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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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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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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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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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Discerning differences: Ion beam analysis of ancient faience from Naukratis and Rhodes
Faience technology was known in Egypt since the Predynastic Period and practiced for a period also in Bronze Age Greece, but, having been lost, was reintroduced to the Greek world only in the fi rst half of the fi rst millennium BC. The Greek island of Rhodes and the Greek-Egyptian...Meek, Andrew ; Bouquillon, Anne ; Lehuédé, Patrice ; Masson, Aurélia ; Villing, Alexandra …
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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