Minutes of 2012 AGM for review
Due to an oversight, minutes of the 2012 AGM were not available to members at this year’s event. We committed to post them online for review, and they can be found here. Should any member have any...
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Egypt Exploration Society: Winter Study Day - Saturday 7th December, 2013"The...
On Saturday 7th December the Society hosted its annual winter study at SOAS for which we were very pleased to welcome four specialists in the study of Third Intermediate and Late Period Egypt. We were...
View ArticleLondon office Christmas closure
The London office in Doughty Mews will be closed from noon on Friday 20 December 2013 until 10.30 am on Thursday 2 January 2014. We wish all our members a happy festive season.
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#Amarnafortheday: New discoveries in the EES archives
The EES holds one of the finest collections of archival material relating to early exploration in Egypt at our offices in Doughty Mews, but it isn’t often that we get to show our more beautiful items...
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Amarna Reports now available for download
As the Society prepares itself to present you with more from our #Amarnafortheday object cards on Twitter and Facebook we thought it only fair to share some further resources too. The Amarna Project...
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Egypt Exploration Society Grants for Conference Attendance: CRE XV
This year the Egypt Exploration Society will, once again, support early career Egyptologists by offering travel grants to assist attendance to the fifteenth Current Research in Egyptology conference....
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A Familiar Face
Those who have attended events at our London Office in Doughty Mews may well have felt the presence of Nefertiti staring from the back of the room. This is because a fine replica of the unfinished head...
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EA 44 (Spring 2014) Contents
Egyptian Archaeology 44 (Spring 2014) will be published in March - a full list of the contents can be found here. The cover image shows New Kingdom royal heads discovered in late 2013 at Armant - a...
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Memories of Amara West
A recent blog post by Shadia Abdu Rabo (curator, Sudan National Museum) and Neal Spencer (Keeper, Department of Ancient Egypt & Sudan, and Trustee of the EES) explores life at the Amara West...
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#Amarnafortheday foot relief replica
The #Amarnafortheday project continues to make new discoveries in the EES Lucy Gura Archive. A few weeks ago we brought you a story about the familiar face of Nefertiti that many members will have seen...
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Amelia Edwards. Writer. Adventurer. Explorer.
Last year the EES ran 'Pith Helmets and Petticoats: Women in 19th Century Egypt' to commemorate International Women's Day. This year we celebrate the role of women in Egyptology by taking a look at...
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Inside Story by Nicola Hughes
The Aegyptisches Handwörterbuch by Adolf Erman and Hermann Grapow (1921) has been in the Egypt Exploration Society library for 63 years. During a recent stock review, Nicola Hughes, one of our EES...
View ArticleCentenary Awards 2014
The Egypt Exploration Society invites applications for grants from its Centenary Fund. The total value of the Award will be in the region of £6,000. This sum will be divided among several projects, and...
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A new collaborative project announced between UCL, The EES and The Griffith...
‘Artefacts of Excavation’Last week The Petrie Museum and UCL announced a new AHRC funded project called ‘Artefacts of Excavation’ which they will complete over the next three years in partnership with...
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Now out and available: Excavation Memoir 107
Sais II: The Prehistoric Period at Sa el-HagarOur latest Excavation Memoir - by Penelope Wilson, Gregory Gilbert and Geoffrey Tassie - covers the excavations in the 'Great Pit' at Sa el-Hagar, the...
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EES in the news - for game fixing!
Because there's no such thing as bad publicity...Properly speaking, it is of course the Society's Oxyrhynchus Papyri that are in the news. One of the fragments now published in the latest volume of our...
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Buhen: A dig house becomes a home...
At 6.30pm on November 4th 1957 Professor Bryan Emery arrived at Port Sudan aboard the M. V. Devonshire. He spent the night in the Red Sea Hotel before setting out to Khartoum to buy equipment for one...
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Announcing scholarships for three Egyptians to pursue their research in the...
The Society is delighted to announce that it will, thanks to the generous support of the British Council, be awarding scholarships to three Egyptian nationals for the pursuit of their research in...
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New developments in the EES Lucy Gura Archive
The Egypt Exploration Society’s Lucy Gura Archive preserves a lasting record of the Society’s activities and achievements in the field of Egyptology since its founding in 1882. Today it contains an...
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Ricardo A. Caminos: 'A very private person'
Born in Buenos Aires on 11 July 1915, Ricardo Augusto Caminos spent his early years in the capital of Argentina. He was educated at the Instituto Nacional del Profesorado Secundario and at the...
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