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WAMCAES NEWS
JOURNAL CONTENTS: ISSUES 1 - 10
Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 1, Spring 2002
• Message from the WAMCAES team.
• No Curses Please: WAMCAES launch, the opening address - Gary Morgan.
• Modern Research on Ancient Lives: The Nicholson Museum Egyptian Mummy
Project - Karin N. Sowada.
• Seeing Beneath the Skin: An interview with Dr Alanah Buck, forensic
anthropologist - Jacquie Gregson.
• Alexandria: the ancient city and its people - Gae Callender.
• Alexandria Underwater: experiences with a UNESCO mission to
Alexandria - Graeme Henderson.
• A lecture evening with Joyce Tyldesley & Steven Snape reviewed by - Jacquie
Gregson.
• FOCUS point - The Bent Pyramid - Heather Tunmore.
• Objects from the collections - Ushabtis, workers for the dead - Moya Smith
Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 2, Winter 2003
• King Taharqa at Thebes - Michael Birrell.
• Mummymania: Mummies, Museums and Popular Culture - Jasmine Day.
• Contributions made to the History of the 5th Dynasty by the Czech Excavations in
the Cemetery of Abusir in Egypt - Gae Callender.
• All in a Day's Work: an interview with Amany Mounir Hanna - Jacquie Gregson.
• I'm Really Here: Notes on a first trip to Egypt - Christine Mair.
• FOCUS point - The Pyramid of Meidum - Heather Tunmore.
• Objects from the collections - Bes - a god for mothers, children and the household
- Moya Smith.
Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 3, Winter 2004
• Excavations at Helwan: a lecture by Dr Christiana Koehler - Jacquie Gregson.
• The tomb of Meryneith at Saqqara: lectures by Dr Maarten Raven and Dr René
van Walsem - Jacquie Gregson.
• Expedition Photography: a peek inside the camera bag - Paolo Scremin.
• Rome's Desert Legacy: a landscape of imperialism - Catherine Arends.
• FOCUS Point - el Kharga, the Oasis of the South - Heather Tunmore.
• Objects from the collections, oil lamps - Moya Smith.
Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 4, Summer 2005
• Mummies, Myths and Magic; a lecture by Professor Rosalie David - Jacquie
Gregson.
• Chemical Analysis of a Cosmetic Palette and Jar in the Western Australian
Museum Collections - Kelvin Poon.
• A Hair Raising Tale: an investigation of the hair of two Egyptian mummies from the
Western Australian Museum - Pierre Filion.
• Excavations in Alexandria: on land and underwater - a lecture by Dr Jean-Yves
Empereur - Jacquie Gregson.
• Glass and Faience in Graeco-Roman Egypt - a lecture by Dr Marie-Dominique
Nenna – Jacquie Gregson.
• FOCUS POINT and Objects from the Collections - Imaging Egypt: old and new at
Abu Simbel - Moya Smith and Heather Tunmore. An updated version of this article
can be accessed by clicking on the link on Images and Articles.
Journal Contents; WAMCAES NEWS 5, 2006
• Building a replica Egyptian garden – Peter Bindon
• Egyptian foreign relations during the Old Kingdom – Karin Sowada
• Recent excavation in Abusir – Gae Callender
• Fossil Sea-Urchins and Five-pointed stars – Ken McNamara
• Focus Point – Deir el Bahara – Heather Tunmore
Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 6, 2008
• Residing in the Provinces – Elizabeth Thompson
• Manchester Egyptology On-line – Joyce Tyldesley
• A Day in the Marshlands – Alexandra Woods
• The Egyptian Garden – Catherine Arends
• Music in the Amarna Period: a lecture by Lise Manniche – Jacquie Gregson
Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 7, 2009
• Indwelling of Objects and Embodiment in the Cult of Hathor. Part 1: Indwelling –
Lesley Kinney
• Slavery in Ancient Egypt – Gae Callender
• Hierarchy at Umm el-Qa’ab and Cemetery U at Abydos – Michael Cantlon
• International Mummy Studies – Janet Davey
• The Other Cleopatras – Joyce Tyldesley
• Male Bodies and the Construction of Masculinity in New Kingdom Art: A lecture
by Professor Gay Robins – Jacquie Gregson
Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 8, 2011
• Kellis: A Roman Period Village in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis – Colin A. Hope
• Indwelling of Objects and Embodiment Roles Part 2: Embodiment Roles in the
Cult of Hathor & the Complementary Cult of her Son, the Musician God IHY –
Lesley Kinney
• Artificial Lighting in Dynastic Egypt. Part 1: the Uses and Manufacture of Artificial
Lighting – Christine Mair
• Discovering Old Kingdom Metallurgy – Christopher Davey
• Palaeopathology – Death and Diseases of our Ancestors: Three lectures by
Professor Michael Schultz, 2007 – Jacquie Gregson
Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 9, 2012
• Old Kingdom Tombs in the Saqqara Necropolis: background to the work of an
expedition – Yvonne Harpur and Paolo Scremin
• The Horse in New Kingdom Egypt – Susan Turner
• Rediscovering Tarkhan – Lisa Mawdsley
• Artificial Lighting in Dynastic Egypt. Part 2: Associated Symbolism and Ritual
Uses – Christine Mair
• May you Live Forever: Mummies in Ancient Egypt & Beloved Beasts: Ancient
Egyptian Animal Mummies. Two lectures by Dr Salima Ikram, 2010 – Jacquie
Gregson
Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 10, 2014
• The Development of the Trading Vessel in Dynastic Egypt – James Tunmore
• Keeping Up Appearances in Ancient Egypt – Suzette Hartwell
• A Great Quantity of Objects, Tutankhamun’s Tomb – Joyce Tyldesley
• Lectures by Ian Shaw: Desert Quarries & Gurob Harem Palace – Jacquie
Gregson
• Lecture by Cornelius von Pilgrim: Elephantine – Jacquie Gregson
• Focus on the Collections: the ‘Maadi rope’ – Moya Smith & Xavier Leenders