Photos: Ancient Egypt in photos

Fox News

Fox News has put up 28 photos illustrating a number of different stories from Egypt including the mummy Pa Ib and images of excavations at Giza and Saqqara.

Photo: Finds from tomb of Seti I

drhawass.com

Some of the objects found in Dr. Hawass' excavations in the tunnel of the tomb of Seti I. (Photo: Sandro Vannini)

Virtual photos: King Tut Virtual Contest Winners

Heritage Key (Meral Crifasi)

Light hearted competition to attract virtual images of Egypt, focusing on Tutankhamun. The content attracted almost 200 wonderful photos of Kig Tut Virtual.

Photo for Today by Antony Marson - Djedefre pyramid, Abu Rawash

Pyramid of Djedefre, Abu Rawash

There's a good summary of Abu Rawash by Su Bayfield at
her Egyptian Monuments website.

Copyright Antony Marson
with my thanks

In the field: Temple of Berenike discovered at Kom el Dikka

drhawass.com

Press Release. With photos.

An archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) led by Dr. Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, Head of Antiquities of Lower Egypt, discovered the remains of a temple of Queen Berenike, the wife of king Ptolemy III (246-222 BC), along with a cachette of 600 Ptolemaic statues.

The discovery was made during routine excavations at the Kom el Dikka area in Alexandria, in an area that belongs to Alexandria Security Forces.

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the SCA, said that the discovered remains are 60 meters tall and 15 meters in width and extend under Ismail Fahmy street. He explained that the temple was subjected to destruction during later eras when it was used as a quarry, which led to the disappearance of many of its stone blocks.

Dr. Abdel Maqsoud said that the mission, which includes 18 skilled excavators and restorers, unearthed a large collection of statues depicting the cat goddess Bastet, the goddess of protection and motherhood, which indicates that the temple was dedicated to this goddess.

Dr. Maqsoud pointed out that the Bastet statues were unearthed in three different areas of the site along with other limestone statues of unidentified children and women. Clay pots as well as bronze and faience statues of different ancient Egyptian deities have been also uncovered, along with terracotta statues of the gods Harpocrates and Ptah.

Early studies on site revealed that the temple’s foundation can be dated to the reign of Queen Berenike, making this the first Ptolemaic temple discovered in Alexandria to be dedicated to the goddess Bastet. It also indicates that the worship of the goddess Bastet continued in Egypt after the decline of the ancient Egyptian era.

An inscribed base of a granite statue from the reign of King Ptolemy IV (205-222 BC) was also unearthed. It bears ancient Greek text written in nine lines stating that the statue belonged to a top official in the Ptolemaic court. Dr. Maqsoud believes the base was made to celebrate Egypt’s victory over the Greeks during the Battle of Raphia in 217 BC.

The mission also found a group of old structures, including a Roman water cistern, a group of 14 meter-deep water wells, stone water channels, and the remains of a bath area, well as a large number of clay pots and sherds that can be dated to the fourth century BC.

Abdel Maqsoud believes that this find is the first trace of the real location of Alexandria’s royal quarter.

In the field: January 2010

Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)

With photos.

Abbasid gold coins in Fayoum, two rock- hewn tombs in Saqqara and a four- cornered, mud-brick tower on the wall of Islamic Cairo are the latest antiquities discovered in Egypt.

Wherever a mission digs in Egypt it is obvious that they will come up with a treasure. An archaeological mission from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of Warsaw University excavating in a monastic building at Deir Al-Malah Monastery at Naqlun in Fayoum recently unearthed a decorated clay cup of Aswan production full of coins. The hoard consists of 18 gold coins and 62 fragments of coins, all of them provisionally dated to the Abbasid period.

Under the charred remains of a collapsed wall, archaeologists also uncovered a chandelier and a well-preserved oil lamp, both made of bronze.

"The whole treasure was found inside a room that seems to have been hastily abandoned during a fire," said Woldzimierz Godlewski, head of the Polish mission. He added that the monastic complex of Naqlun was built in the early sixth century AD, while the area excavated this season dated to the seventh century and was destroyed by a massive fire in the eighth or at the beginning of the ninth century AD.

