News from the Valley of the Kings

Both teams are now on site at Amara West and regular reports are appearing on the blog.  Neal Spencer of the British Museum is reporting on his teams work excavating houses, and in particular the unusual E13.7.  This is a radially organised house, unlike most of the other excavated which have an axial plan.  It is also a neighbour of the Residence of the Deputy of Kush, suggesting that its owner was also a man of considerable importance.  There is also a painted wall motif.

Meanwhile Michaela Binder of Durham University is providing commentary on her team's excavation of the cemeteries, this year mostly cemetery D.

The British Museum team at Amara in Sudan are having a fantastic season,  Take a look at today's entry in their dig diary in which physical anthropologist, Carina Summerfield-Hill, talks about excavating a chamber tomb. Nice pictures too!

I didn't think the day would come when Sudan is the comparatively more stable country ... but the British Museum team at Amara West are continuing.  They report that they are now digging down into an earlier occupation layer to try to indentify buildings below those excavated last season.

A nice article by Marie Millet from the Amara West team has been posted on the Amara West blog. With pictures, she descrives her work on site as a pottery expert and what the pottery says about one of the houses which the team has excavated.

Thanks to Andie at Egyptology News for finding this article - and a new feed for my newsreader.  This season they are going to be excavating 'Cemetry C', a post-New Kingdom cemetry.  This though is just a heads up - work won't start for another 5 weeks.