The Oasis Papers 10: The Land Where the Sun Goes Down. The Archaeology of Egypt’s Western Desert: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of ... Project (Dakleh Oasis Project Monograph)

This volume presents the proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project held at the British Museum, London, on 7-8 September 2023.The event formed the British Museum’s Annual Egyptological Colloquium.Like previous conferences, the symposium focused on research in the Dakhleh Oasis and the broader Western Desert.The volume contains 19 papers that touch upon a variety of topics, from heritage management (Lamiaa Sayed Abdallah), the spread of domesticated animals in Egypt (Juliet V.Spedding et al.), rock art studies (Nourhan Moustafa Ahmed, John C.Darnell, Rita Simon, Pawel L. Polkowski, Nikolaos Lazaridis and Salima Ikram), dynastic and later iconography (Olaf E.Kaper, Laure Pantalacci, Günter Vittman), Ptolemaic and Roman settlements and temples (Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Arnault Gigante and Gaëlle Tallet, Colin A.Hope, Gillian E. Bowen and Iain Gardner, Paul Kucera, Marina M. Serena Nuovo), to Christianity in Dakhleh and Kharga (Gillian E.Bowen and Christi