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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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I personally live in a country where Islam rules, but I fully understand, firstly, other religions, and secondly, the position of atheism. Each of these positions has its own meaning, and as the...
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)
It's many years since I first read this 'tome upon rereading it I find it most interesting.
Early on the authors talk about their secret and 'unauthorised exploration of the relieving chambers.
“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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Nice image. Very clearly showing the relative locations thanks George.
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?...
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