Egypt
- Amheida Website Updated
NYU Excavations at Amheida Three reports from the 2010 season are new available at the above page (Field Report, Geophysical Survey and Palaeozoology). Amheida is an important site in Dakhleh Oasis. Here's an exerpt from the website's introduction:...
- Amheida 2009 Report
www.amheida.org/inc/pdf/Report2009.pdf I was rumbling around the web looking for something else when I stumbled across the above link to the latest field report from Amheida (2009). Amheida is in Dakhleh Oasis (Western Desert). The report is in PDF format,...
- Giza Occasional Papers Volume 2
AERA Available for download in PDF format from the above page or open directly by clicking here. Here's an extract from the introduction: The 2005 season of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project at Giza, Egypt, took place over two periods: January 8th...
- Weekly Websites
In fact, the most time I've spent on any single website is one that gives brilliant instructions on how to reformat a hard disk without the usual pain. Take that, you bad-tempered Dell Precision M60! Having wasted most of two days fighting with said...
- Updated Excavation Websites
The following is a list of websites which have been updated this season with news about ongoing excavations: Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis http://www.learn.columbia.edu/amheida/ http://www.learn.columbia.edu/amheida/html/home.html Deir el-Banat, Faiyum DepressionLast...
Egypt
Amheida 2005 Excavation Report Online
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/amheida/html/2005_field_reports/2005_report.html
This is a lovely and highly informative page with plans, photographs and detailed descriptions: “During the 2005 season, a much enlarged team continued conservation and excavation work on the late Roman house (Area 2.1), began the excavation of the site of the Temple of Thoth (Area 4.1), and excavated part of a less wealthy house in Area 1.3. In addition, several types of survey were carried out for future planning and for a more complete view of the ancient city”. See the above page for much more information, and to get a real feel for the excavations being carried out at Amheida by Columbia University since 2004, following field surveys carried out in 2001 and 2002. You can download the page as a PDF as well.
This is a lovely and highly informative page with plans, photographs and detailed descriptions: “During the 2005 season, a much enlarged team continued conservation and excavation work on the late Roman house (Area 2.1), began the excavation of the site of the Temple of Thoth (Area 4.1), and excavated part of a less wealthy house in Area 1.3. In addition, several types of survey were carried out for future planning and for a more complete view of the ancient city”. See the above page for much more information, and to get a real feel for the excavations being carried out at Amheida by Columbia University since 2004, following field surveys carried out in 2001 and 2002. You can download the page as a PDF as well.
- Amheida Website Updated
NYU Excavations at Amheida Three reports from the 2010 season are new available at the above page (Field Report, Geophysical Survey and Palaeozoology). Amheida is an important site in Dakhleh Oasis. Here's an exerpt from the website's introduction:...
- Amheida 2009 Report
www.amheida.org/inc/pdf/Report2009.pdf I was rumbling around the web looking for something else when I stumbled across the above link to the latest field report from Amheida (2009). Amheida is in Dakhleh Oasis (Western Desert). The report is in PDF format,...
- Giza Occasional Papers Volume 2
AERA Available for download in PDF format from the above page or open directly by clicking here. Here's an extract from the introduction: The 2005 season of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project at Giza, Egypt, took place over two periods: January 8th...
- Weekly Websites
In fact, the most time I've spent on any single website is one that gives brilliant instructions on how to reformat a hard disk without the usual pain. Take that, you bad-tempered Dell Precision M60! Having wasted most of two days fighting with said...
- Updated Excavation Websites
The following is a list of websites which have been updated this season with news about ongoing excavations: Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis http://www.learn.columbia.edu/amheida/ http://www.learn.columbia.edu/amheida/html/home.html Deir el-Banat, Faiyum DepressionLast...