In the field: More re Giza cemetery

Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref)

On Monday morning on the Giza plateau workers were busy removing sand from the newly discovered tomb of Idu, overseer of the construction of the Great Pyramid. They were surrounded by a media scrum, gathered around admiring their work, taking photos and trying to glimpse what has been uncovered.

During routine excavation and cleaning at the plateau an Egyptian archaeological mission, led by Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), stumbled upon what is believed to be a collection of early Fourth Dynasty tombs belonging to workers who built Khufu and Khafre's pyramids.

"The tombs belong to the late fourth and fifth dynasties (2649-2374 BC)," says Hawass, who argues that they constitute one of the most important discoveries of the 20th and 21st centuries, shedding light on the early period of the Fourth Dynasty and contradicting assertions that the Pyramids were built by slaves.

"These tombs were built beside the king's pyramid, which indicates that these people were not slaves. If they had been they would not have been allowed to build their tombs beside their king's," said Hawass.

General news: the Legacy of Howard Carter

Free Internet Press

Howard Carter, the British explorer who opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, will forever be associated with the greatest trove of artifacts from ancient Egypt. But was he also a thief?

Dawn was breaking as Howard Carter took up a crowbar to pry open the sealed tomb door in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. With shaking hands, he held a candle to the fissure, now wafting out 3,300-year-old air. What did he see, those behind him wanted to know. The archaeologist could do no more than stammer, "Wonderful things!"

This scene from Thebes in November, 1922, is considered archaeology's finest hour. Howard Carter, renowned as the "last, greatest treasure seeker of the modern age," had arrived at his goal.

Carter obtained about 5,000 objects from the four burial chambers, including furniture, jars of perfume, flyswatters, and ostrich feathers - the whole place was a dream of jasper, lapis lazuli, and turquoise. He even discovered a ceremonial staff adorned with beetles' wings.

The "unexpected treasures," as Carter described them, suddenly brought to light an Egyptian king previously almost unknown - Tutankhamun, born approximately 1340 B.C., who ascended the throne as a child.

UPI.com

The man responsible for discovering King Tut's tomb may have deceived Egyptian authorities to steal treasured relics for himself, experts say.

British explorer Howard Carter discovered the Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 in one of the world's most famous archaeological finds, but may have systematically removed objects without authorization, Der Spiegel reported Sunday.

Carter had intended the contents of the tomb to go to England and the United States, but Egypt refused, insisting all artifacts remain in the country. Thwarted, Carter and his team then secretly helped themselves to many of the relics, some of which ended up in museums outside Egypt, the newspaper said.

In the lab: Looking for birds in a mummy

necn.com

Video, with partial transcript.

Back in 2006 Gerry Conlogue and Ron Beckett used x-rays, a c-t scanner and endoscope to look inside Pa Ib. He's a mummy that has been on display at the PT Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut since 1896. Conlogue and Beckett are scientists. Three years ago they were looking for clues into Pa Ib's identity. The radiologist who looked at the x-rays then came across something startling. There is a packet of some kind inside Pa Ib's abdomen.

Prof. Gerald Conlogue, Quinnipiac University: He thought he saw a falcon mummy in there so instead of an organ packet he thought it was an actual mummified bird within the body cavity. This is what we're going to be looking for.

Although it is rare scientists have found bird mummies connected to human mummies in the past.

Yahoo! News

Researchers are using the latest imaging technology on an Egyptian mummy to try to unlock secrets of the ancient world, including whether a mysterious packet inside her was an offering to the gods to help secure a place in the afterlife.

The high-resolution testing Thursday at Quinnipiac University also may determine the age at which the woman died and whether she gave birth, researchers say.

"It really is going to give us a fantastic view of this mummy," said Ronald Beckett, co-director of the Bioanthropology Research Institute at Quinnipiac. "Every mummy has a story to tell. Every piece of information adds to our understanding of the ancient Egyptians."

