Egypt
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder)
With excavation photographs.
- Amara West 2012: Looking Back On The Season In The Cemetery
The British Museum (Michaela Binder) With photos. After seven weeks of excavation we can look back to a very successful season in the cemetery at Amara West. In total, the two field school members (Åshild Vagene and Mohamed Saad), Laurel Engbring, Milena...
- 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...
- Ancient Human Remains From Sudan: Training Future Specialists
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder) Sudan has perhaps one of the richest and most fascinating archaeological records in the world. Construction projects such as roads and dams are an increasing threat to its cultural heritage which prompts a large number...
- 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...
- 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 the cemeteries at Amara West
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder)
With excavation photographs.
In wintery, snow-covered Durham preparations for the coming season of work in the cemetery are underway, with only six weeks left until the new season starts. During January and February, we will return to Cemetery C, the post-New Kingdom necropolis first excavated in 2009.
The international team of three archaeologists – including myself and two new team members from the UK and Canada – all specialise in the excavation of graves and human remains.
This is crucial because we are likely to encounter complicated multiple burial situations, and only archaeologists with experience and understanding of human skeletons are able to recover all of the evidence. For example, the way in which individual bones lie when discovered can indicate whether the bodies were disturbed shortly after burial or later, after the soft tissue had disappeared.
- Amara West 2012: Looking Back On The Season In The Cemetery
The British Museum (Michaela Binder) With photos. After seven weeks of excavation we can look back to a very successful season in the cemetery at Amara West. In total, the two field school members (Åshild Vagene and Mohamed Saad), Laurel Engbring, Milena...
- 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...
- Ancient Human Remains From Sudan: Training Future Specialists
British Museum Blog (Michaela Binder) Sudan has perhaps one of the richest and most fascinating archaeological records in the world. Construction projects such as roads and dams are an increasing threat to its cultural heritage which prompts a large number...
- 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...
- 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...