Egypt
British Museum (Michaela Binder)
- Unearthing More Burials At Amara West
British Museum (Dyan Semple) With photos. Exerpt: Along with Michaela and Carina, I’m working in cemetery C at Amara West, currently in the western chamber of Grave 201. This tomb has a central shaft and two chambers to the east and the west. It had...
- New Issue Of Bmsaes
The British Museum British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan Issue 16: January 2011 See the above page for links to the articles, available free of charge as PDFs. The annual Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology...
- Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Michaela Binder) With photographs. After a somewhat disappointing first week in Cemetery C during which we only found heavily disturbed graves, our luck turned last week. We discovered two largely intact graves which provide us with important...
- Unearthing The Cemeteries At Amara West
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder) With excavation photographs. In wintery, snow-covered Durham preparations for the coming season of work in the cemetery are underway, with only six weeks left until the new season starts. During January and February,...
- Return To Amara West
British Museum (Neal Spencer) With photos. Posted 17th November 2010. Amidst the chaos, heat and dust of our building work at the dig house, we finally managed a short visit to the archaeological site of Amara West itself earlier this week, to see whether...
Egypt
Amara West - looking back at the 2011 season
British Museum (Michaela Binder)
After seven weeks in Sudan, we’ve just returned to England, and are looking back on a very successful season full of interesting new results. During the 41 days of excavation, Dyan Semple, Carina Summerfield-Hill and I were able to excavate 25 graves, 42 more or less complete skeletons and a large range of small finds and pottery.
Most importantly, in the chamber tomb G234 we found evidence that Cemetery C was already in use during the New Kingdom, much earlier than previously thought.
The last few days at Amara West were quite busy, as is usual in excavation projects like this. On one hand, all the fieldwork has to be finished.
- Unearthing More Burials At Amara West
British Museum (Dyan Semple) With photos. Exerpt: Along with Michaela and Carina, I’m working in cemetery C at Amara West, currently in the western chamber of Grave 201. This tomb has a central shaft and two chambers to the east and the west. It had...
- New Issue Of Bmsaes
The British Museum British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan Issue 16: January 2011 See the above page for links to the articles, available free of charge as PDFs. The annual Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology...
- Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Michaela Binder) With photographs. After a somewhat disappointing first week in Cemetery C during which we only found heavily disturbed graves, our luck turned last week. We discovered two largely intact graves which provide us with important...
- Unearthing The Cemeteries At Amara West
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder) With excavation photographs. In wintery, snow-covered Durham preparations for the coming season of work in the cemetery are underway, with only six weeks left until the new season starts. During January and February,...
- Return To Amara West
British Museum (Neal Spencer) With photos. Posted 17th November 2010. Amidst the chaos, heat and dust of our building work at the dig house, we finally managed a short visit to the archaeological site of Amara West itself earlier this week, to see whether...