Excavation

The digging itself, then and now. Botta at Khorsabad and Layard at Nimrud and Nineveh in the 1840s, Rassam, Koldewey at Babylon, Andrae at Assur, Woolley at Ur with Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan on site, and current work at Girsu with Iraqi teams. Much of the best material here is not photography at all but the great nineteenth-century published folios, engraved and printed before cameras could do the job, which record objects that were later lost, damaged or dispersed.

Part of Mesopotamia

250 moments in this segment.

1. 1839 - Medamud. Temple of Montu. Figure in front of the ruin of the gate of Tiberius, seen through. A record from the archaeology of Egypt and its recording. Commons dates the file to 1839.
2. 1839 - Medamud. Temple of Montu. High relief with statue of Seti II on a separate block label. A record from the archaeology of Egypt and its recording.
3. 1839 - Medamud. Temple of Montu. The dromos, seen from the east label QS:Len,"Medamud. Temple of. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording. The image is catalogued to 1839.
4. 1839 - Medamud. Temple of Montu. Man and two children, sitting in front of the columns of the portico. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 4.
5. 1839 - Medamud. Fragments of Coptic pottery decorated with low and high relief 01 label. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 2.
6. 1849 - Felsentempel bei El Kâb; Kapelle unweit des Felsentempels; Wüstentempel östlich von Redesîeh. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording.
7. 1849 - Coupe sur la ligne a" b" du plan général (du monument) (NYPL b14308483-1534701). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
8. 1849 - Neues Reich. Dynastie XVII. El Kab (el-Kab), a - d Grab 3; e. f. Grab 7 (NYPL b14291191-38178). A record from the archaeology of Egypt and its recording. Commons dates the file to 1849.
9. 1849 - Dynastie IV. Pyramiden von Abusir (Abû Sîr Site), Grab 6. (Grabkammer No.1 im K. Museum zu. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording. Commons dates the file to 1849.
10. 1849 - Situationsplan der Ruinen von Diméh (Dîmay) im Faiûm (Fayyûm) (NYPL b14291191-37555). Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents the archaeology of Egypt and its recording.
11. 1849 - Armes diverses (NYPL b14308483-1534858). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
12. 1849 - Boucliers et béliers de formes diverses (NYPL b14308483-1534859). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
13. 1849 - Coiffures diverses (NYPL b14308483-1534862). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
14. 1849 - 1. Bord de l'autel; 2. Salle VIII, 25; 3. Salle VIII, 17; 4. Salle VIII, 12; 5. Fragment provenant de la Salle VIII (NYPL b14308483-1535070). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
15. 1849 - Façade L. Plan et élévation des faces sud-ouest, sud-est, et de la partie K (NYPL b14308483-1534703). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
16. 1849 - Façade L. Plan et élévations de la face nord-ouest (NYPL b14308483-1534704). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
17. 1849 - Façade L. Revers du No. 26 (NYPL b14308483-1535058). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
18. 1849 - Façade L. Revers du No. 9 (NYPL b14308483-1535068). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
19. 1849 - Façade N. Plan et élévation de la face nord-est (NYPL b14308483-1534717). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
20. 1849 - Façade N. Plan et élévations des la faces nord-ouest, sud-est (NYPL b14308483-1534718). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
21. 1849 - Façade N. Taureau 9 (NYPL b14308483-1534942). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
22. 1849 - Façade N. Taureau 17 (NYPL b14308483-1534946). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
23. 1849 - Façade n. Revers du No. 37 (NYPL b14308483-1535060). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
24. 1849 - Façade n. Revers du No. 33 (NYPL b14308483-1535062). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
25. 1849 - Façade n. Revers du No. 34 (NYPL b14308483-1535063). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
26. 1849 - Façade m. Revers du No. 19 (NYPL b14308483-1535064). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
27. 1849 - Façade n. Revers du No. 28 (NYPL b14308483-1535065). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
28. 1849 - Façade N. Plan et élévations des portes M, P, Q (NYPL b14308483-1534719). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
29. 1849 - Façade n. Plan et élévations de la face sud-est (NYPL b14308483-1534722). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
30. 1849 - Façade n. Plan et élévations de la face nord-est (NYPL b14308483-1534723). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
31. 1849 - Façade m. Taureau (porte k, 1), de profil (NYPL b14308483-1534738). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
32. 1849 - Fragment (NYPL b14308483-1535052). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
33. 1849 - Façade n. Revers du No. 48 (NYPL b14308483-1535053). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
34. 1849 - Montants de la porte O (NYPL b14308483-1534953). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
35. 1849 - Parasol, chasse-mouches, bracelets et pendants d'oreilles (NYPL b14308483-1534860). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
36. 1849 - Plan topographique général de l'enceinte et du monticule de Khorsabad (NYPL b14308483-1534694). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
37. 1849 - Plan, coupe, élévations et détails de construction de l'enceinte (NYPL b14308483-1534695). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
38. 1849 - Plan général du monument (NYPL b14308483-1534698). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
39. 1849 - Pavé de la porte d (grecque) (NYPL b14308483-1534906). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
40. 1849 - Plan du monumnet isolé x, situé à l'angle occidental du monticule (NYPL b14308483-1534846). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
41. 1849 - Salle II. Plan (NYPL b14308483-1534744). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
42. 1849 - Salle I. Plan et élévations des trois faces et de la porte A (NYPL b14308483-1534741). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
43. 1849 - Salle II. Élévations des quatre faces et des portes B, C, F, G, H (NYPL b14308483-1534745). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
44. 1849 - Salle IX. Plan et élévations des quatre faces et des portes Y, Z (NYPL b14308483-1534819). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
45. 1849 - Salle IV. Plan (NYPL b14308483-1534774). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