The mummy, known as Pa-Ib (pronounced py eeb) and believed to be about 4,000 years old, will be transported Thursday in a coffin complete with a police escort from the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport to the university's campus in North Haven. A CT scanner will take images that are eight times the resolution of tests done on the mummy in 2006, and a tiny camera will be inserted inside the mummy.

Researchers are trying to determine if bundles in the abdomen and pelvis cavities contain a bird mummy or are organs. The earlier tests led to speculation that the bundles might contain a bird mummy.

And the results:

SFGate (John Christoffersen)

Researchers who examined an Egyptian mummy with the latest imaging technology found no evidence that a packet inside her was an offering to the gods of the ancient world.
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Previous tests led to speculation that the packet was a bird mummy — something researchers said would be an unusual and exciting find — but high-resolution tests Thursday at Quinnipiac University showed no remnants of a bird. Instead, researchers said the packet and a few others in the mummy likely contained organs, which were sometimes preserved and placed back in mummies for use in the afterlife.

The mummy, known as Pa-Ib and believed to be about 4,000 years old, has been in the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport since the 1890s and was a prized exhibit of the flamboyant showman P.T. Barnum.

It was transported Thursday in a coffin complete with a police escort from the museum to the university's campus in North Haven.

A CT scanner took thousands of images that are eight times the resolution of tests done in 2006, and a tiny camera was inserted inside the mummy's skull. Researchers expect to report their conclusions in March.

Exhibition: Ippolito Rosellini and the Dawn of Egyptology

ANSAmed

Drawings, watercolours and unpublished manuscripts that show the beginnings of Egyptology will be exhibited for the first time in Cairo from January 26 to the end of the February in an exhibition entitled 'Ippolito Rosellini and the Dawn of Egyptology'. The exhibition of original drawings and manuscripts from the 1828-1829 Franco-Tuscan expedition to Egypt from the University Library of Pisa, has been organised by the University of Pisa in collaboration with the Italian Embassy and the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

The exhibition recounts the Franco-Tuscan expedition to Egypt, led by Jean-Francois Champollion and Pisan Ippolito Rossellini in 1828-29, which signalled one of the founding moments of Egyptology and the first section of the exhibition is in fact dedicated to the birth of the undertaking and the team which conducted it.

DVD Reviews Ancient Lives

Blog Critics (Jennifer Bogart)

Ancient Lives is a documentary unlike any other I’ve watched. Viewing this passionately presented 200 plus minute voyage through the lives of a village of Egyptian tomb-makers living in the small village of Deir al Medina from approximately 1275 – 1080 B.C. is comparable to indulging in a vibrantly written biography as opposed to a committee-compiled, dry textbook.

John Romer is the driving force behind the series, his desire to conserve the great archeological sites in the Valley of the Kings leading him to present these Egyptians as people with rich thriving lives. Their love lives, family dramas, occupations, and so much more are explored with Romer as an expert guide. Watching Ancient Lives is like having a legitimate Egyptologist guiding you through museum exhibits, on-site hieroglyphics and tomb art, ruins, tombs, and so much more.

Part of the great charm of the series is seeing a man deeply immersed in his element and sharing his deep love for the subject matter with us as he moves through on-site explorations. We get to see Romer crawling up toppled statuary and searching through the Valley of the Kings for burial chambers that have yet to be discovered for example. Where else can you watch an Egyptologist finding himself stuck in possible tomb openings? (There are some occasional mild epithets in the series.)

Update: Online Egyptology Magazine

Just to let you know that we haven't forgotten about the online magazine proposal and we are still working through ideas. Kate and I need another meeting to go through all the replies and suggestions to see what happens next.

Thanks very much for all the input - it has been invaluable!

Andie

Photo for Today - Battlefield Palette, reverse side

In the field: Interview with Barry Kemp re Amarna

Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack)

“There is no other site like it,” states the introductory paragraph on the website of the Amarna Project – the body which, since 2005, has been responsible for excavations and research at Tell el-Amarna, the short-lived capital city of the “heretic pharaoh” Akhenaten (King Tut's dad) in the 14th century BC. As a living site, Tell el-Amarna is perhaps unparalleled in all of Egypt in terms of scale, ready accessibility and quality of preservation.

