Egypt
- New Blog - The Archaeology Of Egypt's Deserts
I've put together a new blog which will focus on the archaeology of Egypt's deserts. Unlike this blog it will include relevant lecture and conference news. Visitors to this blog will know that I am a bit of a desert nut. I've been copying...
- Quarryscapes Website Updated
QuarryScapes Publications It is good to see that the website for a very useful project has been updated with an expanded bibliography and some online publications (thanks to Per Storemyr for letting me know). The QuarryScapes project was first established...
- Daily Photo - Mons Claudianus, Eastern Desert
I am a bit up to my ears in things today, but if you'd like to know more about Mons Claudianus, a Roman quarrying site and settlement in the Eastern Desert, have a look at this page on one of my other sites, where there is a section about Mons Claudianus...
- Weekly Websites
Quseir al-Qadim Project http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Projects/default.asp?ProjectID=20This project focuses on the site of Quseir al-Qadim on the southern Egyptian Red Sea coast, and its surrounding landscape. The project is a collaboration between researchers...
- Weekly Websites
Another collection of fairly random websites that I have been visiting this week. Don't forget to let me know of any websites of interest that you have found. Delta Survey http://www.ees.ac.uk/deltasurvey/ds-home.html "This reference collection of...
Egypt
Photo for Today - Tareq, Mons Porphyrites
Tareq, Mons Porphyrites
The Eastern Desert was used as a resource for raw materials
throughout late Predynastic and Dynastic Egypt.
The Eastern Desert was a resource
for stones and minerals and a through-route for traffic moving
between the Red Sea coast and the Nile.
This site was built by Roman occupants of Egypt
for the extraction of a stone type called porphyry
which is remarkable for its white flecks of feldspar and quartz.
The remarkable thing about the stone
from this particular site is that the stone was a purple shade with white flecks
and is the only known source of the stone.
The purple porphyry from here was sent to Rome for
elaborate building projects including the
delivery room of the palace in Constantinople which was paneled with porphyry.
Children born to the reigning monarch were known as "porphyrogenitos"
i.e. "born-in-the-purple".
You can read more about the site here:
Eastern Desert Archaeology
The Eastern Desert was used as a resource for raw materials
throughout late Predynastic and Dynastic Egypt.
The Eastern Desert was a resource
for stones and minerals and a through-route for traffic moving
between the Red Sea coast and the Nile.
This site was built by Roman occupants of Egypt
for the extraction of a stone type called porphyry
which is remarkable for its white flecks of feldspar and quartz.
The remarkable thing about the stone
from this particular site is that the stone was a purple shade with white flecks
and is the only known source of the stone.
The purple porphyry from here was sent to Rome for
elaborate building projects including the
delivery room of the palace in Constantinople which was paneled with porphyry.
Children born to the reigning monarch were known as "porphyrogenitos"
i.e. "born-in-the-purple".
You can read more about the site here:
Eastern Desert Archaeology
- New Blog - The Archaeology Of Egypt's Deserts
I've put together a new blog which will focus on the archaeology of Egypt's deserts. Unlike this blog it will include relevant lecture and conference news. Visitors to this blog will know that I am a bit of a desert nut. I've been copying...
- Quarryscapes Website Updated
QuarryScapes Publications It is good to see that the website for a very useful project has been updated with an expanded bibliography and some online publications (thanks to Per Storemyr for letting me know). The QuarryScapes project was first established...
- Daily Photo - Mons Claudianus, Eastern Desert
I am a bit up to my ears in things today, but if you'd like to know more about Mons Claudianus, a Roman quarrying site and settlement in the Eastern Desert, have a look at this page on one of my other sites, where there is a section about Mons Claudianus...
- Weekly Websites
Quseir al-Qadim Project http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Projects/default.asp?ProjectID=20This project focuses on the site of Quseir al-Qadim on the southern Egyptian Red Sea coast, and its surrounding landscape. The project is a collaboration between researchers...
- Weekly Websites
Another collection of fairly random websites that I have been visiting this week. Don't forget to let me know of any websites of interest that you have found. Delta Survey http://www.ees.ac.uk/deltasurvey/ds-home.html "This reference collection of...