Product Description: This volume publishes a selection of nine papers from the 2001 CRE conference held in Liverpool. Written with the aim of fostering the exchange of ideas and presenting new research, the multi-disciplinary papers discuss: the use of the double and triple uraeus in royal iconography (Sally-Ann Ashton) ; the organisation and mobilisation of Old Kingdom quarry labour forces at Chephren's quarry (Geber el-Asr) Lower Nubia (Elisabeth Bloxham) ; excavations at Theban tomb KV 39 (Ian Buckley) ; an Old Kingdom town at Zawiet Sultan (Zawiet Meitin) in Middle Egypt (Nadine Moeller) ; Egypt and Mycenaean Greece (Georgina Muskett) ; the age of the Sphinx and the development of the Giza necropolis (Colin Reader) ; the transition to state society in Egypt (Joanne Rowland) ; single mother goddesses and divine kingship (Geoffrey Tassie) ; morphological variations in Egyptian crania (Sonia Zakrzewski) ...read more