Wadi el-Hudi Expedition

To document the architecture and rock inscriptions found throughout Wadi el-Hudi, we often need to climb the gebel to get the perfect shot!

Next up in our "Meet the Team" series is Amy Wilson. Amy has worked with the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition since 2014. She is a member of the Epigraphy Team and has led the team on one short survey (pictured). Her research interests include various ancient officials who have come and left inscriptions at Wadi el-Hudi. She was the lead author of the recently published article, "Stela of the Viceroy Usersatet from Wadi el-Hudi (WH 255)." Her manuscript on Horus, the High Steward of Senusret I, and his Monuments at Abydos and Wadi el-Hudi is currently in preparation. She is a freelance archaeologist who has worked on various international heritage projects throughout the Middle East.

Everyone's excited when we find ostraca! Over the years many Greek and Demotic ostraca have been found at Site 4. In 2025, Cristina excavated another stunning ostracon. These ostraca help us to understand the movement of people in this part of the Eastern Desert as well as how Wadi el-Hudi was provisioned.

Next up in our "Meet the Team' series is our Lab and Collections Manager, Brooke Norton. Each season she manages artifacts in the Aswan magazine and assists WeH specialists, photographers, and the epigraphy team. At this point, she’s probably handled every object excavated by the Wadi el-Hudi team! When she has time to leave the lab, Brooke is happy to help out in the field when she can!

Brooke also works at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston managing the Egyptian Expedition Archives. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and her research focuses on Egyptian and Canaanite temples in the Sinai and southern Levant.

Have you read about the amazing work of our digital epigraphy team in our newest The American Research Center in Egypt - ARCE SCRIBE article yet? "Tales from the Land of Amethyst" is now available!

https://www.academia.edu/165704950/Tales_from_the_Land_of_Amethyst_Part_2_Stelae_Revealing_Religious_Practice_of_Miners_and_Administrators_at_Wadi_el_Hudi_and_Dihmit_South?fbclid=IwY2xjawSFAp5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFTNDQ1UXkyOGFrNWl3YUNNc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPNTE0NzcxNTY5MjI4MDYxAAEe8cEUFN-Q960IBhrPszQz5JFnUFx5l6F-AYVuXV8CdW9oXXDGD26cR_nlemg_aem_1_Wmy0xo7BQ4fW1Z_WeASA

Our newest The American Research Center in Egypt - ARCE SCRIBE article "Tales from the Land of Amethyst" is now available! This article features the amazing work of our digital epigraphy team!

Check it out here: https://www.academia.edu/165704950/Tales_from_the_Land_of_Amethyst_Part_2_Stelae_Revealing_Religious_Practice_of_Miners_and_Administrators_at_Wadi_el_Hudi_and_Dihmit_South

Next up in our "Meet the Team" series is our Chief Field Archaeologist and Surveyor, Magdalena Włodarska! Magda graduated from the Department of Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and Nubia at the University of Warsaw and she has worked for projects in Egypt and Sudan. At Wadi el-Hudi she works as a field archaeologist and surveyor and is interested in the sites’ architecture and ancient methods of amethyst mining.

In 2024 a small team of Wadi el-Hudi specialists spent 6 weeks working in the Aswan magazine to analyze stelae and inscriptions, groundstone tools, small finds, faunal remains, and Middle Kingdom and Greco-Roman pottery. We squeezed ourselves and all of the objects that we were studying into one room at the magazine to escape the heat as we worked!

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Welcome to our "Meet the Team" series, where we'll introduce our team members! Dr. Kate Liszka is the Director of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition. She's also the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology and Professor of History at California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB). She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and enjoys studying questions of labor, administration, identity, and Egyptian-Nubian interactions in the ancient world. Listen to what she's working on when not in the field!