While concentrating on the unrest, I missed this article from the Brooklyn Museum about examining ancient Egyptian papyri to discover how sections were fastened togethe. There is a second, alied article, about their examination of pigments used.
John Hopkins University isn't the only team at work in the Karnak Precinct, Brooklyn Museum has a team onsite at the temple as well. As ever, their dig diary is very high quality - I just wish the Egyptian teams were as good. Anyway, you can read their progress during the second week here, complete with many photos. If you want even more photos of the various excavations, Jane Akshar has an outstanding set of new photos on her blog.
The Brooklyn Museum team have finished thier 2009 season at the Temple of Mut. You can read their final post here.
There's another fantastic post on the Brooklen Museum site about their work at the Temple of Mut. There are great photos of their restoration of the Taharqa Gate and Chapel D. I think this is probably the penultimate post for this year as they start to prepare to leave Egypt.
Mary McKercher of the Brooklyn Museum has posted an update on behalf of the team working at Karnak's Temple of Mut. They have now finished their restoration of the north wing of the Taharqa Gate and have started work on the more heavily eroded south wing. The report as usual has photos of their work. There are also some new finds.
Those of you who visit this site have probably seen that there's a new progress report from the Brooklyn Museum in the feed shown in the sidebar. For benefit of those who have missed it, it's worth taking a look. They are also intending to go down below Ptolemaic period this year in the important area near the Taharqa Gate.
One of our goals this year is to find out what lies under the Ptolemaic or early
Roman Period houses that fill the area west of the Taharqa Gate. On January 25
we laid out a new square that spans the width of the gate and Mamdouh and his
team got right to work.
Brooklyn Museum's team has started their 2009 Expedition to the Temple of Mut in the Karnak site, Luxor. The first post describes the work planned for 2009 and, as always, has a number of interesting photos. I've included one in this article to give you a taster - head over to the Brooklyn Museum site to see them all in full size.
