Egypt
American University of Beirut (Maha Al-Azar)
- Fighting Water Levels At Medinet Habu
USAID With photos. Medinet Habu is a fabulous site with a lot of the original colours still in tact. The matching Indiana Jones fedoras on two leading archeologists as they entered the ancient Temple Rameses III of Medinet Habu were necessary shields...
- Resources: New Publications Online At The Oi
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago have added two more titles to their online resource. OIP 9. Medinet Habu, Volume II. The Later Historical Records of Ramses III. The Epigraphic Survey. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1932. http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oip/oip9.html...
- Aub President Sheds Light On Female Pharaoh
Lebanon Daily Star The American University of Beirut's (AUB) new president, Peter Dorman, who is also a professor of archeology and an expert on ancient Egypt, gave a presentation Wednesday about Hatshepsut, the only woman to reign as a male pharaoh...
- American University Of Beirut To Appoint Peter Dorman
The Chronicle of Higher Education The American University of Beirut is expected to name the University of Chicago’s Peter Dorman as its new president next week. Mr. Dorman, an Egyptologist and chairman of Chicago’s department of Near Eastern languages...
- Rescuing Medinet Habu
This is an article of the preservation of the monuments around Luxor from the rise of groundwater with particular interest in the Temple of Medinet Habu the mortuary temple of Rameses III....
Egypt
Dorman-led expedition produces reference study
American University of Beirut (Maha Al-Azar)
For the average person, a 300-square meter area may merely bring to mind a large apartment, but for historians and archeologists, such a space could contain a wealth of information, puzzles, and insights into a world long forgotten.
These forgotten narratives are exactly what an expedition led by AUB President Peter Dorman, who is also an acclaimed Egyptologist, set out to uncover when it headed to Luxor (ancient Thebes) to study the inner sanctuary of a modest temple that lies within the great Medinet Habu complex, whose history spans several millennia, from the Eighteenth Dynasty and up to the Christian era.
The Medinet Habu complex is an impressive architectural mortuary temple precinct that covers about 60,000 square meters. It is probably best known for the 7000 square meters of inscribed reliefs that adorn the vast funeral temple of Ramesses III, of the Nineteenth Dynasty. But now an earlier, more modest temple precinct dedicated to the god Amun has been studied by the Epigraphic Survey of the University of Chicago, where Dorman spent close to nine years leading the Survey and five years chairing the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
- Fighting Water Levels At Medinet Habu
USAID With photos. Medinet Habu is a fabulous site with a lot of the original colours still in tact. The matching Indiana Jones fedoras on two leading archeologists as they entered the ancient Temple Rameses III of Medinet Habu were necessary shields...
- Resources: New Publications Online At The Oi
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago have added two more titles to their online resource. OIP 9. Medinet Habu, Volume II. The Later Historical Records of Ramses III. The Epigraphic Survey. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1932. http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oip/oip9.html...
- Aub President Sheds Light On Female Pharaoh
Lebanon Daily Star The American University of Beirut's (AUB) new president, Peter Dorman, who is also a professor of archeology and an expert on ancient Egypt, gave a presentation Wednesday about Hatshepsut, the only woman to reign as a male pharaoh...
- American University Of Beirut To Appoint Peter Dorman
The Chronicle of Higher Education The American University of Beirut is expected to name the University of Chicago’s Peter Dorman as its new president next week. Mr. Dorman, an Egyptologist and chairman of Chicago’s department of Near Eastern languages...
- Rescuing Medinet Habu
This is an article of the preservation of the monuments around Luxor from the rise of groundwater with particular interest in the Temple of Medinet Habu the mortuary temple of Rameses III....