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An Unnamed Statue of a Vizier Susanna Thomas investigates a Middle Kingdom statue found in the ‘Karnak Cachette’.

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Egypt at the Crystal Palace The rise and fall of the Palace and its ‘Egyptian’ Court are described by Birgit Schoer.

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Atum: Creating the World In the first of a series of articles about Egypt’s gods, Joyce Tyldesley considers this solar deity.

28 Egyptology in Liverpool Some of the fascinating objects in the World

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Lorenzo Dow Covington Glenn Marcoe records the work at Giza of a pioneering Egyptologist. 34

42 Monasteries in Ancient Egypt Muriel O’Shea visits some of the early monastic settlements.

A Volunteer’s Diary Patricia Mason describes her experiences helping at an excavation in the South Asasif. 48

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ARCE in the Egyptian Museum In the last in a series of articles about the Center’s work, Janice Kamrin, Rachel Mauldin, Elina Nuutinen and Sari Nieminen describe the Registrars’ Training and Database Program in the Cairo Museum.

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Per Mesut: for Younger Readers Hilary Wilson describes the Forty-Two statements of the Negative Confession.

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