Ancient Egypt Magazine April/May 2007

Thanks as usual to Bob Partridge for forwarding me the details of the latest edition of Ancient Egypt magazine. The April/May issue of “Ancient Egypt” magazine is out this week. An electronic/downloadabe version will also be available, visit the web site:

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/

Contents include:

Through a Glass Clearly: Alan L. Jeffreys looks at an unusual and impressive display in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Ancient Egyptian Technology: The second in a three-part series by Denys Stocks on the technology the ancient Egyptians used to make their monuments and carve their statues. Denys has, using practical research and experimentation and using exact replicas of ancient tools, re-discovered many of the ancient skills and has been able to show exactly how some of the hardest stones were cut and carved.

The Dakhleh Oasis Project: In the second in our six-part series on work at this important site, Dr. Peter Sheldrick looks at the physical remains of the ancient inhabitants of the Oasis.
The Temple of Khonsu at Karnak: Charlotte Booth takes us on a tour of the well-preserved small temple, showing how it demonstrates a power-shift from the pharaoh to the priests of Amun.

An unwrapped mummified head in the Hancock Museum: Gill Scott tells how a male mummified head has recently been conserved.

News from Egypt, with reports on a number of significant developments and discoveries around Egypt, including major new excavations and finds in the Avenue of Sphinxes at Luxor and in the temple of Karnak.

Per Mesut: for younger readers; in this edition, Hilary Wilson looks at grain.

Plus all usual our regular features:

Book reviews:

• The Royal Tombs of Egypt: The Art of Thebes Revealed, by Zahi Hawass.
• The Complete Tutankhamun: The King, The Tomb, The Treasure, by Nicholas Reeves
• Death in Ancient Egypt, by Bridget McDermott.
• Mummies and Death in Egypt, by Francoise Dunand and Roger Lichtenberg.
• Ancient Egypt: Foundations of a Civilization, by Douglas Brewer.
• Lepsius - The German Nile Expedition, by Agnette von Specht.
• The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara: Vol VIII, The Tomb of Inumin, by Naguib Kanawati and others.
• A Shattered Visage Lies: Nineteenth Century Poetry inspired by ancient Egypt, Edited by Donald P. Ryan.

And news of Egyptological meetings and events around the country and a list of the many Egyptology societies in the UK and abroad.

In future issues :
The Ancient Stones Speak. If anyone has ever wondered what the ancient inscriptions actually mean, then the third and final part in a major series of three articles, tells all. Written by hieroglyph teacher Pam Scott the articles will explain how to read funerary inscriptions. This is an easy to understand and practical guide which will appeal to anyone interested in the subject or just planning a trip to Egypt.
Serabit el Khadim: Stewart White visits the site of Serabit el Khadim, high on a plateau in the Sinai Peninsula and a place dedicated to the goddess Hathor.
And with the exhibition “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” coming to the UK later in the year, there will be a series of related articles including two by Dr Zahi Hawass on the exhibition, from Jaromir Malek on how Howard Carter excavated and recorded the tomb, and features on Akhenaten’s statues, representations of Tutankhamun and a feature on Queen Tiye.