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By: Lanny Bell

On the west bank of the Nile, across from the town of Luxor and the Great Temple of the god Amun at Karnak, lies the Theban Necropolis, stretching up from the cultivated fields into the desert cliffs which define the narrow river valley. Employed extensively by the ancient Egyptians from the New Kingdom through the Saite Period […]

AFGHANISTAN – Beginning excavations in the Seistan region during early months of 1968. George Dales in charge. AFRICA – Excavations continuing in the Benue Valley, Camerouns. Nicholas David in charge. Robert Netting just back from field work with the Kofyar and Goemai of Northern Nigeria. Now analysing data on their agriculture and social organization. Igor […]

AFGHANISTAN – Final arrangements for a proposed archaeological project in Seistan next fall and winter, working on problems of contacts between South Asia and the Near East between 3000 and 1000 B.C. George F. Dales in charge. ALASKA – Archaeological survey of the Galbraith Lake region in north Alaska. Herbert Alexander, Jr., in charge. ANDEAN […]

AFGHANISTAN – Reconnaissance and sherd survey to determine site of future work. George F. Dales in charge. ALASKA – Archaeological survey of the Galbraith Lake region in north Alaska. Summer, 1966. Herbert Alexander, Jr. in charge. ANDEAN STUDIES – Alfred Kidder is compiling the publication of his excavation at Chiripa in highland Bolivia. APPLIED SCIENCE […]

1962 Excavations at Toshka and Arminna

By: William Kelly Simpson

The excavations of the Peabody Museum of Yale University and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania entered their second season at the end of January, 1962. The expenses were again borne by the Eckley B. Coxe, Jr. Fund of the University Museum and a grant from the Bollingen Foundation of New York, established […]