Egypt
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...
- Digital Karnak
Digital Karnak The new Digital Karnak website is up and running at the above address. Here's the text from the introductory page: The colossal site of Karnak is one of the largest temple complexes in the world, with an incredibly rich architectural,...
- Travel: Luxor - An Open-air Museum
ANBA (Randa Achmawi) Little over 700 kilometres south of Cairo, on the banks of the Nile, is a paradise of monuments of humanity. Also known as Thebes in ancient times, Luxor, in Egypt, is currently an interesting combination between the past and present....
- Karnak Facelift Approved
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/fr2.htm Nevine El-Aref describes the dipsutes surrounding plans for Karnak Temple, which have now apparently been resolved. The purpose of the project "is to curtail infringements on the archaeological site and clear...
- Naos Of Amenemhet I
This is a nice short article from the Egyptian vice minister of culture Dr. Zahi Hawass on the history of a Naos at Karnak and the fragment of it which disappeared a century ago to be bought by the good people of the Metropolitan museum of art and returned...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Karnak
I've posted several photographs of Karnak before, but this is a new bunch scanned from old photo albums. Karnak will be the featured site for the Daily Photo for the next few days. The site is vast and incredibly complex - and is still under excavation so more will doubtless be added to our knowlege about the site in the future. Although there are many good books describing the temple complex there are surprisingly few good resources for finding out about it online. The best are probably the following, but let me know if you know of any others:
- A good summary on Su Bayfield's Karnak page on her EgyptSites website
- A useful site plan on the Tour Egypt website
- Some good photographs, and another good plan, can be found on Jon Bodworth's Egypt Archive
- The Quarryscapes annotated GIS/satellite view of Karnak (have a look - it's rather good)
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...
- Digital Karnak
Digital Karnak The new Digital Karnak website is up and running at the above address. Here's the text from the introductory page: The colossal site of Karnak is one of the largest temple complexes in the world, with an incredibly rich architectural,...
- Travel: Luxor - An Open-air Museum
ANBA (Randa Achmawi) Little over 700 kilometres south of Cairo, on the banks of the Nile, is a paradise of monuments of humanity. Also known as Thebes in ancient times, Luxor, in Egypt, is currently an interesting combination between the past and present....
- Karnak Facelift Approved
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/fr2.htm Nevine El-Aref describes the dipsutes surrounding plans for Karnak Temple, which have now apparently been resolved. The purpose of the project "is to curtail infringements on the archaeological site and clear...
- Naos Of Amenemhet I
This is a nice short article from the Egyptian vice minister of culture Dr. Zahi Hawass on the history of a Naos at Karnak and the fragment of it which disappeared a century ago to be bought by the good people of the Metropolitan museum of art and returned...