Tag / Egypt

40 years of Qantir/Pi-Ramesse excavations!

This year, the excavations in Qantir/Pi-Ramesse get 40 years old. This is a remarkable age for an excavation in our days and so the Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim decided to celebrate this today. The whole day is filled with a programme where you can listen to the former excavator Edgar B. Pusch as well as the […]

Published: Antike Welt Anniversary Issue

For the 50th anniversary issue of “Antike Welt”, a German Special-Interest magazine about archaeology, several reconstruction projects had been asked to contribute their recent results in form of a short article. The topics cover Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and many more. 24 projects are combined in this extraordinary issue. We have been asked to contribute with […]

Pi-Ramesse in Cincinnati

Currently, the visualisation of Pi-Ramesse, which we did for an exhibition in Karlsruhe 2016/17, is presented at the Cincinnati Museum Center in Ohio, USA. The exhibition is called “Egypt: The Time of Pharaohs”. It is displayed besides a replica of a chariot wagon and will be there until at least August 2019. The exhibition is […]

Article about the reconstruction of Piramesses

If you wondered how the reconstruction of Piramesses came to live, you can find a very short article about it in the CIPEG journal. The article gives a short introduction into the site itself by the excavator Henning Franzmeier. The article closes with a description of the reconstruction of the site and some selected buildings: […]

Article about us in the MOZ

The German newspaper “Märkische Oderzeitung” published a title story about our reconstruction of the Ancient site of Pi-Ramesse, currently visible in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. You can download a PDF of the article here.

Promo: Pi-Ramesses

Here is a small preview of our animation currently to be seen at the exhibtion “Ramses – Göttlicher Herrscher am Nil” in Karlsruhe, Germany. With this, we wish you all a merry christmas and a good start into 2017!

Ramesses exhibition nearly open!

The work on the exhibition of Ramesses II. in Karlsruhe Germany is nearly finished. Our animation with the reconstruction of the city center is already in place and works smoothly. The exhibition opens this Saturday, the 17th of December 2016, at the Schloß Karlsruhe. For further information visit the official homepage of the Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. […]

One of our pictures just got published

In an article published in the series Orientalia Lovaniensa Analecta, Henning Franzmeier wrote about the secondary function of pottery. This case study used the ceramic assemblage from a Ramesside well near Qantir-Piramesse in the Eastern Nile Delta in Egypt. The visualisation of the well was made in 2008 and you can read about it here. […]

What to do, if you cannot excavate?

Since the Arab Revolution started in December 2010, several countries in the Near East and North Africa have either forced their leaders to give up their power, protested against them or are still in conflict. Naturally, the archaeological work in these countries came to a stop during that time. In the case of Egypt, excavations […]