CrimeaPRESS reports:
Students and staff of Sevastopol State University (SevSU) will join the unique expedition of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the plateau in Giza (Egypt) in November, which is led by one of the leading Egyptologists of the country, an employee of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Eleonora Kormysheva.
This was told by Associate Professor of the Department of Oriental Studies at SevGU, Head of the Center for Historical and Archaeological Research of the Crimea and the Mediterranean, Candidate of Historical Sciences Viktor Lebedinsky.
The expedition is studying the most interesting cultural monuments of Ancient Egypt, namely the tombs of officials of the era of the Old Kingdom, who were contemporaries and participants in the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza. These tombs contain reliefs, inscriptions, burial shafts with crypts, and fragments of mummies. However, the participants of the expedition will be able to study not only the ancient Egyptian culture: they will be able to get acquainted with the Coptic culture, the medieval history of Mamluk Egypt, the ethnography and modern culture of this North African country. It is very important that the expedition is of a complex regional studies character, Viktor Lebedinsky said.
In addition, this year SevGU will launch its own marine expedition, which will be joined by scientists from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It will take place both on the coast of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
This expedition will have two detachments to cover the entire history of Egypt chronologically. The Red Sea is the beginning of Egyptian shipbuilding and navigation, from there voyages were made to the legendary country of Punt. The second detachment will work in the area of Alexandria, the legendary ancient port founded under Alexander the Great, and study the Greco-Roman period , Viktor Lebedinsky specified.
Immediately after the end of the Egyptian expedition, an expedition to Sudan will begin, where in ancient times the country of Kush was located, which adopted the cultural traditions and beliefs of Ancient Egypt. Sevastopol scientists will study the temple in Abu Erteil and the royal city of Royal City. It is also planned to organize a sea expedition to the Red Sea in the waters of the Republic of Sudan, where ports were located in the era of antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Last year, employees of SevSU already worked in Egypt and successfully held a scientific and practical seminar «Digital Technologies in Archaeological Research». The tombs, reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions were digitized, which makes it possible to see and study both large forms and the smallest details. This year, scientists intend to create a digital twin of virtually all the tombs in the Giza East Necropolis using state-of-the-art scanners to view the necropolis in a single 3D plan.
The expedition members will be able to study the history and culture of Egypt and Sudan, these unique countries, whose history goes back more than six millennia. They will get unique experience of working in international expeditions, get acquainted with leading Russian and foreign scientists.
Cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been established thanks to a consortium of universities and research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, created within the framework of the state program «Priority-800».
342008Photos and materials: SevGU press service.
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