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See the above page for the full story.
- Workmen’s Huts In The Theban Mountains (whtm) Project
Finnish Egyptology Society Thanks to Jane Akshar for pointing to this link of of the Finnish project's excavations at the Workmen's huts in the Theban mountains, which are planned to continue until 2013. With two photo galleries (2009 and 2010)...
- Deir El-medina In The Days Of The Ramesses
The Louvre Thanks to ongoing toothache and the inevitably resulting sleepless nights I have been pottering around some websites that I don't usually visit very often. I have found one or two old and newer items that, although hardly news, may be of...
- Feature: Servants In The Place Of Truth
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) For almost 500 years – from the 16th to 11th century BC – tombs, many of the elaborate and ornate, were constructed in the Valley of the Kings for the rulers and powerful nobles of the Egyptian New Kingdom. Needless to...
- What Happened To Pharaoh's Workers?
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) We are gradually beginning to understand what happened to the elite body of artisans that worked on the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings after they ceased to be built, says Jill Kamil It appears that the workers, or...
- Finnish Researchers Dig Through Millennia In The Valley Of The Kings
University of Helsinki Docent Jaana Toivari-Viitala heads the first-ever research project managed by Finns in Egypt. The first field season is now over at the hut village of the workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. However, the archaeologists...
Egypt
More re Finnish work in the Valley of the Kings
Science Daily
If you missed the University of Helsinki article at the end of January you will find it repeated at the above Science Daily page. The team is directed by Jaana Toivari-Viitala, Docent of Egyptology at the University of Helsinki.
Her research group wants to find out why the hut village was built on the slope of a mountain, halfway between the construction site and Deir-el-Medina. They are also interested in how many workers lived in the village at a time, when they lived there, and what their role was in the construction work.
“Comparing the names found in the village and in Deir-el-Medina provides useful information. Judging from the construction methods, settlement in the village can be divided into two separate periods: the initial settlement and a later one.”
For the time being, much is up to speculation, but Toivari-Viitala believes that the coming four field seasons, three months each, will see results.
“The working conditions are not nearly as difficult as I thought they would be. The cool winds in the mountains nicely alleviate the heat.”
The research group working on the “Workmen’s huts in the Theban mountains” project is planning to return to the Valley of the Kings in October.
See the above page for the full story.
- Workmen’s Huts In The Theban Mountains (whtm) Project
Finnish Egyptology Society Thanks to Jane Akshar for pointing to this link of of the Finnish project's excavations at the Workmen's huts in the Theban mountains, which are planned to continue until 2013. With two photo galleries (2009 and 2010)...
- Deir El-medina In The Days Of The Ramesses
The Louvre Thanks to ongoing toothache and the inevitably resulting sleepless nights I have been pottering around some websites that I don't usually visit very often. I have found one or two old and newer items that, although hardly news, may be of...
- Feature: Servants In The Place Of Truth
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) For almost 500 years – from the 16th to 11th century BC – tombs, many of the elaborate and ornate, were constructed in the Valley of the Kings for the rulers and powerful nobles of the Egyptian New Kingdom. Needless to...
- What Happened To Pharaoh's Workers?
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) We are gradually beginning to understand what happened to the elite body of artisans that worked on the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings after they ceased to be built, says Jill Kamil It appears that the workers, or...
- Finnish Researchers Dig Through Millennia In The Valley Of The Kings
University of Helsinki Docent Jaana Toivari-Viitala heads the first-ever research project managed by Finns in Egypt. The first field season is now over at the hut village of the workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. However, the archaeologists...