Egypt
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
See the above page for the full story. Thanks Jane.
- Abydos 2009 Season Of Kelsey Museum
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Thanks to Kate Phizackerley for posting the above link to her News from the Valley of the Kings blog. Conservators and excavators on the Abydos Middle Cemetery Project will be working at Abydos in 2009. There is a space-holder...
- New Evidence Shows That Human Sacrifice Helped Populate The Royal City Of The Dead
National Geographic (John Galvin) King Aha, "The Fighter," was not killed while unifying the Nile's two warring kingdoms, nor while building the capital of Memphis. No, one legend has it that the first ruler of a united Egypt was killed in a hunting...
- Rest In Peace, Seti
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for the early alert to this article. On the western side of the Nile, on the edge of the low desert, the ancient Upper Egyptian town of Abydos spreads on a site of over eight square kilometres....
- Abydos Lecture Dr Matthew Adams
http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=195It's just as well that Jane has been as alert as ever, and has published the latest lecture notes from the Mummificiation Museum, or it would be a somewhat empty day on the news front! This week she is reporting...
- Dog Burials At Abydos
During excavations in 2009 by the North Abydos Project from New York University, at the huge funerary enclosure of the IInd Dynasty King Khasekhemwy, (c.2750 B.C), a number of pots containing dogs turned up in the soft sandy fill inside...
Egypt
Mummification Museum Lecture - Khasekhemwy
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
Khasekhemwy Cultic enclosure at Abydos – Mathew Adams
This was the last of a long series of similar structures. King Aha was discovered 2 years ago. They all rectangular, enclosing a ritual space, surrounded by sacrificial courtiers Aha had 6 graves Djer 269 graves around his enclosure and another 300 round his tomb. The so called Western Mastaba which possibly belonged to Deb had 14 boat graves 75m long. Another had seal impressions of dynasty 0 /1 so earlier than Djen or Aha and it could be Narmer. It was surrounded by 10 donkey burials.
Dynasty 1 were buried at Abydos
Early Dynasty 2 at Sakkara
Late Dynasty 2 at Abydos
Khasekhemwy was the last king to be buried at Abydos
All the enclosures were deliberately demolished 10-20 years after the monument was built. The floors were covered with 50cm of clean sand and there is evidence that libations were poured on this sand. The monuments have not fallen down through natural erosion. It seems that only one grand monument was allowed to dominate the landscape. After Khasekhemwy Abydos was abandoned by kings but the area was still treated with enormous respect, although there are 700 graves the site was left alone. During the Middle Kingdom the Osiris cult was established and the tomb of Djer was identified as the tomb of Osiris. The myth or passion play was enacted here. At this point tombs do start encroaching on the site but not in the interior of enclosure.
See the above page for the full story. Thanks Jane.
- Abydos 2009 Season Of Kelsey Museum
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Thanks to Kate Phizackerley for posting the above link to her News from the Valley of the Kings blog. Conservators and excavators on the Abydos Middle Cemetery Project will be working at Abydos in 2009. There is a space-holder...
- New Evidence Shows That Human Sacrifice Helped Populate The Royal City Of The Dead
National Geographic (John Galvin) King Aha, "The Fighter," was not killed while unifying the Nile's two warring kingdoms, nor while building the capital of Memphis. No, one legend has it that the first ruler of a united Egypt was killed in a hunting...
- Rest In Peace, Seti
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for the early alert to this article. On the western side of the Nile, on the edge of the low desert, the ancient Upper Egyptian town of Abydos spreads on a site of over eight square kilometres....
- Abydos Lecture Dr Matthew Adams
http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=195It's just as well that Jane has been as alert as ever, and has published the latest lecture notes from the Mummificiation Museum, or it would be a somewhat empty day on the news front! This week she is reporting...
- Dog Burials At Abydos
During excavations in 2009 by the North Abydos Project from New York University, at the huge funerary enclosure of the IInd Dynasty King Khasekhemwy, (c.2750 B.C), a number of pots containing dogs turned up in the soft sandy fill inside...