46. 1849 - Salle IV. Élévations des quatre faces et des portes D, I, T (NYPL b14308483-1534775). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
47. 1849 - Ornement symbolique attenant au timon d'un char. Étendard figurant dans un bas-relief de la salle II (NYPL b14308483-1534857). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
48. 1849 - Plan, (sur une grande échelle,) des façades principales et des salles, avec numéros de renvoi correspondants à ceux des planches représentan. (NYPL b14308483-1534699). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
49. 1849 - Façade n. Bas-relief 5 (NYPL b14308483-1534728). * Contents: t. 1-2. Architecture et sculpture. 1849.--t. 3-4. Inscriptions. 1849.--t. 5. Texte. 1850. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
50. 1853 - Austen Henry Layard - Monuments of Ninevah- Plate 6, Fish-god (Nimroud); Figure near an Entrance - 2010.668 - Cleveland Museum of Art. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
51. 1853 - Austen Henry Layard - Monuments of Ninevah- Plate 3, Human-headed Bull and Winged Figure from a G - 2010.669 - Cleveland Museum of Art. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
52. 1853 - Austen Henry Layard - Monuments of Ninevah- Plate 32, Huntsmen with Gazelle, Hare and Birds (Khor - 2010.564 - Cleveland Museum of Art. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
53. 1869 - Austen Henry Layard, Vanity Fair, 1869-08-28. Statesmen No.30: Caricature of The Rt Hon Austen Henry Layard . Caption reads: "He combines the love of truth and art with equal devotion and success.". The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
54. 1871 - Portret van Austen Henry Layard The right hon. Austen Henry Layard (titel op object), RP-F-2001-7-235B-16. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
55. 1872 - Portret van Austen Henry Layard The right hon. Austen Henry Layard (titel op object), RP-F-2001-7-236-16. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
56. 1893 - Archaeological survey of Egypt memoir (1893). Identifier : archaeologicals17egyp ( find matches ) Title : Archaeological survey of Egypt memoir Year : 1893 ( 1890s ) Authors : Egypt Exploration Society Subjects : Publisher : London Contributing Library : Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor : University of Toronto View Book Page : Book Viewer About This Book.
57. 1905 - Qau el-Kebir and Hammamiya, Caves, Quarries. Photograph of the Qau el-Kebir cave used as a quarry. Angelo Sesana Archive. Commons dates the file to 1905.
58. 1909 - Ashmunein, Excavation area, Minya. Photograph taken at Minia, an area not far from Ashmunein, where the Italian Archaeological Mission was excavating in 1909. Angelo Sesana Archive.
59. 1922 - Book illustration showing the statue 'A ram caught in a thicket' found during the archaeological excavations at Ur LOC matpc.11531. The Ram in a Thicket, roughly 2600 BC, from the Royal Cemetery at Ur. Two were found. Woolley named it from Genesis, a borrowed title rather than an ancient one. The pair were split by partage between the British Museum and the Penn Museum.
60. 1924 - Medamud. Temple of Montu. Courtyard during the flood label QS:Len,"Medamud. Temple of Montu.. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 3.
61. 1924 - Medamud. Temple of Montu. Right angle of the lintel of Sesostris III: Sed festival in low. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 5.
62. 1926 - Medamud. Temple of Montu. Workers and archaeologist look at a pedestal with Greek inscriptions. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 6.
63. 1938 - Oriental Institute Staff 1938. Oriental Institute staff photographed in 1938, the generation that ran the Khorsabad and Tell Asmar excavations. Institute publications from these decades carry enormous quantities of excavation photography.
64. 1952 - Nippur, Part II [1951-1952]. Expedition film from the 1951 to 1952 season at Nippur, part two. This footage is the joint Penn and Oriental Institute work carried out with the Iraq Directorate of Antiquities under Fuad Safar and Taha Baqir.
65. 1952 - Nippur, Part III [1951-1952]. Nippur expedition film from the 1951 to 1952 season, part three. Iraqi archaeologists including Fuad Safar and Taha Baqir led the national side of postwar fieldwork after partage ended in 1936.
66. 1994 - Údolí králů (1994) - panoramio. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording. The image is catalogued to 1994.
67. 1999 - Lúxor, panorámicas (1999). Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents the archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 4.
68. 2005 - Hathor és Amon. Istenek Hathor templomában, Derj-el-Medine (Luxor, Egyiptom).
69. 2006 - Al Azhar park Egpyt. A record from the archaeology of Egypt and its recording. The image is catalogued to 2006.
70. 2008-06-04 - Royal Tombs of Ur. An overview of the Royal Tombs of Ur from the Penn Museum. Human sacrifice at Ur is better supported now than in Woolley's day; what changed is the manner, with evidence of heat and mercury treatment indicating bodies were preserved and displayed rather than simply buried.
71. 2008 - Valley of the Kings panorama. Panorama of the Valley of the Kings. Taken from the hill overlooking KV11, looking north.
72. 2010-08-12 - 1930s EES Amarna Film PREVIEW. Excavation work on record, running 6 min.
73. 2010-10-07 - Exploring the Roots of Mesopotamian Civilization: Excavations at Tell Zeidan, Syria. Excavations at Tell Zeidan in Syria, exploring the Ubaid roots of Mesopotamian civilisation before the Uruk period. The Ubaid horizon precedes the first cities and the first tablets by centuries.
74. 2010-10-15 - Death and the City: Recent Work at Tell Brak, Syria. Recent work at Tell Brak in Syria, an early urban centre in the north. Brak shows monumental building and large settlement independent of the southern Uruk sequence.
75. 2011-05-08 - Heritage. Excavation work on record, running 2 min.
76. 2011 - SFEC 2009 POT-0015c. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 8.
77. 2011 - ISS030-E-18301 - View of Iraq. View of Iraq taken during ISS Expedition 30. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
78. 2011-08-13 - Barry Kemp speaks about Amarna. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 8 min.
79. 2011-10-19 - USAID/Egypt funded AERA/ARCE Archaeological Field School Program. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 3 min.
80. 2012-02-20 - Art and Decoration in Ancient Egypt, with Emily Teeter. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 54 min.
81. 2012-02-22 - Decoding Plant and Animal Symbols from the Royal Cemetery (Ur, Iraq). Penn researchers read plant and animal symbols from the Royal Cemetery at Ur. Woolley excavated roughly 1,800 graves between 1922 and 1934 and designated sixteen as royal tombs, dated to about 2600 to 2450 BC.
