Egypt
- More From Amara West Excavations
If you are not already signed up to the Amara West blog I do sincerely recommend it - they still have a couple of weeks of the season left and update the blog regularly. Here are a sample of recent posts, all with lovely photographs. British Museum -nice...
- 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...
- 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 2012: looking back on the season in the cemetery
The British Museum (Michaela Binder)
With photos.
With photos.
After seven weeks of excavation we can look back to a very successful season in the cemetery at Amara West. In total, the two field school members (Åshild Vagene and Mohamed Saad), Laurel Engbring, Milena Grybowska and I were able to excavate and document 11 graves.
All of them proved to be complex features with one or two burial chambers used for the interment of several individuals – up to 15 in the case of G314. But even though the general outline of the graves appears similar, they differ from each other considerably in terms of size, shape and orientation. The results of this season confirm our picture of a mixed culture combining elements of Nubian and Egyptian funerary customs.
- More From Amara West Excavations
If you are not already signed up to the Amara West blog I do sincerely recommend it - they still have a couple of weeks of the season left and update the blog regularly. Here are a sample of recent posts, all with lovely photographs. British Museum -nice...
- 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...
- 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...