Egypt
Egypt Exploration Society
- Sad News: Dr John Alexander
McDonald Institute Fellows and Members will be saddened to hear of the death, on Monday 16th August, of Dr John Alexander, aged 88. Previously a student at Pembroke College, he had been a Fellow of St John's College since 1976 and was a former Lecturer...
- New Ees Publications
Egypt Exploration Society The Society has just released four new publications. They can all be purchased through The Society Bookshop. I'll have Ian Shaw's book on my Christmas list! Fred Aldsworth. Qasr Ibrim. The Cathedral Church EES Excavation...
- Interviews
Pamela Rose's Quest to Save a Dark Age Settlement in Qasr Ibrim, Nubia Heritage-Key (with photos) Owen Jarus Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 year old site in Nubia that dates to an ancient 'Dark Age' - a time when the...
- Recognising The Contribution Of The Ees To Nubian History
The Egypt Exploration Society On Wednesday 13 May the Society hosted a fascinating lecture by Joost Hagen, a doctoral student at Leiden University in The Netherlands, on ‘A dossier of one Arabic and four Coptic letters found at Qasr Ibrim (AD 758-60)’....
- Daily Photo - Qasr Ibrim
Qasr Ibrim (Per-Mit/Premis) is the only site above water level that actually remains in its original location. It was fomerly located on a tall headland, which now forms a small island (it takes quite a leap of the imagination to visualize the island...
Egypt
New Book: Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery
Egypt Exploration Society
The Egypt Exploration Society’s new title, Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery by Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot is now available to order.
Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot is an expert on ancient textiles and in 1976 she was invited to join the Egyptian Exploration Society’s expedition to Qasr Ibrim, after having worked in Cambridge on textiles from the Ibrim seasons in the 1960’s. She worked with the expedition until 1984, analyzing, sorting, washing and cataloguing textiles as they were excavated, assisted in the field by Nettie Adams. Miss Crowfoot had completed this text before her death in 2005 and it has been edited for publication by Nettie Adams.
The dry height of the site of Qasr Ibrim above the Nile river has resulted in superb preservation of organic material. The textile collections from the excavations have already become one of the largest from any site in the middle Nile valley. They are unique as an unmatched sequence, dating from the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty to the Late Ottoman Period and ranging from the domestic remains of town life and tiny exotic imports of the site’s great years to the cast off garments and furnishings, pitifully mended and re-mended, from ages of disaster and decline.
- Sad News: Dr John Alexander
McDonald Institute Fellows and Members will be saddened to hear of the death, on Monday 16th August, of Dr John Alexander, aged 88. Previously a student at Pembroke College, he had been a Fellow of St John's College since 1976 and was a former Lecturer...
- New Ees Publications
Egypt Exploration Society The Society has just released four new publications. They can all be purchased through The Society Bookshop. I'll have Ian Shaw's book on my Christmas list! Fred Aldsworth. Qasr Ibrim. The Cathedral Church EES Excavation...
- Interviews
Pamela Rose's Quest to Save a Dark Age Settlement in Qasr Ibrim, Nubia Heritage-Key (with photos) Owen Jarus Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,000 year old site in Nubia that dates to an ancient 'Dark Age' - a time when the...
- Recognising The Contribution Of The Ees To Nubian History
The Egypt Exploration Society On Wednesday 13 May the Society hosted a fascinating lecture by Joost Hagen, a doctoral student at Leiden University in The Netherlands, on ‘A dossier of one Arabic and four Coptic letters found at Qasr Ibrim (AD 758-60)’....
- Daily Photo - Qasr Ibrim
Qasr Ibrim (Per-Mit/Premis) is the only site above water level that actually remains in its original location. It was fomerly located on a tall headland, which now forms a small island (it takes quite a leap of the imagination to visualize the island...