Egypt
The Telegraph, UK
- International Journal Of Nautical Archaeology
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology Volume 38 Issue 2 (September 2009) There's an article in the above journal which may be of interst (available to subscribers or via payment for 24 hour access) An Exploratory Geophysical Survey at the...
- More Re Possible Location Of Tomb Of Imhotep
huliq.com This is a story from earlier this year, but the Huliq site has just picked up on it, so here it is again for anyone who missed it the first time. Ian Mathieson believes that his team may have discovered where the deified architect Imhotep was...
- New Url For Saqqara/imhotep Story
A few days ago I posted an extract from a piece that appeared on the Sunday Post website about Ian Matheson's hopes for the discovery of the tomb of Imhotep. Unfortunately, the original URL for this story has now expired. However Chris Townsend has...
- Close To Finding Imhotep At Saqqara?
The original URL for this story has now expired (Sunday Post). However Chris Townsend has pointed out that another web page is now available with this story: http://rense.com/general79/imhotep.htm Unfortunately, expiring URLs are a hazard of blogging,...
- Weekly Websites
The Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project with Film Footage Scots Egyptologist and archaeologist, Ian Mathieson, has made remarkable discoveries in more than a decade of work as director of the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project. In 1990 he was awarded a...
Egypt
Sad News: Ian Mathieson
The Telegraph, UK
Ian Mathieson, who died on June 24 aged 83, was a land surveyor by profession and an archaeologist by inclination; he spent much of the latter part of his life investigating the ancient Egyptian site at Saqqara.
Mathieson pioneered methods of surveying and mapping large archaeological sites without the expense or intrusion of excavation, particularly through the use of sound waves and radar to reveal any structures beneath the surface. Initially he worked with parties from the Egypt Exploration Society and Cambridge University before the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt granted him his own site at Saqqara – the vast complex near Cairo which served as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis.
From 1990 Mathieson led the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project, producing archaeological and geophysical maps of a little-explored area of the site; and in 2001 his survey turned up several large, previously unknown temples, as well as a number of tombs and dwellings.
- International Journal Of Nautical Archaeology
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology Volume 38 Issue 2 (September 2009) There's an article in the above journal which may be of interst (available to subscribers or via payment for 24 hour access) An Exploratory Geophysical Survey at the...
- More Re Possible Location Of Tomb Of Imhotep
huliq.com This is a story from earlier this year, but the Huliq site has just picked up on it, so here it is again for anyone who missed it the first time. Ian Mathieson believes that his team may have discovered where the deified architect Imhotep was...
- New Url For Saqqara/imhotep Story
A few days ago I posted an extract from a piece that appeared on the Sunday Post website about Ian Matheson's hopes for the discovery of the tomb of Imhotep. Unfortunately, the original URL for this story has now expired. However Chris Townsend has...
- Close To Finding Imhotep At Saqqara?
The original URL for this story has now expired (Sunday Post). However Chris Townsend has pointed out that another web page is now available with this story: http://rense.com/general79/imhotep.htm Unfortunately, expiring URLs are a hazard of blogging,...
- Weekly Websites
The Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project with Film Footage Scots Egyptologist and archaeologist, Ian Mathieson, has made remarkable discoveries in more than a decade of work as director of the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project. In 1990 he was awarded a...