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Open Access Journal: Interdisciplinary Egyptology

 [First posted in AWOL 28 May 2022, updated 6 January 2026]
 
Interdisciplinary Egyptology
Our logo: orange nb-sign, overlaid with a abstract I and E that also resembles a ceramic drawing. The words Interdisciplinary Egyptology appears above.
 

Interdisciplinary Egyptology (IntEg) is a peer-reviewed journal which reports on high-quality research that IntEgrates the study of ancient Egypt with other related disciplines. The journal champions Egyptological research with a broad scientific scope that incorporates Egyptology with one or more approaches drawn from related scientific fields.

IntEg promotes research that has a strong foundation in modern historical and archaeological theory, the natural sciences and stringent fieldwork protocols with the highest standards; we promote IntEgrity and IntEgration in Egyptological research. IntEg welcomes research from a broad chronological and geographical scope, in-so-far as it directly relates to the study of Egyptology as a modern, scientific discipline.

IntEg is an independent journal, offering a free-to-publish, fully peer-reviewed, fully Open Access service. All of this is possible because we have an amazing Editorial Team, all of whom are professional Egyptologists across all career stages, who are volunteering their time to bring this service to you. We all believe in the spirit of and need for a journal like IntEg in our field.

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025): Egyptology in Dialogue: Historical bodies in relations, comparisons, and negotiations (Interdisciplinary Egyptology Special Issue 2)

This special issue of Interdisciplinary Egyptology presents the proceedings of the workshop Egyptology in dialogue: Historical bodies in relations, comparisons, and negotiations, which was held at Emory University, November 2022. It is edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, Rune Nyord, Leire Olabarria, and Reinert Skumsnes. All research articles in the volume were double-blind peer reviewed. 

What insights can ancient Egyptian sources lend to our understanding of the human body? And what multidisciplinary perspectives can Egyptologists draw on to bring ancient sources around the body into dialogue with current phenomena and priorities?

Through engagement with recent anthropological and archaeological theory, the contributions to this volume recognise that every society understands the human body in its own way and thus that the body has a history and a culture-specific logic that warrants exploration. The volume moreover explores how bodies are relationally contingent, existing in both explicit relations with each other and their surroundings and in implicit relations across time and space. These relational encounters can be studied on their own or in comparisons between and negotiations with other entities, perspectives, time periods, and spaces.

By exploring these concepts with case studies from across the archaeological, visual, and textual record, this special issue includes conversations that extend well beyond the discipline, enabling us to engage with Egypt’s rich archaeological record with new theoretical and methodological awareness.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25365/integ.2025.x2
Published: 2025-12-18

Full Issue

  • EiD_IntEgX2_Full_Text

Special Issue: Egyptology in Dialogue

  • Introduction: Egyptology in Dialogue

    Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, Leire Olabarria, Rune Nyord, Reinert Skumsnes
    1-14
    • PDF
  • What can an ancient Egyptian body do?

    Oliver Harris
    15-23
    • PDF
  • Non-elite bodies in the Old Kingdom Towards a relational approach

    Richard Bussmann
    24-39
    • PDF
  • Alternative body worlds in ancient Egyptian healing texts

    Reinert Skumsnes
    40-63
    • PDF
  • The ‘fragmented body’ theory in Egyptology An ontological framework with a shadow side

    Camilla Di Biase-Dyson
    64-89
    • PDF
  • Comparing images, bodies, and ontologies in ancient Egypt and in Egyptology

    Jordan Miller
    90-109
    • PDF
  • 'His bodily son' Embodiment and relatedness in ancient Egypt

    Leire Olabarria
    110-127
    • PDF
  • "Who wears a kilt like men and a sash like women" Negotiating foreignness, gender, and the body in New Kingdom representations of Near Eastern goddesses

    Edward Scrivens
    128-142
    • PDF
  • Semantic perspectives on the nude/naked body in Ancient Egyptian texts

    Dina Serova
    143-164
    • PDF
  • Chaîne opératoire in a relational consideration of epistemology, body knowledge, and embodied cognition

    Willeke Wendrich
    165-179
    • PDF
  • (Re)assembling a boat Exploring different body worlds of funerary models

    Emily Whitehead
    180-203
    • PDF
  • Afterword: Egyptological anthropology

    Matei Candea
    204-211
    • PDF

 

  • Interdisciplinary Egyptology Volume 4
    Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025)

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.25365/integ.2025.v4
    Published: 2025-03-20

    Research Article: Archaeological Method and Theory

    • Resurrecting the archive: Revitalising records of Hogarth’s excavations in the Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi necropolis, Egypt 1906-1907

      Hannah Pethen
      • PDF
  • Interdisciplinary Egyptology Volume 3
    Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.25365/integ.2024.v3
    Published: 2024-05-29

    Research Article: Archaeological Method and Theory

    • Revisiting Petrie’s excavations at Naqada Cross-matching the available documentary evidence and new digital map

      Xavier Droux
      • PDF: Main Article

    Research Article: Theoretical Approaches

    • Understanding Diversity in American Egyptology Results of the 2021 Egyptology State of the Field Survey

      Stacy Davidson, Emily Cole, Anne Austin, Jess Johnson, Clara McCafferty-Wright, Sara Orel, Kathleen Sheppard, Jason Silvestri, Jen Thum, Julia Troche
      • PDF: Main Article

    Research Article: Other

    • "What do Egyptian gods look like?" Heuristics and visual perception in the interpretation of Egyptian art and religion

      Jun Yi Wong
      • PDF
    • Mehen, The Ancient Egyptian Serpent Game A Reappraisal of the Evidence Set

      James F. R. Masters
      • PDF
  • Interdisciplinary Egyptology Volume 2
    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023)

  • Interdisciplinary Egyptology Volume 1
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

  • Interdisciplinary Egyptology Special Issue 1. Egyptology and interdisciplinarity: The future of the field
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

  • The first special issue of Interdisciplinary Egyptology brings together summaries of the series of panel discussions held in February and March 2021 that marked the journal's launch. Leading academics addressed the priorities in and opportunities available to Egyptology as it moves towards an interdisciplinary future.

 

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Chuck Jones at 12:47 PM
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