Egypt
- Ongoing Work In The Faiyum - Week 2
Faiyum Dig Diaries We are currently continuing an intensive surface survey we began last year to understand the nature of the distribution of the archaeological record along the ancient lake edge. The landscape has undergone a lot of erosion since artefacts...
- Shining A Light On The Past
The Economist Not specific to Egyptology but may well be of use here as elsewhere. Having spent part of an afternoon under a black-out sheet with a carved rock, a fellow archaeologist and a high powered torch each to try and work out the patterns carved...
- Time For The Great Pyramid?
Archaeology Magazine (Mark Rose) Like any scientific research, the methods, data, and conclusions presented in JAMA can now be evaluated and debated. Right now, for example, I am working on a short piece about the results to go into our May/June issue....
- Online Journal: Spectral Imaging Of Ostraca
PalArch Gregory Bearman* & William A. Christens-Barry Bearman, G. & W.A. Christens-Barry. 2009. Spectral Imaging of Ostraca Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 6(7) (2009), 1-20. ABSTRACT By analogy with ancient texts, infrared...
- Conference Report: Of Dogs And Men
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Beverley Miles, a doctoral candidate at MacQuarie University in Australia, has been researching the relationship that dogs and humans had – during the time that the pyramids were built. She presented her results at an Egyptology...
Egypt
Visualising ancient Egyptian artefact surface transformations
Kathryn Piquette's Blog
These past several days have been largely occupied with preparing and delivering a conference paper at ‘The Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology’ (CAA) 2012 at the University of Southampton.
As mentioned in a previous post, I am researching early Egyptian (and Mesopotamian) image bearing artefact surfaces in order to understand how they were formed and transformed through scribal and artistic activities. Taking the example of elaborate carving on a Late Predynastic (c.3100BCE) Egyptian mudstone palette, namely the so-called Hunters Palette, I am investigating evidence for its creation through close analysis of the carved surface using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) data*.
- Ongoing Work In The Faiyum - Week 2
Faiyum Dig Diaries We are currently continuing an intensive surface survey we began last year to understand the nature of the distribution of the archaeological record along the ancient lake edge. The landscape has undergone a lot of erosion since artefacts...
- Shining A Light On The Past
The Economist Not specific to Egyptology but may well be of use here as elsewhere. Having spent part of an afternoon under a black-out sheet with a carved rock, a fellow archaeologist and a high powered torch each to try and work out the patterns carved...
- Time For The Great Pyramid?
Archaeology Magazine (Mark Rose) Like any scientific research, the methods, data, and conclusions presented in JAMA can now be evaluated and debated. Right now, for example, I am working on a short piece about the results to go into our May/June issue....
- Online Journal: Spectral Imaging Of Ostraca
PalArch Gregory Bearman* & William A. Christens-Barry Bearman, G. & W.A. Christens-Barry. 2009. Spectral Imaging of Ostraca Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 6(7) (2009), 1-20. ABSTRACT By analogy with ancient texts, infrared...
- Conference Report: Of Dogs And Men
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Beverley Miles, a doctoral candidate at MacQuarie University in Australia, has been researching the relationship that dogs and humans had – during the time that the pyramids were built. She presented her results at an Egyptology...