Egypt
The Great Sand Sea
- Visualising Giza Project
Visualising Giza (Paulalorla) Many thanks to Paula for sending me a link to her website. She has taken images of Giza and displayed them so that the viewer is taken through the history both of people's visions of Giza and through the history of image...
- Radar Images Reveal Lost Lake
Thaindian The original article can be found in the December 2010 edition of the journal Geology but be warned that it costs $25.00 for a day's access to the article. Geologists have found that a huge lake waxed and waned deep in the sandy heart of...
- Photo - Overview Of Taposiris Magna
drhawass.com A photograph showing a great overview of the site. Includes two links to other Taposiris Magna images. Click on the image below to go to the full-sized photograph. Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- Antiquity Archaeological Photography Prize
Antiquity Journal Antiquity invites the submission of high-quality archaeological photographs for publication in the journal. Two photographs will be selected and published each quarter. A judging panel will decide the best photograph published each year...
- Archaeological Diggings - Photo Album
http://www.freewebs.com/diggingsmag/photoalbum.htm There's a rather good photo album of Egytian images on the Archaeological Diggings website at the moment. See the above page. You will need a Flash 5 compatible plug-in to view it. Scroll using the...
Egypt
Daily Photo - SIR-C/X-SAR Images of Egypt
SIR-C/X-SAR Images showing different parts of Egypt. Click on the image to see a bigger version of it on ths site. To see full descriptions which explain the images and help you interpret them just click on the link beneath image that you want to see details for - and even bigger versions of these images are available from those pages.
All of the images come from the a joint U.S.-German-Italian project that uses a highly sophisticated imaging radar to capture images of Earth. The technology used is Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) . Photographs on this site were taken using the instrument, which was flown on two flights in 1994. One was on space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-59 April 9-20, 1994. The second flight was on shuttle Endeavour on STS-68 September 30-October 11, 1994. Enjoy!
All of the images come from the a joint U.S.-German-Italian project that uses a highly sophisticated imaging radar to capture images of Earth. The technology used is Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) . Photographs on this site were taken using the instrument, which was flown on two flights in 1994. One was on space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-59 April 9-20, 1994. The second flight was on shuttle Endeavour on STS-68 September 30-October 11, 1994. Enjoy!
Nile Delta, Rosetta Branch
Giza, with blow-up
SafSaf Oasis
SafSaf OasisThe Great Sand SeaDakhleh Oasis
- Visualising Giza Project
Visualising Giza (Paulalorla) Many thanks to Paula for sending me a link to her website. She has taken images of Giza and displayed them so that the viewer is taken through the history both of people's visions of Giza and through the history of image...
- Radar Images Reveal Lost Lake
Thaindian The original article can be found in the December 2010 edition of the journal Geology but be warned that it costs $25.00 for a day's access to the article. Geologists have found that a huge lake waxed and waned deep in the sandy heart of...
- Photo - Overview Of Taposiris Magna
drhawass.com A photograph showing a great overview of the site. Includes two links to other Taposiris Magna images. Click on the image below to go to the full-sized photograph. Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- Antiquity Archaeological Photography Prize
Antiquity Journal Antiquity invites the submission of high-quality archaeological photographs for publication in the journal. Two photographs will be selected and published each quarter. A judging panel will decide the best photograph published each year...
- Archaeological Diggings - Photo Album
http://www.freewebs.com/diggingsmag/photoalbum.htm There's a rather good photo album of Egytian images on the Archaeological Diggings website at the moment. See the above page. You will need a Flash 5 compatible plug-in to view it. Scroll using the...