82. 2013-01-26 - Le royaume de Mari - Tell Hariri فلم وثائقي عن مملكة ماري تل الحريري. A documentary on the kingdom of Mari at Tell Hariri. The Mari letters are the richest surviving correspondence from the early second millennium BC and are written in Akkadian.
83. 2013-10-16 - Donny George Youkhana | One Scholar's Contribution to Mesopotamina Archaelogy. Donny George Youkhanna, Director of the Iraq Museum, on his contribution to Mesopotamian archaeology. He was central to recovering objects after 2003 and left Iraq under threat in 2006, dying in 2011.
84. 2014-02-18 - Expositions à l'IMA - Voués à Ishtar - Syrie, janvier 1934, André Parrot découvre Mari. Andre Parrot discovers Mari at Tell Hariri in January 1934. The site produced the palace of Zimri-Lim, the Investiture wall painting and an archive of tens of thousands of letters.
85. 2014-03-20 - One Hundred Years of Egyptian Art at the MFA. Excavation work on record, running 1h 17m.
86. 2014 - Fragment of a painted floor (cornflowers), Tell el-Amarna, Maru Aten, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18,. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. The image is catalogued to 2014.
87. 2014 - Amarna Grenzstele U. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 7.
88. 2014 - Head of a statue, probably of Gudea. Circa 2130 BCE. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. The British Museum, London. Gudea ruled Lagash around 2100 BC and had himself carved repeatedly in hard imported diorite. The statues came from Girsu, modern Tello, where Ernest de Sarzec began digging in 1877, work that effectively proved the Sumerians had existed after their existence had been doubted.
89. 2014 - September 2014, excavations at the ancient mound of Bakr Awa, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Republic of Iraq. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
90. 2014 - September 2014, excavations at the ancient mound of Bakr Awa near Halabja, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Republic of Iraq. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
91. 2014 - Carved ivory plaque that depicts plant decoration. Nimrud ivory. Sulaymaniyah Museum. The Nimrud ivories, carved furniture inlays from the Northwest Palace, many showing Phoenician and Egyptianising styles that arrived as tribute or loot. A large part of the collection was stored in the Iraq Museum basement and suffered water damage.
92. 2014 - Carved ivory plaque of wings of the god Ashur. Nimrud ivory. Sulaymaniyah Museum. The Nimrud ivories, carved furniture inlays from the Northwest Palace, many showing Phoenician and Egyptianising styles that arrived as tribute or loot. A large part of the collection was stored in the Iraq Museum basement and suffered water damage.
93. 2014-09-18 - September 18, 2014. Excavations at the ancient mound of Bakr Awa, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. Excavations at the ancient mound of Bakr Awa, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq, headed by Professor Peter Miglus of the Heidelberg University. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
94. 2015-05-04 - Amarna 2 0. Archaeology in progress, running 4 min.
95. 2015-05-26 - Naguib Kanawati - Transforming Egyptology - Macquarie University. Archaeology in progress, running 2 min.
96. 2015-05-28 - ARCE NY Chapter presents Peter Lacovara. Egyptologist Peter Lacovara speaking at the NY chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt, giving a talk entitled “Deir el-Ballas: Ancient Egypt’s Forgotten Palace.
97. 2015-07-27 - Exploring the Roots of Mesopotamian Civilization: Tell Zeidan, Syria — Gil J. Stein. Gil Stein on the Tell Zeidan excavation and the roots of Mesopotamian civilisation. Southern Mesopotamia has the earliest attested cities at urban scale, but civilisation arising here and spreading outward is hyperdiffusionism and is discredited.
98. 2015-09-04 - Hamoukar: Redrawing the Map of the World's Earliest Cities. Hamoukar in northeastern Syria, where evidence of early urban-scale settlement and organised warfare redrew the map of the world's earliest cities. The find complicated the assumption that urbanism spread outward from the far south.
99. 2015-11-19 - EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY circa 1930 (Baby Pathé 9.5mm). Bought on eBay. I'm not sure, but I think this may be unique footage, rather than from a newsreel.
100. 2016-01-26 - The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell. A short portrait of Gertrude Bell. The 1936 Iraqi antiquities law that followed her 1924 statute ended partage and stopped the export of excavated finds.
101. 2016 - Five Amarna letters on display at the British Museum, LondonA. Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents the archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 2.
102. 2016-09-11 - September 11, 2016. Excavating the ancient mound of Gird-i Qalrakh, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governrate, Iraq. September 11, 2016; excavations. The ancient mound (4000-1000 BCE) of Gird-î Qalrakh (ِArabic: تل قلرخ), Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. The mound (or Tell) was first registered in 1943. Excavations started in 2015 and carried out by the University of Frankfort. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
103. 2016-09-11 - September 11, 2016. Obsidian and flint cutting tools excavated at Gird-i Shamlu, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. September 11, 2016 obsidian and flint cutting tools excavated at Gird-i Shamlu. The ancient mound (or tell) of Gird-i Shamlu, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. The water (of a nearby artificial lake) surrounding the mound (or tell) has receded, exposing the mound's surrounding area.
104. 2016-09-11 - September 11, 2016. Excavations at Gird-i Shamlu, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
105. 2016-10-14 - Lisa Cooper | Encounters with Ancient Splendors: Gertrude Bell. Lisa Cooper on Gertrude Bell and her encounters with ancient splendours. Bell founded the Iraq Museum and drafted the 1924 antiquities law that first limited what excavators could take out of the country.
106. 2017-02-17 - The evolving portrait of Deir el-Medina | Dr Cedric Gobeil. Excavation work on record, running 1h 3m.
107. 2017-04-28 - Interview with Robert Biggs for the Oriental Institute Oral History Project. Robert Biggs interviewed for the Oriental Institute Oral History Project. Assyriology is a small field and its institutional memory sits largely in interviews like this one.
108. 2017 - DeirMedina Plan. Planimetria schematica dell'area di Deir el-Medina con l'indicazione delle Tombe dei Nobili presenti. Commons dates the file to 2017.
