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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 don't know whether this has been posted before as it was originally shown on Channel 4 back in 2012 but I found it very interesting.
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My friend's parents are in a situation where his father believes in God, but his mother does not. And I could say that it isn’t the biggest problem when they have a strong feeling of respect. This...
The upcoming anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, and the opening of the GEM, will undoubtedly reawaken the clamour for Egypt’s “ stolen” heritage to be returned.
There was a...
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Talking of repatriating Egypt’s artefacts, there was an interesting program tonight on the PBS America channel covering the rescue of Egyptian temples by UNESCO after the flooding of the Nile valley...
A new exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, highlights the contribution of Egyptians to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb
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I was at the Petrie a couple of weeks ago.
There is an exhibition, commencing September, themed around the childhood of Tutankhamun and Egyptian children of his era. I didn’t notice any specific...
Apparently the top part of the Hatshepsut obelisk, lying on its side nearvthe sacred lake at Karnak Temple, has been restored and re-erected.
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Not sure...
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Many years ago I checked the locations of the obelisks original positions outside Hatshepsut temple and the ones at Karnak temple and they lived up perfectly on Google earth. Assuming we are talking...
Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to visit this yet….not that I’d be allowed too close…but it looks impressive.
Apologies for foisting Hawass onto you…but the video is interesting.
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I am convinced that highly intelligent civilisations have lived on many continents on this earth in the past, and while thier technology may not have been the same as ours, they had the ability to...
From personal experience and that of friends living here he has definitely got a reputation for being inappropriate with ladies and grabbing the acclaim from other who did the original work. Not...
A friend sent me this link ; we had such plans for this place.
The link doesn't work but anyhow...it's reopened as an eco hotel. eco = green = cheap...
Last night, I saw some photographs that had been posted online of the Avenue of Sphinx in the Karnak area. The photo graphs had been taken some years ago and showed some very worn, barely...
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I don’t think, for a moment, that anyone doubts that Shelley’s Ozymandias is Ramesses II and his poem was inspired by the fallen colossus at the Ramasseum. How could the Heliopolis torso possibly...
The Shakespeare's Head.
A flat roofed pub just behind Sadlers Wells Theatre. (Flat roofed pubs are always know as 'dodgy)
It's a proper Sunday boozer full of old Londonders and covered in photos of...
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Ps: I thought the first episode of Up or Down the Nile last night with Ran Fiennes, pretty un-inspirational.
Lets hopes it improves....
Not a patch on Michael Palin’s epic “Across the Andes by...
I'm having great fun on FB with Graham Handcock and his assertions of Bauvals discovery of
the Orion Correlation..hundreds of complaints and trolls, love it..... 8)
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