Egypt
Kelsey Dig Diary
The Abydos project dig diary has now been kicked off by the teams conservators. There is a useful general entry about the type of information will be possible to write up on the blog:
- Brooklyn's Last Full Week At The Temple Of Mut, Luxor
Brooklyn Museum (11th Feb, Mary McKercher) Brooklyn Museum (14th Feb, Richard Fanzzini) With details of the final week of excavation at the site, accompanied as usual by some great photos. This is the posting intended for January 28 but not sent because...
- New Website Dedicated To All Sca Activities Launches
drhawass.com See the above page for the links. The website has been kicking around for some time but it does seem to have been udpated. Hawass's Monthly Column (under Breaking News) which hadn't been updated since March 2010 has now been updated...
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...
- Hawass Addressing Issues Raised In The New York Times
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) I do not understand what else I can do. All my life I have worked very hard and have always tried to do good things for my country and for antiquities. Before I became secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities,...
- Saqqara Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htmThe University of Leiden's project in Saqqara has been captured again this year in the form of a dig diary at the above address. The team have been working at Saqqara since late January. Saqqara Online...
Egypt
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Dig Diary
Kelsey Dig Diary
The Abydos project dig diary has now been kicked off by the teams conservators. There is a useful general entry about the type of information will be possible to write up on the blog:
Our postings are grouped by project week, so please click the most recent week at left to read more.
But while you're here...we want to tell you something unique about our blog entries from the Abydos project. Egypt, specifically the Supreme Council of Antiquities (S.C.A. for short - and isn't Supreme Council a great name for an organization?), has some special rules concerning foreign archaeological missions. Some of these have to do with our favorite topic, conservation! But the rules pertinent to our blog involve how archaeological discoveries are announced in Egypt.
Basically - all archaeological teams must first report discoveries to the S.C.A. And the S.C.A. then in turn reports discoveries to national and international media. What this means for all of us, is that we won't be bringing you news of specific discoveries, nor will we be showing you photos of objects coming out of the ground. But don't worry, there is PLENTY of fascinating stuff happening on the project that we can talk about, so if you're interested in how it all works, this blog is for you.
These S.C.A. rules might seem like kind of a bummer, but they exist for a good reason. There is a lot of hype surrounding everything archaeological in Egypt, and crazy stories can spread wildfire. To illustrate this point, below we have a quote from the head of the S.C.A., Dr. Zahi Hawass.
"Week 1", which is the first blog post, is now available on the above site. The dig has been underway for around two weeks so far.
- Brooklyn's Last Full Week At The Temple Of Mut, Luxor
Brooklyn Museum (11th Feb, Mary McKercher) Brooklyn Museum (14th Feb, Richard Fanzzini) With details of the final week of excavation at the site, accompanied as usual by some great photos. This is the posting intended for January 28 but not sent because...
- New Website Dedicated To All Sca Activities Launches
drhawass.com See the above page for the links. The website has been kicking around for some time but it does seem to have been udpated. Hawass's Monthly Column (under Breaking News) which hadn't been updated since March 2010 has now been updated...
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...
- Hawass Addressing Issues Raised In The New York Times
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) I do not understand what else I can do. All my life I have worked very hard and have always tried to do good things for my country and for antiquities. Before I became secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities,...
- Saqqara Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htmThe University of Leiden's project in Saqqara has been captured again this year in the form of a dig diary at the above address. The team have been working at Saqqara since late January. Saqqara Online...