109. 2017 - Gold Cup & Bowl Ur Royal Tombs excavations. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
110. 2017 - Copper Alloy Helmet & Crushed Head of Royal Guard PG 789. Queen Puabi, also read Shub-ad, was buried at Ur around 2600 BC with attendants. Woolley's account of a gentle poisoning has been overturned: the 2009 to 2011 Penn CT work found perimortem blunt-force trauma, plus heat and mercury treatment indicating the bodies were preserved and displayed. No cup was ever chemically tested. Human sacrifice at Ur is better supported than ever; Woolley's manner of it is not.
111. 2017 - Lady Layard’s jewellery. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
112. 2017-11-23 - The Iraq Scheme update: digs and discoveries. An update on the British Museum's Iraq Scheme, which trains Iraqi archaeologists in fieldwork and rescue techniques. Training Iraqi specialists is the practical answer to a century in which foreign expeditions took both the objects and the expertise.
113. 2017-12-17 - Ancient Egypt 101 | National Geographic. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 6 min.
114. 2018 - Head of a Sumerian female, from Khafajah, excavated by the Oriental Institute, Early Dynastic III, c. 2400 BCE. The Sulaymaniyah Museum. This alabaster /limestone head of a Sumerian woman came from Khafajah, in modern-day Dyala, Iraq, and was excavated by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 4th season, 19331934 CE, Early Dynastic III, c. 2400 BCE. The head does not belong to the torso of the statue.
115. 2018-06-19 - Expedition - Powerful Women of Ur. Penn Museum on the powerful women of Ur. Alongside Puabi, the Ur material raises the question of whether the principal burials are royalty or high priestesses, which remains unsettled.
116. 2018-06-27 - Peter Pfalzner | On the Fringe of Mesopotamia. Peter Pfalzner on the fringes of Mesopotamia. The states beyond the alluvium shaped Mesopotamian history as much as the southern cities did.
117. 2018-07-25 - What's On? Great Death Pit of Ur. The Great Death Pit of Ur, PG 1237, where Woolley found 73 or 74 attendants laid out in rows. Woolley said they drank poison and lay down peacefully; no cup was ever chemically tested, and Penn's 2009 to 2011 CT work found perimortem blunt-force trauma instead.
118. 2018-11-04 - Mystery of Egypt's Sunken Cities, Discovered by Archaeolgist, Frank Goddio, The Whole Story.. Excavation work on record, running 21 min.
119. 2018-12-14 - Egyptian Archaeologist speaks on the First Egyptian-Chinese Archaeological Mission working in Karnak. Archaeology in progress, running 4 min.
120. 2019-02-20 - Baryim Malak Village, Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Fieldwork at Baryim Malak village in the Erbil plain, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Northern Iraq has been comparatively accessible to fieldwork in recent years while the south has not.
121. 2019-04-06 - The Stuff of Legend: Late 19th century Excavations at Nippur. Penn Museum on the late nineteenth-century American excavations at Nippur, which produced the largest collection of Sumerian literary tablets in the world. Much of what is known of Sumerian literature comes from this one site's school texts.
122. 2019-05-05 - Magnificent 4,500 Year-old Tomb Discovered by the Great Pyramids. Archaeology in progress, running 3 min.
123. 2019 - Guard House, Abu Simbel, AG, EGY. Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents the archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 5.
124. 2019 - Votive plaque. Akhenaten raises up early cartouches of the God Aten. Akhenaten and Nefertiti's. At the upper part of this votive plaque of the God Aten, there are two "early" cartouches of Aten. On the right, it reads "The living Re-Horakhty, Rejoicing in the horizon" while that on the left reads "In his name as Shu, who is in the Aten". Below them, a figure of Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 BCE) is flanked by cartouches. The. The image is catalogued to 2019.
125. 2019 - Detail, Nebuchadnezzar II's Building Inscription plaque of the Ishtar Gate, from Babylon, Iraq. 6th century BCE. Pergamon Museum, Berlin. The Ishtar Gate of Nebuchadnezzar II's Babylon, glazed brick with lions, aurochs and the mushhushshu dragon of Marduk. The reconstruction in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin is assembled from excavated fragments shipped out by Robert Koldewey's expedition, so the most famous view of Babylon is in Germany.
126. 2019 - Excavations of a Neo-Assyrian fortress, at Usu Aska, Darband-i Rania, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. Excavations at Usu Aska of Darband-i Rania, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. A Neo-Assyrian fortress, probably 7th century BCE, has been unearthed by a British Museum team headed by Dr. John MacGinnis. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
127. 2019 - Excavations. Qalat-i Dinka, part of the Peshder Plane Project, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. Excavation at Qalat-i Dinka, the Peshder Plane Project, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. The remains of the unearthed building appear to be Neo-Assyrian. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
128. 2019 - Excavations, Sept. 26, 2019, Qalat-i Dinka, Peshder Plane Project, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. Excavation at Qalat-i Dinka, the Peshder Plane Project, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. The remains of the unearthed building appear to be Neo-Assyrian. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
129. 2019 - French Excavations at Tell Kunara. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300 to 2000 BCE, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Republic of Iraq. Oct 2019. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
130. 2019 - French team Excavations at Tell Kunara. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300-2000 BCE. Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Republic of Iraq. October 2019. French Excavations at Tell Kunara. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300-2000 BCE. Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Republic of Iraq. October 2019. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
131. 2019 - French Excavations at Tell Kunara. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300-2000 BCE. Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Republic of Iraq, Oct 2019. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
132. 2019 - French Excavations at Tell Kunara. Akkadian to Lullubian, 2300 to 2000 BCE. Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Republic of Iraq. October 2019. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
133. 2019 - Tomb, opened. Excavations at Yasin Tepe, Sualymaniayh, Shahrizor Plain, Iraq. Excavations at Yasin Tepe, Sualymaniayh, Shahrizor Plain, Iraq. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
134. 2019 - Sumerian votive wall plaque with 3 registers and a cuneiform text, from Khafajah, Iraq, c. 2600-2370 BCE. Iraq Museum. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
135. 2019-09-23 - How Politics and Archaeology Intersect In Iraq: Christopher Woods, Dir. of The Oriental Institute. Christopher Woods on how politics and archaeology intersect in Iraq. Foreign missions operate under Iraqi permits and Iraqi law, and that has been true since 1936.
