Wadi el-Hudi Team Publications
Brand, Meredith, Bryan Kraemer, and Kate Liszka. 2022. “Living and Working at the early Middle Kingdom Amethyst Mining Settlement Site 5, Wadi el-Hudi.” In Daily Life of Ancient Egyptian Settlements, ed. Johanna Sigl. SDAIK 47, Otto Harrassowitz, 41-55.
Berkiten, Sema, Xinyi Fan, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz. 2015. “Semi-Automatic Digital Epigraphy from Images with Normals,” In Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, edited by D. Mould and P. Bénard, 1-13.
Brand, Meredith. 2019. “Early Middle Kingdom Nubian Imitation Wares at Wadi el-Hudi.” In Cahiers de la Céramique Égyptienne 11 “Céramiques égyptiennes au Soudan ancien : Importations, imitations et influences”, Romain David (ed.). p.29-46.
Liszka, Kate. 2018. “Site 4 at Wadi el-Hudi: A Lost Amethyst Mining Settlement.” In Egyptian Archaeology 51: 36-40.
Liszka, Kate 2017. “Egyptian or Nubian?: Settlement Architecture at Wadi el-Hudi, Wadi es-Sebua, and the Eastern Desert” In Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 103: 35-51.
Liszka, Kate. 2017. “Salvaging and Protecting the Archaeology of Wadi el-Hudi, Eastern Desert.” Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 210: 16-21.
Liszka, Kate. 2015. “Gems in the Desert: Recent Work at Wadi el-Hudi.” Egyptian Archaeology 46: 37-40.
Press Releases, Blogs, and Blurbs about the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition
ARCE Research Supporting Member
2022 – 2023 ARCE Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) Project
2023 “Drei Stelen entdeckt bei Kurzbesuch in antiker Minensiedlung in Dihmit South” blog by Jolly Thews
2019 “Wadi el-Hudi Expedition – Incorporating new techniques of archaeological documentation” by Júlia Schmied in Digital Epigraphy
2019 “Minensiedlungen in Dihmit und el-Hisnein müssen dringend geschützt werden” blog by Jolly Thews
2019 “100 Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions Found at Amethyst Mining Site” Live Science article by Owen Jarus
2018 “Preserving and Modelling Egypt’s Wadi el-Hudi for the World” blog by Kate Liszka
2017 Nile Currents blurb by Salima Ikram about Wadi el-Hudi Season 3 in KMT 28(1), page 10
2017 “Geoarchaeology and the famous amethyst mines in Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt: Desert heritage at risk,” blog by Per Storemyr Archaeology and Conservation
2016 Digging Diary blurb about Wadi el-Hudi Season 3 in Egyptian Archaeology 50: 34.
2015 Press Release by the Ministry of Antiquities about the discovery of stelae at Wadi el-Hudi
2015 Blog about Ministry of Antiquities Press Release by the Luxor Times
2015 Press Release and Article about Wadi el-Hudi Stelae by El Mundo
2015 Press Release and Article about Wadi el-Hudi Stelae by Archaeology Magazine
2014 Digging Diary blurb about Wadi el-Hudi Season 1 in Egyptian Archaeology 45
2014 Nile Currents blub by Salima Ikram about Wadi El-Hudi Season 1 in KMT
Other Literature on Wadi el-Hudi
Berlev, Oleg. “A Social Experiment in Nubia during the Years 9-17 of Sesostris I.” In Labor in the Ancient near East, edited by Marvin Powell, 143-57. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1987.
Edel, Elmar. “Zur Stele Sesostris’ I. aus dem Wadi el-Hudi.” Göttinger Miszellen 78 (1984): 51-54.
Espinel, Andrés. “A Newly Identified Stela from Wadi el-Hudi (Cairo JE 86119).” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 91 (2005): 55-70.
Fakhry, Ahmed. The Inscriptions of the Amethyst Quarries at Wadi El Hudi. The Egyptian Deserts. Cairo: Government Press, 1952.
González-Tablas Nieto, Javier. “La Explotación Minera de Wadi el-Hudi bajo el reinado de Senusert I.” Studia historica. Historia antigua 27 (2009): 149-161.
Harrell, James A. and Robert E. Mittelstaedt. “Newly Discovered Middle Kingdom Forts in Lower Nubia.” Sudan & Nubia 19 (2015): 30-39.
Klemm, Rosemarie, Dietrich D. Klemm, and Andreaes Murr. “Geo-archäologischer Survey im Wadi el-Hudi.” In Festschrift Arne Eggbrecht, 53-66. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg Verlag.
Obsomer, Claude. Sésostris Ier: Etud chronologique et historique du règne. Brussels: Connaissance de l’Égypte Ancienne, 1995.
Rowe, Alan. “Three Stelae from the South-Eastern Desert,” Annales du Service des antiquités de l’Egypte 39 (1939): 187-194.
Sadek, Ashraf I. The Amethyst Mining Inscriptions of Wadi El-Hudi. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1980.
Seyfried, Karl-Joachim. Beiträge zu den Expeditionen des Mittleren Reiches in die Ost-Wüste. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg Verlag. 1981.
Seyfried, Karl-Joachim. “Zur Inschrift des Hor (Wadi el Hudi Nr. I (143)),” Göttinger Miszellen 81 (1984): 55-66.
Shaw, Ian. “Surveying at the Edges of Egypt: The Archaeology of Pharaonic Mining and Quarrying,” Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 4 (1993): 51-54.
Shaw, Ian. “Pharaonic Quarrying and Mining: Settlement and Procurement in Egypt’s Marginal Regions.” Antiquity 68:258 (1994): 108-19.
Shaw, Ian. “Exploiting the Desert Frontier: The Logistics and Politics of Ancient Egyptian Mining Expeditions,” In Social Approaches to the Industrial Past: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining, edited by Knapp, Pigott, and Herbert, 242-258, London: Routledge. 1998.
Shaw, Ian. “The Evidence for Amethyst Mining in Nubia and Egypt,” In Recent Research into the Stone Age of Northeastern Africa, edited by Zrzyzaniak, Kroeper, and Kobusiewicz, 219-227, Poland: Poznań Archaeological Museum. 2000.
Shaw, Ian. “Life on the Edge: Gemstones, Politics and Stress in the Deserts of Egypt and Nubia,” In Egypt and Nubia: Gifts of the Desert, edited by Renée Friedman, 244-251, London: The British Museum Press. 2002.
Shaw, Ian. “Late Roman Amethyst and Gold Mining at Wadi el-Hudi,” In Egyptian Stories: A British Egyptological Tribute to Alan B. Lloyd on the Occasion of His Retirement, edited by Schneider and Szpakowska, 319-328, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2007.
Shaw, Ian, and Robert Jameson. “Amethyst Mining in the Eastern Desert: A Preliminary Survey at Wadi El-Hudi.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 79 (1993): 81-97.
Sidebotham, Steven, Martin Hense, and Hendrikje Nouwens, The Red Land. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008.
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