Egypt
Egypt Then And Now
- Interactive Hierakonpolis Updated - 2009 Field Notes
Field Note 1 - Saving the Fort Field Note 2 - The Rock Art Survey The Interactive Hierakonpolis web pages have been updated on the Archaeology Magazine website with some fascinating information about work in the 2009 season. Both reports are accompanied...
- New Technology For Dating Ancient Rock Paintings
Science Daily A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric times....
- Climate And Rock Art Varnish
Science Daily Not really about Egypt, but this may be of interest to the rock art lovers amongst you. It is a generic piece about rock art analysis. As most people who have visited this blog over the last couple of years will know there is plenty of rock...
- More On Siwa Footprint
Reuters UK This short piece adds the information that current estimates of the footprint's date are based on the age of the rock where the footprint was found, which had once been mud and that scientists are applying carbon tests to preserved plants...
- A Tomb Under Hanging Rock
http://tinyurl.com/z436a (en.naukawpolsce.pl)"An increasing number of traces indicate that on a rock shelf above the temple of Hatshepsut is a tomb belonging to a Pharaoh from the 21st dynasty – says Prof. Andrzej Niwiński of the Institute of Archaeology...
Egypt
Volcanic rock sheds new light on relations among ancient cultures
Egypt Then And Now
Pumice, a lightweight volcanic rock, was used in ancient times as a cosmetic remedy and also as an abrasive. A product of high demand, it unleashed an intense commercial activity among Egyptian, Syrian, Minoan and other Mediterranean cultures. In Egypt, pumice has been found in ancient workshops. In some of the excavations, there was even rock that still presented the right abrasion traces. They were used to polish sculptures, constructions, bronze objects, and so forth.
Based on pumice specific chemical composition, researchers from Vienna University of Technology can generate a chemical fingerprint and compare rock types from archaeological excavations to determine their origin. Egyptians have surely ordered pumice from Greece.
- Interactive Hierakonpolis Updated - 2009 Field Notes
Field Note 1 - Saving the Fort Field Note 2 - The Rock Art Survey The Interactive Hierakonpolis web pages have been updated on the Archaeology Magazine website with some fascinating information about work in the 2009 season. Both reports are accompanied...
- New Technology For Dating Ancient Rock Paintings
Science Daily A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric times....
- Climate And Rock Art Varnish
Science Daily Not really about Egypt, but this may be of interest to the rock art lovers amongst you. It is a generic piece about rock art analysis. As most people who have visited this blog over the last couple of years will know there is plenty of rock...
- More On Siwa Footprint
Reuters UK This short piece adds the information that current estimates of the footprint's date are based on the age of the rock where the footprint was found, which had once been mud and that scientists are applying carbon tests to preserved plants...
- A Tomb Under Hanging Rock
http://tinyurl.com/z436a (en.naukawpolsce.pl)"An increasing number of traces indicate that on a rock shelf above the temple of Hatshepsut is a tomb belonging to a Pharaoh from the 21st dynasty – says Prof. Andrzej Niwiński of the Institute of Archaeology...