136. 2019-10-03 - French Excavations at Tell Kunara. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300-2000 BCE, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Republic of Iraq. 3 October 2019. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
137. 2019-10-03 - Foundation-walls. Excavations at Tell Kunara. October 3, 2019. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300-2000 BCE. Sulaymaniyah, Republic of Iraq. Excavations at Tell Kunara. October 3, 2019. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300-2000 BCE. Sulaymaniyah, Republic of Iraq. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
138. 2019-10-03 - Pottery fragment. Excavations at Tell Kunara. October 3, 2019. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300-2000 BCE. Sulaymaniyah, Republic of Iraq. Excavations at Tell Kunara. October 3, 2019. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300-2000 BCE. Sulaymaniyah, Republic of Iraq. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
139. 2019-10-07 - Investigating Continuous Archaeological Landscapes of Northern Mesopotamia. A lecture on continuous archaeological landscapes in northern Mesopotamia. Landscape archaeology reads canals, field systems and roads rather than individual sites.
140. 2019-10-15 - AN EXCEPTIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN THE DUHOK REGION THE ASSYRIAN ROCK RELIEFS IN FAIDA. Assyrian rock reliefs recorded at Faida in the Duhok region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Faida panels line an ancient irrigation canal and show deities on their animals, carved into the rock rather than into palace walls.
141. 2019-11-06 - McGuire Gibson | The OI in Iraq. McGuire Gibson on the Oriental Institute's long record of fieldwork in Iraq. Chicago's expeditions produced the Tell Asmar hoard and the Khorsabad material now in its galleries.
142. 2020-03-06 - Khorsabad, une passion française. Khorsabad and the French passion for it. Paul-Emile Botta dug Khorsabad from 1843 for France, and Victor Place followed; a large consignment of their finds sank in the Tigris and was never recovered.
143. 2020-04-23 - Amarna Egypt Royal Tomb Entrance 2001. Video flyover of the entrance to the royal tomb created from a series of still photographs taken from a helium-filled photographic balloon in 2001 by photographer Gwil Owen. The video has been created (in 2020) from the still photographs by photogrammetrist Paul Docherty.
144. 2020-04-29 - The search for sunken civilizations: Expedition ship Princess Duda ©Franck Goddio Hilti Foundation. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 3 min.
145. 2020-10-01 - Gardens of Amarna by Barry Kemp 9-13-2020. Excavation work on record, running 1h 23m.
146. 2020-11-17 - Scientists Uncover More than 100 Egyptian Coffins. Excavation work on record, running 1 min.
147. 2020-12-05 - FAST Lecture: Late Antique Ceramic Contexts at Amheida, Egypt. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 48 min.
148. 2020-12-07 - Barry Kemp, CBE, Nov 2020 update on the Amarna Great Aten Temple restoration. The latest update late 2020 from Barry Kemp, director of the Amarna Project on this fall 2020 excavation season.
149. 2021-01-06 - Abdulameer al-Hamdani | Iraq's Heritage: An Update. Abdulameer al-Hamdani on the state of Iraq's heritage. Al-Hamdani documented site looting in Dhi Qar province in the years when it was at its worst and later served as Iraq's culture minister.
150. 2021-01-09 - Exploring Egyptian Civilization for Kids: Ancient Egyptian Culture Documentary - FreeSchool. Excavation work on record, running 14 min.
151. 2021-02-20 - OI Ancient Literature Workshops, Session 2: The Iliad in Ancient Egypt. Archaeology in progress, running 18 min.
152. 2021-04-07 - Margarete van Ess | News from Old Uruk. Margarete van Ess on current work at Uruk. German excavation at Warka has run intermittently since 1912 and is the source of most of what is known about the site.
153. 2021-04-19 - ReConsidering Iraqi Cultural Heritage: : A Conversation with Dr. Abdulameer Al-Hamdani. A conversation with Abdulameer al-Hamdani on reconsidering Iraqi cultural heritage. Iraqi archaeologists have carried the field through decades in which foreign missions came and went.
154. 2021-05-05 - اكتشاف جديد لقصر اشوري اسفل مسجد النبي يونس Assyrian Palace discovered under Tomb of Prophet Jonah. The Assyrian palace discovered beneath the tomb of the Prophet Jonah in Mosul, covered in Arabic. The palace is probably Esarhaddon's and was exposed by the destruction of the shrine above it.
155. 2021-06-02 - Sifting Sand in Sudan: New Light on Life and Death in Ancient Nubia by Dr. Brenda Baker. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 1h 25m.
156. 2021 - Jarmo (Qal'at Jarmo), late 8th century BCE - late 6th century BCE. Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, March 2021. Aftermaths of 1948-1955 excavations condu
157. 2021-10-11 - 15. The Neolithic site of Bestansur, October 11, 2021. Shahrizor Plane, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. The Neolithic site of Bestansur, October 11, 2021. Shahrizor Plane, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. A team from the University of Reading, UK, headed by Professor Roger Matthews, is excavating the site in cooperation with a local team from the Sulaymaniyah Directorate of Antiquities. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
158. 2021-10-11 - 19. The Neolithic site of Bestansur, October 11, 2021. Shahrizor Plane, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. The Neolithic site of Bestansur, October 11, 2021. Shahrizor Plane, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. A team from the University of Reading, UK, headed by Professor Roger Matthews, is excavating the site in cooperation with a local team from the Sulaymaniyah Directorate of Antiquities. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
159. 2021-10-11 - 16. The Neolithic site of Bestansur, October 11, 2021. Shahrizor Plane, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. The Neolithic site of Bestansur, October 11, 2021. Shahrizor Plane, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. A team from the University of Reading, UK, headed by Professor Roger Matthews, is excavating the site in cooperation with a local team from the Sulaymaniyah Directorate of Antiquities. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
160. 2021-10-28 - اكتشافات اثرية اشورية جديدة فريدة من نوعها في العراق New Assyrian archaeological discoveries in Iraq
161. 2022-01-20 - Birket Habu: Amenhotep III’s Ceremonial Lake at Western Thebes by Barry Kemp 9-12-2017. Excavation work on record, running 1h 11m.
