Egypt
Eighteenth Dynasty, Lahun
- Gurob Harem Palace Website
Gurob Harem Palace Project Thanks to the Friends of the Petrie newsletter I found that there's another excavation website that I hadn't know about before. The Gurob Harem Palace Project looking at both urban and funerary remains at Medinet el...
- Daily Photo - Mycenean Vase At Gurob
UC16631. Mycenean IIIB1 stirrup vase of pottery, cream with broad black and thin brown circular line decoration - piece of spout missing. Black patch from burning. Late Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE). Found at Gurob. Height 8.6 cms max diameter 11.1 cms....
- New Book: Living Images (hawara Portraits)
A new book has been announced, which will be officially launched on Friday 26th October 2007 at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London (U.K.): Living Images - Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum, edited by Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke...
- Reader In The Sands Of Time
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1814247,00.html "He liked to work in his underpants and ate only from tins, but Flinders Petrie changed the face of archaeology". Joyce Tyldesley writing about Sir William Flinders Petrie, who transformed archaeological...
- Reading For A Rainy Day
Here I find myself on a rainy day with something interesting to re-read the 1890 classic of Egyptian archaeology by the legendary man himself Flinders Petrie, Kahun, Gurob and Hawara....
Egypt
Daily Photo - Basketry at the Petrie Museum
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, one of the most fascinating museums in London (and one which seems to be very little known even amongst real Egyptology enthusiasts) has an online database of its complete collection. Here are some examples of basketry taken from the database. These are just screen-grabs taken from the Petrie's website but if you visit the website yourself, and you are using MS Explorer 5.5 or above, you will be able to rotate the images to get a better view of them.
Eighteenth Dynasty, LahunEighteenth Dynasty, Gurob
Eighteenth Dynasty, Gurob
Roman, Hawara
Roman, Hawara
- Gurob Harem Palace Website
Gurob Harem Palace Project Thanks to the Friends of the Petrie newsletter I found that there's another excavation website that I hadn't know about before. The Gurob Harem Palace Project looking at both urban and funerary remains at Medinet el...
- Daily Photo - Mycenean Vase At Gurob
UC16631. Mycenean IIIB1 stirrup vase of pottery, cream with broad black and thin brown circular line decoration - piece of spout missing. Black patch from burning. Late Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE). Found at Gurob. Height 8.6 cms max diameter 11.1 cms....
- New Book: Living Images (hawara Portraits)
A new book has been announced, which will be officially launched on Friday 26th October 2007 at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London (U.K.): Living Images - Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum, edited by Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke...
- Reader In The Sands Of Time
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1814247,00.html "He liked to work in his underpants and ate only from tins, but Flinders Petrie changed the face of archaeology". Joyce Tyldesley writing about Sir William Flinders Petrie, who transformed archaeological...
- Reading For A Rainy Day
Here I find myself on a rainy day with something interesting to re-read the 1890 classic of Egyptian archaeology by the legendary man himself Flinders Petrie, Kahun, Gurob and Hawara....