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, George Hart, Dr David Jeffreys, John J Johnston, Chris Naunton and Dr Alice Stevenson. The current Editor is Dr Patricia Spencer and Rob Tamplin 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 40

EA 40 will be published in February/March 2012. The EES news pages include a progress report by Chris Naunton on the rehousing of the Society's Lucy Gura Archive, and accounts of two recent trips made by groups of EES members - to Berlin and Ethiopia - as well as news and photographs from the Society's 2011 Annual General Meeting and other events. In addition to regular features such as ‘Digging Diary’ and ‘Bookshelf’ the issue includes the third in the series of short interviews with leading Egyptologists, Five minutes with Neal Spencer, and the following articles:

David Jeffreys, Memphis in the Middle Kingdom: the field school. Inset: Rebuilding the Memphis workroom

Joanne Rowland, The first archaeological field school at Quesna

Kenneth Griffin, The Book of the Dead in the tomb of Karakhamun

Veit Vaelske, Terracottas from Tell Basta

Pascale Ballet and Gregory Marouard, Workshops and urban settlement in Buto. Inset: Bérengère Redon and Guy Lecuyot, The baths of Buto

Robert Schiestl, Investigating ancient settlements around Buto

Angela McDonald and Sally-Anne Coupar, The Egyptological afterlife of Colin Campbell

Manuela Lehmann, The city of Avaris after the New Kingdom

Manfred Bietak, The archaeology of the 'gold of valour'

Margaret Maitland, Pharaoh: ideal and reality

Pierre Tallet and Gregory Marouard, An early pharaonic harbour on the Red Sea coast

Bookshelf has reviews by Alice Stevenson (Tine Bagh, Finds from W M F Petrie's excavations in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek), Rosalie David (John H Taylor, Egyptian Mummies), John H Taylor (Agathe Legros and Fréderic Payraudeau (eds), Secrets de Momies) and Peter A Clayton (Ivor Noël Hume, Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate), with an account by Anna Baghiani and John J Taylor of the recent identification of the grave of Sarak Belzoni.

Digging Diary has brief reports on recent fieldwork in Egypt, including a note by Susanne Bickel on the recent discovery of KV 64.

Egyptian Archaeology 39

EA 39 (Autumn 2011) was published in early November 2011. In addition to regular features such as ‘Digging Diary’, ‘Bookshelf’ and items of EES news, the issue includes the second in the series of short interviews with leading Egyptologists, Five minutes with Salima Ikram, and the following articles:

Joanne Rowland and Jeffrey Spencer, The EES Delta Survey in spring 2011

Eva Lange, The EES Amelia Edwards Projects Fund: Tell Basta

Alice Williams, An Egyptological friendship

Hiroko Kariya and Ray Johnson, Luxor temple: conservation and site-management

Faye Kalloniatis, The shroud of Ipu at Norwich Castle Museum

Steven E Sidebotham and Iwona Zych, Berenike: Egypt’s Red Sea gateway to the east

Dirk Huyge and Dimitri A G Vandenberghe, Confirming the Pleistocene age of the Qurta rock art

Hourig Sourouzian, Investigating the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III

Campbell Price and Gina Criscenzo-Laycock, ACCES-ing Egyptian and Sudanese collections in the UK

Gianluca Miniaci, Re-excavating rishi coffins in museums and archives

Tamás Bács and Richard Parkinson, Wall paintings from the tomb of Kynebu at Luxor

Bookshelf has reviews by Aidan Dodson (Glenn Janes, The Shabti Collections, 1; West Park Museum, Macclesfield), Richard Bussmann (Christopher Woods (ed.), Visible Language. Inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond), Eva Lange (Mohamed I Bakr, Helmut Brandl and Faye Kalloniatis, Egyptian Antiquities from Kufur Nigm and Bubastis) and Gianluca Miniaci (Bill Manley and Aidan Dodson, Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins). There is also a review by David Jeffreys of the BBC DVD Egypt's Lost Cities.

Digging Diary has brief reports on recent fieldwork in Egypt.

Egyptian Archaeology 38

EA 38 (spring 2011) was published in February. In addition to articles, it contains reports on the EES Centenary Awards, recent EES events and details of a new edited film of the Society's work at Amarna in the 1930s. Aidan Dodson contributes an appreciation of Barry Kemp after he was awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours List, and this issue also includes an interview with Kent Weeks.

EA 38 contains the following articles:

Angus Graham Ancient Theban waterways

Theresa Steckel A statue of Ramesses II from Tell Basta

Khaled Daoud The tomb of the Royal Envoy Nakht-Min

Joanne Rowland A new era at Quesna

Maria Correas-Amador A survey of the mud-brick buildings of Qena

Richard Bussmann Seals and seal impressions from Hierakonpolis

Christophe Thiers and Pierre Zignani The temple of Ptah at Karnak

Christiane Ziegler Undisturbed Late Period tombs at Saqqara

Joanne Rowland and Christopher Bronk Ramsey Online C14 database for Egypt

Richard B Parkinson A papyrus from the House of Life at Akhetaten

Bookshelf has reviews by Karen Exell (Stephen Quirke, Hidden Hands), Andrew Bednarski (Jason Thompson, Edward William Lane), Aidan Dodson (Herbert Winlock and Dorothea Arnold, Tutankhamun's Funeral) and Morris Bierbrier (Jason Thompson, A History of Egypt and Robert Tignor, Egypt. A Short History).

Digging Diary has brief reports on recent fieldwork in Egypt.

Egyptian Archaeology 37

EA 37 was published in November 2010. The layout of EA has been changed with this issue to include pages at the front of the magazine which showcase the Society’s activities, including a report on EES tours to Egypt and Sudan, a summary and photographs from BEC3, news of the appointment of our Development Director, Victoria Perry, and photographs from recent events at Doughty Mews. Appreciations of the lives of Ian Mathieson, Win Exley and Lydia Barker are also included in this new section.

EA 37 contains the following articles:

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

Tine Bagh, Petrie finds revisited

Earl L Ertman, The face of a king in the Pitt Rivers Museum

David Jeffreys, Joseph Hekekyan, pioneer archaeologist

Eva Lange, King Shoshenqs at Bubastis

Colleen Manassa, The Yale University Moalla Survey project

Gillian Pyke, The Christian settlement at the Amarna North Tombs

Daniela Rosenow, Revealing new landscape features at Tell Basta

Jeffrey Spencer, Tell Yetwal wa Yuksur

Alice Stevenson, Ancient Egypt in the Pitt Rivers Museum

John Taylor, The Book of the Dead

'Bookshelf' has reviews by Marianne Eaton-Krauss (of Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunset), Andrew Bednarski (Dieter Arnold, The Monuments of Egypt), Sylvie Weens (Elizabeth Wickett, For the Living and the Dead), Josef Wegner (Wolfram Grajetzki, Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom) and Julie Anderson (W Y Adams, The Road from Frijoles Canyon).

‘Digging Diary’ contains brief summaries of the work of over 50 expeditions that carried our research in Egypt during 2010.

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 Ptolemaicand 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)