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Visiting the tomb of Meresankh III, Eastern Cemetery, Giza G7530-G7540
A visit to the lesser-known tomb of Meresankh III in the Eastern Cemetery of Giza is well worth the additional ticket.
Mastabas in the Eastern Cemetery, with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (rear right); the pyramid of Khafre (rear, left) and the pyramid of Khufu’s Queen Henutsen (rear, centre) behind. A small chapel is visible in the ‘street’ between the mastabas in the foreground, with the denuded edge of mastaba G7430 behind it. To the left is the north edge of mastaba G7520. (Author photograph February 2024).
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#archaeology#Eastern Cemetery#Egypt#Egyptology#G7530-7540.#Giza#Hetepheres II#Meresankh III#Old Kingdom#Tombs
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Grand Egyptian Museum: Grand Staircase Review
A first look at the sculptures on the Grand Staircase of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza.
In my previous post, I reviewed the Grand Egyptian Museum atrium and Tutankhamun: The Immersive Experience. In this post I will address the sculptures of the Grand Staircase, the only display of ancient Egyptian artefacts currently accessible to the visitor, apart from the statues in the atrium and the hanging obelisk. When the museum is fully open, the Grand Staircase will lead to the galleries…
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#Antiquities#Egypt#Egyptology#Giza#Grand Egyptian Museum#Grand Staircase#Museums#Pharaonic Statuary#Statuary
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Grand Egyptian Museum Atrium and Immersive Tutankhamun: Review
The courtyard of the Grand Egyptian Museum, with the entrance to the left and the hanging obelisk of Ramses II to the right. The route from the obelisk to the entrance is flanked by colonnades and shallow lakes. (Author photo)
The colossus of Ramses II, in position in the atrium of the GEM. (Author photo).
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) at Giza will be Egypt’s modern, state-of-the-art,…
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#Antiquities#archaeology#Egypt#Egyptology#Exhibitions#GEM#Grand Egyptian Museum#Hanging Obelisk#Immersive Experiences#Museums#Ramses II#Review#Statuary#Tutankhamun
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Orthorectifying Worldview-3 satellite imagery of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi
In my previous posts, I explained how to pan-sharpen and then mosaic Worldview-3 satellite imagery. The final phase of processing the ‘ortho-ready’ imagery is ‘orthorectification‘. To orthorectify the Worldview-3 imagery I used a 2m resolution digital surface model (DSM) generated by Digitalglobe from a stereo-pair of Worldview-2 satellite images of the same area of Middle Egypt as the…
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#archaeology#Asyut#Asyut Region Project#Egypt#Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi#GIS#Mosaicking#Orthorectifying#Satellite imagery#Satellite remote sensing#Worldview-3
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Pan-sharpening a Worldview-3 satellite imagery of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi
How to pan-sharpen Worldview-3 satellite imagery in ArcGIS.
Earlier this year, I described how to create and pan-sharpen a multi-spectral 3-band composite Landsat-8 raster. Although I’m all for using free satellite imagery, sometimes it isn’t enough and you need to buy high-resolution satellite imagery from a suitable provider. Such was the case for my work on the archival material from Hogarth’s excavations in the necropolis of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi in…
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#ArcGIS#archaeology#Asyut#Asyut Region Project#Egypt#Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi#GIS#Pan-sharpening#Satellite imagery#Satellite remote sensing#Worldview-3
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Mosaicking pan-sharpened Worldview-3 satellite imagery of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi
How to mosaic pan-sharpened Worldview-3 satellite imagery in ArcGIS.
In my previous post, I explained how to pan-sharpen individual .tifs of high-resolution Worldview-3 satellite imagery. Worldview-3 satellite imagery is provided as a series of .tif tiles covering the area purchased, but because each .tif tile has a slightly different histogram (the frequency of each colour within the image varies from .tif to .tif) the imagery exhibits abrupt discontinuities at…
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#archaeology#Asyut#Asyut Region Project#Egypt#Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi#GIS#Mosaicking#Satellite imagery#Satellite remote sensing#Worldview-3
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Stonehenge Tunnel - a Planning Archaeologist's Perspective
Stonehenge needs little introduction! A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous archaeological site in England. It is a Neolithic stone circle enclosed within a ditch and bank (the ‘henge’) and surrounded by an extensive prehistoric landscape of barrows, henges, cursus monuments, and other features that reach as far as Avebury and Silbury Hill. For centuries the main…
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#Archaeological desk-based assessment#Archaeological experience#archaeology#British Archaeology#Planning#Public archaeology#Stonehenge
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Stonehenge and planning archaeology in England
I have previously written about how archaeological sites as experienced by the public differ from sites as experienced by the archaeologist, how this feeds into misunderstandings of archaeology, and their impact on our society. These issues have once again come to the fore as the summer of 2023 provokes further debate about the approved A303 tunnel scheme near Stonehenge. As with the Prittlewell…
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#Archaeological desk-based assessment#Archaeological experience#archaeology#British Archaeology#Planning#Stonehenge
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Review of the re-displayed Egypt and Sudan gallery of the Manchester Museum
NOTE: This post includes mention and some distant images of mummified people (sahw).
