I have been asked to post the following to the list. I am sure Dr. Knoerl is right that it may interest some of our 623 subscribers. Adam
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/2/2007 7:27 PM Subject: From the MUA: The Search for Lost Ships of Pharaoh Senwosret III Dear list owner: While I am not a member of your list I thought your readers might be interested this research project now available online. Please consider helping reward those researchers who make an effort to share their work with the public by sharing this announcement with your membership. Thank you. Best regards, T Kurt Knoerl Director he Museum of Underwater Archeology ************************ The Museum of Underwater Archaeology is proud to announce the latest addition to our website: The Lost Ships of Pharaoh Senwosret III: The 2007 Survey Project Journal by Texas A&M graduate student Pearce Paul Creasman. Excavations conducted in A.D. 1894 and 1895 by archaeologist Jacques de Morgan at the funerary complex of the pharaoh Senwosret III revealed the world's oldest collection of contemporary boats currently available for study. While his excavation report recorded six boats, in two caches of three each, he mapped only five of them in his publication. Today, the locations of only four of the "Dahshur boats" are known. Creasman's journal will document his search for any remaining vessels using remote sensing technology. We invite you to follow along as he and his team send in regular reports from Egypt as they pick up de Morgan's trail. We hope you enjoy what promises to be a fascinating project! Click here to view the first entry: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/project_journals/egypt/egypt_1.shtml Best regards, T Kurt Knoerl Director The Museum of Underwater Archaeology http://www.uri.edu/mua
