Gareth Jones

David Pilling

Kevin Gordon

Nicky Drayden

Andrew Knighton

Milo Fowler

Jeff Poole

Todd Hunt

Julie Dawson

Peter Little

Gitte Christensen

Michael Banker

Christian Riley

James Coon

K. J. Greenberg

C. J. Paget

Daniel Ausema

Jack Skelter

Sara Berniker

Samuel Mae

Alex Schvartsman

For over ten years, The Bards and Sages Quarterly has provided fans of speculative fiction with a unique mix of tales from both new and established authors. With each issue, we strive to introduce readers to exciting and entertaining voices in the horror, science fiction, and fantasy genres. In this issue, stories by Jenny Swisher, Daniel Stride, Carrie Vaccaro Nelkin, Dana Beehr, Dawn Hebein, Andrew Knighton, Chris Dean, August von Orth, Jeff Metzler, William Fischer, Daniel Galef, Steve DuBois, Dylan M. Kiely, and P.G. Streeter. In Passages, a head injury propels a young man into a bizarre world that intersects life and death. In The Other Road, woman with psychic powers meets a man from her past to whom she once provided guidance. In Gone Fishing, an attempt to build a hydroelectric project in Turkey is complicated by local concerns over escaping demons. These stories and more in this issue.

Bards and Sages Quarterly (April 2019)

Christina Rozeik

Explores ancient Egyptian decorated surfaces, from polychrome wood to coloured basketry and from patinated metal to painted textiles

Technology, Deterioration, and Conservation; Proceedings of a Conference Held in Cambridge, UK on 7-8 September 2007

Decorated Surfaces on Ancient Egyptian Objects

Helen Strudwick

This collection of papers by leading international experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to study and record in detail its collection. Papers address a series of topics including: the development of coffins in antiquity, including iconographic and text-based studies, providing new insights into ancient Egyptian belief systems at different periods and regional differences in coffin presentation; the post-antiquity history of coffins, including their acquisition and subsequent treatment in museums around the world; developments in technical examination and methods of studying coffins, especially the use of multispectral imaging to provide non-invasive analysis of materials, and what this tells us about construction and decorative techniques at different periods and in response to the availability of different materials and increasing evidence of the re-use of materials and complete re-working of coffins for new owners, leading us to question fundamental attitudes to the purpose of coffins as a containers of human remains and the practices of craftsmen in the funerary industry. The papers stem from a conference held at the Museum to accompany a major new exhibition.

Past - Present - Future

Ancient Egyptian Coffins

Shattered Glass

Julie Dawson

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