The Excavations at Ismant el-Kharab, Ancient Kellis
The excavations at Ismant el-Kharab began in 1986 as a part of the work of the Dakhleh Oasis Project. This project is under the direction of Anthony J Mills and sponsored principally by The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (Toronto) and the Royal Ontario Museum.
Dakhleh Oasis lies 800km south-west of Cairo and has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Situated above artesian springs, Dakhleh Oasis forms part of a chain of oases and trade routes that start in the Nile Valley in the north of the country and rejoin the river at modern Luxor, Aswan and in the northern Sudan.
The Dakhleh Oasis Project is multi-disciplinary and studies the relationship between environment and the history of human activity in the region, the formation and geological evolution of the oasis
Excavation Reports
Report to the SCA of the 2007 Monash Excavations:
- 2007 Report( PDF 2.7MB)
Reproduced from C.A. Hope and G.E. Bowen, eds, Dakhleh Oasis Project: Preliminary Reports on the 1994-1995 to 1998-1999 Field Season (Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2002):
- The Fourth-Century Churches at Ismant el-Kharab ( PDF 4,260KB)
- Excavations in the Settlement of Ismant el-Kharab in 1995-1999 ( PDF 10,056KB)
Reproduced from G. E. Bowen and C.A. Hope, eds, The Oasis Papers 3 (Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2003):
- The Small East Church at Ismant el-Kharab ( PDF 967KB)
- Some Observations on Christian Burial Practices at Kellis ( PDF 166KB)
- The Excavations at Ismant el-Kharab from 2000 to 2002 ( PDF 8,132KB)
- The Gladiator Jug from Ismant el-Kharab ( PDF 1,253KB)
Reproduced from G.E. Bowen, The Artefact 24, 2001
For more recent accounts of excavations at the site see the Reports reproduced in the section of this web site headed Dakhleh Oasis Project.
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