Tag Archives: Egypt
Past, present, and future discoveries
In the previous entry, we were referring to life on Sai in the dig house of the French Mission from the University of Lille. A particular importance of this house is that it hosts most of the archaeological material found … Continue reading
The future of the Nile @ Anastasi’s Egyptological Collection
Ten days have passed since Henriette gave a lecture on “The Nile in the 21st century”, in a venue organized by the Norwegian Egyptological Society at the Gallery of Egyptian Antiquities of the Bergen Museum. The lecture summarized in Norwegian … Continue reading
A Friday Prayer
In Islam, and wherever there are Muslims, Friday is the day for prayers par excellence. So, although not of the Muslim faith ourselves, the present entry goes out as a prayer for the memory of the Honorary President of the … Continue reading
People of Nubia in Chicago
The return from U.S.A. to Norway signifies the close of the entries concerning Chicago and Nubian topics. This one will concentrate to the people who are involved in Nubian Studies in Chicago. Obviously the headquarters of such studies are based at the … Continue reading
Nubian Studies in Chicago
A week after presenting Nubian Studies in the frame of the 22nd Byzantine Congress of Sofia, new tasks find Alexandros in Chicago! His research trip there was generously supported by a grant from The Institute for Comparative Research in Human … Continue reading
Rock art on the way to the Greek islands…
In the previous entry, we commemorated the important academic venue organized by the Hellenic Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt (HSSAE) that brought to the Athenian public knowledge about the history of the Kharga Oasis as testified by its … Continue reading
Kharga Oasis and the Darb el-Arbain in Athens
The cultivation of the desert with water irrigated from underground aquifer systems aims at creating technically what naturally is called an oasis. Some of the largest (natural) oases of the Western Desert, hundreds of kilometers away from the Nile Valley, … Continue reading
Cultivating the desert
The previous entry concerned desertification, so this entry will focus on the opposite – fields in the desert. Last year, Zaccaria, the guard of the site that we excavate on Sai Island, told us that he had travelled 270 kilometres … Continue reading
Water politics and archaeology
In the Nile Valley, the exploitation of the water resources and the archaeological research go more often than not hand in hand. Inevitably, this observation carries along political implications in various degrees and fashions: – The knowledge of the balance … Continue reading
Medieval Sai Project 