Egypt
- Egyptian Archaeology 39
Egypt Exploration Society Egyptian Archaeology 39 EA 39 (Autumn 2011) was published in early November 2011. In addition to regular features such as ‘Digging Diary’, ‘Bookshelf’ and items of EES news, the issue includes the second in the series...
- Tell Basta Blog - 2011 Season
Tell Basta blog With photos. We’ve been here at Tell Basta for more than a week now and work has begun on the detailed documentation of the finds of the last season, especially glass (by Dr Daniela Rosenow), pottery (by Mandy Mamedow) and terracotta...
- Egyptian Archaeology 37
Egypt Exploration Society Mine turned up this morning. I haven't had the chance to do more than flip through it but the photographs from North Dashur and from the Book of the Dead exhibition are stunning. Egyptian Archaeology 37 (Autumn 2010) has...
- Egypt Finds Granite Statue, Likely Of Ramses Ii
Reuters Africa Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a granite statue probably depicting the head of Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, the country's culture ministry said on Wednesday. Researchers discovered the statue...
- Ancient Egypt Magazine August/september 2008
Ancient Egypt Magazine Thanks to Bob Partridge for the news that the August/September 2008 issue of “Ancient Egypt” magazine (published in the U.K.) is now available. This issue is also available as an electronic version which can be found at the...
Egypt
Work resumes at Tell Basta
Thanks to Eva Lange and Daniela Rosenow (Universität Potsdam) for emailing the Egyptologists Electronic Forum with the following information about the situation at Tell Basta (Bubastis) in the Delta.
The Tell Basta-Project has started its regular spring season today. At present only Dr Eva Lange and Dr Daniela Rosenow are at Zagazig. The rest of the team will follow next week.
Today we visited the site and fortunately can confirm that all magazins and the museums have not been looted at all. Anyway as the local authorities informed us, there was an attempt to loot the site and magazine two weeks ago but the local Ghafirs were able to protect the site and no harm was done.
We would like to let all of you know that the Ministry of Antiquity Affairs has been very cooperative and supportive and we faced no problems whatsoever.
Best regards
Eva Lange and Daniela Rosenow
For anyone interested in finding out more about the Project here are some useful links. General information about the site is available at the EES website together with an article by Rosenow on the Great Temple of Bastet from the EES Egyptian Archaeology Magazine, Hawass describes it on his blog, there's a report on the statue of Nefer-Ka recovered from the site on the Museums in the Nile Delta website, and the Project has photos on Flickr here and here.
- Egyptian Archaeology 39
Egypt Exploration Society Egyptian Archaeology 39 EA 39 (Autumn 2011) was published in early November 2011. In addition to regular features such as ‘Digging Diary’, ‘Bookshelf’ and items of EES news, the issue includes the second in the series...
- Tell Basta Blog - 2011 Season
Tell Basta blog With photos. We’ve been here at Tell Basta for more than a week now and work has begun on the detailed documentation of the finds of the last season, especially glass (by Dr Daniela Rosenow), pottery (by Mandy Mamedow) and terracotta...
- Egyptian Archaeology 37
Egypt Exploration Society Mine turned up this morning. I haven't had the chance to do more than flip through it but the photographs from North Dashur and from the Book of the Dead exhibition are stunning. Egyptian Archaeology 37 (Autumn 2010) has...
- Egypt Finds Granite Statue, Likely Of Ramses Ii
Reuters Africa Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a granite statue probably depicting the head of Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, the country's culture ministry said on Wednesday. Researchers discovered the statue...
- Ancient Egypt Magazine August/september 2008
Ancient Egypt Magazine Thanks to Bob Partridge for the news that the August/September 2008 issue of “Ancient Egypt” magazine (published in the U.K.) is now available. This issue is also available as an electronic version which can be found at the...