162. 2022-03-07 - Hervé Reculeau | How Did Ancient Mesopotamians Deal with Climate Change. Herve Reculeau on how ancient Mesopotamians dealt with climate change. The collapse of the Akkadian empire has been linked to a drought event around 2200 BC, an argument that is debated rather than settled.
163. 2022-03-17 - The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to announce a new archaeological discovery. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 1 min.
164. 2022-04-08 - Spotlight Lecture: On the Tracks of Ahmed Fakhry. Archaeology in progress, running 44 min.
165. 2022-05-19 - Uncovered Egypt: Treasures of Tutankhamun Tour. Archaeology in progress, running 15 min.
166. 2022 - Valley of the Queens 2022. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 10.
167. 2022 - Archeologists find 2,700-year-old murals in Mosul. Archaeologists find 2,700-year-old murals in Mosul. Painted decoration rarely survives on Assyrian sites, so wall painting is a significant find wherever it appears.
168. 2022 - Ausgrabungsparadies Irak: Forscher kehren wieder nach Larsa zurück. Researchers return to Larsa in southern Iraq. Larsa was a major city of the early second millennium BC and rival of Isin, and French missions have worked there for decades.
169. 2022 - Archeologists excavate Iraq’s ancient city of Nineveh. Archaeologists excavate at Nineveh, the Assyrian capital beside modern Mosul. Nineveh consists of two mounds, Kuyunjik and Nebi Yunus, and the palace reliefs and the tablet library both came from Kuyunjik.
170. 2022 - Archaeologists explore palace under Mosul shrine. Archaeologists explore the palace found beneath the destroyed shrine of Jonah in Mosul. Destruction produced a discovery here, which is a real and uncomfortable part of the record.
171. 2022 - Journal de fouilles Cros Tello. (a cast or replica, not the original object). Diary of excavations of the Chaldean mission, excavations of Tello (ancient Girsu), kept by Gaston Cros (1861-1915) between 1903 and 1909. With copy of a cuneiform inscription, and its photograph (cyanotype). Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits. The nineteenth-century excavation folios of Layard, Botta and Place recorded Assyrian palaces in engraved plates. Much of what they drew has since been destroyed or has weathered away, so the plates are now primary evidence in their own right.
172. 2022-06-18 - Prof. Barry Kemp #ExplorersEgyptology - Excavating and Rebuilding the Great Temple of Aten.. Archaeology in progress, running 1h 52m.
173. 2022-09-28 - Lagash: Archaeological Investigations at an early Mesopotamian City. Archaeological investigation at Lagash, an early Mesopotamian city in the south. Lagash, at Tell al-Hiba, is distinct from its religious centre Girsu at Tello, and both belonged to the same state.
174. 2022-11-23 - ASOR 2022: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey, 2012-2022. Ten years of the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey, 2012 to 2022, presented at ASOR. Regional survey maps settlement across a landscape rather than digging a single mound, which is how the shape of Assyrian occupation is reconstructed.
175. 2022-11-23 - Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the world. Excavation work on record, running 1h 2m.
176. 2022-12-06 - Ur Colloquium: Prof R Matthews & Dr A Richardson on 'Ur & the City Seals: Issues & Approaches'. Roger Matthews and Amy Richardson on Ur and the city seals. Seal impressions naming multiple cities suggest an early network of southern centres acting together, which is inferred from the sealings rather than stated in any text.
177. 2023-01-10 - 8/27 - De la redécouverte de Khorsabad et du déchiffrement de l’assyrien à François Thureau-Dangin. The rediscovery of Khorsabad, the decipherment of Assyrian and the work of Francois Thureau-Dangin. Khorsabad is Dur-Sharrukin, Sargon II's purpose-built capital, largely abandoned after his death in battle.
178. 2023-01-24 - The first archaeological discovery of a residential city in eastern Luxor, Egypt. Excavation work on record, running 2 min.
179. 2023-01-27 - Franck Goddio: Latest News from Ancient Egypt. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 59 min.
180. 2023-02-01 - Exhibitions Unpacked: Challenging Legacies: The Kingdom of Iraq and Gertrude Bell. An exhibition unpacking Gertrude Bell's role in the Kingdom of Iraq. Her collection of excavation photographs is a major visual record of Iraqi sites before modern development.
181. 2023-02-02 - Amarna Project January 2023 Amarna Update by Barry Kemp. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 42 min.
182. 2023-02-02 - Amarna Royal Court. The Amarna Royal Court: The City and its Officials Produced by David Pepper.
183. 2023-02-02 - September 2022 Amarna Update by Berry Kemp. Archaeology in progress, running 1h 40m.
184. 2023-02-27 - Ur Colloquium: Dr Brad Hafford on 'Woolley and Site Formation at Ur: Old Notes and New Excavations'. Brad Hafford on Woolley's site formation at Ur, comparing the original notebooks with new excavation. Woolley dug at Ur from 1922 to 1934 for the British Museum and the Penn Museum jointly, and his records are now being re-read against the ground.
185. 2023-02-27 - Lost Tombs by Stephen Harvey 8-16-2022. Archaeology in progress, running 1h 9m.
186. 2023-03-13 - Amarna Project: The Great Aten Temple Restoration. Excavation work on record, running 13 min. V.
187. 2023-04-05 - Female Archaeologists Set to Dominate Field in Sudan | VOANews. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 2 min.
188. 2023-04-20 - Excavating Cuneiform Tablets in Iraq with the Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S8 Ep3. The Girsu Project excavating cuneiform tablets at Tello in southern Iraq, a British Museum programme run with Iraqi archaeologists. Girsu was the sacred centre of the state of Lagash and the source of the Gudea statues now in the Louvre.
