Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
Encyclopedia
Egyptology
Egyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...
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It is one of the most well-known and respected Egyptological journals, and has been published annually since 1914 by the Egypt Exploration Society
Egypt Exploration Society
The Egypt Exploration Society is the foremost learned society in the United Kingdom promoting the field of Egyptology....
(EES) of London
London
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, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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. It is issued around the beginning of each year to all "Category 1" members of the Society, as part of their yearly subscription.
Previous issues of the JEA may be obtained from the Egypt Exploration Society's distributors: Oxbow Books (Oxford
Oxford
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, UK), and the David Brown Book Company, (Connecticut
Connecticut
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, USA).
As is normal with Egyptological journals, articles written in other languages, principally German
German language
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and French
French language
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, are accepted for publication.
From the publication of JEA 93 (2007), the Journal's editorial board will be located at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool
University of Liverpool
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, England
England
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. The Editor-in-Chief is Dr Mark Collier, a philologist of the ancient Egyptian language
Egyptian language
Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known. Egyptian was spoken until the late 17th century AD in the...
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External links
- JEA Webpage (at the EES website)
- JEA back issues catalogue (Oxbow Books, UK)
- JEA back issues catalogue (David Brown Book Company, USA)
- TOCS-IN (Table Of Contents-Index) -contains searchable index of article titles from a limited number of issues (1992-99).