Egypt
Archaeogate Egittologia
A summary of the 2003-2004 season's work, with some good photographs, can be found on the University of Pisa's Egyptology website.
A map showing location of Khelua in far south west of the Faiyum can be found here, also on the Pisa University website. For those of you who speak Italian, you can click on any of the place names marked with a red dot on the map to go to the
- Medinet Madi Archaeological Park
PR-Canada.net Medinet Madi is a lovely Middle Kingdom site in the Faiyum Depression. I've posted a number of photographs of it and items about it in the past. Just type Medinet Madi into the search engine on this blog to see photographs and links....
- Exhibition: Along The Nile (pisa, Italy)
Ansa.it A pioneering but fateful 19th-century expedition along the River Nile by two of the founding fathers of modern Egyptology is the focus of a new exhibition in Pisa. Funded by Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II and Charles X of France, the 1828-29...
- Exhibition: Ippolito Rosellini And The Dawn Of Egyptology
ANSAmed Drawings, watercolours and unpublished manuscripts that show the beginnings of Egyptology will be exhibited for the first time in Cairo from January 26 to the end of the February in an exhibition entitled 'Ippolito Rosellini and the Dawn of...
- Progetto Di Cooperazione Tecnica Fra L'italia E L'egitto Per La Creazione Di Un Parco Archeo-naturalistico (wady El Rayan E Medinet Madi)
Archaeogate Il 28 ottobre 2008 con la firma del nuovo contratto fra l'Università di Pisa – Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico ed il Progetto ISSEMM, è ufficialmente iniziata l'ultima fase di questo importante Progetto di Cooperazione...
- Bowling Invented In Ancient Egypt?
Discovery Channel (Rossella Lorenzi) There is a photograph accompanying this two-page article: Throwing stone balls along a lane might have been a popular game in ancient Egypt, according to evidence unearthed some 56 miles south of Cairo by Italian archaeologists....
Egypt
Preliminary Report of the Pisa University Mission at Khelua
Archaeogate Egittologia
Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for this link. The University of Pisa have been undertaking restoration work at the Graeco Roman site of Khelua in the Faiyum (southwest of Cairo).
For the Pisa's concession of Khelua, the problem of the hall covering, after discussion in October 2007 with the competent authorities of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, in the person of the arch. Waad, we are proposing to Dr. Sabri Abd el Aziz General Director for Upper Egypt Antiquities, to effect the covering of the hall (around 170 m2s) through plates of stone supported by the 12 reconstructed pillars. The stone that we will use will be extracted from the same quarry from which we extracted the blocks for the reconstruction of the walls and pillars; the limestone has been selected for geologic affinity with the rock where the grave is cut; the choice of the stone and quarry were done according the study performed by the Dpt of geology-Cairo University for Pisa expedition. After the approval of this proposition, we can proceed realize the works under the supervision of Fayum Architecture Dpt, during the season 2008.
A summary of the 2003-2004 season's work, with some good photographs, can be found on the University of Pisa's Egyptology website.
A map showing location of Khelua in far south west of the Faiyum can be found here, also on the Pisa University website. For those of you who speak Italian, you can click on any of the place names marked with a red dot on the map to go to the
- Medinet Madi Archaeological Park
PR-Canada.net Medinet Madi is a lovely Middle Kingdom site in the Faiyum Depression. I've posted a number of photographs of it and items about it in the past. Just type Medinet Madi into the search engine on this blog to see photographs and links....
- Exhibition: Along The Nile (pisa, Italy)
Ansa.it A pioneering but fateful 19th-century expedition along the River Nile by two of the founding fathers of modern Egyptology is the focus of a new exhibition in Pisa. Funded by Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II and Charles X of France, the 1828-29...
- Exhibition: Ippolito Rosellini And The Dawn Of Egyptology
ANSAmed Drawings, watercolours and unpublished manuscripts that show the beginnings of Egyptology will be exhibited for the first time in Cairo from January 26 to the end of the February in an exhibition entitled 'Ippolito Rosellini and the Dawn of...
- Progetto Di Cooperazione Tecnica Fra L'italia E L'egitto Per La Creazione Di Un Parco Archeo-naturalistico (wady El Rayan E Medinet Madi)
Archaeogate Il 28 ottobre 2008 con la firma del nuovo contratto fra l'Università di Pisa – Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico ed il Progetto ISSEMM, è ufficialmente iniziata l'ultima fase di questo importante Progetto di Cooperazione...
- Bowling Invented In Ancient Egypt?
Discovery Channel (Rossella Lorenzi) There is a photograph accompanying this two-page article: Throwing stone balls along a lane might have been a popular game in ancient Egypt, according to evidence unearthed some 56 miles south of Cairo by Italian archaeologists....