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  Egypt Exploration Society - The Society - The History of the Society
The Egypt Exploration Society was founded in 1882, as the Egypt Exploration Fund in order to explore, survey, and excavate at ancient sites in Egypt and Sudan, and to publish the results of this work.
In the winter of 1873-74 a redoubtable English lady novelist and travel writer, Miss Amelia Edwards, was driven by wet weather in Europe to the sunnier and warmer climate of Egypt.
The book became a bestseller, not only for the fascinating view it gave of nineteenth century Egypt but also for its description of the antiquities of the ancient civilisation which were, at that time, largely unexcavated and neglected.
www.ees.ac.uk /the-society/history.htm   (252 words)

  
  Egypt - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Egypt
Napoleon's military expedition to Egypt in 1798 was ostensibly to suppress the Mamelukes and restore the authority of the Turkish sultan in Constantinople.
Throughout the war Egypt was used as a base for British military operations against the Turks in the Middle East, and the Suez Canal was successfully defended against a Turkish attack in 1915.
Egypt was a member of the UN coalition forces that sought an economic embargo against Iraq in 1990 for annexing Kuwait, and its armed forces joined in the military action against Iraq in 1991.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Egypt   (7147 words)

  
 Egypt Exploration Society - Library/Archive - Archive
The Archives of the Egypt Exploration Society are held at the Society’s premises (3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG) and contain the records of the Society’s fieldwork in Egypt (occasionally in Sudan) since 1882.
The Archive contains correspondence and other papers relating both to fieldwork and to the administration of the Society but, apart from the records of the founding and early years of the Society (then the Egypt Exploration Fund) this part of the Archive is not yet properly organised or listed.
All EES images must be acknowledged: ‘Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society’.
www.ees.ac.uk /library-archive/archive.htm   (634 words)

  
 Egypt Exploration Society - Fieldwork - Introduction
The EES has been working in Egypt since it was founded by Amelia Edwards in 1882.
The Society's remit to explore archaeological sites from the Predynastic Period to Late antique times remains largely unchanged; building on Miss Edwards' vision and the legacy of expertise left by so many of the Society's field Directors including Petrie, Griffith, Newberry, Carter, and Emery, the work continues today.
El-Amarna - in Middle Egypt, the short-lived capital of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.
www.ees.ac.uk /fieldwork/fieldintro.htm   (200 words)

  
 Egypt Exploration Society
The Egypt Exploration Society (abbreviated EES) is the foremost learned society in the United Kingdom promoting the field of Egyptology.
The offices of the EES are located in London, England.
Egypt Exploration Society - the home page of the society
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/e/eg/egypt_exploration_society.html   (124 words)

  
 Swansea University - Research News
Stefan Halikowski Smith (Dept. of History) is the recipient of a prestigious Centenary Award from the Egypt Exploration Society to visit Matarea, the site of an ancient and famous balsam grove north of Cairo, in December.
The garden there was purported to have sheltered the Holy Family on its flight from Egypt, but also offered visitors on the longer, complete pilgrimage circuit to the Holy Land a glimpse of the source of production of one of the rarest and most valuable spices known in the West right through the Middle Ages.
Halikowski Smith’s research is concerned with the interplay between the rare balsam grove and the shrine at Matarea to the Tree of the Virgin which, over the early modern period, was variously presented as a sycamore, a fig and a palm.
www.swan.ac.uk /humanities/News/ResearchNews/Headline,9553,en.asp   (295 words)

  
 Bibliography, Late Period
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt I. Edited by Donald B. Redford.
The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100-650 B.C.).
Encyclopedia of the archaeology of ancient Egypt / compiled and edited by Kathryn A. Bard / with the editing assistance of Steven Blake Shubert.
www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /bibliolate.html   (623 words)

  
 Egypy A-Z : Memphis Egypt
This exhibit has information on the culture of ancient Egypt including that onarchitecture, art, hieroglyphics, the daily life of ancient Egyptians,...
Egypt: Imhotep, Doctor, Architect, High Priest, Scribe and Vizier...
Ancient capital of Egypt; diocese of the province of Arcadia or Heptanomos,suffragan of Oxyrynchus.
www.egyptaz.com /memphisegypt/index.php   (844 words)

