Egypt
- Feature: Archaeologist Kathryn Bard
BU Today (Vicky Waltz) With video. Five years ago, Kathryn Bard made a remarkable discovery in the Egyptian desert. While digging with an archaeological team along the Red Sea coast, she reached into the opening of a wall — and felt nothing. Further...
- Coils Of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found In Cave
Discovery News The ancient Egyptian's secret to making the strongest of all rigging ropes lies in a tangle of cord coils in a cave found in a hand-hewn cave at the ancient Red Sea port of Marsa Gawasis, 23 kilometers (14 miles) south of Safaga. Discovered...
- Antiquity News From Egypt Magazine
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=10687_0_1_0_M12 Summaries of the new finds at the Temple of Mut (the decorated lintel) and Marsa Gawasis: "Evidence pointed to the use of Marsa Gawasis as the port for voyages to punt from the early Middle Kingdom...
- Marsa Gawasis, Safaga - Oldest Maritime Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/2kcmny (sis.gov.eg)A much more detailed account than usual, on the State Information Service website, about the ongoing excavations at the Pharaonic port of Marsa Gawasis in Safaga: "Late December last year, after more than three metres...
- Ancient Ship Remains At Red Sea Port
http://tinyurl.com/bae3l (Monsters and Critics)"The remains of a ship used by ancient Egyptians for commercial trips to the fabled land of Punt have been discovered in five caves engraved in a port on the Red Sea. The find, in the Marsa Gawasees area...
Egypt
Sailing to Punt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/782/hr2.htm
"The long-held belief that the Ancient Egyptians did not tend to travel long distances by sea because of poor naval technology proved fallacious last week when timbers, rigging and cedar planks were unearthed in the ancient Red Sea port of Marsa Gawasis, 23 kilometres south of Port Safaga. The remains of seafaring vessels were found in four large, hand-hewn caves which were probably used as storage or boat houses from the Middle Kingdom to the early New Kingdom periods. Early examination revealed that each cave measured 60 square metres and had an entrance constructed of reused anchors, limestone blocks and wooden beams. Other stone anchors were located outside the entrances. One of these caves contains more than 80 perfectly preserved coils of different sized ropes which were once used on ships."
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- Feature: Archaeologist Kathryn Bard
BU Today (Vicky Waltz) With video. Five years ago, Kathryn Bard made a remarkable discovery in the Egyptian desert. While digging with an archaeological team along the Red Sea coast, she reached into the opening of a wall — and felt nothing. Further...
- Coils Of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found In Cave
Discovery News The ancient Egyptian's secret to making the strongest of all rigging ropes lies in a tangle of cord coils in a cave found in a hand-hewn cave at the ancient Red Sea port of Marsa Gawasis, 23 kilometers (14 miles) south of Safaga. Discovered...
- Antiquity News From Egypt Magazine
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=10687_0_1_0_M12 Summaries of the new finds at the Temple of Mut (the decorated lintel) and Marsa Gawasis: "Evidence pointed to the use of Marsa Gawasis as the port for voyages to punt from the early Middle Kingdom...
- Marsa Gawasis, Safaga - Oldest Maritime Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/2kcmny (sis.gov.eg)A much more detailed account than usual, on the State Information Service website, about the ongoing excavations at the Pharaonic port of Marsa Gawasis in Safaga: "Late December last year, after more than three metres...
- Ancient Ship Remains At Red Sea Port
http://tinyurl.com/bae3l (Monsters and Critics)"The remains of a ship used by ancient Egyptians for commercial trips to the fabled land of Punt have been discovered in five caves engraved in a port on the Red Sea. The find, in the Marsa Gawasees area...