Weekly Websites

http://www.hierakonpolis.org/resources/nekehn_news.htm
The archive of Nekhen News, the newsletter of the Hierakonpolis Expedition, is available at the above address. Nekhen News is an excellent resource, providing information about the ongoing work taking place at the rich and valuable site of ancient Nekhen. "Download and read back issues of Nekhen News, the Hierakonpolis Expedition's newsletter, in PDF format - which is accessible by using Adobe Acrobat Reader (which is free to download). The earliest of these Nekhen News editions are truly archaeological documents in their own right, and you can read how the excavations at Hierakonpolis took shape, as well as see how we developed our 'Friends' organisation."

Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium
http://amscresearch.com/index.html
"The Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium (AMSC) is an organization involved in ground-breaking forensic research on the ancient population of the Egyptian city of Akhmim/Panopolis), particularly in the Egyptian Late Period and Ptolemaic Eras (525-30 BC). Akhmim (also rendered as Akhmin, Ekhmim, Ikhmim, Achmim) is located 290 miles (470 km) south of Cairo, and is a source of a large number of mummies distributed throughout the world. Since 1986, members of AMSC have assisted mummy-owning institutions in a wide range of non-invasive analytical activities on mummified bodies of Akhmimic derivation. AMSC is dedicated to educating the public about mummy forensics and ancient Egyptian culture in Ptolemaic times."

Egypt Sites
http://www.egyptsites.co.uk/

A super resource about ancient sites in most areas of Egypt provided by Su Bayfield, who introduces her site as follows: "Over the past twelve years I have visited and revisited many archaeological sites, vast and awesome temples, fascinating tombs and out-of-the-way places where the memory of an ancient civilisation remains only in scattered ruins. The journey led me to a serious study of Egyptology, a passion that I expect will continue for the rest of my life. Another of my interests is photography which combines perfectly with my love of the ancient monuments. This website was born from these two interests and a desire to share them with other travellers.

The website has been designed with two aims. The first is an introduction for first-time visitors to the ancient sites they may encounter on a package tour or Nile cruise - a taster with photographs of what they may see. My second aim is to provide a greater level of detail on the history and archaeology of the monuments for those with a deeper interest in the study of Egypt's ancient history. I hope you will enjoy your visit to these pages and will find the information they contain both useful and interesting."

Bir Umm Fawakhir: Insights into Ancient Egyptian Mining
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9703/Meyer-9703.html
"Archaeological surveys at the site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt have clarified its role as a 5th-6th century gold-mining town. To date, 152 out of an estimated 216 buildings in the main settlement have been mapped in detail, eight outlying clusters of ruins have been identified, and four ancient mines have been inspected. In conjunction with Diodorus Siculus' first century B.C. account of Egyptian gold mining, the recent archaeological discoveries permit new insights into ancient Egyptian mining towns and techniques. Some evidence of activity at Bir Umm Fawakhir in earlier Roman, Ptolemaic, and pharaonic times has also been found."

By Carol Meyer

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