Professor Barry Kemp – of the University of Cambridge – is the director of the Amarna Project, and also the chairman of the Amarna Trust, a UK registered charity which provides most of the funding for the project. Kemp has directed excavation and archaeological survey at Amarna for the Egypt Exploration Society since 1977, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on the ill-fated ancient Egyptian city.

It in a wide-ranging interview with Heritage Key, Kemp explains what makes Amarna so important, and details the history of excavations there. He also reveals the latest news on the construction of a brand new visitor centre at Amarna, and gives us a heads-up on plans for future investigations and study at the site.

In the field: Iran wishes to investigate Cambyses find

presstv.ir

There is no indication as to whether the Egyptian government has given the ok to Iran to study the remains. It seems unlikely.

A group of Iranian archeologists is planning to go to Egypt to study the remains of a great Persian army in the Sahara desert.

Iran's Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (ICHTO) Hamid Baqaei announced on Sunday that Egypt had agreed for the Iranian group to conduct studies there.

Two Italian brothers claimed to have found the remains of a great army sent by the Persian King Cambyses II to attack the Oasis of Siwa 2,500 years ago.

Egypt's chief archeologist Zahi Hawass, however, rejected the discovery as "unfounded and misleading," adding that as the Italian brothers had not been granted legal permission to excavate in Egypt their claims of having made a discovery was not credible.

"We have sent a letter to Egyptian cultural heritage officials and they have implicitly confirmed the existence of the remains of the Persian army," IRNA quoted Baqaei as saying.

"They have also stated that the finds belong to the Egyptian government."

In the field - New finds at Dra Abu Naga?

Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)

Apparently there have bee a series of significant finds (including some papyrus) at Dra Abu Naga near Roy and Shu Roy and Zahi is coming to Luxor 17th to announce something.

All very intriguing

Online Resources: Open access to Giza

The Ancient World Online

Thanks to Chuck Jones at AWOL for posting a comprehensive list of online resources available for those who wish to find out more about the excavations at the Giza necropolis. Go to the above page for some excellent links, many in PDF format.

Lecture notes: Moalla and the lost city of Hefat

Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)

Jane has been taking notes at the Mummification Museum's lecture series again.

I might have misled people last week saying this lecture was going to by about Ankhtifi and it wasn’t but it put him and Moalla in context in Egyptian history. There is a very good website http://www.yale.edu/egyptology/ae_moalla.htm but Colleen said to ignore the part about the town site as she has changed her conclusions and the website has not yet been updated. I must admit I do like being on the edge of new thoughts and discoveries like this.

Moalla is situated about 40 kilometres south of Luxor where the gebel (mountain) descends to the Nile. It is between El Kab/Hierakonpolis and Luxor so has been neglected archaeology as teams have concentrated on these two sites. It is the third nome of Egypt and famous for the tomb of Ankhtifi which was originally published in 1950 and is currently being excavated by Liverpool University under Mark Collier.

Her study area is the area outside a necropolis of 2 kilometres with 1000 tombs dating from the Vth and VIth dynasty until the XVIII dynasty. There are considerable Nubian burials from the second intermediate period. Some of site has been lost to recent quarrying.

New Book: Rock Art of the Eastern Desert of Egypt

BAR International Series, Archaeopress

I am delighted to report that Tony Judd's book "Rock Art of the Eastern Desert of Egypt" has been released by BAR. Based on work completed for PhD this is a comprehensive overview of the Eastern Desert's engravings. Please note that the summary from the Archaeopress website seems to confuse this book with one focused on North America (I have informed Tony of the confusion). Instead, here's a short extract from the Abstract from the book itself:

Data that have recently become available on the petroglyhs of the Eastern Desert of Egypt are collated and analysed in detail. Images of wild animals, domestic animals, anthropoids and boats, together with geometric pattersns, are classified and assessed by statistical means to rech conclusions about the preferences of the artsits in terms of subject matter, style, context and geographical distribution.

