Egypt
- New Book: Sais I By Penelope Wilson
Egypt Exploration Society Penelope Wilson's Sais I soon to be published. We are pleased to announce the imminent publication of Penelope Wilson's Sais I: The Ramesside Third Intermediate Period at Kom Rebwa. Sais was Egypt¹s capital in the 26th...
- Work Continues At Amara West Even After The Season Closes
British Museum (Neal spencer) A busy last week saw excavations wound up in Amara West, a concerted effort to survey, draw, photograph and record all the features exposed … and then the logistics of closing the dig house, travelling south to Khartoum,...
- 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...
- More Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Charly Valance) Exerpt: With some great photos, as usual. Lovely to see things coming along nicely at Amara West, whilst everything goes on hold in Egypt. In my second season at Amara West – I spend the rest of the year as a field archaeologist...
- Shopping For Equipment For Fieldwork In The Sudan
British Museum (Neal Spencer) With departure for Sudan only weeks away, we’re putting together the final preparations for our fourth season of fieldwork at Amara West. Flights are booked, visas obtained, inoculations accumulated – and we have defined...
Egypt
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
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.
The kiln had been made by cutting a deep pit into the natural surface of the island, and building a circular brick structure above it, with internal cross walls. The red-orange colour of the bricks, especially on the inside, were the first indication that this might have been a kiln for firing pottery vessels, with an upper chamber for placing the pots to be fired, and the lower space – cut into the alluvium – housing the burning fuel (wood, charcoal?). A shallow pit, sloping down to the entrance of the kiln, would have allowed the fuel to be inserted into the lower chamber.
- New Book: Sais I By Penelope Wilson
Egypt Exploration Society Penelope Wilson's Sais I soon to be published. We are pleased to announce the imminent publication of Penelope Wilson's Sais I: The Ramesside Third Intermediate Period at Kom Rebwa. Sais was Egypt¹s capital in the 26th...
- Work Continues At Amara West Even After The Season Closes
British Museum (Neal spencer) A busy last week saw excavations wound up in Amara West, a concerted effort to survey, draw, photograph and record all the features exposed … and then the logistics of closing the dig house, travelling south to Khartoum,...
- 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...
- More Discoveries At Amara West
British Museum (Charly Valance) Exerpt: With some great photos, as usual. Lovely to see things coming along nicely at Amara West, whilst everything goes on hold in Egypt. In my second season at Amara West – I spend the rest of the year as a field archaeologist...
- Shopping For Equipment For Fieldwork In The Sudan
British Museum (Neal Spencer) With departure for Sudan only weeks away, we’re putting together the final preparations for our fourth season of fieldwork at Amara West. Flights are booked, visas obtained, inoculations accumulated – and we have defined...