A 3-d display of amulets as they would be situated within a sahw. This popular display was reinstalled from a previous display in the Egypt and Sudan Gallery. (Author Photograph)
In February 2023, the Manchester Museum reopened following a major refit. In April I visited the museum, including the refurbished…
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What sahw you? 'Mummies', 'Mummified people' or 'Mummified remains'?
NOTE: Inevitably as this post discusses mummified people it includes images of them and references to them that some may find offensive.
Highly decorated mask for a mummified ancient Egyptian with the skin highlighted in gold leaf hinting at the divinity of the deceased (Author photograph at the Golden Mummies exhibition).
In my previous post I reviewed Manchester Museum’s recent Golden Mummies…
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Exhibition Review: 'Golden Mummies of Egypt' at Manchester Museum
NOTE: Inevitably as this post discusses an exhibition about mummified people it includes references to them and images of them.
Artemidorous, in the Golden Mummies exhibtion. (Author Photograph)
The reopened Manchester Museum is currently showing ‘Golden Mummies of Egypt’ in its brand new exhibition hall until the end of December this year (2023). The exhibition focuses on mummification in the…
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Pan-sharpening a composite 3-band 4-3-2 RGB true colour Landsat-8 satellite image of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi
How do you enhance the resolution of a composite 3 band satellite image? Here's how!
In my previous post, I described how to create a composite true colour Landsat-8 image in ArcGIS for use as a base map. The resulting colour image had the same resolution as the three bands (red, green and blue) combined to create it. Landsat-8 visible light (red, green and blue) bands, near infra-red (NIR), and short-wave infra-red (SWIR) bands are 30m resolution. Thermal infra-red (TIR) bands…
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#ArcGIS#archaeology#Asyut#Egypt#Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi#GIS#Landsat-8#Pan-sharpening#Satellite imagery#Satellite remote sensing
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'I see your true colours . . ' creating a composite 'true colour' Landsat-8 satellite image of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi
How to create a colour image from a three greyscale satellite bands.
The various Landsat datasets are a commonly used medium resolution, free, source of satellite imagery, available from the United States Geological Survey’s earthexplorer portal. I’m all in favour of free satellite imagery, but because they are free data, you’ll need to do a little processing before you can use them as a colour base map for your research. In this post, I will explain how Landsat…
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#ArcGIS#archaeology#Asyut#Composite raster#Egypt#Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi#GIS#Landsat-8#Satellite imagery#Satellite remote sensing#True colour
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Exhibition Review: 'Tutankhamun the Boy: Growing up in ancient Egypt' at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology
In a year of many exhibitions I review the Petrie Museum's 'Tutankhamun the Boy'.
Head of Min-Amun (UC34503) with features attributed to Tutankhamun. (Author photograph)
It is November 2022, 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and the bicentenary of Champollion’s decipherment of Hieroglyphs has produced many exhibitions, books, blogs, podcasts, and programmes. It has also provoked considerable…
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Review of the British Museum's 'Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt' exhibition
The British Museum's Hieroglyphs exhibition is a crowd-pleaser with a complex view of decipherment and a thorough overview of Egyptian written culture.
British Museum EA 24, the Rosetta Stone (Hagar Rashid) as displayed in the Hieroglyphs exhibition. (Author Photograph at the British Museum in 2022)
For anyone who’s been hiding under a rock, 2022 was a big year for Egyptology: the anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, and the bicentenary of the first publication announcing the decipherment of Hieroglyphs in 1822.…
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What's the point of an exhibition? or 'How to Wellcome change in the museum space'
What’s the point of an exhibition? or ‘How to Wellcome change in the museum space’
As I write this in late November 2022, academic and museum Twitter has just seen an almighty row about the Wellcome Collection‘s decision to close and replace its ‘Medicine Man’ gallery. (In fact, ‘row’ probably isn’t even the right word for it – we need a new word for these Twitter events, something that encompasses row, mass trolling event, and collective whinge.) Responses ranged from positive…
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Five years on: Reflections on Reflectance Transformation Imaging research at Hatnub Quarry P in 2017
Five years on: Reflections on Reflectance Transformation Imaging research at Hatnub Quarry P in 2017
In a previous post I discussed the mobile-GIS survey during the 2017 season at the Hatnub travertine quarries. During the same period, I also undertook reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) of specific inscriptions.
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
Along the descending passage into Quarry P are a number of flat panels carved into the rock and originally containing inscriptions left…
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