Collections & Conservation • The Abydos field house was built as a research base for the Penn-Yale Expedition in 1967; it was expanded in the early 2000s with the major addition of on-site collections storage and conservation labs between 201
       
     
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Collections & Conservation

• The Abydos field house was built as a research base for the Penn-Yale Expedition in 1967; it was expanded in the early 2000s with the major addition of on-site collections storage and conservation labs between 2010 and 2013

• The collection houses around 75,000 objects from North Abydos, as well as additional collections from many other parts of the site, curated by sponsoring research institutions and scholars in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

• The current field house is a well-equipped archaeological conservation facility where excavated material of all kinds, from pottery to ancient art and human remains are systematically housed, catalogued, and studied by specialists in every field of archaeological science and Egyptology

• Read about the history of on-site research and conservation at Abydos

Photos (1-2) Discovery of a colossal statue of Ramesses II by David O’Connor in 1967

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