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Gods and mortals... and a bus to the afterlife!
While Ridley Scott delivered his epic on ancient Egypt over the festive season, we’d already made waves in the field of Egyptian religion back on Saturday 29th November 2014. Together with Birmingham...
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The Twelve JEAs of Xmas
We’re delighted that the centenary volume of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology will be printed in Spring 2015, and we are celebrating this achievement in a number of ways – not least by ensuring that...
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A glance back
2014 was a busy year at the EES and in this brief glance back Carl Graves discusses some of his highlights. See if you can spot yourself in some of the event images below!When I started working as the...
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A blue plaque for Amelia
Amelia Edwards, founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund (later Society), will shortly be honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque at her former London home. The plaque will be unveiled on Thursday...
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Join Amelia Edwards "A thousand miles up the Nile"
To celebrate Amelia Edwards’ blue plaque, we have been re-tracing her journey “A thousand miles up the Nile” on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Here, we recap the whole itinerary in brief.On 29...
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Research in Egypt 2015-16: interactive map
In 2015-16 the Society's research in Egypt will be more extensive & wide-ranging than ever before.Map showing the sites at which the Society will supporting research projects in 2015-16. An...
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Announcing scholarships for Egyptians to pursue their research in the UK in 2015
The Egypt Exploration Society invites applications for its 2015 Research Scholarship programme. Thanks to the support of the British Council, we will be awarding six scholarships to Egyptian nationals...
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Travel grants awarded for early career Egyptologists at Current Research in...
This year the Egypt Exploration Society will, once again, support early career Egyptologists by offering travel grants to assist attendance to the sixteenth Current Research in Egyptology conference....
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Soon in print again: A Guide to Religious Ritual at Abydos
You may already have read about the seminar we held on 7 March to mark International Women’s Day, The women who redrew Egypt, exploring the partnership of Amice Calverley and Myrtle Broom and their...
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EES partners Jurassic London celebrate the unveiling of Amelia's Blue Plaque
To coincide with the unveiling of the English Heritage Blue Plaque at Amelia Edwards' former London home, publishers Jurassic London have announced that the e-book of the "disgustingly, gloriously...
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Rediscovering Pendlebury's 'Crock of Gold' in the Amarna archive by Katherine...
As part of the 2014-15 EES volunteer projects Katherine Piper and Louise Atherton have been scanning object cards from the Society’s excavations at Amarna (1921-1936). During her scanning Katherine...
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Amelia Edwards Blue Plaque unveiled
On Thursday 19 March 2015, a number of us braved the cold to attend the unveiling of a Blue Plaque marking the early home of Amelia Edwards at 19 Wharton Street, London, and honouring her as a...
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The Egypt Exploration Society, the leading UK organisation carrying out archaeological fieldwork and research in Egypt today, invites applications for grants from its Centenary Fund. The total value of...
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Reasons to join/renew
Thank you to all of your members who have already renewed their subscriptions for 2015-16, you are already directly helping us to continue our mission to explore Egypt’s cultural heritage. There are...
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Fieldwork & Research grant awards 2015: funding eight projects at sites...
In November, we invited applications for grants from our Excavation and Development Funds, and from the Murphy Bequest – a legacy given “to support restoration work, recording and collecting data at...
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New Archaeological borders for Merimde Beni Salama
The Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, Dr. Mamdouh Eldamaty, has announced that the Egypt Exploration Society's mission in collaboration with The Ministry of Antiquities has found new scientific...
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New internship opportunity at the EES
Would you like to work at the Egypt Exploration Society over summer? Want to explore our archives and work with a dedicated team to improve engagement and access with the materials?Good news! This...
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Old Kingdom mastaba found in the Delta
A team of archaeologists under the auspices of the Egypt Exploration Society, led by Dr Joanne Rowland (Free University of Berlin), has located an Old Kingdom mastaba at Quesna.Dr Mamdouh El Damaty,...
View ArticleReminder: Centenary Awards application deadline in 1 week
We would like to remind anyone considering applying for our Centenary Awards, that the deadline for applications is 1 week away, at 5pm (GMT) on Friday, 1 May.The Centenary Awards are intended to...
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JEA 100, Arabic Abstracts and Other Publications News
The Journal of Egyptian ArchaeologyThe 100th volume of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) has now been published and mailed to subscribers. To commemorate this very special anniversary volume,...
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