Egypt
EES Minufiyeh Survey
- Udate From Kom El-daba
EES Delta Survey (Patricia Spencer) With photos. Many of the tells of the Nile Delta have house plans visible on their surfaces – as we had noted at Kom Ineizi on our visit two days ago. These are most visible when sites are flat and clear...
- Minufiyeh Survey 2012
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Jo Rowland) Jo Rowland and her team are back in Minufiyeh in the Delta and are already hard at work excavating where they left off last year. Today was the start of the excavation at Quesna. Our team of local workers were waiting...
- More Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Charly Valance) Exerpt: With some great photos, as usual. Lovely to see things coming along nicely at Amara West, whilst everything goes on hold in Egypt. In my second season at Amara West – I spend the rest of the year as a field archaeologist...
- Jo's Back! Minufiyeh Starts Again
EES Minufiyeh Survey We are now fully settled into our first summer season of excavation up at Quesna. The first week was largely occupied with arranging accommodation, changing apartments and topping up on supplies and the work really started one week...
- Recent Work In Minufiyeh
Egypt Exploration Society The Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey, directed by Dr Joanne Rowland, is part of the Society’s Delta Survey (http://www.ees.ac.uk/deltasurvey/dsintro.html), and has recently completed its fourth season of work in the central...
Egypt
Minufiyeh - back at work after Eid
EES Minufiyeh Survey
Having spent a relaxing few days down south, we returned to Shibin el-Kom yesterday afternoon to prepare ourselves for the last two weeks of the season. Our train ride took a laborious 13 hours - but we all enjoyed the feast and felt refreshed upon our return! Today saw the start of preparations for the backfilling of the trench. As with previous seasons and other trenches, it is never a straightforward matter. Having managed to negotiate a good deal for the mashama (the cover for the trench), we also had to buy 100 empty rice sacks in order to fill with sand and place alongside standing mud-brick walls/raised areas, in order to avoid danger of them collapsing through weight from above once the sand is returned to the trench. Once the sand bags were in place, then the workers poured some sand on them, over them, and on top of some of the more fragile - if very large - bricks, again to minimise any deterioration.
- Udate From Kom El-daba
EES Delta Survey (Patricia Spencer) With photos. Many of the tells of the Nile Delta have house plans visible on their surfaces – as we had noted at Kom Ineizi on our visit two days ago. These are most visible when sites are flat and clear...
- Minufiyeh Survey 2012
EES Minufiyeh Survey (Jo Rowland) Jo Rowland and her team are back in Minufiyeh in the Delta and are already hard at work excavating where they left off last year. Today was the start of the excavation at Quesna. Our team of local workers were waiting...
- More Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Charly Valance) Exerpt: With some great photos, as usual. Lovely to see things coming along nicely at Amara West, whilst everything goes on hold in Egypt. In my second season at Amara West – I spend the rest of the year as a field archaeologist...
- Jo's Back! Minufiyeh Starts Again
EES Minufiyeh Survey We are now fully settled into our first summer season of excavation up at Quesna. The first week was largely occupied with arranging accommodation, changing apartments and topping up on supplies and the work really started one week...
- Recent Work In Minufiyeh
Egypt Exploration Society The Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey, directed by Dr Joanne Rowland, is part of the Society’s Delta Survey (http://www.ees.ac.uk/deltasurvey/dsintro.html), and has recently completed its fourth season of work in the central...