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EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society www.ees.ac.uk
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Theban West Bank. View over the ancient landscape, with the temple of Amenhotep III and the Colossi of Memnon in the foreground, the temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu in the middle distance and the desert and cliffs beyond. Photograph © Egypt Exploration Society. See pp.21-24.
Number 41
Autumn 2012
Landscape archaeology Patricia Spencer EES Patrons
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Threat to archaeological sites in Sudan Centenary Awards Reader’s letter
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Gaballa Ali Gaballa John Ruffle EES news and events
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A day at the races in Byzantine Oxyrhynchus Margaret Mountford
5
Egyptian landscapes and environmental archaeology David Jeffreys
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Geophysical methods and landscape archaeology Tomasz Herbich
11
The mobile Nile Judith Bunbury
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The ancient landscape around Lake Burullus Penny Wilson
18
Investigating the Theban West Bank floodplain Angus Graham
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Nile navigation: ‘towing all day, punting for hours’ John P Cooper
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Digging Diary Patricia Spencer
28
Significant composite statue fragments from Amarna Kristin Thompson
32
Akhenaten in Syria Alexander Ahrens and Peter Pfälzner
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The Valley of the Kings: two burials in KV 64 Susanne Bickel and Elina Paulin-Grothe
36
Bookshelf
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Cover illustration. Kristian Strutt undertaking a magnetometry survey in the fields in front of the Ramesseum for the EES Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey. Photograph © Egypt Exploration Society. See pp.21-24.