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The Amheida Excavation in the Dakleh Oasis, Egypt

Description: Columbia’s excavation at Amheida is a unique multidisciplinary project that innovatively links the sciences and humanities. Our participants include the departments of Anthropology; Classics; Art History and Archæology; the Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning; Computer Science; the Media Center for Art History, Archæology and Historic Preservation; and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. This collaboration is producing exciting possibilities for survey and excavation methodology and new, interactive approaches to the interpretation and dissemination of archæological findings.

Grants and Funding: National Science Foundation

Contributing Faculty or Academic Program: Professor Roger Bagnall, Professor Lynn Meskell, and Professor Peter Allen

Staff: James Conlon

Media: HTML, Databse, and QuickTime

URL: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/amheida

Access: Public, some areas restricted to project associates


Egypt, Dakhleh Oasis, Amheida.




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