Egypt
- 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,...
- Dig Diaries
In all the fuss about Tutankhamun don't forget that work carries on as normal at the excavations in Egypt. In the north, the Leiden team at Saqqara have now posted seven weeks of their Mission Digging Diary. Even though the new tomb failed to produce...
- Saqqara.nl
saqqara.nl Including the 2009 dig diaries. Welcome to Saqqara.nl A visitor to the site before 1975 would have viewed a landscape uncluttered by monuments of any kind ... An observant visitor might have noticed rough rectangular depressions in the sand:...
- Saqqara Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htmThe University of Leiden's project in Saqqara has been captured again this year in the form of a dig diary at the above address. The team have been working at Saqqara since late January. Saqqara Online...
- Saqqara 2005 Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htm The Leiden Excavations, a joint expedition working in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, are ongoing and the 2005 Dig Diary is online at the above URL. You will need to navigate from the home page...
Egypt
Saqqara Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/Excavation/Digging%20Diaries/2007.htm
The 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, and place holders are listed for 23rd February and 2nd March. Here's a sample from 2nd February 2007:
"Although the first team members of the Leiden excavations arrived in Egypt as early as January 14th, and in Saqqara on January 16th, the first week was spent on preparing the dig, and during the second week the field director was largely away because he was guiding a tour for the Society of Friends of the Leiden Museum. It is time to make up for this absence and to present a preliminary report of the first results of the excavations!
The fieldwork proper started on Saturday January 20th. The excavations have a twofold aim this season:
1) to explore two small shafts situated in the eastern corners of Tia’s forecourt, which form the last parts to be investigated before we can sit down to write the final report on our work in the tombs of Horemheb and Tia during the years 1999-2006;
2) to uncover the remains of a new and hitherto unknown tomb situated due east of Meryneith’s forecourt and of which we already saw a small part during a sondage in that area in 2003. The latter project has been submitted for financial support to the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and we are happy to say that once again we received a four-year grant that will enable us to tackle this project."
The fieldwork proper started on Saturday January 20th. The excavations have a twofold aim this season:
1) to explore two small shafts situated in the eastern corners of Tia’s forecourt, which form the last parts to be investigated before we can sit down to write the final report on our work in the tombs of Horemheb and Tia during the years 1999-2006;
2) to uncover the remains of a new and hitherto unknown tomb situated due east of Meryneith’s forecourt and of which we already saw a small part during a sondage in that area in 2003. The latter project has been submitted for financial support to the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and we are happy to say that once again we received a four-year grant that will enable us to tackle this project."
See the above page for full details of the team and for the dig diary updates.
- 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,...
- Dig Diaries
In all the fuss about Tutankhamun don't forget that work carries on as normal at the excavations in Egypt. In the north, the Leiden team at Saqqara have now posted seven weeks of their Mission Digging Diary. Even though the new tomb failed to produce...
- Saqqara.nl
saqqara.nl Including the 2009 dig diaries. Welcome to Saqqara.nl A visitor to the site before 1975 would have viewed a landscape uncluttered by monuments of any kind ... An observant visitor might have noticed rough rectangular depressions in the sand:...
- Saqqara Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htmThe University of Leiden's project in Saqqara has been captured again this year in the form of a dig diary at the above address. The team have been working at Saqqara since late January. Saqqara Online...
- Saqqara 2005 Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htm The Leiden Excavations, a joint expedition working in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, are ongoing and the 2005 Dig Diary is online at the above URL. You will need to navigate from the home page...