Egypt
Tell Basta blog
With photos.
- Tell Basta 2012 Season Begins
The Tell Basta Project The first two weeks of work at Tell Basta have been full of a variety of different activities. Work in two new gridsquares has started, already revealing promising structures. Remains of a massive mudbrick...
- Artefacts Discovered In North Egypt's San El-hagar
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) French archaeologists in San El-Hagar have discovered hundreds of colored and inscribed limestone blocks, which they believe were used to build the sacred lake walls of a temple dedicated to the goddess Mut. The limestone blocks...
- Tell Basta Spring 2011: End Of Season Report
Egypt Exploration Society With photos. The spring 2011 field campaign at the site of Tell Basta, the ancient city of Bubastis, commenced on 3 March. On 1 March, Daniela Rosenow and I arrived in Egypt; the other members of the team followed a few days...
- A Swiss Egyptologist On Her Majesty’s Service
Egypt Exploration Society With photos. From the time of his first contact with A.B. Edwards and R.S. Poole until the end of his excavations in Lower Egypt (1880-1892), Edouard Naville wrote approximately 200 letters to the joint honorary secretaries...
- Valley Of The Kings Undecorated Tombs Prelimnary Report
University of Basel Again, thanks to Kate's News from the Valley of the Kings for the above link to information about the 2011 season at undecorated tombs in the Valley of the Kings. With map and photos. Preliminary Report on the Work Performed...
Egypt
Tell Basta blog - 2011 season
Tell Basta blog
With photos.
We’ve been here at Tell Basta for more than a week now and work has begun on the detailed documentation of the finds of the last season, especially glass (by Dr Daniela Rosenow), pottery (by Mandy Mamedow) and terracotta (by Dr Veit Vaelske). These studies should provide interesting insights into the material culture of Bubastis from the Third Intermediate Period until the early Middle Ages as well as new information on trade and cultural relations with other regions - both within Egypt as in the wider Mediterranean world.
In addition epigraphic work, conducted by Eva Lange, has started in the temple. Here the reliefs of the Entrance hall of Osorkon I will be drawn on plastic sheets after identifying the blocks already published by Naville. This work is especially interesting and challenging as we have to play ‘hide and seek’ to find those published by Naville among the heaps of blocks, many of them enormous, which once formed the edifice.
- Tell Basta 2012 Season Begins
The Tell Basta Project The first two weeks of work at Tell Basta have been full of a variety of different activities. Work in two new gridsquares has started, already revealing promising structures. Remains of a massive mudbrick...
- Artefacts Discovered In North Egypt's San El-hagar
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) French archaeologists in San El-Hagar have discovered hundreds of colored and inscribed limestone blocks, which they believe were used to build the sacred lake walls of a temple dedicated to the goddess Mut. The limestone blocks...
- Tell Basta Spring 2011: End Of Season Report
Egypt Exploration Society With photos. The spring 2011 field campaign at the site of Tell Basta, the ancient city of Bubastis, commenced on 3 March. On 1 March, Daniela Rosenow and I arrived in Egypt; the other members of the team followed a few days...
- A Swiss Egyptologist On Her Majesty’s Service
Egypt Exploration Society With photos. From the time of his first contact with A.B. Edwards and R.S. Poole until the end of his excavations in Lower Egypt (1880-1892), Edouard Naville wrote approximately 200 letters to the joint honorary secretaries...
- Valley Of The Kings Undecorated Tombs Prelimnary Report
University of Basel Again, thanks to Kate's News from the Valley of the Kings for the above link to information about the 2011 season at undecorated tombs in the Valley of the Kings. With map and photos. Preliminary Report on the Work Performed...