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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...
On New Years Day I took my guests to Quorn Lola for a party, it's where the rich live.
Maria Golias' a fascinating American authors' home.
'She once let slip to me over a G&T that she was in a film...
In the past few days the tomb of Amenhotep III in the Western Valley has been re-opened to the pubic. It been some twenty years since it was last opened for a short period, this was after a Japanese...
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I Used to be able to see The Colossus until the trees grew and blocked my view.
Today me and my two mates were discussing the rising price of land running through our village.
Police called this morning again to another family dispute down the road.lol..
Next door to me are now...
For those who have Netflix the above documentary is quite interesting. It relates to a journey from Aswan to Luxor using a felucca, a detailed trip on The Sudan and finally a day trip on a...
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Netflix 'lost your way well frankly yes, this and my bank account are the only 2 sites I'm locked out of,
Oh! Amazon is ok, I've just ordered 4 flytraps, efficient and fun, delivered to Gezira...
I always avoid using debit cards when I am abroad, but it is now a must if you are visiting any site in Luxor, earlier this year I was able to pay to get into Karnack, now impossible. I was sat in...
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When once a year you go to renew your license you are faced with all the violations, you are not informed as at each time, and must pay for all of them, or you lose your license.
Now this is interesting.
Years ago I worked as a salvage diver for Eurosalve owned buy Jimmy Rowlands.
who also lived in a Martello Tower and owner of The Rock Shop in Ramsgate.
I was asked by two separate people I came across who knows me as A-Four while in Egypt, and asked me which was my favourite tomb in the great valley, to be honest that's quite difficult, but...
I took an early morning walk from my hotel towards Karnack, few people were about as I walked along the now extended Corniche. As I approached the Luxor Museum I noticed several Chinese people...
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Not doing the cruise last year we took the opportunity to do the day trip to abydos from luxor we also went to denderra on the lotus boat which was great as I hadn't been for a few years. Normally on...
They are a nice walk away about 5 minutes if your dawdling..
Past Amedia Edwards old 'blue-plaque place..
Arnold Bennett must have known this part of Clerkenwell pretty well.
I have finally got...
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Saturday with the ****** offspring, most bar staff in the 'manor love her...
Oh! it's sunday not saturday...
The 'morning after, it's called 'hungover....
A football match in Cafe Kick f.f.b....noisy...
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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Thank you again A-Four. I am hopeful for a return to Luxor,
I have often said that this area must have in the past had a lot more water around it than we see today, canals, irrigation channels,...
100 years ago, around about tea time... a boy named Mo discovered Tut.ankh.amun.
Sort of along, with Howard and George.
So, I have decided over the next few days to put pen to paper (let my fingers...
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When the Beeb were filming on the West Bank their base was in the car park of The Ramesseum, useful
when popping into The Rest to have beer and chat with Mohammed.
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