Egypt
- Kom El-daba Signing Off
EES Delta Survey With photos When we started fieldwork last year at Kom el-Daba we mapped the site and returned this year to try to establish the nature of the surviving high mounds of mud-brick. Our excavation has shown that these were town houses, probably...
- Progress At Kom El Daba
EES Delta Survey With photos. We’ve completed our first full week of work here at Kom el-Daba and are very pleased with the progress we’ve made so far. The east wall of our ‘town house’ now extends for about 10m and just before we finished...
- Kom El-daba Excavations Underway
EES Delta Survey The excavation of the mud-brick building really started today. The fill over the brickwork of the northern wall – in what we are, for the moment, assuming was a ‘street’ between this house and the next – was very empty with just...
- Ees Delta Survey Comes To A Close
EES Delta Survey I've enjoyed following the EES Delta Survey and am sad to see them go. Our first season at Daba has gone very well. We were able to survey the whole site and now have a much better understanding of its archaeological remains and the...
- Ees Delta Survey - First Visit To Daba
Egypt Exploration Society (Patricia Spencer) With photos. This morning we went to the SCA office and met the Director for Kafr esh-Sheikh, Dr Mohammed Abdel Rafaa, who made us very welcome and actually remembered us from when we were touring around tells...
Egypt
Udate from Kom el-Daba
EES Delta Survey (Patricia Spencer)
With photos.
With photos.
Many of the tells of the Nile Delta have house plans visible on their surfaces – as we had noted at Kom Ineizi on our visit two days ago. These are most visible when sites are flat and clear of surface debris or have relatively low mounds, but even on a site like Daba which has steep high mounds and areas covered in red-brick fragments, there are house plans visible in places. The mud-brick wall we found at the south end of our trench yesterday is the northern wall of a room which could be seen before excavation.
The walls of a room of another building, south of the town house, visible on the surface before excavation.
This morning we first of all asked our workmen to scrape carefully across the extended trench to show the walls and the fill between them more clearly.
- Kom El-daba Signing Off
EES Delta Survey With photos When we started fieldwork last year at Kom el-Daba we mapped the site and returned this year to try to establish the nature of the surviving high mounds of mud-brick. Our excavation has shown that these were town houses, probably...
- Progress At Kom El Daba
EES Delta Survey With photos. We’ve completed our first full week of work here at Kom el-Daba and are very pleased with the progress we’ve made so far. The east wall of our ‘town house’ now extends for about 10m and just before we finished...
- Kom El-daba Excavations Underway
EES Delta Survey The excavation of the mud-brick building really started today. The fill over the brickwork of the northern wall – in what we are, for the moment, assuming was a ‘street’ between this house and the next – was very empty with just...
- Ees Delta Survey Comes To A Close
EES Delta Survey I've enjoyed following the EES Delta Survey and am sad to see them go. Our first season at Daba has gone very well. We were able to survey the whole site and now have a much better understanding of its archaeological remains and the...
- Ees Delta Survey - First Visit To Daba
Egypt Exploration Society (Patricia Spencer) With photos. This morning we went to the SCA office and met the Director for Kafr esh-Sheikh, Dr Mohammed Abdel Rafaa, who made us very welcome and actually remembered us from when we were touring around tells...