Ancient Egypt 2017. Perspectives of Research edited in co-operation of Polish and Portuguese
Egyptologists provides an overview of current research and ist perspectives covering various
spheres of interest in present-day Egyptology and a scholarly discussion on various approaches
to studies of ancient Egypt in all ist aspects and forms. The reader may find 26 papers
including those on pottery sculpture language history architecture religion and religious
texts views on empire creation loyalism and more detailed pieces on amulets museum
collections household religion and the concept of sin children's magical protection religion
mirrored in twenty-first dynasty personal correspondence Esna the group-statue of Pendua and
Nefertari Kushite architectural programmes the settlement at Tell Nabasha the Saite-Persian
cemetery at Abusir project presentation and aegyptiaca in Portugal. Many of the issues were
discussed during the Eighth European Conference of Egyptologists. Egypt 2017: Research
Perspectives that was hosted by the New University of Lisbon and collaborator institutions in
Portugal.
