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EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society www.ees.ac.uk
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ARCHAEOLOGY
The shroud of Ipu. The British Museum and Norwich Castle conservation team unrolling the shroud, using Melinex sheets to support it and keep the fragile fibres intact, see pp.15-17. Photograph © Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery/Trustees of the British Museum.
Number 39
Autumn 2011
Changes in the air Patricia Spencer
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The EES Delta Survey in spring 2011 Joanne Rowland and Jeffrey Spencer
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EES Centenary Awards 2010. Recent events
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The EES Amelia Edwards Projects Fund: Tell Basta Eva Lange
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An Egyptological friendship Alice Williams
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Luxor temple: conservation and site-management Hiroko Kariya and Ray Johnson
12
The shroud of Ipu at Norwich Castle Museum Faye Kalloniatis
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Berenike: Egypt’s Red Sea gateway to the east Steven E Sidebotham and Iwona Zych
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Confirming the Pleistocene age of the Qurta rock art Dirk Huyge and Dimitri A G Vandenberghe
21
Digging Diary Patricia Spencer
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Investigating the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III Hourig Sourouzian
29
Bookshelf
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ACCES-ing Egyptian and Sudanese collections in the UK Campbell Price and Gina Criscenzo-Laycock
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Re-excavating rishi coffins in museums and archives Gianluca Miniaci
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Wall paintings from the tomb of Kynebu at Luxor Tamás Bács and Richard Parkinson
41
Five minutes with Salima Ikram
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Cover illustration. The mortuary temple of Amenhotep III on the west bank at Luxor: cleaning and conservation of the sandstone slabs of the pavement of the peristyle court. See pp.29-32. Photograph: The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project.