A busy spring already!
As always, Spring is proving to be the busiest time of the year for the EES - we can't quite believe it's still only January here!We have our first team back in the field, in Luxor, and several teams...
View ArticleSaqqara photographs of Hasiballah el-Taib
At the January meeting of the Egyptian Archaeology Editorial Board David Jeffreys mentioned photographs of Emery and Quibell which he had been given in Egypt by Salah Hasiballah who has worked with the...
View ArticleCentenary Awards 2012: providing funding for research at Saqqara and in Khartoum
The latest round of Centenary Awards were advertised in October 2012. This year the Society was able to make a total of £4,000 available to support early-career Egyptologists.The awards are intended to...
View ArticleEES Office Manager - Recruitment information
The UK’s leading Egyptological organisation, the Egypt Exploration Society, is looking for an enthusiastic and well-organised Office Manager to play a pivotal role within the team.This is an exciting...
View ArticleEES Publications Manager - Recruitment information
The UK’s leading Egyptological organisation, the Egypt Exploration Society, is looking for an enthusiastic and well-organised Publications Manager to play a pivotal role within the team.You will be an...
View ArticleWorkmen's Huts Seminar
Last Saturday's seminar, 'The Workmen's Huts in the Theban Mountains: the royal tomb-builders' huts above the Valley of the Kings' was a huge success; so much so that as many of you will know, the...
View ArticleDiscussion of the location of Perunefer in 'Egyptian Archaeology'
The location of Perunefer has long been a subject of debate and most recently this has been carried on in issues of Egyptian Archaeology. Manfred Bietak opened the discussion in EA 26, proposing that...
View ArticleEES/SCA Delta Survey Workshop 2013
On 22nd/23rd March 2013 the EES will be hosting, jointly with the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities, the third Delta Survey Workshop in Cairo, with papers from colleagues of many nationalities...
View ArticlePhotographs of the SCA/EES Delta Survey Workshop 2013
Photographs from the SCA/EES Delta Survey Workshop, held in Cairo on 22/23 March 2013 can be viewed on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/egyptexplorationsociety/sets/72157633118853450/Tweet
View ArticleEES Fieldwork and Engagement Manager (Egypt) - Recruitment information
The leading British organisation for Egyptology, the Egypt Exploration Society, is looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, personable and well-organised Fieldwork & Engagement Manager to be the...
View ArticleCentenary Awards 2012
The Egypt Exploration Society invites applications for grants from its Centenary Fund. The total value of the Award will be in the region of £4,000. This sum may be divided among several projects.The...
View ArticleThe Old Kingdom Town at Buhen - an appeal for funding
One of the biggest challenges facing the Society in 2013 remains the publication of research undertaken in years gone by. We have redoubled our efforts on this front in recent years: as the Director...
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Liverpool Study Day: CancellationWe are sorry to have to announce that the Liverpool Study Day 'The Writing on the Wall: Egyptian Epigraphy in the 21st Century', (2/8/13) has had to be cancelled, due...
View ArticleNew staff in London and Cairo
The Society is delighted to announce the appointment of two new members of staff.A comprehensive ‘organisational review’ was undertaken in 2012 by the Director and Board of Trustees and has led to a...
View ArticleMembers' Tour to the Nile Valley & Western Desert, Feb/March 2014
Following the enormously successful members’ tour to Upper Egypt in November 2012 (see here) we are delighted to announce details of the next tour, to the northern Nile Valley and Western Desert –...
View ArticleEES Summer Books Sale
Since we know our supporters love our publications, we've decided to run a special one-off sale, offering much of our back catalogue at ridiculously low prices, for a limited time only whilst stocks...
View ArticleSecrets of the Dead: Ultimate Tutankhamun / Tutankhamun Decoded
A new film in which the Society's Director, Dr Chris Naunton leads a new investigation into the life and death of Tutankhamun, will be broadcast on PBS in the US on Wednesday 10 July, on the History...
View ArticleThis Book of the Dead is not what you might expect...
The Society is delighted to announce a forthcoming collaboration with Jurassic London in the form of The Book of the Dead, a collection of nineteen new short stories, all themed around the most...
View ArticleEnglish language tuition for MSA employees
The Egypt Exploration Society is delighted to announce that it will be offering English language tuition to five employees of the Ministry of State for Antiquities in 2013-14, and applications for the...
View ArticleCairo and London Office Closures
The Cairo Office will be closed for Eid el-Fitr, from 2 August to 11 August inclusive. The London Office will close for two weeks from 4.30pm Friday 16 August, and reopen 10.30am, Tuesday 3 September....
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