Egypt
Archaeology Magazine Volume 61 Number 6, November/December 2008
- Travel: Out Of The Towns And Into The Lovely Oases
Egypt Today (Ali El-Bahnasawy) The sun, space and opportunity to leave behind the crowded high-tech world are what attracts adventure lovers to the boundless stretches of Egyptian desert, one of the loneliest and unspoiled places on the planet You don’t...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - North Kharga Survey (dr Salima Ikram)
Luxor News blog (Jane Akshar) As usual, Jane brings the lecture to life in her own inimitable way. Thanks as usual, Jane. You should have been there. Every week we have trouble with the display of slides, sometimes it is the projector, sometimes the computer...
- Interview With Dr Salima Ikram
American Chronicle (interview by Saqqara Aleister) Dr. Salima Ikram is a leading expert on animal mummies and as founder and co-director of the animal Mummy project at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo she combines an understanding of the past with a passion...
- New Persian Temple Found At Kharga
http://tinyurl.com/2f7xks (za.today.reuters.com)"French archaeologists have found a temple dating from the middle of the 1st millennium BC in Kharga oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, the Egyptian state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. The temple...
- Objects From The Kharga Oasis
Here we have the exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art on their excavations in the Kharga Oasis early in the last century. The images of the intact tomb LXVI, discovered by the excavation in 1930-31 are fascinating! Objects from the Kharga Oasis...
Egypt
Kharga - Egypt's Frontier Oasis
Archaeology Magazine Volume 61 Number 6, November/December 2008
Details of the latest issue of Archaeology magazine are now on the publication's website. Articles include a piece by Salima Ikram on Kharga oasis, for which an abstract is available on the above page. There are some excellent photographs with detailed captions accompanying it. Here's an extract from the abstract:
Deep in the Libyan Desert, 125 miles west of Luxor, lies Kharga, Egypt's largest oasis. The North Kharga Oasis Survey (NKOS), of which I am co-director, has established that this remote area--more than 100 miles long and from 12 to 60 miles wide--was continuously occupied throughout Egyptian history. We now know that it is home to an extraordinary variety of sites, including prehistoric rock art, Neolithic encampments, pharaonic monuments and burials, Roman settlements and water-supply systems, and the stars of the oasis--five unique Roman forts that guarded this part of the empire's southernmost frontier. Newly discovered ancient graffiti has even provided the name of a previously unknown ruler, King Aa, in power around 3000 B.C., who sent an expedition to this remote area. The NKOS's results are also changing our understanding of ancient Egypt's connections with its neighbors. We can now show that Kharga played an important role in trade between Egypt and other parts of Africa, from the Old Kingdom up through the modern period.
Until recently, archaeologists have paid little attention to the Kharga Oasis, a depression in the desert that in the distant past was a large body of water that shrank over time, leaving smaller lakes and an easily tapped underground water supply.
Salima Ikram is professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo and co-director of the North Kharga Oasis Survey.
- Travel: Out Of The Towns And Into The Lovely Oases
Egypt Today (Ali El-Bahnasawy) The sun, space and opportunity to leave behind the crowded high-tech world are what attracts adventure lovers to the boundless stretches of Egyptian desert, one of the loneliest and unspoiled places on the planet You don’t...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - North Kharga Survey (dr Salima Ikram)
Luxor News blog (Jane Akshar) As usual, Jane brings the lecture to life in her own inimitable way. Thanks as usual, Jane. You should have been there. Every week we have trouble with the display of slides, sometimes it is the projector, sometimes the computer...
- Interview With Dr Salima Ikram
American Chronicle (interview by Saqqara Aleister) Dr. Salima Ikram is a leading expert on animal mummies and as founder and co-director of the animal Mummy project at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo she combines an understanding of the past with a passion...
- New Persian Temple Found At Kharga
http://tinyurl.com/2f7xks (za.today.reuters.com)"French archaeologists have found a temple dating from the middle of the 1st millennium BC in Kharga oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, the Egyptian state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. The temple...
- Objects From The Kharga Oasis
Here we have the exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art on their excavations in the Kharga Oasis early in the last century. The images of the intact tomb LXVI, discovered by the excavation in 1930-31 are fascinating! Objects from the Kharga Oasis...