Updated publication: Rock Art of the Libyan Desert (DVD)

FJ Expeditions

The Second Expanded Edition of the DVD "Rock Art of the Libyan Desert" is now available. The new edition contains over nearly 300 new rock art sites, all new discoveries in the 2005-2009 period, with approximately 12000 photos (about 4000 newly added ones).

Andras Zboray
www.fjexpeditions.com/

Details are as follows:

The Second Edition had been substantially expanded with the discoveries made by the author and others in the period 2005 to 2009. several new sites were added, and many sites have been updated with new photographs. Some of the new finds added considerably to our knowledge of the various styles and cultures, requiring some reworking of the corresponding sections. The following is a full listing of all updates and changes compared to the first edition:

Geography
• Added new region, "Clayton's Craters".

Rock Art Sites
• General: all scans of pre-2002 slides have been removed, and have been replaced with digital camera shots of the same scenes. In the few cases where the slides contained scenes that were not available in digital duplicate, the slides were re-scanned with a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV scanner and reproduced in 1024x683 pixels resolution, in a much improved quality compared to the first edition.
Gilf Kebir Plateau
• Added new photographs to sites EG 1 and EG 2 (North-eastern Gilf Kebir).
• Added new photographs to sites WH 1, WH 2, WH 3/A, WH 3/B, WH 3/C and WH 4 (Gilf Kebir, Wadi Hamra).
• Added new sites WH 3/D, WH 3/E and WH 3/F (Gilf Kebir, Wadi Hamra).
• Added new photographs to sites AM 2/A, AM 2/B and AM 4 (Gilf Kebir, Wadi Abd el Melik).
• Split Wadi Abd el Melik (Gilf Kebir) into five areas.
• Re-numbered sites AM 1, AM 2/A, AM 2/B, AM 3 to AM 11, AM 12/A, AM 12/B and AM 13 (Gilf Kebir, Wadi Abd el Melik, Area 1).
• Added new sites AM 12/C and AM 12/D (Gilf Kebir, Wadi Abd el Melik, Area 1).
• Re-numbered site AM 4 to AM 38 (Gilf Kebir, Wadi Abd el Melik, Area 3).
• Added new sites AM 31, AM 32, AM 33, AM 34, AM 35, AM 36 and AM 37 (Gilf Kebir, Wadi Abd el Melik, Area 3).
• Added new sites AM 41, AM 42 and AM 43 (Gilf Kebir, Wadi Abd el Melik, Area 4).
• Added new site AM 51 (Gilf Kebir, Wadi Abd el Melik, Area 5).
• Added new photographs to sites WG 21, WG 31/B, WG 32, WG 33/A, WG 34, WG 41/A, WG 42/A, WG 45/A, WG 46, WG 48, WG 51 and WG 52 (North Western Gilf Kebir, areas 2, 3, 4 & 5).
• Re-numbered site WG 44 to WG 44/A, and added new photographs (North Western Gilf Kebir, area 4).
• Added new sites WG 41/D, WG 42/D and WG 44/B (North Western Gilf Kebir, area 4).
• Added North Western Gilf Kebir, Area 8 (Gilf Kebir) with 2 new sites.
• Added new photographs to site SG 1 (Southern Gilf Kebir).
• Re-numbered site SG 2 to SG 2/A (Southern Gilf Kebir).
• Added new site SG 2/B (Southern Gilf Kebir).
"Unnamed Plateau"
• Added new photographs to site UP 1 ("Unnamed Plateau", SW Egypt).
• Added new site UP 2 ("Unnamed Plateau", SW Egypt).
"Clayton's Craters"
• Added new region, "Clayton's Craters" (With four areas, total of 16 sites).
"Elephant Rocks"
• Added new sites ER 3/A and ER 3/B ("Elephant Rocks" area).
Jebel Uweinat
• Added Karkur Ibrahim, Area 6 (Ain Duarmé, Jebel Uweinat) with 4 new sites.
• Added new region, Emeri Highland, to the Jebel Uweinat area (With three areas, total of 20 sites).
• Added new sites AZ 2, AZ 3/A and AZ 3/B (South Western Uweinat, Ain Zueia area).
• Added South Uweinat, Area 4 (Jebel Uweinat) with 17 new sites.
• Added new site WW 13 (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 1).
• Added new photographs to site WW 23 (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 2).
• Re-numbered site WW 25/A to WW 25 (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 2).
• Merged (mis-identified) site WW 25/B with WW 45/C (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 4).
• Added new site WW 26 (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 2).
• Added new photographs to site WW 31 (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 3).
• Re-numbered site WW 32 to WW 32/A, and added new photographs (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 3).
