Pistol Wrote:
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> It's a great question.
>
> Depends on the target... Pre and Early Dynastic;
> Rene Friedman - Stan Hendrix - Toby Wilkinson,
> though Early dynastic interp. barriers
> (conventional theory) have been sort of broken by
> Jochem Kahl "Ra is my Lord" and Rolf Krauss "Early
> Royal Identity" (Proceedings of the SEAC 2010
> Conference), both really good reads. Old Kingdom
> has a wide range, which at the moment is focused
> primarily in Saqqara and its surrounding area...
> here the Ministry of Antiquities plays a lead
> role... backfilled by universities and grant
> programs from around the world. these are the
> areas of Egyptology I keep tabs on, Middle and New
> Kingdom not so much.
>
> When I was in Oxford 2019-2021 I had the chance to
> meet a wonderful young Egyptologist Christelle
> Alvarez who is an author and teaches in Berlin but
> was also part of an on-site field team at Saqqara
> doing reconstruction and conservation of pyramid
> texts in king Qa'Kare Ibi's 6th dynasty tomb.
>
> Best,
>
> B.A.Hokom

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