Egypt
Oriental Institute (1993 season)
Oriental Institute (1996-1997 season)
Bir Umm Fawakhir Survey Project 1993: A Byzantine Gold-Mining Town in Egypt. C. Meyer, L.A. Heidorn, W.E. Kaegi, and T. Wilfong.
Bir Umm Fawakhir, Volume 2: Report on the 1996-1997 Survey Seasons, By Carol Meyer, with contributions by Lisa Heidorn, Alexandra A. O'Brien, and Clemens Reichel.
- Adopt A Dig
The Oriental Institute blog The Oriental Institute website The Get Involved/How To Give section of the OI's main website offers an opportunity to contribute to Egyptology by donating to the excavations at Tell Edfu. An overview of the site and the...
- More Online Papers From The Oriental Institute
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has announced the free Internet publication of eleven Egyptological titles: OIC 12. The Alphabet: Its Rise and Development from the Sinai Inscriptions. By Martin Sprengling. Oriental Institute Communications...
- Giza Occasional Papers Volume 2
AERA Available for download in PDF format from the above page or open directly by clicking here. Here's an extract from the introduction: The 2005 season of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project at Giza, Egypt, took place over two periods: January 8th...
- Weekly Websites
Nekhen News http://www.hierakonpolis.org/resources/nekehn_news.htm The archive of Nekhen News, the newsletter of the Hierakonpolis Expedition, is available at the above address. Nekhen News is an excellent resource, providing information about the ongoing...
- Exhibition: Gold
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/gold/There's an exhibition at the moment at the American Museum of Natural History (New York) which looks at gold, including its geological context, how it is extracted and its use in different ancient socieities. Having...
Egypt
Online: Bir Umm Fawakhir
Oriental Institute (1993 season)
Oriental Institute (1996-1997 season)
Bir Umm Fawakhir Survey Project 1993: A Byzantine Gold-Mining Town in Egypt. C. Meyer, L.A. Heidorn, W.E. Kaegi, and T. Wilfong.
The Oriental Institute continued its survey of the site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in Egypt with a short season in January 1993. The site lies halfway between the Nile and the Red Sea, or about five kilometers northeast of the famous bekhen-stone quarries and graffiti of the Wadi Hammamat. The 1992 project was a geological study of the area of Bir Umm Fawakhir. Since the only resources in this hyperarid desert are mineral, it explains why the Bir Umm Fawakhir town existed where it did and why. By far the most valuable resource was the gold carried in white quartz veins in the local granite, and the mountainsides around Bir Umm Fawakhir are riddled and trenched with ancient mines.
Bir Umm Fawakhir, Volume 2: Report on the 1996-1997 Survey Seasons, By Carol Meyer, with contributions by Lisa Heidorn, Alexandra A. O'Brien, and Clemens Reichel.
Bir Umm Fawakhir is a fifth-sixth century A.D. Coptic/Byzantine gold-mining town located in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The Bir Umm Fawakhir Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago carried out four seasons of archaeological survey at the site, in 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997; one season of excavation in 1999; and one study season in 2001. This volume is the final report on the 1996 and 1997 seasons.
The goals of the 1996 and 1997 field seasons were to complete the detailed map of the main settlement, to continue the investigation of the outlying clusters of ruins or "Outliers," and to address some specific questions such as the ancient gold-extraction process.
- Adopt A Dig
The Oriental Institute blog The Oriental Institute website The Get Involved/How To Give section of the OI's main website offers an opportunity to contribute to Egyptology by donating to the excavations at Tell Edfu. An overview of the site and the...
- More Online Papers From The Oriental Institute
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has announced the free Internet publication of eleven Egyptological titles: OIC 12. The Alphabet: Its Rise and Development from the Sinai Inscriptions. By Martin Sprengling. Oriental Institute Communications...
- Giza Occasional Papers Volume 2
AERA Available for download in PDF format from the above page or open directly by clicking here. Here's an extract from the introduction: The 2005 season of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project at Giza, Egypt, took place over two periods: January 8th...
- Weekly Websites
Nekhen News http://www.hierakonpolis.org/resources/nekehn_news.htm The archive of Nekhen News, the newsletter of the Hierakonpolis Expedition, is available at the above address. Nekhen News is an excellent resource, providing information about the ongoing...
- Exhibition: Gold
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/gold/There's an exhibition at the moment at the American Museum of Natural History (New York) which looks at gold, including its geological context, how it is extracted and its use in different ancient socieities. Having...