Egypt
- New Book: Photography And Archaeology
Reaktion Books Not exactly Egyptology, but potentially of some interest to some readers. Photography and Archaeology Frederick N. Bohrer Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what...
- Satellites Identifies 132 Archaeological Sites In Egypt Have Not Been Excavated
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said that the researches which conducted via satellites have confirmed the existence of 132 archaeological sites in Egypt that witnessed no excavations until now. Farouk Hosni said Egypt's...
- Snapping Pictures Of The Pyramids
The Northern Advocate (Peter de Graaf) It's not just what you know, it's who you know. And knowing the right people certainly helped when a tiny Whangarei firm was hired to take aerial photos of the Egyptian pyramids. Lawrence and Elaine Ross,...
- A Digital Eye Of Horus For Archaeologists
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Following the latest report about Sarah Parcak's work iwth satellites Vincent has provided a good summary of many other wasy in which archaeologists have been using satellite technology. As technology evolves at an...
- Egypt Archives Its Monuments Through Aerial And Terrestrial Photography
Daily News EgyptThe Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has completed the first phase of its historical documentation process of monuments in the city of Habu in the western bank of Luxor using aerial and terrestrial photography. The project comes as...
Egypt
Gerster's aerial photography
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/atoz/article_916727.php
A new book about Georg Gerster's aerial photography has been published. Although Gester's work is global, he started out in Egypt and Nubia: "In Gerster's recent book, The Past From Above: Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites (J. Paul Getty Museum), places we've seen a thousand times in pictures from ground level take on a whole new meaning. His photographs dramatize the scale of ancient structures and show them, as if for the first time, in relation to their surroundings. Gerster, who was born in Switzerland and lives near Zurich, developed a passion for aerial photography in 1963, when, at 35, he chartered a small plane to photograph Egyptian and Sudanese sites about to be flooded by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Since then, he has photographed sites in 108 countries and Antarctica, usually while perched in an open doorway while the plane or helicopter roars over a site".
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- New Book: Photography And Archaeology
Reaktion Books Not exactly Egyptology, but potentially of some interest to some readers. Photography and Archaeology Frederick N. Bohrer Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what...
- Satellites Identifies 132 Archaeological Sites In Egypt Have Not Been Excavated
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said that the researches which conducted via satellites have confirmed the existence of 132 archaeological sites in Egypt that witnessed no excavations until now. Farouk Hosni said Egypt's...
- Snapping Pictures Of The Pyramids
The Northern Advocate (Peter de Graaf) It's not just what you know, it's who you know. And knowing the right people certainly helped when a tiny Whangarei firm was hired to take aerial photos of the Egyptian pyramids. Lawrence and Elaine Ross,...
- A Digital Eye Of Horus For Archaeologists
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Following the latest report about Sarah Parcak's work iwth satellites Vincent has provided a good summary of many other wasy in which archaeologists have been using satellite technology. As technology evolves at an...
- Egypt Archives Its Monuments Through Aerial And Terrestrial Photography
Daily News EgyptThe Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has completed the first phase of its historical documentation process of monuments in the city of Habu in the western bank of Luxor using aerial and terrestrial photography. The project comes as...