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Three thousand years of river channel engineering in the Nile Valley

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 565-587, September/October 2023., 2023
Abstract Across a 1000‐km stretch of the River Nile, from the 1st Cataract in southern Egypt to the 4th Cataract in Sudan, many hundreds of drystone walls are located within active channels, on seasonally inundated floodplains or in now‐dry Holocene palaeochannel belts.
Matthew Dalton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of ancient Egypt hypostyle halls on the thermal environment

open access: yesJAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 5, Issue 3, Page 331-343, July 2022., 2022
The Hypostye Hall in ancient Egyptian temples is a system that uses heat capacity to stabilize the thermal environment, similar to the modern Thermo Active Building System (TABS). Using the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak as an example, the value of Hypostyle Hall will be evaluated using physical simulations in this study.
Eisuke Togashi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Riley in Cairo: British Art and Egypt in the 1980s

open access: yesArt History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 650-672, June 2022., 2022
In the early 1980s, Bridget Riley produced a series of paintings distinguished by their use of the same group of colours, said to have been inspired by the vividly preserved painted tombs that she encountered during a visit to Egypt in the winter of 1979–80.
Richard Johns
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptual origins and geomorphic evolution of the temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak (Luxor, Egypt)

open access: yesAntiquity
Despite almost a century and a half of excavation, the dynamic landscape into which the temple complex of Karnak was embedded is not well understood. Presenting the results of the first comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of the area, the authors show
Benjamin T. Pennington   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Accessibility of the Amun temple complex at Karnak in the New Kingdom: A reassessment

open access: yes, 2022
This article examines the accessibility of the Amun temple complex at Karnak during the New Kingdom. It focuses on the three areas closest to the temple exterior, which are usually considered more permeable than others: the courtyards at the west entrance, the sector near the east gateway, and the southern area, including the tenth pylon and the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Holocene fluvial history of the Nile's west bank at ancient Thebes, Luxor, Egypt, and its relation with cultural dynamics and basin‐wide hydroclimatic variability

open access: yes, 2018
In the Theban area around modern Luxor (Egypt), the River Nile divides the temple complexes of Karnak and Luxor from New Kingdom royal cult temples on the western desert edge.
W. Toonen   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

X-ray Imaging Investigation on the Gilding Technique of an Ancient Egyptian Taweret Wooden Statuette. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Imaging, 2021
Vigorelli L   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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