102. Excavations at Deir el-Bahari (1906-7).

Public Health in Bristol, 1906-7

A Preliminary Report of Excavations at Aveh Plain,Islamic period

Aveh archaeological site, which has prepared the necessary background for the archaeological studiesafter having been identified and registered, is located in Saveh Plain, and it is one of the less-known sitesin the Iranian Central Plateau. The chronological sequence of this site extends from prehistoric periodstill Timurid time. It is worth mentioning that here, except for the Islamic settleme...

Borate, an Effective Mummification Agent in Pharaonic Egypt

Mummification salts and mummified bones were assayed for borate. In two samples of mummification salt one from Deir el-Bahari (26th Dynasty, 700Ð600 BC) and salt from the embalming material of Tutankhamen (18th Dynasty, 1370Ð1335 BC) 3.9 and 2.1 μMol borate/ gram were found, respectively. Six mummified bone fragments from the Old Kingdom contained up to 1.2 μMol/gram. It is suggested that borat...

Archaeological excavations at Big Forest Park, West Coast, New Zealand

The machinery of the Big River mine is the most complete historical assemblage of in situ machinery for quartz mining in New Zealand. Excavations were carried out to mitigate the effects of reconstruction of the winding engine house. Comprehensive and extensive drainage of the original working compound between the winding engine, bath house, engineer's workshop and the upper terminal of the aer...

Constructing a dental electronic information resource (DEIR).

This paper discusses the construction of a dental electronic information resource (DEIR). Development is based on the Internet gopher client/server model. Information is organized in a series of hierarchical menus. A DEIR can be browsed by traversing the menu hierarchy or by performing keyword searches. Searches can result in a menu of found items from across the Internet. Initially, contents o...