Egypt
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
- More On Rediscovered 25th Dynasty Tomb Of Karakhamun
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) Pischikova said the tomb of priest Karakhamun was discovered in the 19th century in an unstable condition. It continued to deteriorate, and only parts of it were accessible to visitors in the early 1970s. Later it collapsed...
- Tomb Of Karakhamun Found By Egyptian-american Team
drhawass.com Press Release, with photographs. An Egyptian-American expedition has found the burial chamber of a priest named Karakhamun (TT223). The tomb dates to Dynasty 25 (c. 755BC) and was uncovered during conservation and restoration work on the...
- Astronomical Ceiling Found At South Assasif
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) I'll post any more news as it appears. As Jane says, the full report will probably filtered through the SCA, when photographs should become available. The gallery on the South Asasif website is buried in the "Our Team"...
- Luxor Temple Investigations
Luxor News (Jane Akshar) With photos. I had a great morning at Luxor temple with Mansour Boraik. There is so much excavation going on in Luxor at the moment and one of the areas under investigation but not mentioned in his talk is the 'tell' behind...
- Tomb Of Karakhamun
Archaeologists working on behalf of the South Asasif Conservation project have been excavating the Asasif cemetery near Thebes with full knowledge that the tomb of the twenty fifth dynasty official Karakhamun was in the area. The tomb had been documented...
Egypt
A visit to Early Kushite Tombs of South Asasif
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
As a bit of background reading do have a look at this link http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Pischikova_a.pdf not only does it fully describe the tomb and general area but it also has some great photographs. Obviously I was not allowed to take any.
After stopping by the inspectors office to be ‘officially cleared’ I made it to the site just after 8. The team are working on three tombs Karakhamun, Karabasken and Irtieru, Karakhamun being the major one and they had been there since 6. When I got there some of them were busy recording and photography a buffalo skull, not quite treasure but it just shows you how archaeology has changed. Belzoni et al would have probably just thrown these things away but everything is recorded, photographed and stored. Digging is a whole different ball game these days.
- More On Rediscovered 25th Dynasty Tomb Of Karakhamun
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) Pischikova said the tomb of priest Karakhamun was discovered in the 19th century in an unstable condition. It continued to deteriorate, and only parts of it were accessible to visitors in the early 1970s. Later it collapsed...
- Tomb Of Karakhamun Found By Egyptian-american Team
drhawass.com Press Release, with photographs. An Egyptian-American expedition has found the burial chamber of a priest named Karakhamun (TT223). The tomb dates to Dynasty 25 (c. 755BC) and was uncovered during conservation and restoration work on the...
- Astronomical Ceiling Found At South Assasif
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) I'll post any more news as it appears. As Jane says, the full report will probably filtered through the SCA, when photographs should become available. The gallery on the South Asasif website is buried in the "Our Team"...
- Luxor Temple Investigations
Luxor News (Jane Akshar) With photos. I had a great morning at Luxor temple with Mansour Boraik. There is so much excavation going on in Luxor at the moment and one of the areas under investigation but not mentioned in his talk is the 'tell' behind...
- Tomb Of Karakhamun
Archaeologists working on behalf of the South Asasif Conservation project have been excavating the Asasif cemetery near Thebes with full knowledge that the tomb of the twenty fifth dynasty official Karakhamun was in the area. The tomb had been documented...