Egypt
- Mosaic Of The Mestekawi-foggini Cave
Zerzura Club Thanks to Giancarlo Negro for sending me the above link to a mosaic of the rock art in the Mestekawi-Foggini cave in the western Gilf Kebir (Libyan borders of Egypt). To get the best out of these images you need to click on them and give...
- Online Resource: Inora
International Newsletter on Rock Art For anyone interested in rock art, Egyptian or otherwise, it may be worth checking out the above INORA page. The newsletter is available to download free of charge in PDF format. The most recent issue showing on the...
- In Pictures: Egypt's Hidden Treasures
BBC News A set of nice photographs from some of Egypt's more unusual places. Here's the text accompanying the first photograph, showing rock art at the Mestekawi-Foggini Cave: Egypt's western desert shelters a treasure trove of prehistoric...
- Daily Photo - Mestekawi-foggini Cave
Again, I'll leave today's explanation to someone else. This is taken from an article about a visit to the Gilf Kebir by Mohamed El-Hebeishy on the Al Ahram Weekly website. El-Mestekawi Cave was discovered during an expedition similar to ours...
- Ancient Egyptian Boats
http://www.abblogger.com/yourboatportal/2157362/Not really news, per se, but a useful summary, posted on athe Your Boat Portal blog yesterday, about ancient Egyptian boats from Predynastic through Pharaonic times. Here's an extract: "The ancient Egyptians...
Egypt
Weekly Websites
Continuing the Sunday listing of sites which I, or others, have visited during the previous week and have enjoyed or found of particular use. If anyone has any favourite sites please send them over.
Boats of Egypt before the Old Kingdom
Boats of Egypt before the Old Kingdom
http://nautarch.tamu.edu/pdf-files/Vinson-MA1987.pdf
Steve Vinson's 1987 M.A. Dissertation. Takes a while to load, and there over 300 pages: "The origin and development of planked boats in Pre- and Early Dynastic Egypt is explored through an examination of representational art, the Preynastic environment, the development of tools and woodworking and direct archaeological evidence for boats including boat burials and surviving fragments. The use and range of early boats are examined through the archaeological evidence for trade within and beyond the Nile Valley".
Tell el-Dab'a
http://www.auaris.at/ (German)
http://www.auaris.at/html/index_en.html (English)
The website for the Tell el-Dab'a site. The site has now been positively identified as Avaris, capital of the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate period. It is quite a small site but there are some very fine diagrams and photographs, as well as a good history and a bibliography.
Photographing the Mestekawi Cave's rock art
Steve Vinson's 1987 M.A. Dissertation. Takes a while to load, and there over 300 pages: "The origin and development of planked boats in Pre- and Early Dynastic Egypt is explored through an examination of representational art, the Preynastic environment, the development of tools and woodworking and direct archaeological evidence for boats including boat burials and surviving fragments. The use and range of early boats are examined through the archaeological evidence for trade within and beyond the Nile Valley".
Tell el-Dab'a
http://www.auaris.at/ (German)
http://www.auaris.at/html/index_en.html (English)
The website for the Tell el-Dab'a site. The site has now been positively identified as Avaris, capital of the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate period. It is quite a small site but there are some very fine diagrams and photographs, as well as a good history and a bibliography.
Photographing the Mestekawi Cave's rock art
http://www.zarzora.com/gallery/The-Documentation-of-EGYPTs-Neolithic-Rock-Art-Mestekawi-Cave
Slideshow of photographs from the Mestekawi Cave's rock paintings in the Gilf Kebir.
Ancient Egyptian Language (AEL)
http://www.rostau.org.uk/AEgyptian-L/
Slideshow of photographs from the Mestekawi Cave's rock paintings in the Gilf Kebir.
Ancient Egyptian Language (AEL)
http://www.rostau.org.uk/AEgyptian-L/
"The AEL discussion list came into existence on February 6th 1997 and provides a dedicated forum for the discussion of the ancient Egyptian language(s) and texts. Topics that have already come up include: learning/teaching egyptian, useful text books, hieratic, coptic, grammar, phonology, meanings of words. At any one time there are several threads, usually one of which is a discussion of a particular text, i.e. translating it and discussing its grammar, meaning, etc."
As well as the forum there are online resources including texts, learning resources and a bibliography.
- Mosaic Of The Mestekawi-foggini Cave
Zerzura Club Thanks to Giancarlo Negro for sending me the above link to a mosaic of the rock art in the Mestekawi-Foggini cave in the western Gilf Kebir (Libyan borders of Egypt). To get the best out of these images you need to click on them and give...
- Online Resource: Inora
International Newsletter on Rock Art For anyone interested in rock art, Egyptian or otherwise, it may be worth checking out the above INORA page. The newsletter is available to download free of charge in PDF format. The most recent issue showing on the...
- In Pictures: Egypt's Hidden Treasures
BBC News A set of nice photographs from some of Egypt's more unusual places. Here's the text accompanying the first photograph, showing rock art at the Mestekawi-Foggini Cave: Egypt's western desert shelters a treasure trove of prehistoric...
- Daily Photo - Mestekawi-foggini Cave
Again, I'll leave today's explanation to someone else. This is taken from an article about a visit to the Gilf Kebir by Mohamed El-Hebeishy on the Al Ahram Weekly website. El-Mestekawi Cave was discovered during an expedition similar to ours...
- Ancient Egyptian Boats
http://www.abblogger.com/yourboatportal/2157362/Not really news, per se, but a useful summary, posted on athe Your Boat Portal blog yesterday, about ancient Egyptian boats from Predynastic through Pharaonic times. Here's an extract: "The ancient Egyptians...