Abstracts, 7th International Congress of Egyptologists

This collection of approximately 300 abstracts includes updates of long-term international research at Amarna Saqqara, Tell el Farkha, Tell Ibrahim Awad, Elkab, Karnak and reorts from new projects such as that at Tell el Muqdam. Iconographical and papyrological research is well represented and reveals a healthy interest in stretching texts and pictures to new interpretative limits. A number of more marginal papers suggest interesting new approaches to unravelling more intimate details of ancient Egyptian life. Why is Tutankhamun's hair treated so differently from other pharaohs? Why were sacrificial bulls' legs amputated? How did Egyptians perceive beauty? How did Egyptian sailors use a stretched cord for navigation? The volume also includes considerations of the practice of Egyptology: how to deal with the volume of published material and legal issues in planning and conservation.