189. 2023-04-24 - 2021 10 14 Adams How Beer Made Kings in Early Egypt. Archaeology in progress, running 57 min.
190. 2023-05-05 - Affluent Suburbs or Disenfranchised Banlieue: The Urban Edge at Nippur, Iraq. Work on the urban edge at Nippur in Iraq. Excavating the outskirts rather than the temple centre changes what a Mesopotamian city looks like as a social space.
191. 2023-05-27 - Egyptian Archaeologists Discover the biggest Embalming Workshop and Tombs of over 2000-Year-Old. Excavation work on record, running 24 min.
192. 2023-06-06 - Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE. Penn Museum on Lagash and its neighbours around 2500 BC, drawn from the current excavation at Tell al-Hiba. Recent seasons there identified a public eating place among the finds, which is unusual evidence for ordinary urban life.
193. 2023 - Iraq dig unearths 2,700-year-old winged sculpture largely intact | AFP. An Iraqi dig unearths a 2,700-year-old winged sculpture largely intact. A lamassu of this kind guarded a palace or city gateway and is usually carved with five legs so it reads from both front and side.
194. 2023 - Archaeologists in Iraq unearth ancient restaurant. Archaeologists at Lagash in southern Iraq uncover what was reported as an ancient tavern or public eating place. Most Mesopotamian excavation has concentrated on temples and palaces, so domestic and commercial contexts are comparatively rare.
195. 2023 - Complaint tablet to Ea-Nasir 2023 rotated. The tablet of Nanni to Ea-nasir, roughly 1750 BC from Ur, complaining about substandard copper. It is the oldest known customer complaint and a legitimate way into the enormous world of Mesopotamian commercial correspondence, which is most of what survives. British Museum.
196. 2023-07-17 - Watch the discovery of Egyptian archaeological treasures in 2023. January 2023: A group of archaeologists excavating tombs in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, near Cairo, discovered the mummified remains of a man named Hekashepes, who lived circa 2300BC.
197. 2023-09-30 - "Wooden Structures at the Great Aten Temple at Amarna, by Barry Kemp,. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 49 min.
198. 2023-10-04 - Nimrud: Palace of Adad Nirari III, 2023. The palace of Adad-nirari III at Nimrud, recorded in 2023. Fieldwork at Nimrud now proceeds alongside the recovery of material destroyed in 2015.
199. 2023-10-11 - Nimrud: Ishtar Temple, 2023, part 1. The Ishtar temple at Nimrud, recorded in 2023. Nimrud is Kalhu, made the Assyrian capital by Ashurnasirpal II in the ninth century BC.
200. 2023-10-25 - Nimrud: Northwest Palace of Assurnasirpal II. The Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. Its throne room reliefs are the ones that reached museums across Europe and North America in the nineteenth century.
201. 2023-11-01 - Agatha Christie and Nimrud. Agatha Christie at Nimrud, where she accompanied her husband Max Mallowan on excavation seasons through the 1950s. She photographed finds, cleaned ivories with face cream and set Murder in Mesopotamia among a dig house cast.
202. 2023-11-20 - New Discovery: Tomb Reveals Secrets of Egyptian Civilization. Archaeology in progress, running 2 min.
203. 2023-12-11 - Contexts and Circumstances in Designing the Divine in Ancient Egypt. Excavation work on record, running 57 min.
204. 2024-01-09 - Challenging Legacies: The Kingdom of Iraq and Gertrude Bell. Gertrude Bell and the Kingdom of Iraq, and the legacies she left. She was both the founder of the national museum and an agent of the British administration that created the state around it.
205. 2024-01-27 - Settlement research in al-Hira, Iraq using declassified HEXAGON satellite imagery. Settlement research at al-Hira in Iraq using declassified HEXAGON satellite imagery. The technique recovers sites and canal systems that no longer read on the ground.
206. 2024-02-03 - NEW Pyramid of Menkaure Study: Egyptian-Japanese Mission's Archaeological Insights (video 1). Archaeology in progress, running 10 min.
207. 2024-03-14 - AAI Reads: Murder In Mesopotamia. A reading of Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie's 1936 novel set on an Iraqi excavation. She knew the dig-house world firsthand from the Mallowan expeditions.
208. 2024-05-01 - Dominique Charpin | Epigraphic Discoveries in Southern Iraq (Ur and Larsa), 2015-2023. Dominique Charpin on epigraphic discoveries at Ur and Larsa between 2015 and 2023. Tablets are still coming out of the ground in southern Iraq, read on site by epigraphers working with the excavators.
209. 2024 - Archaeologists locate centuries-old battle site in Iraq using declassified spy satellite images. Archaeologists locate a battle site in Iraq using declassified spy satellite imagery. Cold War CORONA and HEXAGON photographs record the Iraqi landscape before modern agriculture and looting altered it, so they have become a standard survey tool.
210. 2024-10-29 - The Portus Magnus of Alexandria: 25 years of archaeological research. An OCMA podcast interview.. Excavation work on record, running 1h 9m.
211. 2024-11-07 - PCMA Seminar: The 4th Century AD in Egypt: A View from Ceramics // Romain David. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 55 min.
212. 2024-11-19 - From above and from the ground: combining aerial and ground assessment of heritage destruction. Combining aerial and ground assessment of heritage destruction. Aerial survey establishes the scale of looting damage that ground visits can only sample.
213. 2025-03-07 - Lost Royal City: The Sunken Secrets of Alexandria | SLICE TRAVEL. Archaeology in progress, running 15 min.
214. 2025-04-24 - PCMA Seminar: The Hathor Project // Patryk Chudzik. Excavation work on record, running 1h 3m.
215. 2025-05-05 - PCMA Seminar: The Baraize Tomb at Deir el-Bahari, 100 Years of Exploration/Cynthia M. Sheikholeslami. Excavation work on record, running 37 min.
216. 2025-05-07 - Franck Goddio Presents: the Temples of Ancient Alexandria. Archaeology in progress, running 50 min.
