Egypt
Saqqara.nl
Week 31 January - 2 February 2012
- Saqqara 2012 Season Closes, With Update On Looted Items
Saqqara 2012 Dig Diary (Maarten Raven) The week started with final retouches being done to the chapel of Khay, found in 1985 and now in need of some restoration because the gypsum layer covering large areas of the inferior limestone reliefs is coming...
- Statement Of Dr Maarten Raven (field Director, Leiden Mission To Saqqara)
saqqara.nl We are pleased to hear that the situation in Egypt is becoming more or less normal again. Several excavations have already resumed their activities in the field, others (mainly in the south of the country) have never stopped working. In Saqqara,...
- Netherlands-flemish Institute Newsletter No.9
From Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo To subscribe to the newsletter email [email protected] or go to Institute's newsletter page for more information. Issue 9 of the newsletter gives details of planned excavation work in Egypt: NVIC's excavations...
- Saqqara Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/Excavation/Digging%20Diaries/2007.htmThe Dig Diary for the University of Leiden's mission in Saqqara has been updated with news about the 2007 season. Updates from the 2nd, 9th and 16th February are already online,...
- Letter Re The St Louis Mask
Thanks very much to Geoffrey Tassie of the Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organization (ECHO http://www.e-c-h-o.org/index2.htm) for forwarding the following letter:To whom it may concern I hereby confirm that the mummy mask of Kai Nefer Nefer shown on the...
Egypt
Saqqara Dig Diary
Saqqara.nl
Week 31 January - 2 February 2012
There we are again in Cairo, after an absence of two years due to the revolution in Egypt which made work in 2011 impossible. Field director Maarten Raven and his deputy Christian Greco arrived on the 31st, and the next day visited the offices of the Ministry of Antiquities in order to sign the contract for a continuation of our work at Saqqara. We were helped very efficiently by the new head of the department of foreign missions, and spent the rest of the day in talks with Kim Duistermaat, the director of the Dutch-Flemish Institute in Cairo (always our base while we are staying in Cairo), and with the architect Nicholas Warner, who has been responsible for the overall consolidation of our site over the past ten years. Bit by bit we received the news of everything that has happened here during (and after) the revolution, a process that is still going on and will take many more years to come to a new balance. Not all news is pleasant, and Egypt has clearly become a different country.
- Saqqara 2012 Season Closes, With Update On Looted Items
Saqqara 2012 Dig Diary (Maarten Raven) The week started with final retouches being done to the chapel of Khay, found in 1985 and now in need of some restoration because the gypsum layer covering large areas of the inferior limestone reliefs is coming...
- Statement Of Dr Maarten Raven (field Director, Leiden Mission To Saqqara)
saqqara.nl We are pleased to hear that the situation in Egypt is becoming more or less normal again. Several excavations have already resumed their activities in the field, others (mainly in the south of the country) have never stopped working. In Saqqara,...
- Netherlands-flemish Institute Newsletter No.9
From Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo To subscribe to the newsletter email [email protected] or go to Institute's newsletter page for more information. Issue 9 of the newsletter gives details of planned excavation work in Egypt: NVIC's excavations...
- Saqqara Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/Excavation/Digging%20Diaries/2007.htmThe Dig Diary for the University of Leiden's mission in Saqqara has been updated with news about the 2007 season. Updates from the 2nd, 9th and 16th February are already online,...
- Letter Re The St Louis Mask
Thanks very much to Geoffrey Tassie of the Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organization (ECHO http://www.e-c-h-o.org/index2.htm) for forwarding the following letter:To whom it may concern I hereby confirm that the mummy mask of Kai Nefer Nefer shown on the...