The site of Ayn Soukhna in the northern Gulf of Suez, identified in 1999, has been excavated by a French-Egyptian mission (IFAO, CNRS, Sorbonne, Suez Canal University) since 2001. It was one of the three known Pharaonic intermittent harbours and logistic platforms for Egyptian expeditions, mainly to the South Sinai mining area (copper, turquoise). It was a key feature of the Pharaonic network in the Red Sea. Ayn Soukhna was, of these three harbours, the longest and most regularly occupied. The two...

The village and its surrounds: Excavations, architecture and artefacts

This project will see the publication of fieldwork from 1979–86 at the Workmen’s Village (27° 38’ N, 30° 54’ E) associated with the pharaonic Egyptian city of Akhetaten (modern Amarna). Akhetaten was built by...

The Valley of the Kings (KV) is most...

Claudia Näser, the lead researcher of this publication project, together with Jens Weschenfelder, the author of the envisaged publication, joined the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project upon invitation by the National...

Bet Khallaf is a Third Egyptian Dynasty (2686-2613 BC ca.) necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile at 26° 19’ North, 31° 47’ East in the desert zone bordering on the crop cultivations, 20 km north of Abydos necropolis (Umm el-Qa’ab), site of the first royal burial place of the first Egyptian kings (Ist Dynasty 3000-2890 BC ca.). The site includes a five hectares area, where five mudbrick mastabas (rectangular mudbrick tombs with underground apartments) were discovered in May 1901 by John Garstang, as a mission for the Egyptian Research Account, which received no further attention...

The aim of the grant, awarded to Dr. Edward Brovarski, is to prepare the publication of the Old Kingdom tombs excavated by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr in the 1950s and early 1960s in the cemetery named after him in the far Western Field at Giza, Egypt.

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 Archaeological investigations of the region between Gash and the Atbara rivers were conducted in the Eighties by the Italian Archaeological Mission to the Sudan (Kassala) of the Istituto Universitario Orientale and the Butana Archaeological Project of University of Khartoum and Southern Methodist University (Dallas). This apparently marginal region was very rich in terms of...

This grant will be for the publication of the American regional survey in the south-western Nile Delta, conducted between 1977 and 1983 by W.D.E. Coulson, with A. Leonard Jr. and N. Wilkie, which, apart from fieldwork at Naukratis itself, was never published owing to Coulson’s illness and untimely death. 
The survey encompassed all ancient sites in an area of ca. 800km2 in the western Nile Delta, around and to the west of the ancient Egyptian-Greek city of Naukratis/Kom Geif, from el-Barnugi in the north to Kom el-Hisn in the south. More extensive work was carried out at the...

The ancient town site of Deir el-Ballas is located on the west bank of the Nile in northern Upper Egypt in the neighborhood of the modern town known as Dayr Al Gharbi (26° 3" N - 32° 45" E.) about 30 km. north of Western Thebes. Circumscribed by a bay in the limestone cliffs bordering the eastern edge of the Sahara, the ancient site lay on the desert margin of the cultivation. The...

The ancient town site of Deir el-Ballas is located on the west bank of the Nile in northern Upper Egypt in the neighborhood of the modern town known as Dayr Al Gharbi (26° 3" N - 32° 45" E.) about 30 km. north of Western Thebes. Circumscribed by a bay in the limestone cliffs bordering the eastern edge of the Sahara, the ancient site lay on the desert margin of the cultivation. The...