• Added new site WW 32/B (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 3).
• Added new photographs to site WW 43 (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 4).
• Re-assigned three photographs (04n_1502, 04n_1503, 04n_1504) from WW 45/C to WW 45/B (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi wahesh, Area 4).
• Added new site WW 46 (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 4).
• Added Wadi Wahesh, Area 5 (Jebel Uweinat) with 13 new sites.
• Added Wadi Wahesh, Area 6 (Jebel Uweinat) with 1 new site.
• Added new region, Karkur Delein, to the Jebel Uweinat area (With five areas, total of 28 sites).
• Identified Fig. 70 among van Graziosi's unidentified sites as KDL 24 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Delein, Area 2).
• Added new photographs to sites KM 12 and KM 17 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Murr, Area 1).
• Site KM 31 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Murr, Area 3) was identified to be the same as site WW 31 (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Wahesh, Area 3).
• Added new sites KM 31/A, KM 31/B, and KM 32 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Murr, Area 3).
• Added new photographs to sites KT 23/B, KT 23/C, KT 23/G, KT 23/I and KT 23/J (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 2).
• Identified Fig. 74 among van Noten's unidentified sites as KT 23/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 2).
• Added new sites KT 31/C, KT 31/D, KT 32/D, KT 32/E and KT 35/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 3).
• Added site overview photograph to sites KT 34/A, KT 34/B, KT 35/A and KT 38 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 3).
• Added new photographs to sites KT 33/A, KT 33/B, KT 36/C, KT 36/D, KT 36/E, KT 39/A and KT 39/B (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 3).
• Added site overview photograph to sites KT 42/A, KT 42/B, KT 42/D, KT 43/A and KT 43/B (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 4).
• Identified Fig. 7 among van Noten's unidentified sites as KT 45 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 4).
• Added new photographs to sites KT 46/B and KT 46/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 4).
• Added new site KT 46/F (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 4).
• Added new photographs to site KT 61/B (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 6).
• Added new photographs to sites KT 71/A, KT 71/B, KT 73/B, KT 75, KT 76/A, and KT 76/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 7).
• Added new photographs to sites KT 83/A, KT 83/B, KT 83/C, KT 84/A, KT 84/B, KT 85/A, KT 85/C, KT 86/B, KT 87/A, KT 87/B, KT 87/C, KT 88/A, KT 88/B, KT 88/C and KT 88/D (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 8).
• Added new sites KT 83/D and KT 83/E (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 8).
• Identified Fig. 59 among van Noten's unidentified sites as KT 83/E (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 8).
• Added new photographs to sites KT 97, KT 98/B, KT 98/C and KT 99/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 9).
• Added new sites KT 95/E, KT 95/F, KT 98/D and KT 99/E (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh, Area 9).
• Identified Winkler's photo M1008 (assigned to unidentified site KTN 22/B) as belonging to site KTN 21 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh North, Area 2).
• Added new sites KTN 22/B and KTN 25/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh North, Area 2).
• Added new photographs to sites KTN 25/A, KTN 25/B, KTN 26/A, KTN 26/C and KTN 27 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh North, Area 2).
• Added new sites KTN 45/A, KTN 45/B, and KTN 46 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh North, Area 4).
• Added Karkur Talh North, Area 5 (Jebel Uweinat) with one new site.
• Re-numbered site KTE 15 to KTE 15/A, added new site KTE 15/B (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh East).
• Added new photographs to sites KTS 15/A, KTS 15/C and KTS 16/A (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh South, Area 1).
• Added a previously unreported panel (Cluster 1. right) and new photographs to site KTS 15/B (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh South, Area 1).
