Digital Documentation of a Provincial Town in Ancient Egypt

FAIN: HD-50482-08

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Nadine Moeller (Project Director: April 2008 to January 2011)

The development of new digital image capturing techniques enabling researchers to process data from archaeological excavations more accurately and efficiently at the site of Tell Edfu, one of the last well-preserved ancient cities in Egypt.

This project will develop new digital image capturing techniques that enable researchers to process data from archaeological excavations more accurately and efficiently than ever before. The site of Tell Edfu, which is the focus of this project, is one of the last well-preserved ancient cities in Egypt. The incredibly rich and complex stratigraphic record with its numerous well-preserved building levels at Tell Edfu are ideally suited for the development of new technical methods for the recording and analysis of archaeological data.

Media Coverage

Press release in the New York Times (Media Coverage)
Author(s): JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Publication: Uncovering Evidence of a Workaday World Along the Nile
Date: 7/1/2008
Abstract: This is a press release announcing the discovery of the grain silos at Tell Edfu we found in 2008.
URL: http://http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=edfu&st=cse

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