. It proved to be very popular and since 2000 the magazine has been published twice a year - in spring and autumn - and each issue has 44 full-coloured pages.

The first Editor of EA was Michael Murphy, followed by Dr John Taylor and both still serve on the Editorial Board along with Peter Clayton, Vivian Davies, George Hart, Dr David Jeffreys and Chris Naunton. The current Editor is Dr Patricia Spencer and Dr Alice Stevenson looks after advertising for EA.

All full members of the EES receive copies of EA on publication. To be sure of not missing an issue, join the Society now.

Egyptian Archaeology 37

EA 37 will be pubished in Autumn 2010 and will contain the following articles:

Masahiro Baba, Dahshur North: intact Middle and New Kingdom Coffin

Tina Bagh, Petrie finds revisited

David Jeffreys, Joseph Hekekyan, pioneer archaeologist (EES)

Eva Lange, King Shoshenqs at Bubastis

Colleen Manassa, The Yale University Moalla Survey project

Gillian Pyke, The Christian settlement at the Amarna North Tombs (EES Exc Fund)

Daniela Rosenow, Revealing new landscape features at Tell Basta (EES Exc Fund)

Jeffrey Spencer, Tell Yetwal wa Yuksur (EES)

Alice Stevenson, Ancient Egypt in the Pitt Rivers Museum (includes a ‘box’ by Earl Ertman)

John Taylor, The Book of the Dead

Egyptian Archaeology 36

The issue for spring 2010 was published in March and has been mailed to all subscribing EES members. The cover and first three articles in EA 36 feature the history of Egyptology to complement the Society's current Fund-raising Campaign for the Lucy Gura Archive. In addition to regular features such as 'Notes and News', 'Membership Matters' and 'Digging Diary' (download Digging Diary here), the main articles are:

Chris Naunton, The EES Oral History Project (download here)

Will Carruthers, A means to an end: seeking Bryan Emery in archives

Stephen Quirke, Petrie at Abydos in 1900: Margaret Murray's album

David Dufton and Tom Branton, Climate change in early Egypt

Sami el-Husseiny and Adel Okasha Khafagy, The Dahshur tomb of the Vizier Siese rediscovered

Angus Graham, Ancient landscapes around the Opet temple, Karnak

Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura, The tomb chapel of Isisnofret at Saqqara

Dirk Obbink, Recent discoveries from Oxyrhynchus

Kveta Smolarikova, Embalmers' caches in the shaft tombs at Abu Sir

Gyoso Voros, The temple treasures of Taposiris Magna

Egyptian Archaeology 35

The autumn 2009 issue was published in early November and mailed to all subscribing EES members then. The main articles are:

Manfred Bietak, Archaeology in the Nile Delta

Manfred Bietak, Perunefer: an update

Maria Carmelo Gatto, The Aswan area at the dawn of Egyptian history

John P Cooper, The ancient canal and port of Suez

José M Galan, An intact Eleventh Dynasty burial in Dra Abu el-Naga

Tom Hardwick, A painted pavement from the Maru-Aten at Amarna

Olaf E Kaper, Restoring wall-paintings of the temple of Tutu

Guy Lecuyot, Coptic occupation of the Theban Mountain

Richard B Parkinson and Neal Spencer, The Teaching of Amenemhat at Amara West

Kate Spence and Pamela Rose, New fieldwork at Sesebi

Content

Most issues of EA contain between eight and ten main articles, written by eminent Egyptologists or archaeological specialists, on current excavations, surveys and research in Egypt - and occasionally the Sudan. The work of the EES features prominently but the magazine also has articles by other researchers and Field Directors. All articles are in English, giving colleagues abroad a chance to publish summaries of their work in another language and reach a wider audience.

Each issue also has regular features - ‘Notes and News’, ‘Events’, ‘Membership Matters’, ‘Bookshelf’ with reviews of popular Egyptological books, and ‘Digging Diary’ which includes brief summaries of some of the many archaeological projects happening in Egypt.

PDFs of selected articles and features can be downloaded here:

Joanne Rowland, and Sonia Zakrzewski, Quesna: the Ptolemaic and Roman cemetery (EA 32, Spring 2008, pp.15-17)

Richard Parkinson, The painted tomb-chapel of Nebamun (EA 33 Autumn 2008 pp.21-24)

Irene Forstner-Muller, Providing a map of Avaris (EA 34 Spring 2009, pp.10-13)

‘Notes and News’ (EA 34, Spring 2009, p.14)

‘Digging Diary’ (EA 33, Autumn 2008, 29-32)