• Re-numbered site KTS 21 to KTS 21/A, added new sites KTS 21/B and KTS 21/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh South, Area 2).
• Added new photographs to sites KTS 23/A, KTS 23/C, KTS 23/D, KTS 23/E, KTS 24/A, KTS 24/B, KTS 25 and KTS 26/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh South, Area 2).
• Added new sites KTS 23/F and KTS 23/G (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh South, Area 2).
• Re-assigned two photographs (02o_025, 02o_026) from KTS 23/C to KTS 23/D (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh South, Area 2).
• Re-numbered sites KTS 31 to KTS 31/A, KTS 32 to KTS 31/B, added new sites KTS 32/A, KTS 32/B, KTS 32/C, KTS 34/C, KTS 34/D and KTS 34/E (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh South, Area 3).
• Added new photographs to sites KTS 35/A and KTS 37 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh South, Area 3).
• Added new site KTS 64 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh South, Area 6).
• Re-numbered sites KTW 12/A to KTW 11/A, KTW 12/B to KTW 11/B, KTW 13/E to KTW 12 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 1).
• Added new photographs to site KTW 11/A (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 1).
• Added new sites KTW 11/C and KTW 11/D (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 1).
• Re-numbered site KTW 15 to KTW 15/B (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 1).
• Added new sites KTW 15/A, KTW 15/C and KTW 16/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 1).
• Added new photographs to sites KTW 21/A, KTW 22/A, KTW 23/A, KTW 23/B, KTW 24, KTW 26/A, KTW 26/B, KTW 27/A, KTW 28/A, KTW 28/B and KTW 28/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 2).
• Re-numbered site KTW 23/C to KTW 23/D, added new site KTW 23/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 2).
• Re-assigned three photographs (03f_0943, 03f_0944, 03f_0945) from KTW 27/B to KTW 23/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 2).
• Added new photographs to sites KTW 23/C and KTW 23/D (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 2).
• Re-numbered site KTW 25 to KTW 25/A, added new sites KTW 25/B, KTW 26/C (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 2).
• Added new sites KTW 27/F and KTW 27/G (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 2).
• Added Karkur Talh West, Area 3 (Jebel Uweinat) with five new sites.
• Re-numbered site KTW 11 to KTW 31 (Jebel Uweinat, Karkur Talh West, Area 3).
• Added new photographs to sites HP 12, HP 21/A, HP 21/B and HP 42 (Jebel Uweinat, Hassanein Plateau).
• Added new site HP 43 (Jebel Uweinat, Hassanein Plateau, Area 4).
• Added North Western Plateau area (Jebel Uweinat) with 1 new site.
• Added Wadi Handal area (Jebel Uweinat) with 3 sub-areas and a total of 9 new sites.
• Re-numbered site KTN 18 to UWH 24 (Jebel Uweinat, Wadi Handal).
Rock Art Styles
• Revised "Uweinat Roundhead" Style among paintings to reflect new finds.
• Added Elongated "Roundhead" Style to the recognised paintings styles.
• Added Wadi Wahesh Style to the recognised paintings styles.
• Revised Cattle Herders Style among paintings to reflect new assessment of animal faced human figures (named "Karnasahi Style" in first edition).
• Removed the Karnasahi style from the recognised paintings styles (which is now considered a sub-style of the Cattle Herders).
• Added Dynastic Egyptian to the recognised engravings styles.

Bibliography
• 2005 saw a major addition to the bibliography of the rock art of the Libyan Desert: du Sahara au Nil by Jean-Loïc le Quellec, Pauline and Philippe de Flers (Soleb Fayard, Paris, 2005). This monumental work, illustrated with hundreds of photographs, discusses all aspects of the rock art of the Gilf Kebir and Jebel Uweinat area. The bibliography of individual sites was updated to include a reference to the photographs in this work.

In the period 2006-2009 several new articles appeared in the Sahara journal (numbers 17-20) related to the rock art of the Gilf Kebir & Uweinat region, which have all been incorporated into the bibliography and individual site bibliographical references.