Journal Contents: WAMCAES NEWS 1, Spring 2002

• Message from the WAMCAES team.
• No Curses Please: WAMCAES launch, the opening address - Gary Morgan.
• Modern Research on Ancient Lives: The Nicholson Museum Egyptian Mummy Project - Karin N. Sowada.
• Seeing Beneath the Skin: An interview with Dr Alanah Buck, forensic
anthropologist - Jacquie Gregson.
• Alexandria: the ancient city and its people - Gae Callender.
• Alexandria Underwater: experiences with a UNESCO mission to
Alexandria - Graeme Henderson.
• A lecture evening with Joyce Tyldesley & Steven Snape reviewed by - Jacquie Gregson.
• FOCUS point - The Bent Pyramid - Heather Tunmore.
• Objects from the collections - Ushabtis,workers for the dead - Moya Smith

LEFT: 19th Dynasty (1307 - 1196 BC) wooden ushabti from the Western Australian Museum collection. The owner's name Djhut har maktu, [the god] Thoth is my protector is deeply incised. Ushabti figurines were buried with the dead to answer on their behalf in the Afterlife, when the owner was called to do agricultural duty.

The incised hieroglyphs are a segment of a magical spell, often referred to as Chapter 6 from the Book of Coming Forth By Day, today called The Book of the Dead.

PHOTO: ROSS CHADWICK