Egypt
Here we have the exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art on their excavations in the Kharga Oasis early in the last century. The images of the intact tomb LXVI, discovered by the excavation in 1930-31 are fascinating!
Objects from the Kharga Oasis runs until August 4 2013.
- Travel: El Kharga Driving Adventure
xmarksthescot (Barb T.) With some great photos of car parts! I'm back in Egypt for a week or so of field work in the Western Desert. We had an entertaining day last Thursday trying to get from Alexandria to El Kharga, an oasis town in the center of...
- The Persian Presence At Qasr El-ghuieta, Egypt
The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies Another paper found whilst looking for something else entirely, in case it is of interest to visitors: The Persian presence at Qasr el-Ghuieta, Egypt By Eugene Cruz-Uribe Northern Arizona University In studying the...
- Egypt's Frontier Oasis
Archaeology Magazine (Salima Ikram) The third- to fourth-century A.D. Roman fort at Umm el-Dabadib is likely built over an earlier pharaonic one. The oasis's Roman forts are found at the north, south, east, and west limits of the oasis, often near...
- 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...
- Saving The Temple Of Hibis
http://tinyurl.com/cqcdf An artilce about savig the Temple of Hibis in Kharga Oasis: "Cintec manufactures structural reinforcement anchors [Newport, Wales, U.K.] from an ordinary looking office in the city centre - not the most glamorous of jobs, one...
Egypt
Objects from the Kharga Oasis
Here we have the exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art on their excavations in the Kharga Oasis early in the last century. The images of the intact tomb LXVI, discovered by the excavation in 1930-31 are fascinating!
Objects from the Kharga Oasis runs until August 4 2013.
- Travel: El Kharga Driving Adventure
xmarksthescot (Barb T.) With some great photos of car parts! I'm back in Egypt for a week or so of field work in the Western Desert. We had an entertaining day last Thursday trying to get from Alexandria to El Kharga, an oasis town in the center of...
- The Persian Presence At Qasr El-ghuieta, Egypt
The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies Another paper found whilst looking for something else entirely, in case it is of interest to visitors: The Persian presence at Qasr el-Ghuieta, Egypt By Eugene Cruz-Uribe Northern Arizona University In studying the...
- Egypt's Frontier Oasis
Archaeology Magazine (Salima Ikram) The third- to fourth-century A.D. Roman fort at Umm el-Dabadib is likely built over an earlier pharaonic one. The oasis's Roman forts are found at the north, south, east, and west limits of the oasis, often near...
- 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...
- Saving The Temple Of Hibis
http://tinyurl.com/cqcdf An artilce about savig the Temple of Hibis in Kharga Oasis: "Cintec manufactures structural reinforcement anchors [Newport, Wales, U.K.] from an ordinary looking office in the city centre - not the most glamorous of jobs, one...