Egypt
Heritage Key (Gary Shaw)
With photos.
- Kom El-daba Excavations Underway
EES Delta Survey The excavation of the mud-brick building really started today. The fill over the brickwork of the northern wall – in what we are, for the moment, assuming was a ‘street’ between this house and the next – was very empty with just...
- Ees Delta Survey - First Visit To Daba
Egypt Exploration Society (Patricia Spencer) With photos. This morning we went to the SCA office and met the Director for Kafr esh-Sheikh, Dr Mohammed Abdel Rafaa, who made us very welcome and actually remembered us from when we were touring around tells...
- Painted History In Sinai
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) REMAINS of the largest ancient Egyptian temple yet to be found in Sinai have been uncovered in Qantara, reports Nevine El-Aref. At Tel-Hebua, known in Pharaonic times as Tharo, the area from which the ancient Egyptian...
- More Re Sinai Discoveries
drhawass.com With two photographs. This article seems to make it clear that instead of four separate sites the discovery is one site, a temple, which includes for different hall components - which actually makes rather more sense. Minister of Culture...
- Daily Photo - Deir El Hagar #1
Photographs of Deir el Hagar in Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert. Deir el Hagar, "Monastery of Stone", was built under the reign of the Emperor Nero and was later added to by other Roman leaders (Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian). Known in Pharaonic times...
Egypt
Feature: Medieval Fustat
Heritage Key (Gary Shaw)
With photos.
At first glance the remains of Fustat are more like an abandoned opencast mine than a medieval capital city – an impression created at its edges where the grey sloping ground enters the great depression of the excavated area. Palm trees, weeds, cacti, and tall grass are evenly dispersed across the site, and the remains of small fired clay and mud-brick buildings are scattered around. The bricks are held together with thick mortar made from recycled limestone – probably re-used from ancient pharaonic buildings. One house still has its window - three thick slats sitting on top of its mud-brick wall. Columns, lying toppled on their sides, speak of better times; some are made from Aswan red granite, and probably started their lives as elements of pharaonic period temples from the Memphite area, before being adapted for Roman temples and then Christian churches until finally being reworked in medieval times. Intricate columns capitals also lie about on the surface.
- Kom El-daba Excavations Underway
EES Delta Survey The excavation of the mud-brick building really started today. The fill over the brickwork of the northern wall – in what we are, for the moment, assuming was a ‘street’ between this house and the next – was very empty with just...
- Ees Delta Survey - First Visit To Daba
Egypt Exploration Society (Patricia Spencer) With photos. This morning we went to the SCA office and met the Director for Kafr esh-Sheikh, Dr Mohammed Abdel Rafaa, who made us very welcome and actually remembered us from when we were touring around tells...
- Painted History In Sinai
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) REMAINS of the largest ancient Egyptian temple yet to be found in Sinai have been uncovered in Qantara, reports Nevine El-Aref. At Tel-Hebua, known in Pharaonic times as Tharo, the area from which the ancient Egyptian...
- More Re Sinai Discoveries
drhawass.com With two photographs. This article seems to make it clear that instead of four separate sites the discovery is one site, a temple, which includes for different hall components - which actually makes rather more sense. Minister of Culture...
- Daily Photo - Deir El Hagar #1
Photographs of Deir el Hagar in Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert. Deir el Hagar, "Monastery of Stone", was built under the reign of the Emperor Nero and was later added to by other Roman leaders (Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian). Known in Pharaonic times...