Egypt
- Excavations At Amheida
New York University I don't usually bother with lecture announcements because EEF do a much better job of aggregating all the information on their weekly newsletter but this announcement actually has some useful details about the subject matter. Amheida...
- 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...
- Snapshots - Bashendi
Al Ahram Weekly (Mohamed El-Hebeishy) Dakhla Oasis is one of the Western Desert's five major oases. Dakhla, a cluster of much smaller oases, might be known for its Qasr Al-Dakhla (Dakhla Palace), a maze of narrow alleyways zigzagging into a full-fledged...
- Distant Dakhla
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/he3.htmJill Kamil reports on the fifth Dakhla Oasis Project conference: "Treasures from the Roman period have been transported for exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in conjunction with the fifth conference of the Dakhla...
- Amheida: Director's Report 2006
http://tinyurl.com/hockb (learn.columbia.edu)The Roman period site of Amheida lies to the south of the modern Dakhleh Oasis town of El Qasr. Poart of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, the work at Amheida is carried out by Columbia University. After preliminary...
Egypt
Surface evidence
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/787/heritage.htm
The long-held but untested belief that the Dakhleh Oasis town of Al-Qasr was built on the site of a Roman citadel has been confirmed with the discovery, by accident, of a piece of wall that has always been visible to archaeologists walking past it, but was unrecognized: " What caught his eye was an outcrop of what had always been thought -- if any thought was given to it at all -- to be an outcrop of dried mud beneath a disused mosque on the edge of the old town. One morning this February Leemhuis was walking past the "rock" when he noticed that the sun caught a distinct line that appeared to be a course of brickwork. He called in the project's chief restorer, Rizq Abdel-Hay Ahmed, and local inspector Affaf Saad Hussein, and together they examined it more closely. Under the veneer of sun-baked mud they could distinguish several such courses. Far from being hardened earth this was mud-brick, and, moreover, the size of the bricks -- each 8x16x33 cms -- corresponded exactly to bricks in other Roman fortresses in the Western Desert. Since then other experts, including Roger Bagnold of Columbia University -- who has also walked past it many times -- have agreed the wall is Roman."
The article goes on to describe not only this find, but to discuss other work that has been carried out by the Qasr Dakhla Project (part of the Dakhla Oasis Project) in Al-Qasr. A welcome insight into the varied and valuable activities of one archaeological project team. See the above web page for the entire article.
- Excavations At Amheida
New York University I don't usually bother with lecture announcements because EEF do a much better job of aggregating all the information on their weekly newsletter but this announcement actually has some useful details about the subject matter. Amheida...
- 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...
- Snapshots - Bashendi
Al Ahram Weekly (Mohamed El-Hebeishy) Dakhla Oasis is one of the Western Desert's five major oases. Dakhla, a cluster of much smaller oases, might be known for its Qasr Al-Dakhla (Dakhla Palace), a maze of narrow alleyways zigzagging into a full-fledged...
- Distant Dakhla
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/he3.htmJill Kamil reports on the fifth Dakhla Oasis Project conference: "Treasures from the Roman period have been transported for exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in conjunction with the fifth conference of the Dakhla...
- Amheida: Director's Report 2006
http://tinyurl.com/hockb (learn.columbia.edu)The Roman period site of Amheida lies to the south of the modern Dakhleh Oasis town of El Qasr. Poart of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, the work at Amheida is carried out by Columbia University. After preliminary...