Working together with the ARCE project team we got a great deal accomplished this season in preparing the site to open to visitors. Most of…
Read MoreJaap’s wife, Egyptologist Julia Harvey, arrived on February 15, completing this season’s small team. Julia has agreed to take on the pottery, with which she…
Read MoreOur first day at the site this year was February 6, so most of this first posting will be about how the site has changed…
Read MoreBecause of potential unrest, no foreign missions were allowed to work in the field on Saturday, January 29, so we weren’t able to get back…
Read MoreOn January 15 we finished removing the baulk stub over the remains of the southern boundary wall of the Taharqa Gate approach. In this view…
Read MoreThe formal report on the 2010 season of work at the Mut Precinct, in English and Arabic, is now available online in the Mut feature…
Read MoreIn this last dig diary for 2010 I want to acknowledge the hard work, skill and patience of some of the most important members of…
Read MoreA general view of the excavation area on Thursday around noon. What you can’t see is how hot it is: 100°F on the site every…
Read MoreA view south from the precinct’s north enclosure wall of the whole area where we are now working. At the left are Chapel D and…
Read MoreOn Sunday, Abdel Aziz began looking for more of the mud brick found last week. He had no luck, as the northern part had…
Read MoreIn the final dig diary posting for 2009, I talked about the importance of publishing the results of our work at the site. The first…
Read MoreThe season is over. We finished digging on Tuesday and spent the rest of this week cleaning up, checking notes and taking final photographs. Our…
Read MoreLate last week we uncovered the top of a fairly substantial mud brick wall running across the Taharqa Gate square (left), but we only…
Read MoreThis week we were able to start putting the north wing of the Taharqa Gate back together, restoring fallen blocks to their original position. We…
Read MoreAt the end of last season we covered the baked brick building north of the Sacred Lake with plastic and sand to protect it and…
Read MoreThe Mut Precinct’s front gate The Brooklyn Museum Mut Expedition’s next season of fieldwork will take place between mid-January and mid-March, 2009. Once again we…
Read MoreThursday, February 28 was our last day of work. It has been a very satisfactory season. We accomplished most of what we set out to…
Read MoreYou are looking northwest at the Taharqa Gate late Thursday morning. We are now down to the paving in the whole gateway, except for a…
Read MoreClearing the Taharqa Gate is one of the season’s main goals, a goal we achieved, at least in part, this week: the north wing of…
Read MoreOne of the week’s big events was the weather. Saturday, Sunday and Monday were cloudy and cold (mid-50s F, which is cold for Luxor) with…
Read MoreWe started work at the site on January 5, but the celebration of Coptic Christmas (January 7) and Islamic New Year (January 10) has meant…
Read MoreThe Brooklyn team leaves at the end of the month for another 2½-month season of work at the temple precinct of the goddess Mut in…
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