A semi-retired Chatham physician, who is helping unearth Egypt's past, is featured in a television documentary airing tonight. . . .
The Chatham native is scheduled to return to Egypt later this week to resume his work in an ancient cemetery in the Sahara Desert.
For the past 19 years, Sheldrick has been a volunteer for the Dakhleh Oasis Project, which is studying the impact of environmental change on humans and human activity, dating back to the earliest days of civilization in the area.
Sheldrick said he got hooked on Egyptology from reading his father's encyclopedias as a child. He's been to Egypt more than 35 times since 1969, making him the longest-serving volunteer on the Dakhleh Oasis Project.
For those intersted in the Dakhleh Oasis Project I previously posted a set of links which might be of use at:
http://egyptology.blogspot.com/2008/05/weekly-websites-dakhleh-oasis.html
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