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From the Editor – Summer 2006

Welcome to Expedition’s special issue on Egyptology! Here’s a detailed look at the Museum’s involvement in the archaeology of ancient […]

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Beneath the Mountain-of-Anubis

Ancient peoples throughout the world had sophisticated understandings of their landscape. Specific elements, such as mountains, were often identified as […]

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David Randall-MacIver

As a young man of 26, the British-born archaeologist and anthropologist David Randall-MacIver began his career working at Abydos as […]

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When Stone Is More Than Stone

Scattered Across the world on the surface and in buried deposits are billions of prehistoric stone arti­facts the most durable […]

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Harold L. Dibble, Curator, European Archaeology Section

HAROLD L. DIBBLE, Curator-in-Charge of the European Archaeology Section at the Museum, has been fascinated with stone tools and archaeology […]

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Meet the Curators – Josef Wegner

The Museum’s Josef Wegner, Associate Curator in the Egyptian Section, has been interested in Egyptology since childhood. Growing up in […]

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Time and Memory in Ancient Egyptian Cemeteries

When travelers visit ancient sites in modern Egypt, they experience a static and soften recreated snapshot of a moment time […]

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An Ice Age Oasis in Jordan

If you visited the Wadi al-Hasa region of west cen­tral Jordan today, you would probably find it hard to picture […]

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Middle Egypt in Prehistory

The word Egypt for many people evokes im­ages of one of the great civilizations of the ancient world and represents […]

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Mapping Petra

In 1993 Martha Joukowsky opened a new exca­vation at the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southwest Jordan (see box […]

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