Egypt
Luxor News (Jane Akshar)
With lots of photos.
Jane has a look at what Medinet Habu, the mortuary temple of Ramesses III can tell the visitor about the Egyptian relationship with Libyans and the Sea Peoples.
- Dorman-led Expedition Produces Reference Study
American University of Beirut (Maha Al-Azar) For the average person, a 300-square meter area may merely bring to mind a large apartment, but for historians and archeologists, such a space could contain a wealth of information, puzzles, and insights into...
- Fighting Water Levels At Medinet Habu
USAID With photos. Medinet Habu is a fabulous site with a lot of the original colours still in tact. The matching Indiana Jones fedoras on two leading archeologists as they entered the ancient Temple Rameses III of Medinet Habu were necessary shields...
- Resource: More From The Oriental Institute
More online publications have been added to the Oriental Institute's website: OIP 84. Medinet Habu, Volume IV. The Temple Proper, Part II: The Re Chapel, the Royal Mortuary Complex, and Adjacent Rooms with Miscellaneous Material from the Pylons, the...
- West Bank Dewatering
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has posted some more unusual photographs on her blog: At a recent lecture we were told by Mansour Boraik of the SCA that they have started to look into a dewatering project for the West Bank. The proposal would be to...
- Medinet Habu Restoration
http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=202 Jane Akshar has updated her Luxor News blog with a short but encouraging post about the restoration work being carried out at Medinet Habu, the Temple of Tuthmosis III. One of my favourite temples, becuase...
Egypt
Sea People and Libyans at Medinet Habu
Luxor News (Jane Akshar)
With lots of photos.
Jane has a look at what Medinet Habu, the mortuary temple of Ramesses III can tell the visitor about the Egyptian relationship with Libyans and the Sea Peoples.
This year on my course we are studying a period of history I have never been very keen on starting with late New Kingdom. I am changing my mind. My first essay is on the Sea Peoples and Libyans and their interaction with Egypt. Now Medinet Habu is the best place to get information, OK it is Egypt's version, so more propaganda than history but compared to the rest of the world at the time it is the best documentation we have. So I decided to get some photos
First of all compare the site to other mortuary temples, note the defensive walls. So thick in places, houses could be built in the thickness in later times. This gives a good indication of the times. Temples needed protection.
- Dorman-led Expedition Produces Reference Study
American University of Beirut (Maha Al-Azar) For the average person, a 300-square meter area may merely bring to mind a large apartment, but for historians and archeologists, such a space could contain a wealth of information, puzzles, and insights into...
- Fighting Water Levels At Medinet Habu
USAID With photos. Medinet Habu is a fabulous site with a lot of the original colours still in tact. The matching Indiana Jones fedoras on two leading archeologists as they entered the ancient Temple Rameses III of Medinet Habu were necessary shields...
- Resource: More From The Oriental Institute
More online publications have been added to the Oriental Institute's website: OIP 84. Medinet Habu, Volume IV. The Temple Proper, Part II: The Re Chapel, the Royal Mortuary Complex, and Adjacent Rooms with Miscellaneous Material from the Pylons, the...
- West Bank Dewatering
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has posted some more unusual photographs on her blog: At a recent lecture we were told by Mansour Boraik of the SCA that they have started to look into a dewatering project for the West Bank. The proposal would be to...
- Medinet Habu Restoration
http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=202 Jane Akshar has updated her Luxor News blog with a short but encouraging post about the restoration work being carried out at Medinet Habu, the Temple of Tuthmosis III. One of my favourite temples, becuase...