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In March and April 2012 Dr Joanne Rowland will again lead the Egypt Exploration Society's Expedition to the Minufiyeh Governorate, Egypt. During this season Jo and her team will be carrying out excavation and geophysical survey work at the site of Quesna. For further information see http://goo.gl/bYct5

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Re-assembled and ready to go!

Friday 2nd September 2011

Today everyone headed towards Cairo and then up to Shibin using various modes of transport - private cars, taxis and trains included!  The team is now ready to go for the prehistoric survey at Khatatbah tomorrow morning!  We have colleagues from New Zealand with us and also a colleague from London who will be the lithics specialists guiding the fieldwork.

We hope to head to some of the highest ground tomorrow to look for the most underdisturbed areas on which to begin the systematic survey.  We have all the equipment charged and ready to go - even bag labels have been written in advance to make sure that we absolutely maximise the time that we have in the field. We have an additional car for the coming week as the team from outside of Egypt is now 5 and we have another 5 including our colleagues from the SCA!

We are all really looking forward to getting to Khatatbah and really getting some good results achieved - watch this space tomorrow!

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