A paper by Christopher Davey, University of Melbourne, for the Ancient World Seminar at 1:00 on Monday 22 April in Arts West North Wing 556 and via Zoom.
To receive the Zoom link please email Dr Edward Jeremiah (edwardj@unimelb.edu.au).
The Macquarie University Theban Tombs Project has worked for thirty years in the Theban Necropolis. Christopher Davey has been a member of the team for ten years. The seminar will consider the origins of tomb decoration recording in Egypt and the reasons for doing such work. After introducing the Theban Tomb Project at Dra Abu el-Naga, the recent season that involved the application of photogrammetry to record and visualise two tombs will be described, and the results discussed.
Christopher Davey is the Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Archaeology and an Honorary Fellow of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne. Prior to studying archaeology and ancient languages at the universities of Cambridge and London, he worked in the resource industry where for a time he was an underground mine surveyor. He first excavated in Egypt in 1976.
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