Ancient Egypt Magazine August/September 2008

Ancient Egypt Magazine

Thanks to Bob Partridge for the news that the August/September 2008 issue of “Ancient Egypt” magazine (published in the U.K.) is now available.

This issue is also available as an electronic version which can be found at the web site at the above address. This may be useful for anyone with a broadband connection who may have difficulty in getting hold of a paper copy of the magazine, or who might want to see a copy before subscribing.

Contents of this issue include;

• News from Egypt: The magazine’s Egypt Correspondent, Dr. Ayman Wahby Taher, brings an extended “News from Egypt”, which includes a report on a new museum at El Arish and a visit to an established museum at Mellawi, at visit to sites in Middle Egypt and a look at restoration work in the Khons temple at Karnak. Major new discoveries in the Mortuary temple of Amenhotep III are also described as is a special exhibition in the Egyptian Museum on the work of Czech Egyptologists in Egypt. In addition, the Editors of AE report on more discoveries in front of Karnak temple, on the ongoing restoration work at the mosque in Luxor temple and news from Kharga Oasis, in particular on the work being done at the Hibis Temple there.
• The Amarna Project: In the fourth of a series of articles, Professor Barry Kemp looks at the how the city of Akhetaten can be seen as one huge workshop and how the people worked with their hands to produce a variety of objects the city needed.
• The Domain of the Cat Goddess, Bastet. Daniella Rosenow looks at the substantial ruins in and around the great temple of Bubastis, sacred to the cat goddess Bastet, in the town which still bears her name, Tell Basta in the delta.
• The Gardeners of Amun: a brief look at an exhibition currently showing in Barcelona with the coffins, found in a re-used prince’s tomb in the Valley of the Queens, found to contain the bodies of families of gardeners, who worked in the Temple of Amun at Karnak.
• Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs: A photo report by Nacho Ares and Maria Belchi on the exhibition currently showing in Vienna, featuring some major objects from all periods from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, as well as some objects from Tutankhamun’s Tomb.
• Pharaonic Renaissance: A brief report on an exhibition in Budapest on the art of Egypt’s Late and Ptolemaic Periods.
• Servant of the Deep: A report by Paul Boughton on how a Ushabti from Egypt survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
• Per Mesut: For younger readers: This issue Hilary Wilson looks at the Unification of Egypt.

Book Reviews:

• Egyptology Today, by Richard Wilkinson.
• Egyptian Mummies and Modern Science, Edited by Rosalie David.
• Living Images: Egyptian funerary portraits in the Petrie Museum, Edited by Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke and Paul C. Roberts.
• Unlocking Ancient Egypt; Fifty Years of the Czech Archaeological Exploration in Egypt, by Miroslav Verner and Hanna Benesovska.
• The Ancient Egyptians for Dummies, by Charlotte Booth.
• Ancient Asyut: The First Synthesis after 300 years of Research, by Jochem Hahl.
• Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity, by Elliott Colla.
• Topographical bibliography of hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, by Jaromir Malek and others.
• Thutmose III: A New biography, Edited by Eric H. Cline and David O’Connor.

Plus other Regular Features that include:

• Egyptology Society details for the UK and many overseas and full listing of forthcoming lectures and events in the UK from July till September 2008.