Egypt
IHC
- Karanis Cemetery Survey Project
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Spending an entire field season roaming a cemetery and looking at bones may seem morbid to many, but to me it was a dream. Over the past several years, Willeke Wendrich, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and...
- 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...
- More Re Neolithic Settlement Found In The Faiyum
Science Daily Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated animals,...
- Ucla-dutch Team Uncovers Egypt’s Earliest Agricultural Settlement
UCLA Newsroom (Meg Sullivan) Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated...
- Sa El Hagar (sais) Website Updated
http://www.dur.ac.uk/penelope.wilson/sais.htmlThe Sais website has been updated with an excavation report from 2005, and an excavation and post-excavation report for 2006. There are some gorgeous photographs of lithics which have a lot in common with...
Egypt
Growing and Grinding
IHC
An advert for an upcoming talk by Willeke Wendrich, but it contains some information about the Faiyum and is quite well timed given the above discussions about the risks to the archaeology of the Faiyum.
The north shore of Lake Qarun in the Egyptian Fayum Oasis has the earliest evidence found for the introduction of domesticated wheat and barley in Egypt. A large scale survey has provided important new information on the development of Egypt’s earliest agriculture. Abandoned during most of the Pharaonic period, the region was once more under development in the Greco-Roman period as part of a huge effort to expand Egypt’s agricultural production, to feed the populous of Rome. Excavations of a granary in the suburbs of the town of Karanis has provided exciting insights in crops beyond wheat, barley and olives that were ground, consumed and exported. . . .
Part of the Fayum project is the creation of a Virtual Reality model of the Greco Roman town of Karanis, which is used for research, teaching and as a site monitoring and management tool.
- Karanis Cemetery Survey Project
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Spending an entire field season roaming a cemetery and looking at bones may seem morbid to many, but to me it was a dream. Over the past several years, Willeke Wendrich, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and...
- 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...
- More Re Neolithic Settlement Found In The Faiyum
Science Daily Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated animals,...
- Ucla-dutch Team Uncovers Egypt’s Earliest Agricultural Settlement
UCLA Newsroom (Meg Sullivan) Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated...
- Sa El Hagar (sais) Website Updated
http://www.dur.ac.uk/penelope.wilson/sais.htmlThe Sais website has been updated with an excavation report from 2005, and an excavation and post-excavation report for 2006. There are some gorgeous photographs of lithics which have a lot in common with...