The Seventh annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE 2006) was held on 6-8 April 2006, at the University of Oxford, and brought together graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology from institutions world-wide. A total of 44 students presented their new and on-going research on a variety of topics including archaeology, art and architecture, history and society, literature and language, religion, museum studies, scientific analysis, history of Egyptology and 'egyptomania,' spanning the entire period of Egyptian history from Predynastic to Coptic times. The papers published here cover the same wide range of research areas and multi-disciplinary approaches.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Symposium Papers Not Included in This Volume
• Introduction
• Shades of Meaning: The Significance of Manifestations of the Dead as Evidenced in Texts from the Old Kingdom to the Coptic Period
• Of Bodies and Soles: The Meaning of the Root ḳs in the Ptolemaic Period
• The Radiocarbon Dating of Ancient Egyptian Mummies and their Associated Artefacts: Implications for Egyptology
• The Archival History of Coptic Documents from Jeme Held in the British Library
• A Reinterpretation of the Use and Function of the Rekhyt Rebus in New Kingdom Temples
• The Teaching of Ptahhotep: The London Versions
• The Final Phase of Per-Ramesses: The History of the City in the Light of its Natural Environment
• Migratory Spirits: Remarks on the akh sign
• Cattle Petroglyphs in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
• Meroitic Pottery from the Fourth Cataract, Sudan (c. AD 100–300): New Findings from the SARS Winter 2005 Field Season
• The Locational Significance of Scatological References in the Coffin Texts
• The localization of the Shasu-land of Ramses II’s Rhetorical Texts
• Libraries and Archives: The Organization of Collective Wisdom in Ancient Egypt