Egypt
The American Surveyor
- Exhibition / Interview: “from Nubia To Sudan”
Greek Reporter (by Zdravka Mihaylova) Interview with Alexandros Tsakos and Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos. With photos. Last October the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art inaugurated the photo exhibition ‘From Nubia to Sudan through the Eyes of the Greek-Norwegian...
- Online Resource: Jebel Barkal
jebelbarkal.org An excellent resource for Jebel Barkal (Sudan), with lovely photographs of the site and area. Here's a short exerpt from the introduction: Jebel Barkal (“Mt. Barkal”) (var. Gebel Barkal, Gebel el-Barkal, and in some early sources...
- Sad News: Ian Mathieson
The Telegraph, UK Ian Mathieson, who died on June 24 aged 83, was a land surveyor by profession and an archaeologist by inclination; he spent much of the latter part of his life investigating the ancient Egyptian site at Saqqara. Mathieson pioneered methods...
- A New Look At Prehistory
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) At last! Anyone interested in the antecedents of the Egyptian civilisation and the cultures that predated the unification of the country under one king may soon have many of their questions answered. Items showing evidence...
- Nubia's Black Pharaohs
http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-05/features/nubia-black-pharaohs/The full article is available only to Discover subscribers, but the following teaser appars on their article (to see the full teaser click on the link above).:"Striding toward an excavation...
Egypt
Using Carlson SurvCE to Survey History
The American Surveyor
Every day as I headed to my job, the theme from Indiana Jones kept running through my head. I even had the hat! The site I was surveying was older than any piece of property I had ever worked on before.
I was working in the dry, barren desert sands of Sudan, surveying for an archeology team from the United States with the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAMSudan). The site was located at the base of Jebel Barkal, a sandstone table-mountain close to the Nile River, and a one-time sacred site for both the Egyptians and Nubians.
It all started in January of 2007. I had been making plans to go into business with the registered land surveyor who got me interested in surveying. After talking for weeks, we decided that new equipment was needed. I purchased a Topcon robot, a Topcon RTK GPS system and a Carlson Explorer II. Carlson SurvCE worked the best with the instruments I chose.
Later that month, the sales manager from where I purchased the equipment contacted me and asked if I was interested in renting the robot for a month. My original business plans had fallen through, so with a rather large equipment loan hanging over my head, I decided that a rental was not out of the question. This is how I met Tim Kendall, archeologist.
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- Exhibition / Interview: “from Nubia To Sudan”
Greek Reporter (by Zdravka Mihaylova) Interview with Alexandros Tsakos and Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos. With photos. Last October the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art inaugurated the photo exhibition ‘From Nubia to Sudan through the Eyes of the Greek-Norwegian...
- Online Resource: Jebel Barkal
jebelbarkal.org An excellent resource for Jebel Barkal (Sudan), with lovely photographs of the site and area. Here's a short exerpt from the introduction: Jebel Barkal (“Mt. Barkal”) (var. Gebel Barkal, Gebel el-Barkal, and in some early sources...
- Sad News: Ian Mathieson
The Telegraph, UK Ian Mathieson, who died on June 24 aged 83, was a land surveyor by profession and an archaeologist by inclination; he spent much of the latter part of his life investigating the ancient Egyptian site at Saqqara. Mathieson pioneered methods...
- A New Look At Prehistory
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) At last! Anyone interested in the antecedents of the Egyptian civilisation and the cultures that predated the unification of the country under one king may soon have many of their questions answered. Items showing evidence...
- Nubia's Black Pharaohs
http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-05/features/nubia-black-pharaohs/The full article is available only to Discover subscribers, but the following teaser appars on their article (to see the full teaser click on the link above).:"Striding toward an excavation...