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A new addition to the embalmed fauna of ancient Egypt: Güldenstaedt's White-toothed Shrew, Crocidura gueldenstaedtii (Pallas, 1811) (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae). [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
The Falcon Necropolis at Quesna in the Nile Delta of Egypt is considered to have been founded by the priest Djedhor, the Saviour, of Athribis (Tell Atrib in modern Benha) at the beginning of the Ptolemaic Period.
Neal Woodman   +2 more
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Middle Kingdom tombs of Asasif: archaeological fieldwork in 2017 [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018
The recent works in the 2017 season at the North Asasif Necropolis have led to the discovery of Middle Kingdom burial assemblages, as well as funerary equipment dated to the Third Intermediate Period.
Patryk Chudzik
doaj   +3 more sources

Environmental implications of Ptolemaic Period rodents and shrews from the Sacred Falcon Necropolis at Quesna, Egypt (Mammalia: Muridae and Soricidae). [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Ecol Evol, 2022
BACKGROUND: Assemblages of mummified and preserved animals in necropoleis of Ptolemaic Period Egypt (ca. 332–30 BC) document some aspects of the ceremonial and religious practices of the ancient Egyptians, but study of these animal remains can also ...
Woodman N, Ikram S, Rowland J.
europepmc   +5 more sources

"Semiotics Approach as a Method to Analyze the Visual Language of Architecture (A Semiotics Analysis of the tomb of Khety -One of Rock-Cut Tombs of Beni Hasan Minya)"

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2019
Semiotics approach is one of the most modern analyzes and criticism approaches that moved from linguistics to other fields of knowledge, including the architectural products since 1960.
Nora Alalfy   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

What an artist saw. Tracing the local iconographic tradition for the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2021
An unusual iconographic motif—a fringed piece of linen—depicted in the Chapel of Hatshepsut, part of the queen’s temple at Deir el-Bahari, is examined in this paper as an illustration of the interest, well attested in Hatshepsut’s reign, in past artistic
Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska
doaj   +1 more source

Middle Kingdom tombs from the North Asasif cemetery: field seasons 2018/2019 and 2020 [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2020
The early Middle Kingdom mortuary complexes of Khety and Meru continued to be the main research target of the Polish Archaeological Mission to North Asasif in the two winter seasons of 2018/2019 and 2020.
Patryk Chudzik
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the antimicrobial activity of essential oils in the conservation of mural paintings

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2022
One bacterial species and five fungi were isolated from the mural paintings of the Egyptian tomb of Khety (Tomb No. 17, 11th Dyn.). The antimicrobial activity of lemon and thyme essential oils (EOs) diluted in ethanol 70% was evaluated against the ...
Mayssa D. Albasil   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human remains from the Tomb of Khety (MMA 508/TT 311) in North Asasif [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2019
The North Asasif Necropolis, adjacent to the New Kingdom temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari, has been the subject of several excavations over the past century, first by H.E.
Roselyn A. Campbell
doaj   +1 more source

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