Gebel el-Silsila Project

Saturday, December 24, 2016

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Acknowledgements

The Gebel el Silsila Survey Project

is officially sponsored

by

VETENSKAPSRÅDET (Swedish Research Council)

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG

THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Magnus Bergvalls Stiftelse

Crafoordska stiftelsen

Birgit och Gad Rausings Stiftelse

Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minne

Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse

Anérstiftelsen

The Royal Swedish Academy of letters, history and antiquities


and conducted on behalf of Lund University, Sweden

The project is conducted in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and the department for archaeological quarries.



Kung. vitterhetsakademin



Mission Statement (in brief)

Known to the ancients as Khenu or Kheny, the ancient site of Gebel el Silsila features ancient Egypt’s largest series of sandstone quarries running for c. 2.5 km on both sides of the Nile. These are preserved with a great variety of graffiti including prehistoric pictographs, hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, Greek and Coptic inscriptions and figurative representations dating from Old Kingdom and throughout all subsequent ancient periods, and possibly Egypt’s largest collection of quarry marks. The main objective of this project is to document Gebel el Silsila’s archaeological material including epigraphic, archaeological, geological and topographical material in order to reach a better understanding of the area, its (visiting) people.

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