Video Blog / Field Diary 2020.3 © Abydos Archaeology
Episode 2 of our video blog series On the Ground at Abydos explores the first few weeks of this season's excavations in “Cemetery D”—a name given by British archaeologist T.E. Peet to the area at the far northern edge of the Abydos North Cemetery, when he first excavated here in the early 20th Century. Our goal this season is to understand the limits of those earlier excavations, and to push beyond them to a fuller exploration of the cemetery and the early Old Kingdom & late predynastic activity in this area. Our work this season has taken us on a tour through Peet's spoil heaps and back in time through various periods of Graeco-Roman, pharaonic, and predynastic activity at this part of the site. This episode focuses on evidence of activity here during the Middle Kingdom (c. 2050-1650 BCE).
Video by Wendy Doyon for North Abydos Expedition © 2020