Egypt
UCLA: Archaeology Field Program
Adel Saad Mondy, who has a degree in archaeology, is a new inspector with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the agency which issues permits to excavations. The Supreme Council of Antiquities arranged for Mondy and several other inspectors to do their first field training with the Fayum excavation.
- Minufiyeh Survey 2012
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Jo Rowland) Jo Rowland and her team are back in Minufiyeh in the Delta and are already hard at work excavating where they left off last year. Today was the start of the excavation at Quesna. Our team of local workers were waiting...
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Youm 7 (Dina Abdel Aleem) German Institute for Antiquities in Cairo dedicated 40 training scholarships for workers at the Supreme Council of Antiquities in different archaeological specialties. The scholarships aim to train workers and specialists in...
- More Re Ucla Field School In Egypt
UCLA -Archaeology Field Program Field school student Susie Joyner takes another video, this time meandering around the dig site in the ancient city of Karanis to capture footage of her fellow students digging. We get a look at their brightly colored digging...
- Karanis Target Of 1st Archaeology Field For Us Undergrads
Passionate about History Further to Ben's post about inspector-in-training Adel Saad Mondy, who has been working with the UCLA team at Karanis in the Faiyum, here's another post about Karanis: For the UCLA students, exploring the sprawling agricultural...
- Zahi Hawass On Egyptian Archaeologists
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Hawass on the subject of valuing Egyptian archaeologists: When I became secretary- general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), I stated that we must restore Egyptian archaeologists before we can restore the monuments....
Egypt
Egypt: An inspector-in-training moves from theory to field work
UCLA: Archaeology Field Program
Adel Saad Mondy, who has a degree in archaeology, is a new inspector with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the agency which issues permits to excavations. The Supreme Council of Antiquities arranged for Mondy and several other inspectors to do their first field training with the Fayum excavation."These are some of the most important days of my life. It is my second day in the American field school at the archaeological site of Karanis in Fayum, where I am one of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) inspectors training in this program.
During the last two days I felt like I would be changed and that the field school would affect my archaeological work in the SCA. I took my first steps towards the scientific excavation process, including the recording of and working with a stratigraphic sequence.
During these two days, I learned how to set up the automatic level and take elevations, and the importance of these levels for excavation and recording. Also, I started an archaeological drawing using the triangulation method.
Actually, I greatly enjoy this field school program. It is very organized and connected between the field work and the theory lectures in the expedition house. I hope that all Egyptian archaeologists will have this chance to learn the scientific excavation steps and add new experience to the SCA."
- Minufiyeh Survey 2012
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Jo Rowland) Jo Rowland and her team are back in Minufiyeh in the Delta and are already hard at work excavating where they left off last year. Today was the start of the excavation at Quesna. Our team of local workers were waiting...
- German Scholarships To Supreme Council Of Antiquities
Youm 7 (Dina Abdel Aleem) German Institute for Antiquities in Cairo dedicated 40 training scholarships for workers at the Supreme Council of Antiquities in different archaeological specialties. The scholarships aim to train workers and specialists in...
- More Re Ucla Field School In Egypt
UCLA -Archaeology Field Program Field school student Susie Joyner takes another video, this time meandering around the dig site in the ancient city of Karanis to capture footage of her fellow students digging. We get a look at their brightly colored digging...
- Karanis Target Of 1st Archaeology Field For Us Undergrads
Passionate about History Further to Ben's post about inspector-in-training Adel Saad Mondy, who has been working with the UCLA team at Karanis in the Faiyum, here's another post about Karanis: For the UCLA students, exploring the sprawling agricultural...
- Zahi Hawass On Egyptian Archaeologists
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Hawass on the subject of valuing Egyptian archaeologists: When I became secretary- general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), I stated that we must restore Egyptian archaeologists before we can restore the monuments....