Apr 8
Apologies for delay
I got sick at the end of the field season–a cold that turned into pneumonia. Slowly getting better, and I promise posts (and responses) when I’m back on my feet.
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Mar 18
How tall was this pyramid?
Here’s a real-life math problem: How tall was our pyramid when it was built? You can see that it has some original stones left toward the bottom, but the upper part is all rubble that would originally have been invisible behind a nice stone facing. We are working on this question ourselves. Here is what…
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Mar 4
Life on the dig
Another installment of answers to Ms. Donnelly’s 6thgrade class that have to do with life on the dig…. We live in a house in the village—here’s a photo of the outer courtyard, which is really a nice place to have a cup of tea in the afternoon, and we do a lot of work here…
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Feb 19
Village on the Nile
This photograph was taken by Kathryn Howley, a graduate student at Brown who is a member of our team. She’s using a variety of advanced photographic techniques to document our work, including using software called PhotoScan to stitch together lots of kite photographs to produce 3-D models of the landscape around El Kurru. I’ll…
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Feb 15
Shaigiya haircut
The people in El Kurru belong to the Shaigiya tribe. They trace their ancestry back to an ancestor (Shaig) who lived several centuries ago. They are mentioned in European travelers accounts of the 19th century, when they sometimes raided caravans. In times before Shaig, people in this area were likely speakers of Nubian languages,…
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