Egypt

Dakhleh Oasis Project - Dr. Peter Sheldrick

The Chatham Daily News (Bob Boughner)

A semi-retired Chatham physician, who is helping unearth Egypt's past, is featured in a television documentary airing tonight. . . .

The Chatham native is scheduled to return to Egypt later this week to resume his work in an ancient cemetery in the Sahara Desert.

For the past 19 years, Sheldrick has been a volunteer for the Dakhleh Oasis Project, which is studying the impact of environmental change on humans and human activity, dating back to the earliest days of civilization in the area.

Sheldrick said he got hooked on Egyptology from reading his father's encyclopedias as a child. He's been to Egypt more than 35 times since 1969, making him the longest-serving volunteer on the Dakhleh Oasis Project.

For those intersted in the Dakhleh Oasis Project I previously posted a set of links which might be of use at:

http://egypt--devology.blogspot.com/2008/05/weekly-websites-dakhleh-oasis.html

- Online: Treasures Of Dakhleh Oasis
Leiden University Open Access An exhibition on the occasion of the Fifth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project Informative 40-page PDF with some lovely photographs. Foreword Dakhleh, the “inner” of the oases...

- Book Review: Vernacular Mud Brick Architecture In The Dakhleh Oasis
PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(3) (2010) Nicholas Warner about Schijns, W. With contributions from O. Kaper & J. Kila. 2008. Vernacular Mud Brick Architecture in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt and the Design of the Dakhleh Oasis...

- Daily Photo: Gebel El-muzawaka
The 1st/2nd Century A.D. necropolis of Gebel el-Muzawaka (or Garet el-Mussawaga, the Hill of Paintings), in Dakhleh Oasis, near ancient Amheida, is visually impressive as you drive up to it, and is quite an experience when you get there - not least because...

- Magazine: Current World Archaeology 21
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa21/cwa21.htm "What was life like in an Egyptian oasis? The Dakhleh oasis is huge - today it is home to some 70,000 people - and the Dakhleh Oasis Project has been charting the environmental background throughout...

- Desert Origins Of The Pharaohs
http://tinyurl.com/fxjdg (saudiaramcoworld.com) Detailed article (10 pages of A4 when printed) about the importance of Dakhleh Oasis in the prehistoric period: "The Western Desert of Egypt, near the Dakhleh Oasis, appears to be one of the most uninhabitable...

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