I am wearing $28,000 of sensitive electrical equipment and sinking deeper into the rice paddy with every step. By this point, its pretty apparent that I am going to need some help. I am carrying a device called a gradiometer. It measures anomalies in the earths magnetic field. Our team is using it to look […]
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Where Djinn are Watching
The Polish magnetometer team arrived at the dig house just short of 9am. Their leader, Tomasz Herbich, who is fiercely Polish with a grey mane and arching eyebrows, was accompanied by two younger fellows who were going to do the brunt work. Rafaat, my second-hand man, was available to chauffeur us around the site. He’s […]
Real shipwreck treasure – inspiration and education
In the fall of 1619, a hurricane dashed the English Galleon Warwick against the cliffs of Bermuda’s Castle Harbor. After lying beneath the sand for nearly four centuries, the ship has been uncovered again. Some people believe the most valuable thing that we can get from a shipwreck is information about the past. Others think […]
There are no sidewalks where the sidewalks are
Quảng Yên, Việt Nam There are no sidewalks where the sidewalks are. We cannot walk ten meters without having to weave into the road. Like urban breakers, the streets of Quảng Yên crash into an endless line of little store fonts. The space between curb and building is just another parking spot for trucks, bikes […]
The Ancient City of Thmuis (Tell el-Timai)
At the dawn of civilization in the Nile Valley, people settled upon four levees of the Mendesian branch of the Nile. These sandy embankments protruded from the landscape in a southwest to northeast direction and provided the earliest settlers a safe abode from the annual floodwaters. Here the first settlement of Mendes, initially known as […]
Vietnam: the Plan
Evidence of one of history’s legendary naval conflicts lies somewhere beneath the inundated rice paddies of rural Vietnam. In November, Veronica and I had a chance to join an international team searching for the remains of the Bạch Đằng River battle, where seven hundred years ago Đại Việt hero Trần Hưng Đạo defeated the forces […]
Souq el-Goma’a: Venturing to Cairo’s Underground Market
May 14th 2010- It was just after 9am and the streets of Zamalek were relatively quiet. The mosque on Marashly Street was jam-packed with men attending Friday morning prayer. Lime green mats were strewn across the street to accommodate the masses. Birds fluttered overhead in the trees, the air was warm but not sweltering yet. […]
How to dig up the bottom of a river – the endless mechanical circus.
I love digging underwater, but loathe of the endless mechanical circus. Don’t get me wrong – being able to vacuum up sediment with a giant hose is far better than having to lug bucket after bucket of backdirt up and out of your unit. And as far as archaeology is concerned, nothing can beat floating […]
A Second Class Ticket to Timai, Egypt
May 25th 2010: I had been in Cairo for nearly three weeks now, staying with my Egyptian-American friend, Rana. This was a much needed break from the hustle of grad school. I felt my energy recharged and I was excited for the upcoming season at Tell el-Timai. The archaeological Tell (mound) is located in the […]
Air Supply
Depending on technology to breathe is sketchy, particularly when that technology is not all that dependable. While diving in the Aucilla River, our crew relied on surface supplied air, run off a Brownie Third Lung hookah. We dug it out of the dive locker at the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research where it had been […]
Just Pressed: Archaeologists in the Kings Castle
Far beneath us the water surged amongst jagged rocks, swirling into dark eddies and casting foam high into the air. It was tempting to lean out as far as you could, but the limestone cliffs were weak and crumbling where we stood beside the four-hundred year old walls.
- Sinking in the earth’s (muddy) magnetic field…
- Angels Over Alexandria
- The Weapons of Warwick
- This One Walking Beside Me Whom I Do Not See
- How to dig up the bottom of a river – the endless mechanical circus.
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Doug Inglis: divingarchaeology.com: Sorry for the late reply! There are a lot of neat projects going on in your neck of the woods…
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Geoff Robinson: Hi - nothing to do with this, I'm afraid, but I want to send an email to Dr Inglis about…
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Bob Coughter: Hi there. I found this site reminiscing on my college days in the mid 90's. I worked on the Aucilla…
- Angels Over Alexandria | Hellenic diaspora: […] Sculptures decorate many of the tombs. Children rest calmly under the watchful eye of towering angels that seem to…
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