Egypt Exploration Society

The Egypt Exploration Society ( EES ) is a foundation to finance British excavations in Egypt. It was founded in 1882 by Amelia Edwards under the name of Egypt Exploration Fund ( EDF) and changed its name in 1919 in Egypt Exploration Society. The EES is headquartered in London, and there is yet a second seat in Cairo.

History

Amelia Edwards had 1873-74 Egypt from Cairo to Aswan traveled by boat and saw with my own eyes the impending expiration of the monuments. Your trip report 1877 published "A Thousand Miles up the Nile" was an instant bestseller.

A report published in the Morning Post in December 1879 letter from the young Swiss Egyptologist Edouard Naville, in which he drew attention to the urgent need for financial support from abroad for archaeological research, because the Egyptian state is bankrupt, and the work of the government under Auguste Mariette due to its poor health could not be carried out, ended up being the trigger that Amelia Edwards actively campaigned for the preservation of Egyptian antiquities.

Along with Edouard Naville they wrote to Auguste Mariette, that they collected money for his plans. Mariette died, however, in 1881, Gaston Maspero was his successor in Cairo as Head of the Service of Antiquities.

By Reginald Stuart Poole, head of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum of London, they started planning establishing an Egyptian company. They met for the first time in 1880 in the British Museum. Amelia was determined to bring ancient Egypt in general awareness, while she was particularly the preservation of Egypt's monuments. In the next two years, she gained support in all sections of the population, be it church, nobility, museum or university.

On March 30, 1882 Miss Edwards announced with their colleagues in the Times, that a company was formed to unearth with the purpose of the ancient sites in Egypt in the Nile Delta and that the plan had a reasonable prospect of success. Upon completion of the Egypt Exploration Fund Amelia Edwards and Reginald Poole were joint honorary secretaries. While Poole took care of the international administration, Miss Edwards took over the publicity and promotion of members.

As it was now called - - Through a generous donation of £ 500 by Sir Erasmus Wilson, the EDF in Egypt could apply for a license for excavations in the Delta at the service of the Antiquities de l' Egypte. Gaston Maspero granted the first license to a company. They agreed that the Swiss Edouard Naville in January 1883 should begin at Tell el- Maschuta with the excavations.

Currently, the Foundation leads excavations at Amarna and Qasr Ibrim and financed by the German excavations at Bubastis

Periodic journals of the EES

  • Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. ( JEA ), a published since 1914 archaeological journal, ISSN 0075-4234.
  • Egyptian Archaeology. The Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society. (EA ), a published since 1991 archaeological journal, ISSN 0962-2837.

Series of the EES

Published as monographs results of field work and research in the following series:

  • Excavation Memoirs
  • Archaeological Survey Memoirs
  • Texts from Excavations
  • Occasional Publications
  • Graeco- Roman Memoirs ( GRM)
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