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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 27
Issue 27 comprises two articles focusing on the collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts at the British Museum. The first one publishes for the first time a group of mummy bandages inscribed with the Liturgy of Opening the Mouth for Breathing. This text is only known from a few other sources,...Vandenbeusch, Marie
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 26
The transfer of wall paintings from their original locations has been practised since antiquity. Many art collections contain wall paintings which were historically detached and rebacked. Such transfer is now rarely undertaken, and only under very specific circumstances. This extensive article is specifically concerned with the transfer of ancient Egyptian...British Museum
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Sustainability and subsistence systems in a changing Sudan: ethnobotanical and archaeobotanical investigations into past, present and future crop choices.
Summary points of this interim project report: Interviews with farmers have revealed dramatic, little-recorded changes in crops grown over the last 100 years in north Sudan. Traditional agricultural knowledge is rapidly disappearing with some information only remembered by elderly farmers. Several cereals and pulses that were the...Ryan, Philippa ; Homewood, Katherine
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A Tale of Shutb
A Tale of Shutb is a fictional story including accurate historical facts within the narration of the events. It is an initiative to present the recent discoveries of the British Museum’s expedition to Shutb to the local audience in a brief and interesting way. This story was written in Arabic...Keshk, Fatma
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Asyut: Guardian City
Few cities can claim as long and illustrious a history as Asyut, in Middle Egypt. Continuously inhabited for at least five thousand years, it ranks among the world's oldest urban centres, yet only now has Asyut begun to receive the scholarly and public attention it deserves. The 'guardian city' straddled...Regulski, Ilona ; Golia, Maria
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 24
Editorial This special issue of BMSAES publishes papers and additional reflections arising from two workshops organised at the British Museum in 2011 and 2013 as part of the British Museum’s Naukratis Project. Contributions by archaeologists, Classicists, Egyptologists and other specialists explore the diverse and sometimes contrasting narratives of the different...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 23
Editorial This special issue of BMSAES is dedicated to the recently retired papyrus conservator Bridget Leach. In tribute to a career of exceptional scope and impact, the current BMSAES issue presents recent research in Egyptology, papyrology and conservation by twelve scholars who worked closely with Bridget in the past. Given...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 22
Editorial This issue of BMSAES presents results from fieldwork projects undertaken in a broad range of settings: ancient Egypt’s cemeteries (Elkab, Edfu), quarries (Gebel el-Silsila) and desert routes (near Kharga Oasis). Readers are also invited to make a closer acquaintance with three less familiar deities: ‘Amun-Ra, lord of the sky’,...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 21
Editorial This issue presents new work on Roman, Late Antique and Medieval Egyptian collections primarily in the UK, Germany and France. Several of the articles presented herein have their origins in aspects of presentations delivered at a workshop held in the British Museum Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department and entitled,...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 20
Editorial This issue provides a welcome cross-section of studies on museum collections (Van Aerde) and archives (Thomas and Villing), monuments in situ (Gregory and Davies) and results from British Museum fieldwork projects, new (Thomas and Villing) and completed (Davies). Elisabeth R. O'Connell Contents: Concepts of Egypt in Augustan Rome: Two...British Museum