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EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society www.ees.ac.uk
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Kharga Oasis: The North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Survey is studying the climate, environment and archaeological remains of this desert basin which was once teeming with life but today is part of the arid Sahara. See further pp.9-12. Photograph © North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Survey.
Number 45
Autumn 2014
Some editorial musings Patricia Spencer
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Access all areas - the EES Archive online Carl Graves and María Rodríguez Rubín
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EES Patrons
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A New Kingdom temple in the Delta Jeffrey and Patricia Spencer
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Kharga Oasis: a Saharan patchwork of lakes Judith Bunbury and Salima Ikram
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El-Hibeh: a plundered site Carol Redmount
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Disaster at Nuri Kathryn Howley
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KV40: a burial place for the royal entourage Susanne Bickel and Elina Paulin-Grothe
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Kom el-Dahab interpreted Gregory Marouard
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Digging Diary 2013-14 Patricia Spencer
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Avaris, its harbours and the Perunefer problem Irene Forstner-Müller
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Living above Luxor temple Sylvie Weens
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Digital epigraphy of the temple of Debod Lucía E Díaz-Iglesias Llanos and Daniel M Méndez Rodríguez
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Bookshelf
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Cover illustration. The Valley of the Kings. Cartonnage fragments of a face from a Twenty-Second Dynasty coffin, found in KV40. See further pp.21-24. Restoration by Erico Peintner. Photograph: Matjaz Kacicnik © University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project.