Egypt
Fish bones
Scrap of woven flax
Grain
- Travel: Qasr El Sagha, Faiyum Depression
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/tr401.htm"Qasr Al-Sagha, or rather the Golden Fortress, is one of Fayoum's mysterious marvels. Located north of Lake Qarun, the building once stood on the shore of the ancient Lake Moeris. Now the lake has shrunk...
- 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...
- Petrie Museum Wins Top Award
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4538365.stm "A 100-year-old museum, home to one of the world's largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology, has won an industry award. A panel of experts judged University College London's...
- Faiyum Neolithic Granaries
I'm like a dog with a bone on this particular subject, I know, but my last word on the granaries until the end of January. Willeke Wendrich (heading the UCLA project in the Faiyum) has said that the team's website will be updated at the end of...
- Catalogue Of Petrie's Finds At Naukratis
The British Museum is creating an online catalogue of Sir Flinders Petrie's finds from the ancient Egyptian Greek trading post of Naukratis. Petrie excavated the city in the mid 1880's and collected more than ten thousand artifacts from the smashed...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Faiyum Neolithic at the Petrie
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has put its entire collection online so that anyone with an Internet connection can find specifc artefacts or search for general categories. The photographs shown here are all held at the Petrie, and are copied directly from their online database. The Faiyum Depression in northern Egypt. to the southwest of Cairo, and has a rich prehistoric past which was investigated in the 1920s and 1930s by the remarkable team of Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Elinor Wight Gardner. I have a website about the prehistory of the Faiyum if it is of interest, although it is a little out of date.
Fish bonesScrap of woven flaxGrainBifacial concave-based arrowhead
Polished red cooking vessel
- Travel: Qasr El Sagha, Faiyum Depression
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/tr401.htm"Qasr Al-Sagha, or rather the Golden Fortress, is one of Fayoum's mysterious marvels. Located north of Lake Qarun, the building once stood on the shore of the ancient Lake Moeris. Now the lake has shrunk...
- 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...
- Petrie Museum Wins Top Award
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4538365.stm "A 100-year-old museum, home to one of the world's largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology, has won an industry award. A panel of experts judged University College London's...
- Faiyum Neolithic Granaries
I'm like a dog with a bone on this particular subject, I know, but my last word on the granaries until the end of January. Willeke Wendrich (heading the UCLA project in the Faiyum) has said that the team's website will be updated at the end of...
- Catalogue Of Petrie's Finds At Naukratis
The British Museum is creating an online catalogue of Sir Flinders Petrie's finds from the ancient Egyptian Greek trading post of Naukratis. Petrie excavated the city in the mid 1880's and collected more than ten thousand artifacts from the smashed...