Egypt Africa Regional Archaeology

Egypt Africa Regional Archaeology

Egypt

The investigation of past cultures of the modern nationstate of Egypt through the study and scientific analysis of material remains (i.e., osteological, artifactual, architectural, etc.).

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- A comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes. Visit each tomb in the Valley of the Kings through the interactive atlas with plans, descriptions, images and movies. Articles on the history of Thebes, tomb development and decoration. Staff, progress re
- From NASA, the site, known as Nabta, is between 6,000 and 6,500 years old, or about 1,000 years older than Stonehenge.
- Its director Christian Leblanc describes the Franco-Egyptian mission started in 1991 to clear the tomb of Ramses the Great. Includes a plan and photographs.
- Egypt's government and major museums collaborate with IBM to present high-resolution views of artifacts, interactive maps and timelines, and a collection of articles.
- From Al-Ahram Weekly, Christie's and Sotheby's are just two of the most famous halls where antiquities are auctioned off every day.
- Excavated in Egypt in the early 1900s, these papyri have restored to us lost Greek texts. Oxford University provides an online exhibition, conference proceedings, photographs and published volumes.
- The Columbia University digging of a settlement in the Dakhleh Oasis from the 3rd millennium BCE Old Kingdom to the 6th century CE early Christian period. Plans, views, reports and bibliography.
- Report on various lectures given at the eighth International congress of Egyptologists.
- Nigel Strudwick of Cambridge University describes his excavation at Theban Tomb 99, Luxor. Location, Senneferi and his family, history, architecture, wall paintings, dig diaries, publications. Includes plans, photographs and Quicktime VR movies.
- A database of 19th-century "studio photographs" of Egypt in the collection of the Griffith Institute, Oxford.
- A site for archaeological databases.
- Provides integrated, online access to the excavations of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard University. Includes panoramic views, archives, and a database.
- Underwater excavations of the cities of Menouthif and Herakleion.
- From Arabic News Hungarian archaeological team in Abu Sir, west Alexandria, recently unearthed five gold coins and a gold bracelet dating back to the Byzantine age, 4th century CE.
- Discoveries of the excavation by the University of Michigan (1924-1935) of this village that existed from the mid-3rd century BCE to the end of the 5th century CE.
- A comprehensive academic website covering the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods of Egypt, hominid evolution, and exposing the vacuum of pseudoscience. Includes: summaries of current academic thinking, research projects and debates.
- Maps, color photos, descriptions of the archaeological sites, and annual fieldwork reports of the North Kharga Oasis Survey (NKOS), a project of the American University in Cairo and Cambridge University.
- Research on the geology and topography of the Giza plateau, construction and function of the Sphinx, Great Pyramids, associated tombs and temples, and the Old Kingdom town in the vicinity.
- An illustrated article by Dr. Zahi Hawass on the tombs of artisans and administrators who worked on the Giza pyramid complexes.
- From Expatica, Frenchman was arrested at Cairo airport in August 2003 after customs officers found several terracotta figurines and 158 coins in his luggage.
- Features a methodology paper by James A. Harrell and V. Max Brown, University of Toledo. Includes photos and maps.
- Brief news article from Reuters news service reports in 2001 that sinking water levels revealed a symbolic sarcophagus of the god Osiris.
- Temple found from 300 years before Narmer unified Egypt.
- History and reports on the excavations at the site and the survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, from 1994 to the present.
- (Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago) Survey of a desert site which has revealed various ancient graffiti.
- An incomplete statue depicts Ramses with a sun god.
- Announces the discovery, in the Bahariya Oasis, of a 26th dynasty tomb containing a funerary chamber and sarcophagus.
- From Al-Ahram, Greek Orthodox Monastery of St Catherine, one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world.
- Joint project between Manchester Museum and Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Visitors have the chance to explore pyramid builders' town in virtual reality and to search the collections.
- From the Capital-Journal, a senior Egyptian official and six other government employees have been arrested for trying to sell a mummy to an undercover officer, police said Friday
- Provides an overview, a guidebook, a model of the city, current research, and preservation of ancient Akhetaten. Illustrated with maps, diagrams, and color photos.
- Five temples uncovered in the eastern Nile Delta.
- Popular Science reports that archaeologists have unearthed at Berenike on the Red Sea the most extensive remains to date from sea trade between India and Egypt during the Roman Empire.
- From Al-Ahram Weekly, Alexandria's state-of-the-art and long-awaited National Museum is open.
- The University of Colorado declares an assembly of huge stone slabs at Nabta, 6,500 to 6,000 years old, to be the oldest known astronomical alignment of megaliths in the world.
- Announcement from Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquitiesthat that recent discoveries reveal that it was Queen Hatshepsut, and not Thutmose I, who built the first royal tomb in the Valley of Kings.
- Discovery reveals a road linking the temples of Thebes.
- Oriental Institute at University of Chicago survey of Luxor directed by W. Raymond Johnson.
- New investigations into the earliest Egyptian measuring systems. Includes: the Saqqara Ostraca and Petrie's 1883 book in online version.
- Ancient Egyptian history, including the various dynasties and their pharaohs, religious and funerary beliefs, gods, pyramids, temples, tombs and photos.
- Discovery of a large tomb complex by Kent Weeks.
- Official website of the Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara in Egypt, a joint project of the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, the Netherlands, and Leiden University. Includes history, a timeline, photos, and a map.
- Provides its history, a description of the temple, including a floorplan, its function, and later exploration. [French and English]
- Dr David Whitehouse reports that archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the fabled Library of Alexandria, often described as the world's first major seat of learning.
- Discovery of the tombs of the pyramid builders.
- Reports on Memphis, El-Amarna, Qasr Ibrim, Sais and the Delta Survey.
- Excavation in 1996 by Dr. Scott Carroll and Dr. Bas Van Elderen of the Monastery of St. John the Little (founded c.300 CE) at Wadi Natun. Includes diary, photographs and QuickTime videos.
- Research in the Valley of the Kings.
- Obscured by murky water for more than 1,500 years, remains of the ancient capital of the Ptolemies have been found in Egypt's Port of Alexandria, reports Archaeology.
- Report on excavations in KV-10, the tomb of Amenmesse, with background and history, season summaries, a diagram of the tomb, and color photos.
- Offers news about the Amarna Royal Tombs Project and an overview of the Foundation's work.
- Information about the 1997 excavation work at the Giza pyramids by Mark Lehner, from Nova Online.
- Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago survey of a 5th-7th century site in Egypt.
- Detailed reports on excavations at Dashur North, Malqata, tomb of Amenophis III, the Theban Necropolis, Abusir South, the Khufu Boat and al-Fustat. The pyramids survey at Giza.
- Eastern Desert Ware (EDW) refers to a rather recently identified corpus of relatively small, hand-made vessels with a remarkable surface treatment, mostly dating from the 4th-6th centuries AD and found in the Eastern Desert, between the Nile and the Red S
- Ancient Egyptian gold mining site.
- From al Jazeera, the ringleader of an Egyptian antiquities smuggling ring that shipped at least 300 pharaonic and other artefacts to Europe has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
- Provides news, updates, dig information, and satellite imaging of projects of the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto.

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