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The Ninth International Conference of specialists in Egyptian textiles “Textiles from the Nile Valley” took place on 28th–29th November 2015 in Antwerp. It has been organised by the Textiles from the Nile Valley Group, an independent group of scholars, who study Ancient Egyptian, Late Antique and Early Islamic textiles kept in museum collections and found at archaeological sites all over Egypt. The meetings of specialists in Egyptian textiles take place every two years and have different topics within the general subject of history of Egyptian textiles in the 1st millennium AD. Textile find-spots in Egypt were the main topic of the ninth meeting. More than 100 specialists from different museums situated all over the world and archaeological missions working in Egypt participated in the conference. Several topics were discussed during the meeting, e.g. dating of archaeological and museums’ textiles, studies of textiles kept in museum collections, conservation and restoration of textiles, weaving and sewing techniques of Late Antiquity, iconography of “Coptic” and Early Islamic textile objects.