Egypt
USAID
With photos. Medinet Habu is a fabulous site with a lot of the original colours still in tact.
- Sea People And Libyans At Medinet Habu
Luxor News (Jane Akshar) With lots of photos. Jane has a look at what Medinet Habu, the mortuary temple of Ramesses III can tell the visitor about the Egyptian relationship with Libyans and the Sea Peoples. This year on my course we are studying a period...
- 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...
- Resource: More From The Oriental Institute
More online publications have been added to the Oriental Institute's website: OIP 84. Medinet Habu, Volume IV. The Temple Proper, Part II: The Re Chapel, the Royal Mortuary Complex, and Adjacent Rooms with Miscellaneous Material from the Pylons, the...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Chicago House Report 2007-2009
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Chicago House report 2007-2009 by Ray Johnson Sadly the last lecture in this season, what am I going to do on Saturday nights now. Nice to finish with Ray, as one person commented they had no idea just how much Chicago House...
- Comments About Luxor During Rice Visit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/01/15/BL2007011500870.html (washingtonpost.com)An article about Condoleezza Rice's visit to Luxor, and her failure to see any of the heritage sites whilst she was there in spite of the fact that...
Egypt
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 for working in the 104-degree Egyptian desert in October.
Egyptian excavators emerged from among ancient pillars to greet Egyptologists Raymond Johnson, director of the Epigraphic Survey based at Chicago House in Luxor, and Gerry Scott, director of the American Research Center in Egypt, who are working to save their national history.
Medinet Habu lies miles away from the more famous Luxor and Karnak Temples but, unlike these two World Heritage Sites on the Nile’s East Bank where a USAID-funded dewatering project has slowed the rate of deterioration, the West Bank temple continues to decay due to groundwater intrusion. Building structures become porous and cracked by rising groundwater levels. The wall surfaces where hieroglyphics and drawings are etched have begun falling away.
“The surface is sloughed off the stone, like skin,” Johnson said.
Though some buildings have stood since 2000 B.C., neighboring sugarcane irrigation has caused water levels to rise and bring salt into the base of the ancient buildings, Johnson said.
- Sea People And Libyans At Medinet Habu
Luxor News (Jane Akshar) With lots of photos. Jane has a look at what Medinet Habu, the mortuary temple of Ramesses III can tell the visitor about the Egyptian relationship with Libyans and the Sea Peoples. This year on my course we are studying a period...
- 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...
- Resource: More From The Oriental Institute
More online publications have been added to the Oriental Institute's website: OIP 84. Medinet Habu, Volume IV. The Temple Proper, Part II: The Re Chapel, the Royal Mortuary Complex, and Adjacent Rooms with Miscellaneous Material from the Pylons, the...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Chicago House Report 2007-2009
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Chicago House report 2007-2009 by Ray Johnson Sadly the last lecture in this season, what am I going to do on Saturday nights now. Nice to finish with Ray, as one person commented they had no idea just how much Chicago House...
- Comments About Luxor During Rice Visit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/01/15/BL2007011500870.html (washingtonpost.com)An article about Condoleezza Rice's visit to Luxor, and her failure to see any of the heritage sites whilst she was there in spite of the fact that...