| This
website reports on the
excavations at Berenike by the
University of Delaware (USA) and Leiden University
(the Netherlands)
between 1994 and 2001. Information on recent work
done at the site, by
the University of Delaware and the Polish Centre of
Mediterranean
Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (Poland) can
be found by
clicking on the links below: |
| Berenike
2008 |
| Berenike
2009 |
| Berenike
2010 |
| Berenike
2011 |
The Berenike Project included excavations at Berenike and the survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert and was directed by:
Steven E. Sidebotham (ses@udel.edu)
Professor of Ancient History at the University of
Delaware
and
Willemina Z. Wendrich (wendrich@humnet.ucla.edu)
Assistant Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at UC
Los
Angeles,
Research Fellow at Leiden University.
The main funding for the Berenike Project was provided by the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research, Humanties Department (GW-NWO), which has funded the project from 1995 to 1999 and again from 2000-2003, The National Geographic Society, which has funded the project from 1994 to 2000, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the University of Delaware, UTOPA and the American Philosophical Society.
Contents of this site:
Introduction
Brief
history of Berenike
Present
situation of the site
Excavation
history
Berenike
1994-1999
Berenike
2000
Lectures
2001
Publications
Organization
and
logistics
Funding
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