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The twenty-fourth Current Research in Egyptology conference was held at the University of Liverpool between 2–6 September 2024, and organised by researchers across five UK universities. This important event welcomed almost 200 participants from around the globe, with a full programme of 115 paper presentations alongside 17 poster presentations, highlighting recent research and results by early career researchers in Egyptology and related fields. The present volume gathers 23 selected papers from the conference, reflecting the breadth of new work, methods, and perspectives presented at the meeting. Individual papers include discussion of material culture, society, religion, reception studies, findings from archaeological excavations, and methodological issues, bringing together a wide range of recent research in Predynastic, Pharaonic, and Graeco-Roman Egyptology.

John Rogers recently defended his PhD thesis at Swansea University, where his work was funded by a Research Excellence Scholarship. His research interests centre on power, authority, and legitimacy and their expression in diverse contexts in the mid-first millennium BCE, and he has participated in fieldwork in Luxor and Abydos since 2017.

Catherine Bishop-Allen is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool, holding a BA in Classical Civilisation and Egyptology, and an MA in Ancient Egyptian Culture, both from Swansea University. Her research interests include sensory approaches to the ancient world, environmental archaeology, and the impact of climate on hierarchical structures. In addition to her current research, she has participated in several archaeological missions in Egypt since 2019.

Henry Bohun holds an MA in Ancient Egyptian Culture from Swansea University; he is working on his PhD through the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and is currently based at Trier University on a scholarship scheme.

Reuben G. Hutchinson-Wong is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Birmingham, funded by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. He completed his MA, BA(Hons), and BA at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, specialising in Ancient History and Geography. His research interests include looking at how ancient communities used tombs as ongoing sites of burial and the reception of ancient Egypt in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Marina Sartori is currently Teaching Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, where she also recently completed an SNSF-funded postdoc project centring on the use of colour in New Kingdom funerary manuscripts. She defended her PhD in 2022 at the University of Basel and as an epigraphist has been part of several excavations, such as the Swiss Mission in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna and the Polish Archaeological Expedition to the North Asasif.