Egypt
- Kom El-daba Signing Off
EES Delta Survey With photos When we started fieldwork last year at Kom el-Daba we mapped the site and returned this year to try to establish the nature of the surviving high mounds of mud-brick. Our excavation has shown that these were town houses, probably...
- Ees Delta Survey Comes To A Close
EES Delta Survey I've enjoyed following the EES Delta Survey and am sad to see them go. Our first season at Daba has gone very well. We were able to survey the whole site and now have a much better understanding of its archaeological remains and the...
- Returning To The Delta
EES Delta Survey The EES Delta Survey have started updating on Tumblr again this season. This is my last day at work before we leave on Monday for Egypt - flying on Egyptair this time after the problem we had at the end of the last season with the BA...
- More Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Charly Valance) Exerpt: With some great photos, as usual. Lovely to see things coming along nicely at Amara West, whilst everything goes on hold in Egypt. In my second season at Amara West – I spend the rest of the year as a field archaeologist...
- Work Underway By The Brooklyn Museum At The Precinct Of Mut
Brooklyn Museum (Mary McKercher) With lots of great photos. At the end of 2010 we thought that we might have found the point at which the mud brick running north-south along the full length of the west side of the excavation area made a corner with the...
Egypt
Progress at Kom el Daba
EES Delta Survey
With photos.
With photos.
We’ve completed our first full week of work here at Kom el-Daba and are very pleased with the progress we’ve made so far. The east wall of our ‘town house’ now extends for about 10m and just before we finished work today (as always happens on excavations!) we reached an ‘end’ which may be the south-east corner or may be the start of another sebakh pit – hopefully we will find out when work resumes on Saturday.
Town houses like this were built very substantially with the ‘walls’ of the foundations up to about 4m thick, enclosing a casemate (chambered) structure in the centre. Since the building had several floors it needed a substantial foundation to support the weight of the rooms above. The sebakh pits we have found are entirely within what would have been the thickness of the eastern wall. The EES/Gottingen team working at Tell Basta are also excavating a similar town house: http://tellbasta.tumblr.com/.
- Kom El-daba Signing Off
EES Delta Survey With photos When we started fieldwork last year at Kom el-Daba we mapped the site and returned this year to try to establish the nature of the surviving high mounds of mud-brick. Our excavation has shown that these were town houses, probably...
- Ees Delta Survey Comes To A Close
EES Delta Survey I've enjoyed following the EES Delta Survey and am sad to see them go. Our first season at Daba has gone very well. We were able to survey the whole site and now have a much better understanding of its archaeological remains and the...
- Returning To The Delta
EES Delta Survey The EES Delta Survey have started updating on Tumblr again this season. This is my last day at work before we leave on Monday for Egypt - flying on Egyptair this time after the problem we had at the end of the last season with the BA...
- More Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Charly Valance) Exerpt: With some great photos, as usual. Lovely to see things coming along nicely at Amara West, whilst everything goes on hold in Egypt. In my second season at Amara West – I spend the rest of the year as a field archaeologist...
- Work Underway By The Brooklyn Museum At The Precinct Of Mut
Brooklyn Museum (Mary McKercher) With lots of great photos. At the end of 2010 we thought that we might have found the point at which the mud brick running north-south along the full length of the west side of the excavation area made a corner with the...