The archaeological project at the site of Amheida, ancient Trimithis, in the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt.
09/09/2023
Ah, man, we got photobombed by Sekhmet! The panel (David M. Ratzan, Olaf Kaper, Marina Nuovo, and Roberta Casagrande-Kim) had a very productive time sharing our work at at the 10th Dakhleh Oasis Project conference Annual Egyptological Colloquium: excellent papers, gracious hosts, wonderful company, and a shared hope for a return to collaborative scientific research across the . We will see you in in January, Insha’Allah!
07/09/2023
We have an entire panel about at the DOP conference/Annual Egyptological Colloquium tomorrow! At 86 degrees (fine, 30 degrees) today it’s going to feel a little bit Dakhla in London!
18/08/2023
Raffaella Cribiore helping to make an “American dinner” with some of our undergraduate students at the Amheida excavation house in 2012. (Photo courtesy of Nicola Aravecchia.) Her obituary has now been published https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/raffaella-cribiore-obituary?id=52716846. As it says, she was a superb cook!
02/08/2023
New site plan for Amheida based on last season’s work. Updated with latest data for church B7 and preliminary mapping of Area 11. Link to this and other plans here: https://isaw.nyu.edu/research/amheida/maps-and-drawings.
15/07/2023
The Amheida Excavations mourns the passing of our beloved colleague, mentor, and friend Raffaella Cribiore. She brought the poetry on our walls to life. She will be sorely missed. Ave atque vale.
27/06/2023
Super excited to announce that there will be an Amheida panel as part of the 10th International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project! More news soon. But, if you are in London this September, come check out what’s new (so to speak) at ancient Trimithis and the rest of this magical part of ancient and modern
23/06/2023
Friends of Down Under, save the date! Thursday 13 July, 6 – 7pm: The Archaeology of an Oasis City: Twenty Years of Excavations at Amheida in Egypt’s Western Desert: Learn about the fascinating history of a community at the edge of the Roman Empire in this lecture by Assistant Professor Nicola Aravecchia.
The Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
19/06/2023
We got (most of) the band back together for a reunion and strategy meeting in Rome this past May! Engaging discussions with great people and lots of ideas about the future of the America Excavations. All these new ideas take people to put into action, so reach out if you are a graduate student or archaeologist looking to invest in your next big project.
13/06/2023
New! The field report, now in Arabic! يتمتع! https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/64463
12/06/2023
Hi all! We needed a break … but we’re back. And we have been busy in the meantime. Plenty of updates coming your way about the Amheida Excavations! First off is that we started a new repository for Amheida publications, to which we will be adding over the next few months. https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/64405. The first thing we have published in it is our 2023 preliminary report: https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/64460. More on why we are doing this in a subsequent post.
05/02/2023
Off to to close the season and work on our permit for … but before that, the first cappuccino of 2023 outdoors at a beautiful morning in Zamalek. It was worth the wait! From the picture it is clear that I failed the marshmallow test … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment