Emily's ASP Excavations 2024

D-Day: It's [almost] here...

April 30, 2025

Hi All! As you have all been so supportive of me and my work over the past few years, I wanted to formally invite you to my dissertation defense, this May...

ARCE North California/Berkeley MELC Lecture

September 16, 2024

Hi all! My lecture from yesterday has already been uploaded to YouTube. Unfortunately, it only recorded my voice and the slides, but I hope it’s still...

Where's the final newsletter?!

September 3, 2024

Hi all, I apologize for the massive delay in putting out my next newsletter. The weeks since I sent out my last issue have been chaotic - the bad: my logic...

Traveling through Egypt 2024: Sohag, Akhmim, and Athribis

August 7, 2024

Looks like the Looney Tunes style wasn’t invented in the 20th Century! Intermediate Period Coffin in the Sohag Museum Welcome back! As promised, I’m going to...

Wrapping up the loose ends: ASP 2024, Week 2

July 30, 2024

An Abydene Camel Spotted by the Penn Team (Photo by Nick Picardo) Hello again, from the past! Week 2 of my time in Abydos has been equally as productive as...

Artifacts, Bones, Tombs, (and a Hospital?): ASP 2024, Week 1

July 23, 2024

The Dig House at dusk “Oh, I’ll be leaving for Egypt soon.” If you have spoken to me at any point between January and June of 2024 you have probably heard...

And, we're back (on a delay)!

July 8, 2024

A view of the Mountain of Anubis and the enclosure of Senwosret III Hi everyone! As some of you may know, I made it back to Abydos on the 30th of June and...

ASP is back [or will be]!

May 21, 2024

Hello everyone! Long time no “see.” I hope you are all doing well. It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since our last update, but that’s how...

ASP in the news

July 8, 2023

Hi all! It's been a fabulous week so I just wanted to touch base with two links. Asbury Park Press posted their feature the project - you can find it here:...

Study Season Week 5: On to writing

July 1, 2023

Hi Everyone! We've officially been home from Egypt just shy of a week but I wanted to drop in and update you all on our last few days and what I hope you got...

Study Season Week 4: Coaxing out information...

June 23, 2023

This week's roommate. It's hard to believe that we're already at the end of our last week in Egypt (sans a few days - Matt and I will accidentally be...

Study Season Week 3: Abydos, how I've missed you!

June 16, 2023

A view over the Theban Hills, Luxor. Happy Friday from the one, the only, Abydos! (We don't count the one in Greece in this household). While it is beyond...

Study Season Week 1 and 2: And we're back!

June 9, 2023

Good morning everyone! I want to begin by apologizing for the delay. I know I told many of you that the newsletter would kick back in when I returned to...

Event: Practice Lecture

April 18, 2023

Hello everyone! I hope you’re all doing extremely well. I’m writing as I am presenting this season’s archaeological results at a conference this Saturday,...

ASP '23 Week 6: The Finish Line 𓆚

March 2, 2023

Hello everyone, from the small paradise called Hurghada. After a few days of real relaxation, it's time to give you the lowdown on the final week of...

ASP ‘23 Update

February 24, 2023

Hi all! I just wanted to send a quick note as there won’t be a newsletter released today. Matt just got here and we’ve been exploring Abydos with very little...

ASP '23 Week 5: The only real archaeology "curse"

February 16, 2023

There are a lot of popular stories about "curses" in Egyptology and archaeology. A popular one is that the individual who opens the tomb of a mummy will meet...

ASP '23 Week 4: A corn mummy, a stela, and stairs?!

February 10, 2023

Happy Friday! It's actually quite surreal to be writing up a summary for the fourth week of excavation already. Don't get me wrong, I currently have a...

ASP '23 Week 3: Sometimes, things go wrong

February 2, 2023

Dig life can be magical. Somehow, even between the dust in your lungs causing a chronic cough, freezing cold desert mornings, and exhaustingly long days, it...

ASP '23 Week Two: Meeting some Ancient Egyptians

January 27, 2023

Hello from the end of our second week (first full week) of work! I'm definitely not used to the 5 am wake-up followed by an eleven-hour workday, but I am...

ASP '23 Week One

January 20, 2023

Hello from our weekend break! Fridays are the "weekend" in Egypt so we get the day to catch up on both mundane things [laundry], and fun things [like this...

Greetings from Abydos

January 17, 2023

Greetings from the American Dig House at Abydos! I had an uneventful few days of travel and am settled in nicely with my friend and roommate for the next 6...

!سلام عليكم

January 11, 2023

Hello and welcome! I am so happy to see you all here and extremely excited to get to share our 2023 excavations with you. While I plan on giving you an...