Egypt
Egypt Exploration Society (Patricia Spencer)
With photos.
- Ees Delta Survey Comes To A Close
EES Delta Survey I've enjoyed following the EES Delta Survey and am sad to see them go. Our first season at Daba has gone very well. We were able to survey the whole site and now have a much better understanding of its archaeological remains and the...
- More Work By The Ees Delta Survey
EES Delta Survey With photos. Thursday again and the last working day of the week. We’ve continued investigating some of the high mud-brick walls, though some of the chunks of what look like mud-brick are deceptive. In some cases what has survived is...
- Investigating A Monumental Wall
EES Delta Survey We spent most of our time on site today investigating the large chunk of mud brickwork which first aroused our interest in the site when we visited it in 1990. It is shown in the photograph of Jeff with Sabri Abdel Aziz in the first...
- Returning To The Delta
EES Delta Survey The EES Delta Survey have started updating on Tumblr again this season. This is my last day at work before we leave on Monday for Egypt - flying on Egyptair this time after the problem we had at the end of the last season with the BA...
- Excavations At Balamun
EES Delta Survey (Patricia Spencer) With photos. At the end of our first week of work for the British Museum at Balamun. Despite the bad weather just after we arrived here, we did manage to start work as planned on the 27th, though the site was very muddy...
Egypt
EES Delta Survey - First Visit to Daba
Egypt Exploration Society (Patricia Spencer)
With photos.
This morning we went to the SCA office and met the Director for Kafr esh-Sheikh, Dr Mohammed Abdel Rafaa, who made us very welcome and actually remembered us from when we were touring around tells in 1990 with Sabri Abdel Aziz! He assigned an Inspector to us, Madame Salwa Galal, and she came with us for a preliminary visit to the site. We set off on the 15 km drive to the site in lovely weather but it started to rain heavily just as we arrived so our first view of Daba was though a very wet windscreen!
Fortunately the rain soon stopped and we were met by the SCA site guard, and walked around part of the site, looking at the substantial mud-brick remains which seem not to have changed in the last 20 years. The surface of the site is covered with burned red brick- fragments and some intact structural remains - and there are also a few weathered red granite blocks visible.
- Ees Delta Survey Comes To A Close
EES Delta Survey I've enjoyed following the EES Delta Survey and am sad to see them go. Our first season at Daba has gone very well. We were able to survey the whole site and now have a much better understanding of its archaeological remains and the...
- More Work By The Ees Delta Survey
EES Delta Survey With photos. Thursday again and the last working day of the week. We’ve continued investigating some of the high mud-brick walls, though some of the chunks of what look like mud-brick are deceptive. In some cases what has survived is...
- Investigating A Monumental Wall
EES Delta Survey We spent most of our time on site today investigating the large chunk of mud brickwork which first aroused our interest in the site when we visited it in 1990. It is shown in the photograph of Jeff with Sabri Abdel Aziz in the first...
- Returning To The Delta
EES Delta Survey The EES Delta Survey have started updating on Tumblr again this season. This is my last day at work before we leave on Monday for Egypt - flying on Egyptair this time after the problem we had at the end of the last season with the BA...
- Excavations At Balamun
EES Delta Survey (Patricia Spencer) With photos. At the end of our first week of work for the British Museum at Balamun. Despite the bad weather just after we arrived here, we did manage to start work as planned on the 27th, though the site was very muddy...