Egypt
Yale News (Dorie Baker)
One of the 2007 articles was in Antiquity and is freely available to view, with photographs:
www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/huyge313
- More Re Kharga City Discovery
New York Times (John Noble Wilford) With map and photographs. Over the last two decades, John Coleman Darnell and his wife, Deborah, hiked and drove caravan tracks west of the Nile from the monuments of Thebes, at present-day Luxor. These and other desolate...
- Rock Art At Qurta - Inora 51 2008
International Newsletter on Rock Art (in PDF Format) Thanks very much to Dr Dirk Huyge for letting me know that an article about his work at Qurta is available on the above website, free of charge. The article is accompanied by a map of the site's...
- Weekly Websites
Antiquity Open Access I'm cheating witht his week's edition - the Antiquity Open Access page offers the following short items about Egyptian and related archaeology. Here are the articles directly connected with Egypt (thanks again to Francis):...
- Lascaux Along The Nile’: Late Pleistocene Rock Art In Egypt
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/huyge/index.html The details of the Qurta rock art site released in a press release copied earlier in this blog have been published in the archaeological journal Antiquity, with a discussion of the factors which might offer...
- A Middle Palaeolithic Site With Blade Technology
http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/vermeersch/index.html"During the 1990 survey by the Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project of Leuven University, we discovered a Palaeolithic site on top of a hill (figure 1). It was only during the 2003 campaign that...
Egypt
Lascaux along the Nile revisited
Yale News (Dorie Baker)
Using a new technology known as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), a team of Belgian scientists and Professor John Coleman Darnell of Yale have determined that Egyptian petroglyphs found at the east bank of the Nile are about 15,000 years old, making them the oldest rock art in Egypt and possibly the earliest known graphic record in North Africa.
The dating results will be published in the December issue of Antiquity (Vol. 85 Issue 330, pp. 1184–1193).
The site of the rock art panels is near the modern village of Qurta, about 40km south of the Upper-Egyptian town of Edfu. First seen by Canadian archaeologists in the early 1960s, they were subsequently forgotten and relocated by the Belgian mission in 2005. The rediscovery was announced in the Project Gallery of Antiquity in 2007.
One of the 2007 articles was in Antiquity and is freely available to view, with photographs:
www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/huyge313
- More Re Kharga City Discovery
New York Times (John Noble Wilford) With map and photographs. Over the last two decades, John Coleman Darnell and his wife, Deborah, hiked and drove caravan tracks west of the Nile from the monuments of Thebes, at present-day Luxor. These and other desolate...
- Rock Art At Qurta - Inora 51 2008
International Newsletter on Rock Art (in PDF Format) Thanks very much to Dr Dirk Huyge for letting me know that an article about his work at Qurta is available on the above website, free of charge. The article is accompanied by a map of the site's...
- Weekly Websites
Antiquity Open Access I'm cheating witht his week's edition - the Antiquity Open Access page offers the following short items about Egyptian and related archaeology. Here are the articles directly connected with Egypt (thanks again to Francis):...
- Lascaux Along The Nile’: Late Pleistocene Rock Art In Egypt
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/huyge/index.html The details of the Qurta rock art site released in a press release copied earlier in this blog have been published in the archaeological journal Antiquity, with a discussion of the factors which might offer...
- A Middle Palaeolithic Site With Blade Technology
http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/vermeersch/index.html"During the 1990 survey by the Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project of Leuven University, we discovered a Palaeolithic site on top of a hill (figure 1). It was only during the 2003 campaign that...