Egypt
- Update From The Gurob Harem Palace Project 2013
With thanks to Ian Shaw for emailing this to GHPP members this afternoon: Dear GHPP members Usually by now we would have been halfway through the season and you would have been receiving our daily blogs from the Gurob Harem Palace Project. ...
- Photo For Today - Medinet Habu
High Gate of Ramesses III, with rooms above the entrance used during royal visits by the women of the harem. The light was all wrong for this photo, which fails to show the excellent relief carvings. Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- Quick Update From Gurob
Bloomsbury Academy Thanks to Lucia Gahlin for highlighting the following news from Gurob (with photo): Ian Shaw, Director of the Gurob Harem Palace Project (GHPP) in Egypt. Following another successful season at Medinet el-Gurob in April Ian updates us:...
- Current World Archaeology 23, June 2007
Current World Archaeology The Current Archaeology website has been revamped. This means that at long last the details for the June 2007 issue of Current World Archaeology is now available on the site. I have no idea whether or not a new issue has been...
- Who's Buried In Kv40?
The recent excavation of Valley of kings tomb KV40 by archaeologists from Basel University and the subsequent reporting of the excavation have left me perplexed by exaggerated reports. In some cases it is being reported that as many as five dozen royal...
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The main area of settlement remains at the site can be clearly identified as the remains of an independent establishment relating to royal women (a 'harem-palace'), founded in the reign of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC) and occupied throughout the rest of the 18th Dynasty and presumably also for at least part of the Ramesside period. The inscriptions on stelae, papyri and various other inscribed artefacts from the main buildings at the site repeatedly include the titles of officials connected with the royal harem of Mer-wer. There was evidently a similar establishment at Memphis, but that site has not survived.
- Update From The Gurob Harem Palace Project 2013
With thanks to Ian Shaw for emailing this to GHPP members this afternoon: Dear GHPP members Usually by now we would have been halfway through the season and you would have been receiving our daily blogs from the Gurob Harem Palace Project. ...
- Photo For Today - Medinet Habu
High Gate of Ramesses III, with rooms above the entrance used during royal visits by the women of the harem. The light was all wrong for this photo, which fails to show the excellent relief carvings. Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- Quick Update From Gurob
Bloomsbury Academy Thanks to Lucia Gahlin for highlighting the following news from Gurob (with photo): Ian Shaw, Director of the Gurob Harem Palace Project (GHPP) in Egypt. Following another successful season at Medinet el-Gurob in April Ian updates us:...
- Current World Archaeology 23, June 2007
Current World Archaeology The Current Archaeology website has been revamped. This means that at long last the details for the June 2007 issue of Current World Archaeology is now available on the site. I have no idea whether or not a new issue has been...
- Who's Buried In Kv40?
The recent excavation of Valley of kings tomb KV40 by archaeologists from Basel University and the subsequent reporting of the excavation have left me perplexed by exaggerated reports. In some cases it is being reported that as many as five dozen royal...