For the second time this year, Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew will be sharing their work with the world via their popular online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. Starting about Friday, June 1, and running through early July, visitors to Hopkins in Egypt Today at: www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html will find photos of Bryan's group working on the second, shorter portion of Johns Hopkins' 12th annual expedition in Luxor.

Bryan will continue to explore the Egyptian New Kingdom (1567 to 1085 B.C.E.), known as the "golden age" of Egyptian temple building. This time, the team will include two graduate and three undergraduate students from Johns Hopkins, as well as several stone conservators. All the work will be taking place inside the temple with the graduate students conducting test excavations to study the sub-foundations. Major dismantling of temple walls in order to correct the effects of groundwater is to be accompanied by the removal of architectural elements in the name of Queen Hatshepsut that are buried under the present temple. This material was discovered in 2006 but must await the work to restore the temple walls before it can be retrieved. The undergraduates will draw pottery and small finds in an effort to ready the last six years of work for publication...

Egyptian excavation returns to Web for second time this year, The JHU Gazette, John Hopkins University, Maryland, USA, Vol. 36, No. 36, May 29, 2007.

Previously:

Archaeologists Bring Egyptian Excavation to the Web, January 18, 2007.

Archaeologists Bring Egyptian Excavation to the Web, January 05, 2006.

Egyptian excavation returns to the Web starting Jan. 15, January 12, 2005.

An intact tomb of Henu, director of the domain and unique courtier of the late first Intermediate Period, has been found early last week in the Deir Al-Barsha necropolis in Minya. The Culture Minister made the announcement today, adding that the tomb was accidentally found by a Belgium archaeological team from Catholic Leuven University mission during continuing their excavation work inside one of the rooms found inside a Middle Kingdom tomb of Uky.

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that Henu's tomb was filled with a fine and well preserved collection of painted wooden statuettes featuring workers in different stages of work, some shows the production of mud brick where one man is working clay with a hoe, two others are carrying a bag of clay suspended with rope from a pole. Others show a woman making beer and another woman pounding cereal along with a large model of a boat with two groups of rowers and a lotus-form bow and stern. A painted statuette featuring the deceased in his official costumes is also found among the collection unearthed...

DISCOVERED: Deir Al-Barsha - Tomb of Henu, Zahi Hawass, The Plateau via Guardian's Egypt, USA, May 29, 2007.

Previously:

Intact tomb found in Egypt ... by accident, May 22, 2007.

Belgians find tomb of ancient Egypt courtier, May 21, 2007.

A topic on the EEF lists has been on ethics of Egyptologists, with a sub-thread of what the difference between Egyptologists and archaeologists is. FWIW, I think they're two separate fields that overlap, not unlike that between zoologists and archaeozoologists...

Generally, I think, Egyptologists tend to go through Classics departments while archaeologists go through the archaeology departments. I suppose one could start all sorts of arguments here...

Egyptology, archaeology, what's the diff?, Anthony Cagle, ArchaeoBlog, USA, May 29, 2007.