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A selection of papers published over the last twenty years. They are largely concerned with the physical aspects of ancient Egypt - the identification of places, the meaning of words, plant types, interpetation of hieroglyphs and Egyptian concepts of geography: The Wadi Tumilat, ATIKA and MW-QD; Some rapidly disappearing and unrecorded sites in the eastern Delta; Notes on the lexikon entries Meer and Syrien; The chief obstacle to understanding the Wars of Ramesses III; BHDT in the Delta; The Sea Peoples; The Lebanon (sic) and Djahy in the Egyptian texts; The rhj.t people as permanent foreigners in ancient Egypt; The problems of Sile and t3rw; Some problems preventing our better understanding of the Delta; A contribution to our understanding of KMT; The so-called plant of Upper Egypt (and a postscript); A note on the hnmmt; The two lands: the black and the red; A note on t3s?m`w; A geographical note on the Libyans so-called; Shat of the nine bows; Some remarks in the Cedar of Lebanon; The Byblos question again; Some Libyans in the Thera frescoes?; A note on ATIKA/ATTAKA/TA?KA? and Copper; Cedar again; The city of Dor and Wenamun; Remarks on the Merenptah stela and the so-called name of Israel; Notes on the two lands of ancient Egypt and the `heraldic' plants; Lapwings and bow weapons as alternative symbols of west and east in ancient Egypt.