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Archaeologists Bring Egyptian Excavation to the Web
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Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team are again sharing their work with the world through an online diary, a digital window into the day-to-day life on an archaeological expedition.

Bryan, the Alexander Badawy Professor in Egyptian Art and Archaeology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins, will continue to explore the Egyptian New Kingdom (1567 to 1085 B.C.E.), considered "the golden age" of temple building in Egypt.

According to Bryan, today's Luxor is rich in discoveries from the New Kingdom of more than 3,000 years ago. This is the eighth year that Bryan and her crew will be working at the temple of the goddess Mut. In years past, their finds have included food processing and industrial installations such as bakeries and granaries and, in 2006, the remarkable discovery of a statue of Queen Tiye, now housed in the Cairo Museum.

The goal of the Hopkins in Egypt Today Web site is to educate visitors by exposing them to the elements of an archaeological work in progress. University photographer Jay VanRensselaer will capture images of the team as they work. The Web site's daily photos and detailed captions emphasize not only discoveries but also the teamwork among Bryan, her colleagues and their "gufti," the local crew members who are trained in archaeology.

The Web site typically garners more than 50,000 hits every winter when the dig is taking place.

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Thank you, Josie, I had forgotten all about this site:












                                               JANUARY and FEBRUARY 2008





This is an educational web site that aims to provide the viewer with the elements of archaeological work, including the progress of excavation. The daily results are crucial to an understanding of how field investigation takes place, since decisions must be made on the basis of ongoing work. The people involved in the work are also an essential feature and contribute profoundly to the final outcomes. The focus of our diary is thus often on the people and their activities.

In January 2008, Dr. Betsy Bryan once more traveled to Egypt with students. Work at the temple of Mut began later than usual, however, as Dr. Bryan first led fifteen undergraduate and three graduate students on a study tour of Egypt. This intensive intersession course included sites rarely visited in recent years due to result of convoy traffic that moves non-Egyptians at certain times of the day, and only allows stops at a few and unvarying archaeological sites.  In order to maximize the opportunity to see Egypt’s remarkable ancient heritage, Dr. Bryan arranged a tour with a private police accompaniment that allowed the students to move whenever and wherever they wished. The group therefore saw numerous sites and with few tourists but themselves.  The result of this tour is shown here through the first week’s photographs taken by JHU photographer Will Kirk, who traveled with the group from January 4 to 12. A few that we took ourselves after Will’s departure will also be included.

Beginning with Sunday, February 3 we will also show our work at the Mut temple. Work there began on January 16, as Mr. Charles van Siclen, field director, began work alongside stone mason Franck Burgos. In the summer of 2007 Mr. Burgos dismantled two walls in the Mut temple, where the foundations were seriously endangered. Beneath them was the final deposit of columns placed by Queen Hatshepsut or Thutmose iii between 1479 and 1425 B.C.E. much of the stone from these walls is eroded beyond reuse, so Franck is now rebuilding the wall and will need to cut new stone for the upper courses.  Next week, Mr. Burgos will begin to dismantle the east end of the north wall that was our focus in 2006. Within the wall are inscribed and decorated reused blocks, and, as in 2006 and 2007, their preservation and restoration is the goal of our conservators Kent Severson and Hiroko Kariya. Our excellent photographers Jay VanRensselaer and Norman Barker will be documenting our work on the site and at Beit Canada, where Dr. Bryan will continue the analysis of pottery from the last seven seasons.
This version of Hopkins in Egypt today will continue until February 28.

As always, the Johns Hopkins University thanks the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and, in particular, its Secretary General, Dr. Zahi Hawass, for their ongoing support of our archaeological work in Egypt . The Supreme Council of Antiquities supervises all fieldwork research in Egypt and also monitors and preserves the ancient monuments.

 

To follow the day to day progress of the JHU Expedition, click on the thumbnail images in the calendar below.

 

Calendar for January 2008
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Calendar for February 2008
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Archives | Additional Information | Near Eastern Studies at JHU | Return to 2008 Calendar


 
© The Johns Hopkins University 2008
The images shown on this web site have been approved for one time use through the kindness of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. No other use of any kind is allowed without their further permission.
For additional information contact: macie.hall@jhu.edu


http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/
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                                   JHU ARCHAEOLOGY TEAM IN LUXOR , EGYPT





In February 2008 Professor Betsy Bryan will return for a another season at an archaeological
site in Luxor , Egypt .

