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Editorial Spring is a time of renewed colour, so what better occasion to look past the greys and browns and rediscover the vivid palettes once used to adorn the walls and façades of Egyptian temples? Erin A. Peters and Diana Craig Patch tell us more about the use of colour in Egyptian temple architecture and how the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York used projection mapping technology to ‘re-paint’ the Temple of Dendur that is one of the Museum’s iconic exhibits. Other fascinating stories have come in from the field in Egypt: excavations led by Guillaume Charloux and Christophe Thiers in the temple of Ptah at Karnak confirm the existence of a suspected earlier sanctuary; Aiman Ashmawy and Dietrich Raue give a handy summary of their work at the main temple of Heliopolis, which until recently was never systematically excavated; Jiro Kondo and Nozomu Kawai tell a story of tombs found, forgotten and rediscovered in the Theban Necropolis; also from the Theban Necropolis comes Marta Kaczanowiczs report on finds, mostly from the Third Intermediate and Late Periods, at two little researched tombs; Hourig Sourouzian brings us up to speed with the work of the Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project in recent seasons; and Dirk Huyge follows up on his article in our last issue with a closer look at one particularly intriguing object found at Elkab. The issue opens with an article on museum work and fittingly closes with Margaret Maitlands introduction to another museum event, the upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, ‘The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial’. Jan Geisbusch Above: stela of the mason Djehuty found at the limit of the foundation pit of the temple of Thutmose III. See article pp. 11-15. Photo: CNRS-CFEETK, A. Elnasseh. Cover: detail of the paint in the pronaos of the Hathor temple at Dendera. See article pp. 4-10. Photo: Erin A. Peters. EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY ISSUE NO 50 SPRING 2017
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