217. 2025-05-29 - Dr Sébastien Rey and Dr Ebru Torun on The Girsu Project in Iraq. Sebastien Rey and Ebru Torun on the Girsu Project, the British Museum excavation at Tello in southern Iraq run with Iraqi archaeologists. Girsu was the religious centre of the Sumerian state of Lagash and was first dug by Ernest de Sarzec from 1877.
218. 2025-06-05 - Ancient Alexandria's Lost Library Discoverd Beneath Waves. Archaeology in progress, running 10 min.
219. 2025 - Site Deir El Médineh - Louxor (EG) - 2025-12-11. A record from the archaeology of Egypt and its recording. Commons dates the file to 2025.
220. 2025 - Qau el-Kebir and Hammamiya, Transport of antiquities.. Three boats on the banks of the Nile, presumably in the area of Qau el-Kebir. Angelo Sesana Archive. Commons dates the file to 2025.
221. 2025 - Site Deir El Médineh - Louxor (EG) - 2025-12-11. A record from the archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 2.
222. 2025 - Temple Deir El Médineh - Louxor (EG) - 2025-12-11. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 9.
223. 2025 - Vallée Rois - Louxor (EG) - 2025-12-10. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording. It carries a date of 2025, filed under excavation in the Egypt archive.
224. 2025 - Temple Deir El Médineh - Louxor (EG) - 2025-12-11. Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents the archaeology of Egypt and its recording, excavation record 3.
225. 2025 - Vallée Reines - Louxor (EG) - 2025-12-11. The archaeology of Egypt and its recording. The image is catalogued to 2025.
226. 2025 - Archaeologists discover vast irrigation network used in ancient Eridu in southern Iraq. A vast irrigation network mapped at ancient Eridu in southern Iraq. Eridu, at Tell Abu Shahrain, is one of the oldest known city sites and appears at the head of the Sumerian King List as the place where kingship first descended.
227. 2025-07-09 - Spotlight Lecture: What is the future for Amarna's mudbrick heritage. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 33 min.
228. 2025-07-17 - History of Mesopotamian Archaeology told with Underpants @preservethings Curator's Corner S10 Ep4. A British Museum account of how Mesopotamian archaeology developed, from the nineteenth-century race between Layard, Botta and Rassam to modern fieldwork. Those early expeditions removed the Assyrian reliefs to London and Paris under arrangements that would not be made today.
229. 2025-08-16 - Secrets of the Pharaohs | Lost Treasures of Egypt | MEGA EPISODE | National Geographic. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 3h 41m.
230. 2025-08-20 - Nimrud/Kalhu Shrine Excavation, Fall 2024 Part 1. Excavation of a shrine at Nimrud in autumn 2024, part of the ongoing Iraqi and international work at the site. Digging at Nimrud now happens alongside the recovery of material demolished in 2015.
231. 2025-09-04 - [4K] Franck Goddio: Our Dedicated Quest in Sunken Alexandria. Excavation work on record, running 18 min.
232. 2025-09-22 - 129: Amarna, the Hard-Knock Life. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 29 min.
233. 2025-10-26 - ARCE-NT: The Swift Ones: Hares in Ancient Egyptian Visual Culture by Dr. Jennifer Miyuki Babcock. Archaeology in progress, running 1h 1m.
234. 2025-11-11 - Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife. Archaeology in progress, running 1h 12m.
235. 2025-11-29 - Alexandrie: à la découverte des cités englouties I SLICE VOYAGE I DOC EN ENTIER. Archaeology in progress, running 48 min.
236. 2025-12-20 - ARCE-NT: Norms, Wit, and Rudeness in Ancient Egypt by Victoria Almansa-Villatoro. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 1h 1m.
237. 2026-01-22 - The Discovery of the Thalamegos: Unearthing an Ancient Egyptian Pleasure Boat. During Franck Goddio's 2025 excavation season in the Port of the Royal Island of Antirhodos, in the great Portus Magnus of Alexandria, the IEASM discovered, for the first time ever, the well-preserved timbers of a shipwreck that was one of Egypt’s famous ancient pleasure barges.
238. 2026-03-09 - Cleopatra's Last Temple in the Port of Alexandria. Excavation work on record, running 8 min.
239. 2026-03-22 - Who Was Gertrude Bell?. An introduction to Gertrude Bell. As Honorary Director of Antiquities she personally supervised the partage divisions that sent half of Ur to London and Philadelphia.
240. 2026-04-14 - How Advanced Tech Found a Roman Boat 2 Metres Under Alexandria’s Seabed. Archaeology in progress, running 6 min.
241. 2026-05-17 - Underwater archaeology: 20 years of collaboration between OCMA and IEASM. Excavation work on record, running 43 min.
242. 2026-05-21 - The Real Reason Alexandria Fell to the Sea. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 27 min.
243. 2026-05-25 - Franck Goddio’s Greatest Find: Uncovering the Lost Port of Thonis-Heracleion. Excavation work on record, running 4 min.
244. 2026 - Museum of Us - Coffin from Tell-el-Amarna 01 (cropped). Coffin from Tell-el-Amarna, Ancient Egypt. In the permanent collection of the Museum of Us (formerly Museum of Man), San Diego, California.
245. 2026-07-06 - New Discoveries of the Penn Museum Excavations at Abydos, Egypt | Josef Wegner, Ph.D., Schemel Forum. Excavation work on record, running 1h 19m.
246. 2026-07-23 - This Ancient Mummy Was Hiding a Piece of Homer’s Iliad 😱. Archaeology in progress, running 12 min.
247. 2026-07-31 - Divers Found Cleopatra’s Lost Harbor — And the Ruins Were Still There. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 23 min.
248. 2026-08-14 - Akhenaten Built a Perfect City and Buried Its Builders. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 21 min.
249. 2026-08-25 - The Sunken Cities of the Mediterranean: The Ancient World That Is Still Down There. Archaeology in progress, running 3h 42m.
250. 2026-08-28 - What Archaeologists Discovered in Ancient Egypt | Lost Treasures of Egypt MEGA Episode | Nat Geo. Fieldwork captured on camera, running 11 min.