Thursday, March 6, 2014

Egypt Excavations






Art Museum

Highway Guards 
Zamalek in fog


The "Hud Hud" or Hoopoe


Nile

Zamalec gardener I met

Basil
To the basket maker (Dashur)


Peace


Date Farmer

Canal fishing


Arabian Horses at Giza


Saqqara


Titi's Tomb, Saqqara









Red & Bent Pyramids from Saqqara




Step Pyramid of of Djoser;  Saqqara










I am reasonably sure that this is a lime kiln at the Philadelphia site.
There seems to have been a smelting kiln in close proximity based on slag.


Bent Pyramid

Red Pyramid 


Downward shaft of the Red Pyramid



Guards at Kom Aushim

Roman Ruins at Karanis




Lincoln (first to translate this inscription)



Mosen in his element. Egyptian head of excavations for UCLA at Giza

Scarab



Birds eye of Muslim cemetery from the Giza Quarry


Worker's City: Recent UCLA find 2014

Director of the UCLA Excavations at Giza (At right)



When I set my camera on this basalt pavement, near the Queen's Pyramid,
it magnetically erased a picture from my files 
and temporarily re-formatted my memory card!




Me at the corner of Khafre's Pyramid

The Great Pyramid of Khufu from NW corner of Khafre





Queen's Pyramid

Riders at Giza




Krystal Surveying the site at Philadelphia




Agnieszka Dobrowolska
Architect of the Open Air Museum at Karanis



Roman Temples at Karanis


The Bent Pyramid of Sneferu







Figure Fragments from the Seila Pyramid of Snefaru

A Beer Jar with ceremonial sediments from the Seila Pyramid

Farag




Seila Pyramid of Snefru 2600 BCE


Tracks of Al Dib (Egyptian Jackal; subspecies of grey wolf) 


Fayum & Coptic Roman cemetery below with 1,700 excavated burials

Excavated Tomb

Joyce with mummy wrapping

Woman from the Fayum washing pans in the canal

Fag El Gamous Magazine

Joyce Smith, Textile & Jewelry Consultant,  with burial wrappings
  

Paying the guards

 Field School



4600 year old jar from seila


Restoring a travertine libation alter from the Seila Pyramid.
(A request from the Egyptian ministry of Antiquities)




I am hypothesizing that this is a Casting mold, unbroken with bronze inside 

Translation from greek

Carver's Mallet

A tomb at Saqqara











Papyri in Greek


One of the burial vessels from our "Kill Hole" chapter


Jug handles with Greek stamp seals

Feet of Snefru in travertine








Making mud brick for the open air museum in Karanis


Aswan Granite in the open air museum
 Coptic Christian Tomb City near 26th of October City
The edge of the Sahara






Pyramid in the Fayum