we're supposed to guess/know beforehand where this museum is located?
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
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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
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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
