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Five years of excavations at Dangeil, Sudan: a new Amun temple of the Late Kushite period
Insight into the newly discovered temple of Amun discovered at Dangeil, Sudan, in a collection of 150 essays presented at the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, organized at the University of the Aegean (Rhodes), 22-29 May 2008.Anderson, Julie ; Ahmed , Salah Mohammed
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Recent fieldwork at Dangeil, Nile State in the Amun temple complex
An overview of the recent fieldwork at Dangeil, including the discovery of the Amun temple complex, in a collection of papers presented at the 11th International Congress for Meroitic Studies in Vienna, 2008.Anderson, Julie ; Ahmed, Salah Mohammed ; Suliman , Mahmoud
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The Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project at Dangeil. Satyrs, rulers, archers and pyramids: a miscellany from Dangeil 2014−15
Two seasons of work were undertaken at Dangeil recently, one in autumn 2014 and the other in March 2015, with some rather unanticipated finds.Work was conducted in three areas: the Amun temple site, Cemeteries WTC and FRC, and Dangeil NE, the latter being situated approximately 300m to the north east...Anderson, Julie ; Bashir , Mahmoud Suliman ; elRasheed, Rihab Khidir
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Dangeil 2013−14: porches, ovens and a glimpse underground
Excavations at Dangeil, Nile State, between October and December 2013 focused upon features within the temenos enclosure of the 1st century AD Amun temple and upon the nearby cemetery WTC. In addition, the preparation of a site management and presentation plan for the temple site was initiated (Plates 1 and...Anderson, Julie ; Bashir, Mahmoud Suliman ; Ahmed , Salah Mohammed
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Early Kushite royal statues at Dangeil, Sudan
An essay about the early Kushite royal statues at Dangeil, Sudan based on a paper presented at the 12th International Conference for Nubian Studies held at the British Museum, London, from 1st-6th August 2010.Anderson, Julie ; Ahmed, Salah Mohammed
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Conservation of an Amun Temple in the Sudan
An account of the conservation at the temple of Amun at Dangeil, Sudan, based on a paper given at the 12th International Conference for Nubian Studies held at the British Museum, London, from 1st-6th August 2010.Sweek, Tracey ; Anderson, Julie ; Ahmed, Salah Mohammed ; Tanimoto, Satoko
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Dangeil: excavations on Kom K, 2014−15
An account of the excavations on Kom K at Dangeil, Sudan, in 2014−15Maillot, Sébastien
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The Kushite cemetery of Dangeil (WTC): preliminary analyses of the human remains
A preliminary analysis of the human remains at the Kushite cemetery of Dangeil.Pieri, Anna
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Research report
Excavations in the Meroitic Cemetery of Dangeil, Sudan
An educational resource on the excavations in the Meroitic Cemetery of Dangeil, Sudan. An Arabic version was also created with contributions from Salah Mohamed Ahmed, Fakhri Hassan Abdula Hassan and Fawzi Hassan Bakheit. The English version can be found at: https://bookleteer.com/book.html?id=2963& The Arabic version can be found at: https://bookleteer.com/book.html?id=2964&Anderson, Julie ; Bashir , Mahmoud Suliman
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Sudan & Nubia Volume 25
Volume 25 of Sudan & Nubia journal, edited by Julie Anderson with contribution from 49 authorsAnderson, Julie
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Sudan & Nubia Volume 24
Sudan & Nubia journal, volume 24, edited by Julie Anderson (with 58 authors). PDF available for free download from http://www.sudarchrs.org.uk/resources/publications/journal-sudan-nubia/#toggle-id-24Anderson, Julie
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Sudan & Nubia Volume 23
Volume 23 of Sudan & Nubia, edited by Julie Anderson with 54 authors. PDF freely downloadable from http://www.sudarchrs.org.uk/resources/publications/journal-sudan-nubia/#toggle-id-23Anderson, Julie
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Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific Perspectives
The accompanying publication to the British Museum exhibition Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific Perspectives, held from 29 November 2018 – 4 August 2019. On the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s extraordinary voyages of exploration, this publication reflects on and charts the enduring legacies of his encounters with Pacific peoples. Objects...Adams, Julie ; Bolton, Lissant
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‘A bastion of colonialism’: public perceptions of the British Museum and its relationship to empire
This article uses visitor research to explore public attitudes to the British Museum and perceptions of its relationship to the history of the British Empire. Firstly, it provides an analysis of direct messages received by the Museum over a twelve month period via letters, emails and comments on social media...Frost, Stuart
British Museum; colonialism; imperialism; exhibitions; visitor research
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Naukratis: Greek Diversity in Egypt. Studies on East Greek Pottery and Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean
A collection of 22 essays presenting the latest research on a comprehensive range of questions relating to the Greek presence at the site of Egyptian Naukratis as it is reflected in the pottery found there. The volume includes scientific analysis and is richly illustrated with photographs including colour illustrations, line...Villing, Alexandra ; Schlotzhauer, Udo
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Cult and trade. A reflexion on Egyptian metal offerings from Naucratis
This volume in which this chapter appears presents 16 papers that explore aspects of the economic and religious life of the northwestern Nile Delta in the first millennium BC. The papers concentrate on presenting new research on a range of material culture—ceramics, coins, weights, statuettes, statues, royal decrees and abandoned...Masson, Aurélia
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Egyptian-Greek exchange in the Late Period: the view from Nokradj-Naukratis
This volume in which this chapter appears presents 16 papers that explore aspects of the economic and religious life of the northwestern Nile Delta in the first millennium BC. The papers concentrate on presenting new research on a range of material culture—ceramics, coins, weights, statuettes, statues, royal decrees and abandoned...Villing, Alexandra
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The mystery of Naukratis: revealing Egypt’s international gateway
An article on the lost port of Naukratis, once Egypt’s great international gateway. Despite pioneering late 19th-century archaeological research at the site, Naukratis has since languished in the shadows. Who really lived there, how did the port work, and what salacious secrets were hidden away by the Victorians? Its mysteries...Villing, Alexandra ; Thomas, R.I.
