Current Research in Egyptology IX

CRE IX was held in the University of Manchester, Great Britain in January 2008.

Papers presented are in the list below, sorted in alphabetical order. For abstracts of all the papers presented in the conference, click here:

Presented Papers

Professor Rosalie David OBE. Keynote Introductory lecture: 'The KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology: Training Scientists for the 21st Century.'

Karen Exell Introductory lecture to Manchester Museum: 'Ancient Egypt at the Manchester Museum: Past Achievements and Future Plans.'

Masahiro Baba 'Specialisation in Predynastic Pottery: Standardized Straw-tempered Ware at Hierakonpolis.'

Patricia Berg 'Perspectives on Travelling in the Texts from Deir el-Medina.'

Dan Boatright 'The Realities of Battle in Ancient Egypt.'

Jenefer Cockitt 'Climatic Change in the early Pharaonic Period: A Re-evaluation of the Evidence.'

Dave Counsell 'Cocaine and Nicotine in Ancient Egypt.'

Jennifer Cromwell 'The Unpublished Coptic Manuscripts in Manchester's John Rylands Library.'

Essam el Saeed 'Why Does Professor Abdel Monem A Sayed's View Differ from Other Egyptologists? Views Concerning the Landing Place of Hatchepsut's Fleet in Punt.'

Jacky Finch 'Walk like an Egyptian - Religious Ritual or the Dawn of Prosthetic Medicine?'

Henning Franzmeier.''Emic': Ancient Egyptian Terms related to Wells and Cisterns.'

Amr Gaber 'The Gods and Goddesses of the Central Hall.'

Victoria Gashe 'Evidence for Predynastic and Old Kingdom Burial Practices: An Assessment of the Use of Early Excavation Reports.'

Kenneth Griffin 'A Curious Female Figurine in the Egyptian Centre Collection.'

Meg Gundlach 'The Historiography of Asasif and a Changing Focus.'

Rehab Hema 'A Study on a Title.'

Lucile Huguet 'Aegyptus, or the Western Conception of Egypt, from the 15th to 18th Century.'

Sarah Jackman 'King's Crowns in Ancient Egypt.'

Sarah-Jane Langley 'A Study of Ivory in Predynastic Egypt.'

Francis Lankester 'Experiencing the Eastern Desert Rock Art.'

Steven James Larkman 'Identifying the Great Overlords of the Nome.'

Kate Liszka 'Water Basins in Middle Kingdom Planned Settlements: An Architectural Feature of Hospitality and Bureaucracy.'

Natalie McCreesh 'Scientific Analysis of the Black Coating Found on a Mummy from the Manchester Museum.'

Lidija McKnight 'Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? A Radiological Study of Three Museum Oddities.'

Ryan Metcalf 'The Tutankhamouse Experiment - Investigating Tissue Changes During Mummification.'

Adrienn Nagy 'Bes and the Levant: Reconsidering the Problem of Bes and the Seated Goddess.'

Pauline Norris 'Horses of a Different Colour.'

Rosalind Park 'Finding Lepus, or Another Meaning for the Rekhyt Bird.'

Kathryn Piquette 'Re-materialising Script and Image.'

Campbell Price 'Agency and Materiality in Late Period Non-Statuary.'

Arnaud Quertinmont 'A Possible Method of Dating Anubis Statues.'

Kim Ridealgh 'Examining the Representation of the Male Image in 18th Dynasty Tombs.'

Peter Robinson 'An Example of Egyptianising Architecture in Greater Manchester.'

Moacir Elias Santos 'The Tothmea's Mummy Project: Ancient Discoveries and New Perspectives.'

Judith H. Seath 'Scent from the Grave: An Analytical Examination of Ancient Residues from Predynastic Egypt.'

Gavin Smith 'Kinship Structure and Descent Group Models and the Incipient Predynastic Ancient Egyptian State in Upper Egypt.'

Nico Staring 'The Iconographic Programme in the Elite Tombs of the Memphite Region.'

Steven Tasker 'The Secret Djed.'

Paula Alexandra Veiga 'Multidisciplinary Preliminary Examination and 3D Facial Reconstruction of a Male Egyptian Mummy from the Collection of the MHNFC.'

Szymon Zdzieblowski 'Predynastic and Protodynastic Mudbrick Settlement Architecture: An Overview and New Interpretation in the Light of Recent Research.'

Poster Sessions

Alvaro Figueiredo The Lisbon Mummy Project: Preliminary Results of the MDCT Study of the Animal Mummies in the National Museum of Archaeology, Lisbon.'

Jacky Finch 'The Scientific Contribution of Imaging in Egyptology: The 'Virtual Unwrapping' of a Mummified Limb.'

Natalie McCreesh 'Microscopic Analyses of Hair from an Ancient Egyptian Mummy, c. 1473 BC.'

Khaled Saad 'New Light on the Coloured Graffiti in the Caves of Wadi Soura at the Plateau of Gilf Al-Kibir, Egypt.'

Judith H. Seath 'Scent from the Grave: An Analytical Examination of Ancient Residues from Predynastic Egypt.'

Steven Tasker 'Determining Plausible Connections Between Hieroglyphic Symbols and Pyramid Construction.'

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