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Amara West 2012: the end of work on site
Neal Spencer, British Museum Work on site finished yesterday, with final recording, photography and then the logistics of getting all our equipment back by boat to the expedition house after sunset. A...
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Amara West 2012: excavating one last tomb
Mohamed Saad, Inspector, National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums, Sudan and Amara West Field School participant I spent the end of the season excavating a chamber tomb, Grave 319. The tomb...
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Amara West 2012: a pottery kiln?
Shadia Abdu Rabo, National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan and Neal Spencer, British Museum Towards the end of the season, working in layers beneath house E13.8, we found a circular...
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Amara West 2012: looking back on the season in the cemetery
Michaela Binder, Durham University After seven weeks of excavation we can look back to a very successful season in the cemetery at Amara West. In total, the two field school members (Åshild Vagene and...
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Amara West 2012: the life-story of a pot
Marie Millet, British Museum The Amara West team is now beginning to finalise plans for its next excavation season, in January and February 2013. In recent months, we’ve been digitising our field...
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Amara West 2012: the first glimpses of ancient living conditions and health
Michaela Binder, Durham University After spending four months in the British Museum analysing skeletons from the ancient Egyptian town of Amara West this summer, our picture of health and living...
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Amara West: season six is nearly upon us….
Neal Spencer, British Museum In the next few days, our sixth excavation season begins. Amara West was the pharaonic capital of conquered Upper Nubia in the late second millennium BC. Thus far, we have...
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Amara West excavations 2013: expecting the unexpected and a ‘Howard Carter...
Neal Spencer, British Museum The latest excavation season at Amara West in Sudan began three weeks ago, with a wide range of excavations and associated research excavations taking place in this...
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Amara West excavations 2013: the past from above
Neal Spencer, British Museum After a test flight over Ernetta and our dig house, Susie Green – working with us to create three-dimensional visualisations of the town’s architecture – flew her...
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Amara West 2013: a kaleidoscope of life and death in Egyptian Kush
Neal Spencer, British Museum Fifty-six days after flying out to Khartoum, I landed this morning at a grey, icy, Heathrow. The temperature gradient – perhaps a difference of 35°C – is but one reminder...
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New evidence of human cancer found at ancient Amara West
Michaela Binder, Durham University and Neal Spencer, British Museum Cancer is one of the world’s most common causes of death today, but there is little evidence from before industrialisation: almost...
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