Egypt
EES Delta Survey
- Kom El-daba Excavations Underway
EES Delta Survey The excavation of the mud-brick building really started today. The fill over the brickwork of the northern wall – in what we are, for the moment, assuming was a ‘street’ between this house and the next – was very empty with just...
- 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...
- Work Underway By The Brooklyn Museum At The Precinct Of Mut
Brooklyn Museum (Mary McKercher) With lots of great photos. At the end of 2010 we thought that we might have found the point at which the mud brick running north-south along the full length of the west side of the excavation area made a corner with the...
- Sad News: Ian Mathieson
The Telegraph, UK Ian Mathieson, who died on June 24 aged 83, was a land surveyor by profession and an archaeologist by inclination; he spent much of the latter part of his life investigating the ancient Egyptian site at Saqqara. Mathieson pioneered methods...
- Ees Focuses On The Delta
Egypt Exploration Society With photographs. See the above page for the entire update. On 26 March 2009, the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the EES hosted a workshop to discuss the problems and priorities for future archaeological work in the Nile...
Egypt
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 update for this season, and has clearly articulated mud bricks on its eastern exposed side, though this is not the original face of the wall, but is within its original core.
- Kom El-daba Excavations Underway
EES Delta Survey The excavation of the mud-brick building really started today. The fill over the brickwork of the northern wall – in what we are, for the moment, assuming was a ‘street’ between this house and the next – was very empty with just...
- 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...
- Work Underway By The Brooklyn Museum At The Precinct Of Mut
Brooklyn Museum (Mary McKercher) With lots of great photos. At the end of 2010 we thought that we might have found the point at which the mud brick running north-south along the full length of the west side of the excavation area made a corner with the...
- Sad News: Ian Mathieson
The Telegraph, UK Ian Mathieson, who died on June 24 aged 83, was a land surveyor by profession and an archaeologist by inclination; he spent much of the latter part of his life investigating the ancient Egyptian site at Saqqara. Mathieson pioneered methods...
- Ees Focuses On The Delta
Egypt Exploration Society With photographs. See the above page for the entire update. On 26 March 2009, the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the EES hosted a workshop to discuss the problems and priorities for future archaeological work in the Nile...