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ARCHAEOLOGY
Theban tomb of Djeserkaresoneb (TT 38). Colin Campbell’s early twentieth-century copy recorded a scene which has since been badly damaged. See pp. 21-24.
Number 40
Spring 2012
In Petrie’s footsteps Patricia Spencer
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The Lucy Gura Archive Project - progress report Chris Naunton Recent events
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EES members visit Berlin Patricia Spencer Cairo members tour Ethiopia Gillian Marie
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Memphis in the Middle Kingdom: the field school David Jeffreys Inset: Rebuilding the Memphis workroom
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The first archaeological field school at Quesna Joanne Rowland
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The Book of the Dead in the tomb of Karakhamun Kenneth Griffin
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Terracottas from Tell Basta Viet Vaelske
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Workshops and urban settlement in Buto Pascale Ballet and Gregory Marouard Inset: The baths of Buto Bérengère Redon and Guy Lecuyot
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Investigating ancient settlements around Buto Robert Schiestl
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The Egyptological afterlife of Colin Campbell Angela McDonald and Sally-Anne Coupar
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Digging Diary Patricia Spencer Inset: Discovery of a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings Susanne Bickel
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The city of Avaris after the New Kingdom Manuela Lehmann
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The archaeology of the ‘gold of valour’ Manfred Bietak
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Bookshelf Inset: Sarah Belzoni’s grave and tombstone Ann Baghiani and John J Taylor
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Pharaoh: ideal and reality Margaret Maitland
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An early pharaonic harbour on the Red Sea coast Pierre Tallet and Gregory Marouard
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Five minutes with Neal Spencer
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Cover illustration. Quesna, the late Ptolemaic-early Roman cemetery: one of the students at the field school (see pp.7-8) excavating burial 68 of a woman who probably had osteoporosis and died aged 30-40 years. Photograph: © EES Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey.