Digging diary, week: 18-23 March 2017 Hi everyone! I`m Ali Jelene Scheers, the new physical anthropologist at the Saqqara excavations. I was introduced to the team by Sarah Inskip, who joined in 2015 but couldn`t join this season. Although I am an Egypt-newbie, I have quite a bit of experience in human anatomy, with research in Bolivia, Belgium, and the Netherlands. I am looking forward to discovering Egyptian archaeology and am happy to take you along on my description of the first week of the 2017 season in the field (and my first season in Saqqara in general!). It has flown by - it seems only yesterday that Alice, Valentina and I joined Barbara, Lara, Maarten, Pieter...
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