The ninth annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE IX) was hosted by the KNH Centre for Biomedical Research at the University of Manchester in January 2008. The symposium brought together graduate, postgraduate and independent students of Egyptology from many different countries.
The 15 papers presented in this heavily-illustrated volume represent a diverse range of topics and multidisciplinary approaches from both the archaeological and textual areas of Egyptological research.
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The ninth annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE IX) was hosted by the KNH Centre for Biomedical Research at the University of Manchester in January 2008. The symposium brought together graduate, postgraduate and independent students of Egyptology from many different countries. The papers presented in this volume represent a diverse range of topics and multidisciplinary approaches as follows: Perspectives on Travelling in the Texts from Deir el-Medina; The Realities of Battle in Ancient Egypt; Unpublished Coptic Limbo in the John Rylands Library, Manchester; Ancient Egyptian Emic Terms for Wells and Cisterns; Aegyptus, or the Western Conception of Egypt from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century; Water Basins in Middle Kingdom Planned Settlements; Analysis of Black Coatings on a Mummy and Associated Artefact from The Manchester Museum; Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? Preliminary Results of a Radiological Study of Three Museum Oddities; The Tutankhamouse Experiment: Investigating Tissue Changes during Mummification; Re-Materialising Script and Image; A Stylistic Dating Method for Statues of Anubis and other Canine Deities; A Brief Analysis of the Representations of Masculinity within a Case Study of Pre-Amarna Eighteenth Dynasty Funeral Art in Ancient Egypt; Iconographic Programme and Tomb Architecture: a Focus on Desert-Related Themes; Predynastic and Protodynastic Mudbrick Settlement Architecture; A Reassessment of the Landing Place of Hatshepsut s Fleet in Punt.
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