History Forum / General / Ancient History / October 2003

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:09:45 +0100, "noel launois"
<noel.launois@free.fr>  in alt.history.ancient-egypt, wrote the
following:

Please forgive me that I don't reply in French, which isn't  _my_
strongest language, either.

Not much is known about the oft-referred to "white walls of Memphis."
Archaeological attempts to uncover such "walls," which were presumed to
surround the city, have thus far proven unsuccessful.  

However, earlier this year, I heard a rather fresh approach to the topic
by an Egyptologist named Serena Love, who has spent a good deal of her
dissertation research on the topic of the "white walls" of Memphis.  An
abstract of a paper she presented at University College London can be
found at

<http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnkep/abstracts.htm>

Serena Love
A Symbolic Landscape of Memphis?

A review of her paper can be found here:

<http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/cre-iv-17.htm>
Current issues and future trends at CRE IV

Ms. Love is presently continuing her research at Stanford University, I
believe, if you wish to follow her work.

Hope this assists.

Regards --

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg, MA (Lon)
Member, International Association of Egyptologists
      American Research Center in Egypt, ASOR, EES, SSEA

Oriental Institute
Oriental Studies Doctoral Program [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom

http://www.griffis-consulting.com