EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
The Giza Pyramids during the inundation in the 1920s. Records relating to the archaeology of Giza are now available on-line, see pp. 31-33. Photograph: Egypt Exploration Society Archive.
EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society www.ees.ac.uk
Number 28
Spring 2006
Editorial
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Frankfort photograph albums
Chris Naunton
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The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the aims or concerns of the Egypt Exploration Society
The EES Delta Survey: Minufiyeh 2005 Joanne Rowland and Nils Billing
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Editor Patricia Spencer
Qasr Ibrim’s crowning glory: a Napatan Period wig Gillian Pyke
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An Amarna sculptor’s model
Anna Stevens
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Notes and News
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A new temple for Thoth in the Dakhleh Oasis Paola Davoli and Olaf Kaper
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A Fourth Dynasty royal necropolis at Abu Rawash Michel Baud and Nadine Moeller
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The first British Egyptology Congress, Cambridge 2005 Dan Lines
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The Louvre Museum excavations at Saqqara Christiane Ziegler
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Digging Diary
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Patricia Spencer
Eastern Desert Ware: fine pottery from an arid wasteland Hans Barnard
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The Giza Archives Project
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New work on old texts
Peter Der Manuelian
Roland Enmarch
Perunefer: at Memphis or Avaris?
David Jeffreys
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Notice Board
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The temple of Ramesses II at El-Sheikh Ibada Gloria Rosati
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Bookshelf
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Membership Matters and Acknowledgements
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Cover illustration: Saqqara, excavations of the Louvre Museum.The northern part of a Late Period underground gallery with heaped-up coffins and funerary equipment. See pp.20-24. Photograph © Christian Déscamps. 1