Most of this issue of BES is devoted to "Abbreviations in Egyptology," a comprehensive research tool that provides scholars with more than 5200 abbreviations used in Egyptological and Biblical literature. It is of particular use to those without ready access to the Lexikon der Agyptologie. Also included are articles by Dieter Arnold discussing an exciting new discovery about the construction of Senwosret III's pyramid at Dahshur and John Gee about the use of the adverbial component in Egyptian sentences.