The Egypt Exploration Society

The EES has been working in Egypt since 1882. Our aim is to make all aspects of the culture of ancient and historic Egypt (to 1900 AD) better known to the public.

Our fieldwork and research is undertaken in Egypt itself and the results of this work are made available through our website (www.ees.ac.uk), our publications, and through events held in London and Cairo.

The Society is a registered UK charity and relies on subscriptions and donations to fund its work. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in ancient Egypt.

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EES Tour

Around 30 members have recently returned from the Society’s 125th Anniversary tour of Egypt where they visited sites from Tanis in the Delta to Aswan in the very south of Egypt, including many sites first excavated by the EES and some not normally open to visitors.

EES members at Tanis

A plaque in the temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el Bahri, commemorating the Society (then the Fund)’s work at the site in the late-ninetheenth century.

The tour, which included the reception at the British Embassy (see below) seems to have been a great success although some members found the Egyptian heat in May rather excessive. This will certainly be taken into account if future tours are organised. A report on the 2008 tour, by the Society’s Treasurer, Susan Royce (who was making her first visit to Egypt) will be published in EA 33 (autumn 2008). At the end of the tour a few hardy members stayed on in Egypt to spend an extra five days travelling along the Nile on a dahabiyeh.

EES members at Tanis

EES members admiring blocks of Ramesses II re-used in a later temple monument at Tanis.

Many thanks to Susan Royce for supplying the photographs in this report.

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