Books in the ACE Studies series

This is the first catalogue of the Egyptian collection of the Museum of Ancient Cultures based at Macquarie University. The catalogue explores 72 Ancient Egyptian artefacts that illustrate various aspects of Egyptian funerary customs from the Predynastic to the Coptic period.

The project of surveying, excavating, recording and preserving the site of El-Hawawish, the cemetery of Akhmim, capital of the ninth province of Upper Egypt, was completed in 1992. This book complements the published series on the rock tombs, and attempts to reconsider the chronology of the officials of UE.

In this historical study Giles deals with the relations of Egypt with its great power neighbours and its own vassals during the 18th Dynasty. The study is based on the Amarna archive, and considers various Hittite documents. It includes a chapter by Hennessey on the archaeology of Syria and Palestine and Cyprus in the Amarna Age.

The book is divided into two chapters. Chapter 1 presents a formal analysis and discussion of the pottery recovered during the excavations at El-Hawawish. The material is divided into two main groups: pottery of the late Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom, and pottery of all later periods to the Late Roman.

To celebrate 40 years of Egyptology at Macquarie University, Tombs, Trowels and Treasures provides an overview of the fieldwork undertaken in Egypt from the early days until the present and records our engagement in teaching, research and community outreach.