This volume contains 13 papers from postgraduate students presenting at the Seventh Annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium, held at the UK's U. of Oxford in April 2006. The proceedings are multidisciplinary in nature and include such topics as the significance of manifestations of the dead as evidenced in texts from the Old Kingdom to the Coptic period, radiocarbon dating of ancient Egyptian mummies and their associated artifacts, the archival history of Coptic documents from Jeme Held in the British Library, cattle petroglyphs in the eastern desert of Egypt, new findings of Meroitic pottery from Sudan, the locational significance of scatological references in the Coffin Texts, and the localization of the Shasu-land of Rameses II's rhetorical texts. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
