Current Research of the Leiden-Turin Archaeological Mission in Saqqara. A Preliminary Report on the 2018 Season

Vesco, Paolo Del; Greco, Christian; Müller, Miriam; Staring, Nico; Weiss, Lara; Gasperini, Valentina; Rossi, Corinna; Salvador, Alice; Scheers, Ali Jelene; Schrader, Sarah; Warner, N. H.

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“…The upper levels of the area currently under excavation, located to the north of the Tomb of Maya, contain evidence of later occupation, including some small Ramesside chapels built alongside re-used funerary shafts, and the later, feeble remains of domestic occupation dating back to the Coptic Period (Del Vesco et al 2019). All these remains are being surveyed in 3D by photogrammetry, thus offering archaeologists the chance to construct something of a virtual digging diary, to which they can go back to check the appearance of the excavation in any given day.…”

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Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries

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2020

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The series Research for Development serves as a vehicle for the presentation and dissemination of complex research and multidisciplinary projects. The published work is dedicated to fostering a high degree of innovation and to the sophisticated demonstration of new techniques or methods.The aim of the Research for Development series is to promote well-balanced sustainable growth. This might take the form of measurable social and economic outcomes, in addition to environmental benefits, or improved efficiency in the use of resources; it might also involve an original mix of intervention schemes.Research for Development focuses on the following topics and disciplines: Urban regeneration and infrastructure, Info-mobility, transport, and logistics, Environment and the land, Cultural heritage and landscape, Energy, Innovation in processes and technologies, Applications of chemistry, materials, and nanotechnologies, Material science and biotechnology solutions, Physics results and related applications and aerospace, Ongoing training and continuing education.Fondazione Politecnico di Milano collaborates as a special co-partner in this series by suggesting themes and evaluating proposals for new volumes. Research for Development addresses researchers, advanced graduate students, and policy and decision-makers around the world in government, industry, and civil society. THE SERIES IS INDEXED IN SCOPUSMore information about this series at

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Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries

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2020

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“…The first tests were conducted during the 2018 season (Del Vesco et al, 2019). A photogrammetric network was acquired thanks to a DSLR camera (Canon 5DmkIII) coupled with a 20mm rectilinear lens, from a height of approximately 3/3.5 meters from the surface.…”

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Fisheye Photogrammetry to Generate Low-Cost DTMS

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2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. In the archaeological practice, Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) and Digital Surface Models (DSMs) may be used to represent spatial information about the site by conveying information such as differences in levels, morphology of the terrain and movements of volumes during the excavation. Nowadays DTMs and DSMs can be easily obtained by image-based matching using low altitude aerial dataset acquired from a digital camera by means of a lifting device. In recent years, the spread of commercial multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles and their decreasing cost made low-altitude aerial photography even easier than before, where balloons, kites and telescopic masts would have been used instead. However, the use of drones is often forbidden by law, especially in the archaeological areas, and therefore a more traditional approach must to be adopted instead.This paper presents two different approaches adopted on the field to acquire the DTM of an archaeological excavation: the use of a pole held by a chest harness to lift a camera up to 3.5 m height fitted with a 20 mm wide angle lens; and a second solution that exploits ground-based fisheye photogrammetry. In general, an image network acquired from ground level is challenging due to: i) the poor coverage that can be obtained on the ground, ii) the large number of images that are required to cover large areas and consequently iii) the longer elaboration time that is required to process the data. The fisheye approach, however, proved to be more effective thanks to the more robust image network resulting both from the wider field of view and from the possibility to handle large datasets by downsampling the images and still retrieving strong key points. The main difference with the first system is that the monotonous images acquired by the 20 mm lens, very plain in texture, require working at full resolution in order to distinguish valid features in the sand.The final product of the tests carried out along this line in 2019 at Saqqara (Egypt) is a comprehensive DSM of the entire archaeological site with an accuracy of ~3 cm.

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The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom

Staring¹

2023

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This book is the product of a years' long interest in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, probably ignited during a lecture offered to prospective Egyptology students at Leiden University way back in 1999. The sixteen-year old me had to wait another two years before enrolling in (Near Eastern) Archaeology in 2001, and it was not until 2007 that I could finally participate in the excavations at Saqqara organised by the Leiden Museum of Antiquities (rmo) and Leiden University. My deep interest in the site ultimately led to a PhD research proposal, which was awarded with an iprs research grant by the Australian government, and an mqres grant awarded by Macquarie University. It allowed me to conduct my doctoral research at that university in Sydney, Australia (2012)(2013)(2014)(2015). The thesis-by-publication model that I adopted resulted in a number of academic journal articles that mainly focused on various monumental tombs built for the Memphite elite in the 2nd millennium bce. These tombs were accessed by early-19th century explorers and antiquities diggers, and had since been lost under the shifting desert sands of the North Saqqara plateau. My study combined the information available through these early explorers, such as mid-19th century photographs capturing now-lost monuments, tomb elements dispersed over public and private collections around the globe, and the actual archaeological data excavated in the last half a century or so. Still, many questions remained unanswered after finishing my research. For one thing, up to that time, there had been no studies that aimed to contextualise the known tombs in their environmental setting. The present publication aims to fill this lacuna.This book is the outcome of a study conducted within the research project entitled 'The Walking Dead at Saqqara: The Making of a Cultural Geography' , funded with a vidi Talent Scheme research grant awarded by the Dutch Research Council (nwo), dossier no. 016.vidi.174.032, and hosted at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (lias). Lara Weiss (National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden) conceived the idea of writing the research proposal at around the time of the 'Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2015' conference held in Prague. We then combined forces with Ramadan Hussein (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen) and wrote the proposal in fruitful collaboration. Unfortunately, we did not succeed in securing funding at our first attempt, so we decided to rework the proposal and re-submit it the next year. All extra efforts paid off, and the project, led by Lara Weiss, was officially started in autumn 2017. Due to Ramadan's obligations on another successfully funded project of his, the third position within the research team was then taken up by Huw xvii of Amenhotep ii. After Lacher-Raschdorff, C. (2014), Das Grab des Königs Ninetjer in Saqqara: Architektonische Entwicklung Frühzeitlicher Grabanlagen in Ägypten, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pl. 42f. Image © Dai Cairo / Claudia Lacher-Raschdorff 92 The structure of Amenhotep ii ne...

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Current Research of the Leiden-Turin Archaeological Mission in Saqqara. A Preliminary Report on the 2018 Season

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Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries

Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries

Fisheye Photogrammetry to Generate Low-Cost DTMS

The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom

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