  
 Hierakonpolis Online
Brewer, D. "Temperatures in Predynstic Egypt inferred from the remains of the Nile perch", Archaeology and Arid Environments 22(3): 288-303.
Hamroush, H.A. Archaeological Geochemistry of Hierakonpolis in the Nile Valley, Egypt.
Wilson, J.A. "Buto and Hierakonpolis in the Geography of Egypt", JNES 14:209-236
www.hierakonpolis.org /resources/bibliography.html   (1948 words)

  
 The Collection
Most of the Amarna pottery in the Egypt Centre is the reddish Nile silt ware, however there are some marl pieces.
However, many Egyptologists dispute that the lotus was used as a narcotic in ancient Egypt.
The potters of Deir Mawas, an ethnoarchaeological study, In Kemp, B.J. Amarna Reports VI, London: Egypt Exploration Society, 279-308.
www.swan.ac.uk /egypt/infosheet/Amarna%20Pottery.htm   (989 words)

  
 Society Contacts
There are Egyptology societies and groups all over the UK offering a range of activities to interested amateurs.
Victor Blunden of the long-established and highly successful Manchester Ancient Egypt Society (MAES) is willing to offer advice to any new groups starting out.
The Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt
www.ancientegyptmagazine.com /society_contacts.htm   (276 words)

  
 Ancient Egypt: an introduction to its history and culture
Ancient Egypt: an introduction to its history and culture
Egypt Exploration Society: The EES mission to Sais
This site has mostly been written with the Arachnophilia HTML editor and checked with the CSE Validator.
www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt   (834 words)

  
 Ancient_Near_Eastern_Music_Bibliography
Fischer, Henry George, "The Trumpet in Ancient Egypt," in John R. Baines, Thomas Garnet Henry James, M. Anthony Leahy, and A. Shore, eds., Pyramid Studies and Other Essays Presented to I. Edwards (Occasional Publications 7; London: The Egypt Exploration Society, 1988), pp.
Giveon, R., "An Ancient 'Mondscheinsonate'," in The Impact of Egypt on Canaan: Iconographical and Related Studies (Gšttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1978), pp.
Manniche, Lise, "The Erotic Oboe in Ancient Egypt," in E. Hickmann and D. Hughes, eds., The Archaeology of Early Music Cultures: Third International Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology (Bonn: Verlag fŸr systematische Musikwissenschaft GmbH, 1988), pp.
faculty.washington.edu /snoegel/music.html   (9478 words)

  
 EEO/SC Main Chamber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The recent discovery of hundreds of mummies--many bearing masks of gold--at the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt is the richest unearthing of ancient Egyptian artifacts since King Tut's tomb.
Focusing on the funerary symbols one is likely to see in Egypt or at a museum, and illustrated with hieroglyphs that are on display in the British Museum (drawn by Richard Parkinson, curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum).
All of Egypt's surviving temples--from the gargantuan temple of Amun at Karnak to minuscule shrines such as the oasis Oracle of Siwa, where Alexander went to hear himself proclaimed god--are discussed and illustrated with factfiles, photographs, plans and specially commissioned perspective views.
www.eeosc.org /t1.shtml   (1244 words)

  
 David Brown Book Company - Egypt Exploration Society
Members are entitled to a 15% discount on all EES book titles.
The credit-card details form in our order process is secure-server protected.
If you wish to use any of the content on this website, please contact the web administrator for advice.
www.oxbowbooks.com /trade.cfm/Publisher/Egypt%20Exploration%20Society/Location/DBBC   (233 words)

  
 Egyptology
This type of decoration, with dozens of variations in colour and proportion, was used from the middle of the Old Kingdom (around 2400 BC) and continued into the Roman period some 25 centuries later.
This site also has a full list of local Egyptology Societies around the UK.
details the exploration of the so-called "air shafts" inside the Great Pyramid of Giza by a robot camera.
www.thornbridge.zetnet.co.uk /egypt.htm   (232 words)

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