Egypt
EES Delta Survey
With photos.
- 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...
- Ees Delta Survey Comes To A Close
EES Delta Survey I've enjoyed following the EES Delta Survey and am sad to see them go. Our first season at Daba has gone very well. We were able to survey the whole site and now have a much better understanding of its archaeological remains and the...
- Investigating A Monumental Wall
EES Delta Survey We spent most of our time on site today investigating the large chunk of mud brickwork which first aroused our interest in the site when we visited it in 1990. It is shown in the photograph of Jeff with Sabri Abdel Aziz in the first...
- Ees Delta Survey - First Visit To Daba
Egypt Exploration Society (Patricia Spencer) With photos. This morning we went to the SCA office and met the Director for Kafr esh-Sheikh, Dr Mohammed Abdel Rafaa, who made us very welcome and actually remembered us from when we were touring around tells...
- In The Field: The Week Of The Brick
Brooklyn Museum Tracing mud brick takes skill, patience and lots of scraping and brushing. It is paying off for Ayman and his team, though. By Tuesday, they had already uncovered quite a bit of brick in the center of the square north of the Taharqa Gate....
Egypt
More work by the EES Delta Survey
EES Delta Survey
With photos.
Thursday again and the last working day of the week. We’ve continued investigating some of the high mud-brick walls, though some of the chunks of what look like mud-brick are deceptive. In some cases what has survived is a wall with fill beside it which contains some fallen or displaced bricks, but isn’t actually part of an articulated wall itself. It is just what was left when people stopped work, digging away the mud bricks to use as fertiliser on the fields.
Although the site has many low mounds which (on the surface at least) appear to contain mainly burned bricks, there are no extant red brick walls standing on the site, though there are a few chunks of burned brickwork on the surface.
- 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...
- Ees Delta Survey Comes To A Close
EES Delta Survey I've enjoyed following the EES Delta Survey and am sad to see them go. Our first season at Daba has gone very well. We were able to survey the whole site and now have a much better understanding of its archaeological remains and the...
- Investigating A Monumental Wall
EES Delta Survey We spent most of our time on site today investigating the large chunk of mud brickwork which first aroused our interest in the site when we visited it in 1990. It is shown in the photograph of Jeff with Sabri Abdel Aziz in the first...
- Ees Delta Survey - First Visit To Daba
Egypt Exploration Society (Patricia Spencer) With photos. This morning we went to the SCA office and met the Director for Kafr esh-Sheikh, Dr Mohammed Abdel Rafaa, who made us very welcome and actually remembered us from when we were touring around tells...
- In The Field: The Week Of The Brick
Brooklyn Museum Tracing mud brick takes skill, patience and lots of scraping and brushing. It is paying off for Ayman and his team, though. By Tuesday, they had already uncovered quite a bit of brick in the center of the square north of the Taharqa Gate....