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Egypt and Greece: early encounters
A chapter on early encounters between Egypt and Greece in the catalogue that accompanied the 2016 British Museum exhibition, Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost WorldsMasson-Berghoff, Aurélia ; Villing, Alexandra
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Making pottery in the Nile Delta: ceramic provenance and technology at Naukratis, 6th–3rd centuries BC
The interdisciplinary study of Egyptian- and Greek-style pottery found in the Nile Delta aims to test and expand the potential of different scientific methods to identify regional variation and cultural traditions in ceramic fabrics from a relatively uniform geological setting. Neutron activation analysis (NAA), polarised light microscopy and SEM-EDX analyses...Spataro, Michela ; Mommsen, Hans ; Villing, Alexandra
SEM-EDX, Polarised microscopy, NAA, Egyptian pottery, and chaîne opératoire
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Geophysical survey at ancient Naukratis, Egypt
A summary of the geophysical survey undertaken at the site of Naukratis in Egypt.Strutt, Kristian ; Thomas, Ross Iain
Geophysics and Naukratis
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Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum. Essays in Honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown
This publication comprises of essays dedicated to the life and work of Veronica Tatton-Brown, curator of the British Museum's ancient Cypriot collections for over 30 years.Kiely, Thomas
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Four unpublished inscriptions in Cypriot Syllabic script in the British Museum
The first publication of four inscriptions in Cypriot syllabic script on objects in the British MuseumKiely, Thomas ; Perno, Massimo
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Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus. II: 1914 to the present day
The second part of a two-part survey of British contributions to the archaeology of Cyprus from the 18th century to the present day.Kiely, Thomas ; Ulbrich, Anja
archaeology and Cyprus
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Cyprus and Assyria
A overview of the relationship between Cyprus and Assyria at the time of Ashurbanipal in an exhibition catalogue to accompany the 2018 British Museum exhibition, I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria.Kiely, Thomas
Assyria, Ashurbanipal, archaeology, and Cyprus
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Monumentality and urbanisation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: rethinking Schaeffer’s Bâtiment 18 at Enkomi
A study of monumentality and ubanisation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus, with a particular reappraisal of Schaeffer's Batiment 18 at the site of Enkomi.Kiely, Thomas
Bronze Age, archaeology, and Cyprus
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From Salamis to Bloomsbury: Transporting the Bull’s Head Capital to the British Museum
An account of the transportation of the famous marble bull's head capital discovered in the 1890 excavations at Salamis to the British Museum.Kiely, Thomas
archaeology, Cyprus, and Salamis
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Poachers turned gamekeepers? The British Museum’s archaeological agents in Cyprus, 1893−1899
An account of the agents working for the British Museum in Cyprus in the late 19th century.Kiely, Thomas
19th century, archaeology, and Cyprus
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Salamis-Toumba. An Iron Age Sanctuary in Cyprus Rediscovered. Excavations of the Cyprus Exploration Fund
An edited volume on the Cyprus Exploration Fund's excavations at the Iron Age sanctuary of Salamis-Toumba.Kiely, Thomas ; Karageorghis, Vassos
archaeology and Cyprus
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Robert Lang and the archaeology of Cyprus
An overview of Sir Robert Hamilton Lang, Acting Vice Consul and Consul of Cyprus from 1871-2, who acquired many artefacts from excavations in Cyprus.Kiely, Thomas
19th century, archaeology, and Cyprus
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Mummified human remains from Ancient Egypt and Nubia: an overview and new insights from the British Museum collection
An overview of the mummified human remains from Ancient Egypt and Nubia in the British Museum collection as well as a summary of new insights.Vandenbeusch, Marie ; Antoine, Daniel
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Under Saint Michael’s protection: a tattoo from Christian Nubia
An article about a tattoo of Saint Michael found on human remains from NubiaVandenbeusch, Marie ; Antoine, Daniel
human remains, Nubia, and tattoo
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Ancient Lives. New Discoveries: Eight mummies, Eight stories
In recent years, British Museum curators have collaborated with scientists and medical experts to explore non-invasive imaging techniques and other scientific approaches to further study Egyptian mummies. Piecing together key biographical data and information, it has been possible for the first time to discover more about who these people were...Taylor, John H. ; Antoine, Daniel
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The use of an Er:YAG laser in the removal of biological growth from polychrome archaeological terracotta figurines from Cyprus
The British Museum preserves a large and archaeologically important collection of painted terracotta and limestone figurines from ancient Cyprus. These were the subject of a collaborative conservation and study programme as part of the Cyprus Digitisation Project. The figurines were covered by dark and ingrained speckles of biological growth, possibly...Pereira-Pardo, Lucía ; Camurcuoglu, Duygu ; Orsini, Miriam ; Weglowska, Katarzyna ; Kiely, Thomas …
