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  • The £5.2m Egyptian and Nubian galleries, funded largely by the Linbury Trust, were granted planning permission last November, and have been driven along quickly by a team spearheaded by the museum's Liam McNamara, assistant keeper, Ancient Egypt and Sudan – an expert in late pre-dynastic and early dynastic Egyptian archaeology.

    Ashmolean museum: the critic's view 2011

  • This 2008 volume surveys sites dating from pre-dynastic to Roman times.

    Beyond the Pharaohs Joseph Manning 2011

  • This particular image reminds me of some ancient Egyptian images I have scene of the pre-dynastic Goddess Neith.

    Worshipping Women: Onassis Center Jan 2009

  • Stone Mehen board games have been recovered from First Dynasty Egyptian tombs but it's origins lies somewhere in the pre-dynastic period.

    Mehen Jan 2008

  • The pre-dynastic serpent goddess of Egypt is also extremely old.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008

  • • In February, an Army pilot was arrested and charged with stealing 370 pre-dynastic artifacts from the Ma'adi Museum near Cairo, Egypt, and selling them to an art dealer in Texas for $20,000.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Jan 2008

  • Al'Uzza, the mother aspect of Al'Lut, may give us the pre-dynastic Egyptian snake goddess Ua Zit Uadjet who develops into Isis.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

  • Stone Mehen board games have been recovered from First Dynasty Egyptian tombs but it's origins lies somewhere in the pre-dynastic period.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

  • The pre-dynastic serpent goddess of Egypt is also extremely old.

    Jael Jan 2008

  • It was later determined that the antiquities came from a group of some 370 "pre-dynastic" objects stolen in late September 2002 from the Ma'adi Museum near Cairo, Egypt.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

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