Egypt
Archaeologists have followed desert paths filled with large quantities of broken pottery and signs that a settlement has been found in the Kharga oasis. A site know known as Umm Mawagir, in Arabic "mother of bread molds" for the large amounts of bread baking that has been found at the new site.
- More Re Kharga Discovery
Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications With slideshow. A Yale team led by Professor of Egyptology John Coleman Darnell has unearthed a lost city—site of a massive bread-making industry—that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the Western...
- Brew Like The Ancient Egyptians
examiner.com Thanks to Tony Cagle's ArchaeoBlog for pointing me to this story: If you're trying to be thrifty in the midst of this recession, try brewing your own beer in the style of the ancient Egyptians. Their yeast cells have been preserved...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Amarna Kom El-nana
Luxur News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has kindly put more of her notes from the Mummification Museum Lecture online at the above address. Here's an extract: The decoration and identification of the site of Kom el-Nana at Akhetaten – Jacquelyn Williamson...
- New Settlement At Bahariya
Al Ahram Weekly On the same page as the northern Sinai article (page down to find it) Nevine El-Aref takes a brief look at the discovery of a new settlement at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert.Last week the area of Garet Al-Abiyad in Bahariya Oasis...
- New Persian Temple Found At Kharga
http://tinyurl.com/2f7xks (za.today.reuters.com)"French archaeologists have found a temple dating from the middle of the 1st millennium BC in Kharga oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, the Egyptian state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. The temple...
Egypt
Mother of Bread Molds
Archaeologists have followed desert paths filled with large quantities of broken pottery and signs that a settlement has been found in the Kharga oasis. A site know known as Umm Mawagir, in Arabic "mother of bread molds" for the large amounts of bread baking that has been found at the new site.
- More Re Kharga Discovery
Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications With slideshow. A Yale team led by Professor of Egyptology John Coleman Darnell has unearthed a lost city—site of a massive bread-making industry—that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the Western...
- Brew Like The Ancient Egyptians
examiner.com Thanks to Tony Cagle's ArchaeoBlog for pointing me to this story: If you're trying to be thrifty in the midst of this recession, try brewing your own beer in the style of the ancient Egyptians. Their yeast cells have been preserved...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Amarna Kom El-nana
Luxur News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has kindly put more of her notes from the Mummification Museum Lecture online at the above address. Here's an extract: The decoration and identification of the site of Kom el-Nana at Akhetaten – Jacquelyn Williamson...
- New Settlement At Bahariya
Al Ahram Weekly On the same page as the northern Sinai article (page down to find it) Nevine El-Aref takes a brief look at the discovery of a new settlement at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert.Last week the area of Garet Al-Abiyad in Bahariya Oasis...
- New Persian Temple Found At Kharga
http://tinyurl.com/2f7xks (za.today.reuters.com)"French archaeologists have found a temple dating from the middle of the 1st millennium BC in Kharga oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, the Egyptian state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. The temple...