Egypt
iMalqata
- The Horned Viper
iMalqata Although once a palace-city that housed hundreds of people, as an archaeological site Malqata is part of Egypt’s low desert. When you visit the site, it is not immediately apparent that wildlife is part of Maqata, but if one is quiet and patient...
- Imalqata Project Update - Everything Amenhotep
iMalqata Project With some useful links. 2012 is turning out to be the year of Amenhotep III. In addition to our work at his jubilee palace-city at Malqata, excavations and restoration projects are going on in the king’s mortuary temple, his tomb...
- More Work By The Ees Delta Survey
EES Delta Survey With photos. Thursday again and the last working day of the week. We’ve continued investigating some of the high mud-brick walls, though some of the chunks of what look like mud-brick are deceptive. In some cases what has survived is...
- Online Resource - Reports On The Palace Of Malqata, Luxor
iMalqata A series of online reports about the complex of Amenhotep III on the west bank of Luxor. Here's an exerpt from the introduction but look at the page itself for links to all the online articles available, dating from 1914 to 1992 (PDFs). ...
- In The Field: The Week Of The Brick
Brooklyn Museum Tracing mud brick takes skill, patience and lots of scraping and brushing. It is paying off for Ayman and his team, though. By Tuesday, they had already uncovered quite a bit of brick in the center of the square north of the Taharqa Gate....
Egypt
What we found in the dump
iMalqata
Thanks to Vincent Brown's Twitter feed for this link, which is part of the Malqata website. Malqata was established by Amenhotep III as a palace on the west bank of the Nile. A full description of the site is available on the above website. Here's an extract from a recent post discussing the excavations at the palace.
Two days ago we decided that one more area we wanted to explore this season, in order to get a better feel for the extent of the village, was a short row of bricks visible west of the “Lower Village.” The Lower Village is what I call a group of what are probably houses at the base of the desert terrace, the area we first began to excavate three weeks ago. As soon as we started to clear the brick (a good thing we did because there is only a partial course of foundation bricks left), we found several pits. We cleaned out the smaller one, away from the wall, to see what kind of material was being dumped there.
- The Horned Viper
iMalqata Although once a palace-city that housed hundreds of people, as an archaeological site Malqata is part of Egypt’s low desert. When you visit the site, it is not immediately apparent that wildlife is part of Maqata, but if one is quiet and patient...
- Imalqata Project Update - Everything Amenhotep
iMalqata Project With some useful links. 2012 is turning out to be the year of Amenhotep III. In addition to our work at his jubilee palace-city at Malqata, excavations and restoration projects are going on in the king’s mortuary temple, his tomb...
- More Work By The Ees Delta Survey
EES Delta Survey With photos. Thursday again and the last working day of the week. We’ve continued investigating some of the high mud-brick walls, though some of the chunks of what look like mud-brick are deceptive. In some cases what has survived is...
- Online Resource - Reports On The Palace Of Malqata, Luxor
iMalqata A series of online reports about the complex of Amenhotep III on the west bank of Luxor. Here's an exerpt from the introduction but look at the page itself for links to all the online articles available, dating from 1914 to 1992 (PDFs). ...
- In The Field: The Week Of The Brick
Brooklyn Museum Tracing mud brick takes skill, patience and lots of scraping and brushing. It is paying off for Ayman and his team, though. By Tuesday, they had already uncovered quite a bit of brick in the center of the square north of the Taharqa Gate....