Magazine: Current World Archaeology 21
Egypt

Magazine: Current World Archaeology 21


http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa21/cwa21.htm
"What was life like in an Egyptian oasis? The Dakhleh oasis is huge - today it is home to some 70,000 people - and the Dakhleh Oasis Project has been charting the environmental background throughout history. The sands are always shifting: they swallowed up - and sometimes revealed - Neolithic farmers, an Old Kingdom bakery, two Egyptian temples - as well as both a Roman and a Moslem town. See how the ever-fickle environment changed lives through the ages."




- Online: Treasures Of Dakhleh Oasis
Leiden University Open Access     An exhibition on the occasion of the Fifth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project Informative 40-page PDF with some lovely photographs. Foreword Dakhleh, the “inner” of the oases...

- Book Review: Vernacular Mud Brick Architecture In The Dakhleh Oasis
PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(3) (2010) Nicholas Warner about Schijns, W. With contributions from O. Kaper & J. Kila. 2008. Vernacular Mud Brick Architecture in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt and the Design of the Dakhleh Oasis...

- Dakhleh Oasis Project - Dr. Peter Sheldrick
The Chatham Daily News (Bob Boughner) A semi-retired Chatham physician, who is helping unearth Egypt's past, is featured in a television documentary airing tonight. . . . The Chatham native is scheduled to return to Egypt later this week to resume...

- Distant Dakhla
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/he3.htmJill Kamil reports on the fifth Dakhla Oasis Project conference: "Treasures from the Roman period have been transported for exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in conjunction with the fifth conference of the Dakhla...

- More Updates To Predynastic.com
www.predynastic.com I have updated the site again as follows:Acheulean (updated)Nubian Sangoan (added)Elkabian of Elkab and Eastern Desert (updated)Tarifian (updated)Eastern Desert Early Neolithic: Tree Shelter and Sodmein Cave (added)Gilf Kebir Neolithic...



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