Egypt
British Museum (Michaela Binder)
With photographs.
- More From Amara West Excavations
If you are not already signed up to the Amara West blog I do sincerely recommend it - they still have a couple of weeks of the season left and update the blog regularly. Here are a sample of recent posts, all with lovely photographs. British Museum -nice...
- Amara West - Looking Back At The 2011 Season
British Museum (Michaela Binder) After seven weeks in Sudan, we’ve just returned to England, and are looking back on a very successful season full of interesting new results. During the 41 days of excavation, Dyan Semple, Carina Summerfield-Hill and...
- Unearthing More Burials At Amara West
British Museum (Dyan Semple) With photos. Exerpt: Along with Michaela and Carina, I’m working in cemetery C at Amara West, currently in the western chamber of Grave 201. This tomb has a central shaft and two chambers to the east and the west. It had...
- Unearthing The Cemeteries At Amara West
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder) With excavation photographs. In wintery, snow-covered Durham preparations for the coming season of work in the cemetery are underway, with only six weeks left until the new season starts. During January and February,...
- Egypt Centre Achieves Accreditation
This Is Swansea Supporters of Swansea's Egypt Centre have been given a pat on the back this week after it achieved an accreditation award. The museum, which is based on the campus of Swansea University, is also enjoying a double celebration — it...
Egypt
Discoveries at Amara West
British Museum (Michaela Binder)
With photographs.
After a somewhat disappointing first week in Cemetery C during which we only found heavily disturbed graves, our luck turned last week. We discovered two largely intact graves which provide us with important insights into the funerary customs of the people living at Amara West.
One of these intact graves is G216. As with most of the other graves excavated in Cemetery C it is of the niche grave type, in which the body of the deceased is placed in a narrow niche on the bottom of a rectangular shaft.
With a length of 2.2 metres and a width of 1.2 metres, G216 is the largest niche discovered so far. In contrast, other graves found this week are very small, with just enough space to accommodate a small child burial.
- More From Amara West Excavations
If you are not already signed up to the Amara West blog I do sincerely recommend it - they still have a couple of weeks of the season left and update the blog regularly. Here are a sample of recent posts, all with lovely photographs. British Museum -nice...
- Amara West - Looking Back At The 2011 Season
British Museum (Michaela Binder) After seven weeks in Sudan, we’ve just returned to England, and are looking back on a very successful season full of interesting new results. During the 41 days of excavation, Dyan Semple, Carina Summerfield-Hill and...
- Unearthing More Burials At Amara West
British Museum (Dyan Semple) With photos. Exerpt: Along with Michaela and Carina, I’m working in cemetery C at Amara West, currently in the western chamber of Grave 201. This tomb has a central shaft and two chambers to the east and the west. It had...
- Unearthing The Cemeteries At Amara West
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder) With excavation photographs. In wintery, snow-covered Durham preparations for the coming season of work in the cemetery are underway, with only six weeks left until the new season starts. During January and February,...
- Egypt Centre Achieves Accreditation
This Is Swansea Supporters of Swansea's Egypt Centre have been given a pat on the back this week after it achieved an accreditation award. The museum, which is based on the campus of Swansea University, is also enjoying a double celebration — it...