Volume 21 / Number 2
1979
Special Edition: UPM in Egypt--Past and Present
On The Cover: Meydum Pyramid completed about 2600 BC.
Vol. 21 / No. 2
The University, the Museum and the Study of Ancient Egypt
“The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr. Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania did solid but unsensational work in Nubia and then […]
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By: Bernard Wailes
Editorial: Archaeological Salvage in Egypt: An Example of International Cooperation
This issue of Expedition is devoted entirely to the involvement of the University Museum in Egyptology, from the 1890’s to […]
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The University Museum Expedition to Dra Abu El Naga
Dra abu el Naga is the Arabic name for a site in Thebes, north of Deir el Bahri, not too […]
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By: David O'Connor
The University Museum Excavations at the Palace-City of Malkata
Urbanism was an essential element in ancient Egyptian culture, for its predominantly rural society was held together, and its extraordinary […]
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Vol. 21 / No. 2
By: Donald B. Redford
The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations
Scholarly study of the reign of Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt (ca. 1375-1357 B.C.), has focused with justification on the last […]
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Vol. 21 / No. 2
By: William Kelly Simpson
The Pennsylvania-Yale Giza Project
The story of the Pennsylvania-Yale Project at Giza takes us back to the beginning of American archaeological work in Egypt. […]
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The Egyptian Collection
The Egyptian collection of the University Museum came into being during the last decade of the 1800’s. It was then […]
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By: David O'Connor
Abydos: The University Museum-Yale Expedition
The provincial centers of ancient Egypt were vital elements in its political, economic and religious systems and their remains reflect […]
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The Museum in the Field
“To be a good (archaeological) finder one needs a peculiar quality which is not altogether erudition—the hog which is most […]
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The Egyptian Antiquities Organisation
The Egyptological achievements of the University Museum owed much to the generosity of Eckley B. Coxe, Jr. and to the […]
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University Museum Announcements – Winter 1979
Museum Institute for Conservation Archaeology (MICA) The Museum Institute for Conservation Archaeology (MICA) has been formed at the University Museum, University […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Winter 1979: The Director Writes
In the last issue I wrote about the great size of our collections, the invisible nine-tenths—if not ninety-nine hundredths—of the […]
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Vol. 21 / No. 2
By: Chester Beatty, IV
Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr.
Not many men would, some sixty years after their death, be celebrated by a great research institution, but Eckley B. […]
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By: David O'Connor and David Silverman
The University Museum in Egypt: The Past
Introduction “Do not reproach someone older than you, for he has seen the Sun before you.” The Instruction of Amenemope, […]
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