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 1
It is with great pleasure that I write a brief introduction to BMSAES 1 (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan), which is being launched as originally intended in January 2002. Electronic publishing is still rather in its infancy, although, as always, we in the humanities lag some way...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 2
Editorial Issue 2 of BMSAES (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan) brings into focus one of the great advantages of online publication, the lack of need for a 'critical mass' of material. Only one article was ready for publication, but nonetheless, we have produced an issue consisting just...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 4
Editorial There has been a gap of two years since the appearance of an issue of BMSAES (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan). Electronic publishing in Egyptology is still in its infancy, and there is yet some way to go in persuading colleagues to produce material for electronic...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 5
Editorial There has been another gap, this time of 18 months, since the appearance of an issue of BMSAES (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan). My comments in the previous editorial about the variability of submissions and the need to maintain standards still apply as strongly as ever....British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 6
Editorial The present issue of BMSAES (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan) presents a new departure from previous issues, as it consists of a set of papers presented at the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan's 2005 International Colloquium 'Egypt and the Hittites'. The background to this Colloquium...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 7
Editorial The seventh issue of BMSAES (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan) consists of a paper from the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan’s International Egyptological Colloquium Egypt's great oases: the archaeology of Kharga, Dakhla and the roads of the West, which took place in July 2006. This...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 8
Editorial This issue features an updated index of onomastica, along with a re-interpretation of architecture found during British Museum excavations at el-Ashmunein in 1982. Readers may have noticed that the first tranche of data from the British Museum’s collection database has been published online: Collections Online. At present, this is...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 9
Editorial This issue features three papers from the Annual Egyptological Colloquium held at the British Museum in summer 2007: The ‘Head of the South’: current research in Upper Egypt, south of Thebes (July 12–13). It is intended that further papers from the colloquium will appear in a future issue of...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 10
Editorial The three papers in this issue epitomise the range of subjects covered by BMSAES: a report on new fieldwork, the publication of an object in a museum collection, and a study of the modern reception and presentation of ancient artefacts. The journal is intended to cover the same range...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 11
Editorial In addition to this issue's paper, a detailed technical study of one of the ancient shoes in the collection of the British Museum, readers attention is drawn to other resources now available on the Museum website. The online Collection database now features all of the records for material housed...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 12
Editorial This issue presents four papers on varying aspects of Nile Valley studies, from a statistical analysis of Meroitic, to a report on new fieldwork in the Theban necropolis and a reconsideration of inscribed material from Edfu. The final paper features some considerations on publication methods in the subject area....British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 13
Editorial BMSAES 13 contains 11 papers submitted for publication in the Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, which was held at the British Museum from 27 July to 1 August 2008. This selection from the more than 40 papers that will ultimately appear in...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 14
Editorial The final issue of 2009 features two articles based on British Museum fieldwork in the Edfu area, and another on epigraphic work at Tombos in Sudan, with publication of related material in museums in Cairo and Khartoum. The two papers by Veldmeijer continue a series on ancient Egyptian footwear,...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 15
Editorial This issue contains 13 papers from the colloquium, The Book of the Dead - Recent research and new perspectives, held at the British Museum on 21–22 July 2009. The meeting brought together leading scholars working on aspects of the Book of the Dead. Several of their contributions have been...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 16
Editorial The annual Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology has become an established part of the Egyptological calendar in London, with prominent scholars presenting the latest research on aspects of ancient Egypt. The 2009 lecture, published here, was delivered by Tamás Bács, and provided a fitting introduction...British Museum
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 17
Editorial: This issue presents the latest results from British Museum fieldwork at Elkab and Hagr Edfu, along with an article re-assessing the Great Enclosure at Naukratis. This site is currently the focus of a large research project in the Department of Greece and Rome, which will include the systematic...British Museum