Treat your-shelf (to 20% off!)

We believe there is nothing better than curling up with a good book during the festive season – well, as long as it’s about Egypt, of course! So, this year we’re offering a seasonal discount off physical copies of our three latest titles for you to escape into the sights and sounds of Egypt’s past.

Use discount code EESXMAS-26 and get 20% off from 1st November 2026.

Journey through pages of Pharaonic monuments and exquisite artefacts in Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries, edited by Stephanie Boonstra and Campbell Price (2025). This volume brings together highlights from the first century of the Egypt Exploration Society’s work and provides commentary on how they have built our knowledge of Egyptian history. Entries include artefacts distributed across the world and are written by experts in the field. Boonstra and Price weave a narrative history of ancient Egypt through these entries, not shying from challenging subjects faced by scholarship today. A must read for anyone interested in ancient Egyptian civilization.

Our two Spotlight volumes are also included in the offer; short highlights about the Society’s history based on a selection of items in the Society’s collections. Carl Graves explores the Society’s role in employing Howard Carter in from Tracer to Tutankhamun (2024). From an early start in Egypt at the age of 17, Carter went on to pioneer new methods of epigraphic recording, and this beautifully illustrated volume brings together various archival evidence to document Carter’s early training before the greatest archaeological discovery in the world. It urges readers to consider Carter’s whole contribution to the field of Egyptology, without limiting his achievements to just the discoveries after 1922.

In our second Spotlight, Carl Graves investigates the complex and multi-faceted life and legacy of EES founder, Amelia B Edwards in the ‘Queen of Egyptology’ (2025). Like Carter, Edwards’ contributions to Egyptology are often limited to events after her journey A Thousand Miles Up the Nile in 1873. Instead, this book considers the events that led her to visit Egypt and how the Egypt Exploration Society came to be established in 1882. Our Spotlight volumes encourage readers to get comfortable with discomfort in archives and to consider events and people from alternative angles.

So, as temperatures drop and the nights close in, why not curl up with the latest books from the EES and explore a different side to Egyptian history?

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