Egypt
British Museum (Dyan Semple)
With photos. Exerpt:
- Update Re Amara West: A Pottery Kiln?
The British Museum Shadia Abdu Rabo, National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan and Neal Spencer, British Museum Towards the end of the season, working in layers beneath house E13.8, we found a circular kiln – our first at Amara West....
- More From Amara West Excavations
If you are not already signed up to the Amara West blog I do sincerely recommend it - they still have a couple of weeks of the season left and update the blog regularly. Here are a sample of recent posts, all with lovely photographs. British Museum -nice...
- Analysing Skeletal Remains From Amara West
British Museum (Michaela Binder) Since early July, I’ve been in London, finally getting to analyse the human remains we excavated last season at Amara West. The human skeleton acts as a unique database about a number of different aspects of past human...
- Work Continues At Amara West, Sudan
...
- Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Michaela Binder) With photographs. After a somewhat disappointing first week in Cemetery C during which we only found heavily disturbed graves, our luck turned last week. We discovered two largely intact graves which provide us with important...
Egypt
Unearthing more burials at Amara West
British Museum (Dyan Semple)
With photos. Exerpt:
Along with Michaela and Carina, I’m working in cemetery C at Amara West, currently in the western chamber of Grave 201.
This tomb has a central shaft and two chambers to the east and the west. It had already been partially excavated in 2009, but this year we removed the alluvium from above the western chamber, to avoid the possibility of it falling in while we were excavating.
A lot of the bones had been crushed by earlier collapse, but five articulated burials were found at the rear of the space. As they lay one on top of the other, I had to be very careful to separate them – finding a place to stand was the first issue, and then I could remove the more recent burials at the front, after recording them.
From the way the skeletons are arranged, it is possible to tell that some of the individuals had been tightly bound for burial.
- Update Re Amara West: A Pottery Kiln?
The British Museum Shadia Abdu Rabo, National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan and Neal Spencer, British Museum Towards the end of the season, working in layers beneath house E13.8, we found a circular kiln – our first at Amara West....
- More From Amara West Excavations
If you are not already signed up to the Amara West blog I do sincerely recommend it - they still have a couple of weeks of the season left and update the blog regularly. Here are a sample of recent posts, all with lovely photographs. British Museum -nice...
- Analysing Skeletal Remains From Amara West
British Museum (Michaela Binder) Since early July, I’ve been in London, finally getting to analyse the human remains we excavated last season at Amara West. The human skeleton acts as a unique database about a number of different aspects of past human...
- Work Continues At Amara West, Sudan
...
- Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Michaela Binder) With photographs. After a somewhat disappointing first week in Cemetery C during which we only found heavily disturbed graves, our luck turned last week. We discovered two largely intact graves which provide us with important...