Egypt
saqqara.nl
Including the 2009 dig diaries.
- Three New Ees Videos Online
The Egypt Exploration Society Three new EES films - on the Archive project, Saqqara Day in Leiden & the 4th edition of Who Was Who in Egyptology We have recently uploaded three more short films to our YouTube channel Leiden Presentation of Maya...
- 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,...
- Saqqara Online Update 09/2006
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htm The Leiden Excavation team have updated the Saqqara Online website. Click the What's New link in the left hand navigation bar on the above page to see the latest update (September 2006): "We have entered...
- 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...
- 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.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: the outlines of buried tomb courtyards.
Geoffrey Martin
Welcome to Saqqara.nl. This website is maintained by the Friends of Saqqara Foundation, a non-profit foundation aiming at providing financial support for Dutch archaeological research at Saqqara, Egypt. In particular the foundation supports the joint excavation team of the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden and Leiden University. This team is advancing the research, documentation, and preservation of the monuments in the area south of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, where a cemetery of important New Kingdom officials is located.
The Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara (Egypt) are a joint project of:
RMO - Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) at Leiden, the Netherlands
UL - Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Egyptology
- Three New Ees Videos Online
The Egypt Exploration Society Three new EES films - on the Archive project, Saqqara Day in Leiden & the 4th edition of Who Was Who in Egyptology We have recently uploaded three more short films to our YouTube channel Leiden Presentation of Maya...
- 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,...
- Saqqara Online Update 09/2006
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htm The Leiden Excavation team have updated the Saqqara Online website. Click the What's New link in the left hand navigation bar on the above page to see the latest update (September 2006): "We have entered...
- 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...
- 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...