This will be the 13th season for “ Hopkins in Egypt ” with Professor Bryan. She is the Alexander
Badawy Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology. Her area of study is the Egyptian New King-
dom (18th to 20th dynasties) spanning the time from 1550 to 1069 B.C.E.

The geographic area that is encompassed by the modern day city of Luxor is rich in finds from
the New Kingdom, which was Egypt 's imperial era of power and affluence. Luxor, on the east
and west sides of the Nile represents the ancient city of Thebes and contains the temple com-
plexes at Karnak, Deir el-Bahari, Deir el-Medina and the burial sites in the Valley of Kings and
the Valley of the Queens, with tombs from the 18th and 19th dynasties.

Thebes was the center of the cult of the great national god, Amun.
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THE EGYPTIAN TRIAD

AMUN, MUT AND KHONSU










                                          THE TEMPLE COMPLEX AT KARNAK





JHU is continuing work this year at the Temple of the Goddess Mut (pronounced "moot") at
Karnak in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor .

Mut was the wife of the great national god of ancient Egypt, Amun, whose central temple at
Karnak is the largest existing religious complex in the world.

Mut had her own temple in the southern precinct of Karnak, and the main temple was linked to
it by two different paved alleys flanked by rows of ram headed sphinxes.

The god Amun's statue was brought to the Mut temple when rituals occurred commemorating
the birth of a son to Amun and Mut. That son, Khonsu, a moon god, has his own temple at
Karnak as well.   
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JHU - BROOKLYN MUSEUM COLLABORATION

Since 1977 the Brooklyn Museum , under the direction of Mr. Richard A. Fazzini, has been excavating in the Temple of Mut . The Brooklyn team continues to work in the north of the precinct, including Temple A , the area of the front courts and first pylon of the Mut Temple , as well as in the northwest sector.
 

                                        JHU CONCESSION AND ITS WORK PLANS





For six years JHU worked behind the Sacred Lake of the precinct.

Thus far the excavation has identified production areas of the Eighteenth Dynasty (ca. 1479-1300 B.C.), including industrial and food processing installations. Granaries and bakeries of the Eighteenth Dynasty and slightly earlier have been identified, as well as New Kingdom enclosure walls and adjacent workshop areas. Reuse of these areas in the Third Intermediate Period and the Saite era has also been established, such that dates defining the earliest and latest use of the industrial areas has been clarified.

A second target area for our work has been inside the temple itself.

We thank the American Research Center in Egypt for its support through a conservation grant of our efforts to preserve the New Kingdom remains of the Mut Temple .

In the Second Court of the temple, throughout 2005-2006 two interior walls of the court have being rebuilt and conserved by a team of conservators and stone masons. In addition, the decorated and inscribed New Kingdom sandstone and limestone blocks found reused in the temple's platform have being cleaned and conserved.

This winter the many newly found decorated and inscribed blocks of the New Kingdom temple of Mut, built under Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, will be moved and and placed on display in an Open-Air Museum.

Remnants of a porch of Hatshepsut, dismantled before the sandstone building of the same ruler, was found buried beside the Mut Temple, and this winter more of it will be retrieved so that it can be rebuilt.

The Temple is a large precinct but we hope slowly to define its New Kingdom form, bringing together the support areas behind the temple with the original religious building in order to better understand
the precinct as a living environment, ca 1470 B.C.
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Courtesy of Google Earth, we have two spectacular views of Karnak and the Mut Precinct.  In the image above you can see the entire Karnak complex.  It is delineated with a solid line around the
Mut Prencinct and a dotted line indicating the rest of the area.  You can see the Nile on the left
hand side of the image.

The shot below shows a closer view of the Mut Precinct.  The trenches opened through 2004 are clearly visible in the area south of the sacred lake.  We have outlined the areas in the Mut Temple where we will be working this season.  The rectangular area to the left is where we will proceed
with reconstruction.  The outlined area to the right is the location of our Open-Air Museum.

The recently-found decorated and inscribed blocks of the New Kingdom temple of Mut, built under Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, will be moved and and placed on display in this space.
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