Egypt
- Conversations On Conservation Of Cultural Heritage
Conversations on conservation Another non-Egypt specific post, but of general interest to anyone concerned with conservation and related topics like restoration and vandalism in both archaeology and art. It aims to promote conversation on the subject....
- Interactive Hierakonpolis Updated - 2009 Field Notes
Field Note 1 - Saving the Fort Field Note 2 - The Rock Art Survey The Interactive Hierakonpolis web pages have been updated on the Archaeology Magazine website with some fascinating information about work in the 2009 season. Both reports are accompanied...
- Rock Art At Qurta - Inora 51 2008
International Newsletter on Rock Art (in PDF Format) Thanks very much to Dr Dirk Huyge for letting me know that an article about his work at Qurta is available on the above website, free of charge. The article is accompanied by a map of the site's...
- Sahara Volume 19
Sahara Thanks to Dirk Huyge for letting me know that the most recent issue of the journal Sahara has now been published. Here are the contents: Papers: Savino di Lernia, Lucia Mori and Andrea Zerboni Geo-archaeological survey in the Kufra Region (Eastern...
- Lascaux Along The Nile’: Late Pleistocene Rock Art In Egypt
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/huyge/index.html The details of the Qurta rock art site released in a press release copied earlier in this blog have been published in the archaeological journal Antiquity, with a discussion of the factors which might offer...
Egypt
The Palaeolithic rock art in Wadi Abu Subeira, Egypt: Landscape, archaeology, threats and conservation
Per Storemyr Archaeology and Conservation
Since the publication of the threats to the Palaeolithic rock art in Wadi Abu Subeira three weeks ago, there has been much response through e-mail and social media, and the case has been covered by many online magazines and blogs. People in Egypt and elsewhere are concerned, and I wish to thank you all for your interest and for bringing the case along to friends and colleagues, as well as to administrators and politicians. There now seems to be a need for an “unbiased”, comprehensive overview of what is actually known about the landscape, the archaeology, the rock art, the threats, current conservation efforts and options for the future. The overview below is based on published literature, and information that otherwise belongs to the public sphere. It is written in close cooperation with Adel Kelany, and we have benefited from input by Dirk Huyge.
- Conversations On Conservation Of Cultural Heritage
Conversations on conservation Another non-Egypt specific post, but of general interest to anyone concerned with conservation and related topics like restoration and vandalism in both archaeology and art. It aims to promote conversation on the subject....
- Interactive Hierakonpolis Updated - 2009 Field Notes
Field Note 1 - Saving the Fort Field Note 2 - The Rock Art Survey The Interactive Hierakonpolis web pages have been updated on the Archaeology Magazine website with some fascinating information about work in the 2009 season. Both reports are accompanied...
- Rock Art At Qurta - Inora 51 2008
International Newsletter on Rock Art (in PDF Format) Thanks very much to Dr Dirk Huyge for letting me know that an article about his work at Qurta is available on the above website, free of charge. The article is accompanied by a map of the site's...
- Sahara Volume 19
Sahara Thanks to Dirk Huyge for letting me know that the most recent issue of the journal Sahara has now been published. Here are the contents: Papers: Savino di Lernia, Lucia Mori and Andrea Zerboni Geo-archaeological survey in the Kufra Region (Eastern...
- Lascaux Along The Nile’: Late Pleistocene Rock Art In Egypt
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/huyge/index.html The details of the Qurta rock art site released in a press release copied earlier in this blog have been published in the archaeological journal Antiquity, with a discussion of the factors which might offer...