May 2003
1. Deir el-Bahari: some issues about several temples in this place.
2. Romano-Egyptian temples: literature about architecture during the Roman period.
3. Museums in Italy and Spain: Egyptian collections in these countries.
4. Children's Books on AE: bibliography of books (Egyptological or fiction) on Egypt for children of elementary school age.
5. Dig Participation issues: may amateur volunteers partake in excavations in Egypt?
6. Amarna Art (Princess's head & Trial pieces): questions about several artefacts made in (or around) the Amarna Period.
7. Photography in Egypt: experiences with photographing in Egypt (prohibitions, custodians, police escorts), related tomb site
management issues (the problems of flash light, salt and humidity), and website photo libraries as alternative.
8. Quartz Eyes and Stoneworking: 'glass eyes'in statues and how they were made, plus more general issues of
stoneworking (drilling & cutting of stone) in ancient Egypt.
9. Reproductions: where can good replicas of ancient Egyptian artefacts be bought?
10. Ritual Breaking of Pottery: the ritual breaking of vessels and votives.
11. Contacts with India: where there any relations between India and Egypt, direct or indirect, during
the dynastic period and Greco-Roman times?
12. Miscellaneous: Sokar and his feast, knots as magical objects, royal women at the Battle of Kadesh?, OK place names
in Mempite area, and some other (largely unanswered) questions and unsettled matters.
13. EEF NEWS: issues 248-252.
14. Administrativa: announcements by the moderator, by members (websites, personals or offtopics), by authors and publishers (new books), by institutes (jobs, lectures, exhibitions, etc.).
June 2003
1. Hair and Wigs: a bibliography.
2. Hathoric Paraphernalia: the relation between Hathor and snakes, red cloth, and menats.
3. Isis, Daughter of RII?: is this singer of Amun from Akhmim really the daughter of Ramesses II?
4. Nakhtmin, Aye and Heirs: some thoughts on the relations between general Nakhtmin and king Ay.
5. Butcher's Tomb in Saqqara: info on the Tomb of Irukaptah.
6. GP Stones: can the amout of stones in the Great Pyramid be calculated?
7. Nefretiti's Mummy: lenghty discussion of the theory (in the news) that the Younger Lady of KV35 would be Nefertiti.
8. Rodents, Shrews, and Ichneumons: about little furry animals and which ones were found mummified.
9. Bride of the Nile: Arabian legend about human sacrifices to the Nile.
10. Miscellaneous: wall cones, defacement of statues,Kamose's mummy, and some other (largely unanswered) questions and unsettled matters.
11. EEF NEWS: issues 253-256.
12. Administrativa: announcements by the moderator, by members (websites, personals or offtopics), by authors and publishers (new books), by institutes (jobs, lectures, exhibitions, etc.).
July 2003
1. KV39 (2): may KV39 be attributed to Amenhotep I?
2. Medjay (2): bibliography on these Nubian desert-dwellers.
3. Architecture and Geometry: AE architectural terms, arches and vaults, and the use of ellipses and and other geometric
forms in building designs, and whether advanced forms of mathemathics were involved.
4. Historiography: literature on the AE perception of their past.
5. Mourners: literature on the profession of mourners.
6. Cat-Mouse War: sources for the satirical War between Cats and Mice.
7. GPS data and GP lenghts: lenghts of, and GPS data for, the Great Pyramid, and the use of GPS data in general.
8. Sobeknakht: new discoveries in a dyn 17 tomb in El Kab.
9. Miscellaneous: Andjeti, hour lenghts, Emery's work at Buhen, and some other (largely unanswered) questions and unsettled matters.
10. EEF NEWS: issues 257 - 261.
11. Administrativa: announcements by the moderator, by members (websites, personals or offtopics), by authors and publishers (new books), by institutes (jobs, lectures, exhibitions, etc.).
August 2003
1. Sokar: some info about this god.
2. Publication issues: discussion on how quickly new discoveries should be published and whether the new media (internet etc) can play a role in this.
3. Minoan Frescoes and Pumice: redating the Minoan frescoes and pumice in Avaris.
4. Cranial Elongation: was this practices in AE, notably during the Amarna Period?
5. Bes and Beset: iconography of Bes and associated deities.
6. Flywheel of Saqqara: a remarkable dyn 1 vase being misrepresented as a piece of 'lost' technology.
7. Crock of Gold at Amarna: contents and fate of the treasure found by Pendlebury in the 1930s.
8. Thutmosis III and Astronomy: new moons, Sothis risings, and falling meteors(?) during the reign of this king.
9. Miscellaneous: treasurer Hururre, P. Boulaq 17 hymn, messengers (wpwtyw), and some other (largely unanswered) questions and unsettled matters.
10. EEF NEWS: issues 262-267.
11. Administrativa: announcements by the moderator, by members (websites, personals or offtopics), by authors and publishers (new books), by institutes (jobs, lectures, exhibitions, etc.).