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View fullsize Sweet throwback to our surprise valentine’s day find of Feb 14 😍 this eye poppingly GORGEOUS faience pendant & bead assemblage from the third intermediate period, when Egyptian mastery of working with faience produced such fine examples as
View fullsize Oh hey what’s up little paving-stone-steps, tell us about your journey from New Kingdom (ish) relief to a cobbled stairwell in the Coptic architecture… and specifically can you tell us what’s behind the sealed doorway at the bottom
View fullsize Op 🫶 closing shots #digabydos #archaeologylife #egypt
View fullsize Also found Garstang’s matches 🔥 in situ 1909 #digabydos #archaeologylife #smoking
View fullsize Abydos 1909 / 2024 we loooooove the archaeology of archaeology !! In 1909 British archaeologist John Garstang discovered a very large tomb from the First Dynasty hanging out on the north edge of Abydos next to the Ptolemaic ibis cemetery. What was it
View fullsize Hair is everything 😍 revisiting past finds is one of the best parts of any field season but when it’s a 13th dynasty hairstyle preserved under a beaded diadem for almost 4000 years it’s whatever is more than everything 🔥🔥 Enjoyed a vis
View fullsize Team too great for one post! Hany - Trowel & Brush - Ashraf - Gamal - Matt - Abdullah - Lasheen - Archaeology Cat - Wendy - Ahmed - Nisha - Shuneh (yes we see you Khasekhemwy) & last but not least the jar of Mish no one has been brave enough
View fullsize From inside the tomb of Khasekhemwy here’s looking at a great team 👁️ Reis Ashraf - Sara - Pablo - Kay - Reis Ahmed - Sheldon - Hiroko - Singab
View fullsize Where we are now… chapter 2 - a room with a view. The end of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt transformed Abydos (again) from a focus on animal cults to a place of early Christian worship. By around the 4th or 5th century ce, the massive ibis cemetery
View fullsize Where are we digging now & why? Chapter 1: Ptolemaic Abydos. In the Ptolemaic period (305-30 bce) Abydos became the focus of many animal cults with cemeteries scattered all over the landscape for offerings of mummified dogs, hawks, shrews, and th
View fullsize Team photo of the year taken by the honey seller at Deir al-Abyad, Coptic monastery built by Saint Shenouda in 442 ce
View fullsize Painting or iphone photo? Have discovered that the dig house never looks more beautiful than when it’s twilight and there is no electricity #digabydos #archaeologylife
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View fullsize Abydos, where the figs are always in season 🍉 #digabydos #archaeologylife #fruit #egypt
View fullsize Forecast partly cloudy with a chance of sherds #digabydos #archaeologylife #egypt
View fullsize Tale of a dig dog. Kofta came to Abydos as a puppy in 2022 & instantly everyone loved him. One night that summer he disappeared from the dig house & everyone was sad. We couldn’t be in the field last year and it seemed we would never se
View fullsize Moonrise over the Shuneh. It’s a Shoonrise 🌙 #digabydos #archaeologylife #shunetelzebib 📷 @wdoyon
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View fullsize When you miss one field season and the archaeology cats take over #digabydos #archaeologylife #egypt #archaeocats
View fullsize ABYDOS IS THE MOST EGYPT. 3 temples from a single viewpoint — Ramesses II Portal Temple (dyn 19), Khasekhemwy’s funerary temple “Shunet el-Zebib” (dyn 2), Osiris Temple site, epicenter of Egyptian religion in all dynasties, it