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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...
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,...
Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an international outcry....
A conference on Egyptology at Bristol University had to be cancelled because of Corvid19, but went ahead as a series of lectures on Zoom and UTube videos. This was mentioned by a member in a recent...
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I don’t think it was me but I was aware of it. Unfortunately I missed it.
Not to worry.
The above and other online lectures can be found at :
