Egypt
Janelle In Egypt
- The Tell Edfu Team Wrap Up For The Season
Tell Edfu blog As the days are getting colder (this morning it is 50 degrees Fahrenheit / 10 degrees Celsius here, the same temperature as in Chicago!) we are getting near the end of our 2011 season. Our last day on the tell will be on Thursday, December...
- Excavations At Tell Edfu
Tell Edfu blog For those who haven't been following the Tell Edfu blog, things are going very well. There are some great photographs of the excavations of the silo area, including one of an eighteenth century footprint, where work is coming to an...
- Online Resource - The Edfu Project
The Edfu Project Thanks to the Ancient World Online blog for highlighting this project to record and translate texts from the temple of Edfu. It a site plan, photographs of the temple and of a scale model of the temple, multimedia resources and downloads....
- Adopt A Dig
The Oriental Institute blog The Oriental Institute website The Get Involved/How To Give section of the OI's main website offers an opportunity to contribute to Egyptology by donating to the excavations at Tell Edfu. An overview of the site and the...
- Daily Photo By Bob Partridge
I am alternating between Rick Menges and Bob Partridge on a weekly basis because their photographs are so very different and all so interesting! I have lots of both so I should be able to keep going for a long time. I've also found some more that...
Egypt
Tell Edfu blog - "Adventures of newbie archaeologist"
Janelle In Egypt
Thanks to Stuart Tyler for sending me the link for Janelle's blog. She started it back in July with all the preparatory work for an October/November season working at Tell Edfu and has been updating it ever since. Her experiences make great reading and are a great compliment to the official Tell Edfu blog. Here's an excerpt the introductory post from back in July.
Fall quarter this year (October-December 2011), I will be joining my very first archaeological dig! The project is in Edfu, Egypt (the project website can be found here). Since this is the first time I've ever been in a foreign country for longer than a few weeks, let alone on a dig, I thought a blog would be a perfect way to keep everyone informed! Internet access is spotty, with only one person at a time being aloud on our rather shaky connection. However, I hope to blog as often as I can, even if it means writing my posts in word and posting in bulk every few days.
The lead on the project is my adviser, so I'm not jumping into this completely blind (plus, Dan and I visited the site on our honeymoon!). I'll also have at least 3 other girls that I know coming with me. We'll be meeting a couple of my adviser's friends for a few weeks at a time throughout the season (including one of my old professors who now lives in Copenhagen), so it won't just be us UofCers all the time. For the most part, I'll be drawing pottery.
- The Tell Edfu Team Wrap Up For The Season
Tell Edfu blog As the days are getting colder (this morning it is 50 degrees Fahrenheit / 10 degrees Celsius here, the same temperature as in Chicago!) we are getting near the end of our 2011 season. Our last day on the tell will be on Thursday, December...
- Excavations At Tell Edfu
Tell Edfu blog For those who haven't been following the Tell Edfu blog, things are going very well. There are some great photographs of the excavations of the silo area, including one of an eighteenth century footprint, where work is coming to an...
- Online Resource - The Edfu Project
The Edfu Project Thanks to the Ancient World Online blog for highlighting this project to record and translate texts from the temple of Edfu. It a site plan, photographs of the temple and of a scale model of the temple, multimedia resources and downloads....
- Adopt A Dig
The Oriental Institute blog The Oriental Institute website The Get Involved/How To Give section of the OI's main website offers an opportunity to contribute to Egyptology by donating to the excavations at Tell Edfu. An overview of the site and the...
- Daily Photo By Bob Partridge
I am alternating between Rick Menges and Bob Partridge on a weekly basis because their photographs are so very different and all so interesting! I have lots of both so I should be able to keep going for a long time. I've also found some more that...