16th
A great relief to be back in Egypt!
Thursday 16th February 2012
Our first full day in the field was a great relief to us after our work was cut short last season. It is great to be back in Egypt and Luxor where everyone is as hospitable as ever. It’s a great time to visit the city and all the sites!
We have started a long Electrical Resistivity Tomography profile from the edge of the West Bank going into the floodplain along a dirt track just south of the Ramesseum. The tea was flowing from the villagers. There’s nothing glamorous about working in Donkey dung! But what could be better than the first pylon of the Ramesseum as your back drop. Using a system that has 64 probes placed a few cms into the ground and connected by cables to a meter and laptop we managed to record electrical resistance measurements up to 19.5 m below the surface for 300 m along our profile and will complete the profile on Saturday. We hope that our work will identify the modern groundwater lowering trench that crosses our profile as well as any other earlier canals should they exist in this cross-section of the floodplain.
UPDATE 27 Feb 2012: Pics now added as follows:
Kris Strutt on ERT kit with Ramesseum to North
Mandour Suleiman watering in probe
Reis Omar Farouk watering in probe
