REVIEW BY ROGER FORSHAW
The 22nd Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference in Montpellier hosted around 250 attendees in person and online from different institutions around the world, and covered a great variety of topics with a wide chronological and thematic range.
A paper by Marion Devigne focuses on the unusual topic of linen funerary amulets, which were were prominent during the Late and Ptolemaic Periods. The amulets have sometimes been confused with other types of inscribed wrappings, but in effect should be classified as a separate category of funerary textiles.
Two papers provide useful information about reconstructions of lost archaeological sites: the Temple of Hathor at Philae, and the Roman phase of the city of Arsinoë. Jessica Jancziak looks at the impact of early research by Champollion, Lepsius, and Borchardt relating to Egyptian stone columns. Thomas Lebée describes his research into the letters of Auguste Mariette, who founded the Egyptian Antiquities Service in 1858. Lebée has set up an ongoing free digital edition of these letters using the cloud-based platform GitHub (https://thlebee.github.io/CoEg/).
