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We thought it would be useful to collate the links to the current dig diaries and blogs.
Please feel free to add to this list. I believe this will be made a sticky.
Some are not in English but...
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Just to demonstrate that some archaeology is still happening over the summer I'd like to add to the list, the blog of the South Asasif Conservation Project directed by Dr Elena Pischikova.
Here is a list of the major Egyptian sites as found on Google Earth. As I find more I will add them to this post.
To use, just copy the two sets of figures, and then paste them into the search bar...
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Disregard the professor his coordinates are houses away, i can see the jeep they are:
25 42'56.87 N
32 37'.97'E
No wonder i get lost sometimes..la whaala...8)
Nome Name: Aned-Hetch
Capital: Ancient name: Enep-Heg or Ineb Hedj
Men-nefert or Men-nefer
Greek Name: MEMPHIS
Present Name:Miet Rahina or Mit Rahmin
Symbol: White Wall....
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I am just reading a book at the moment where the author uses the ancient names of towns in one place and then the modern names in others and seems to leave the Greek names out altogether. I have...
“I’m happy to announce that on April 8th, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will announce a new discovery in the West Bank of Luxor. The discovery comes after...
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The more I read about this discovery, the more I feel it’s been well over-hyped!
Apparently, the site was partially excavated in the 1930s and is more of a workmen’s village than a golden city....
The relationship between KhnumHotep and NiankhKhnumn has been one of speculation since their tomb was discovered in 1964. Were they brothers, lovers, or identical twins?...
As part of a plan by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to preserve the Dendera Temple complex in Upper Egypt’s Qena and develop the area around it into an open-air museum, the second...
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i am sure i was on the roof to see the (replica) zodiac many years ago. ???
Sure.
There’s the kiosk and a couple of chapels on the roof...one of which houses the replica zodiac. This - the main...
So it's quite surprising that Egypt needs to 'hand out it's begging bowl,
to fill up that bloody great space called The New Grand Egyptian Museum.
They have tons of stuff just lying around all...
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The original cost of the Grand Egyptian Museum was estimated to be around $500 million, but delays, changes, and other factors have driven the final price tag for the complex to over $1...
Here is an interesting article from Ancient Origins on the pyramid.
I've been to the bottom of the subterranean chamber, but that's another story.... 8)
Ps: To read more of my troglodyte...
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Smacks of Nazi book burnings to me... 8)
Ps: Occam has turned transgender & given up shaving!!!
Nobody’s burning Ancient-Origins’ tripe.
You’re free to believe whatever you want. It not as if...
One pioneering woman from Clerkenwell, Amelia Edwards (1831-1892), was recently granted a plaque at 19 Wharton Street. An Egyptologist, Edwards campaigned for the preservation of ancient Egypt. She...
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Also she chose UCL because it was the only college in England which granted degrees to women.
40% of the World's humans live or work in adobe that's mud plus manure type buildings.
'Not a lot of people know that!
That's over 2.5 billion people, 'well approximately.
So, I am not alone.
When...
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I can remember visiting his town in New Baris or Paris as the locals call it. I can certainly vouch for the effectiveness of the Malqaf system. It was a really warm day for the time of year yet the...
Interesting article, with pictures, describing the Abu Haggag mosque within Luxor Temple
It seems almost unfathomable to imagine a mosque inside such an important and vastly visited site such as...
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I was absolutely gob smacked when I visited Abu Haggag Mosque!!! Of course I knew it was built on top of Luxor Temple, but what I didn’t expect was to see the tops of the pillars, be level with them,...
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