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Since the last field season, our fantastic textile specialist, Magda, has been busy working on the data and images collected at Saqqara. In particular, our collection of textiles recovered from the late Old Kingdom burial contexts comprise …

Annual meetings of the Paleopathology Association are great opportunities for sharing research findings, knowledge exchange, and networking with fellow members. This year…

We have an exciting news to share! After some talks with our Czech colleagues working at the neighbouring ancient necropolis at Abusir, both teams have agreed to work collaboratively and contribute data to our respective research projects. We are very much looking forward to this collaboration and better understanding of the life and death at the Memphite necropolis.

Annual meeting of archaeologists with active research in the Nile Valley took place at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, in June 2024. The event is a platform for presenting the most current findings and research …

Climate change is not a modern phenomenon and its occurrence in the past impacted human populations in many different ways, resulting in a variety of societal responses globally. The topic was the focus of an interdisciplinary conference organised by the researchers from the University of Bern and University of Yale, which took place in Bern in early June 2024.

It is very encouraging to see a fast-growing interest in the study of human remains among Egyptian students. Over the years, our team at Saqqara welcomed many young trainees who gained much needed field training and went on to focus their academic interests on bioarchaeology.

One of the main tasks of the project is to develop a database of the Saqqara burials. With the number of excavated burials growing year by year, it is important that all relevant information is put together in an organised, easily searchable, and accessible format. It has certainly been a challenging task…

As you may recall from our previous post, we have made some exciting discoveries in our vast funerary textile collection at Saqqara. Magda, a textile specialist in the team, collected dozens of textile and fibre samples to be analysed at the Research and Conservation Centre in Cairo. We are particularly interested in…

In early autumn, the project team took a temporary residency at Saqqara to conduct a much anticipated fieldwork. Our specialists focused on the core elements of the project, including the study of human remains, documentation and examination of funerary textiles, and identification of botanical remains from burial contexts…

Over the years, the International Congress of Egyptologists has become a platform to present current research on various aspects of Ancient Egypt, including literary and religious studies, archaeology and, increasingly more, bioarchaeology alongside funerary archaeology. Such meetings are a wonderful opportunity to share research, exchange ideas, and forge new and exciting collaborations…

In June, Iwona and Magda, the project textile expert, visited several archaeological museums in the United Kingdom that hold important and often unique textile collections from Ancient Egypt. Using a naked-eye and microscopic equipment, Magda examined mummy wrappings and other textiles recovered from funerary contexts at archaeological sites across Egypt…

March 2023 turned out to be busy with networking in Cairo. Following a string of preliminary discussions about the project with our Egyptian colleagues, Iwona and Magda travelled to Cairo for a series of museum visits and meetings with curators, lab specialists and representatives from the Research and Conservation Centre of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Egypt…