Ressources cartographiques
EGYLandscape webGIS
https://www.egylandscape.org/webGIS/
SKOS Database
https://4care-skos.mf.no/skos-database/
The material included in this database is the result of an extensive archaeological survey carried out in Kharga Oasis between 2001 and 2013. This field survey was launched, funded and run by the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) in Cairo and was led by Michel Wuttmann. The South Kharga Oasis Survey (SKOS) is thus a collaborative project. The following scholars were members of the SKOS at different times during the thirteen years of the project’s activity: Michel Wuttmann, Thierry Gonon, Sylvie Marchand, Tiphaine Dachy, Béatrix Midant-Reynes, François Briois, Yann Béliez, Marie-Dominique Nenna, Damien Laisney, Victor Ghica, Maël Crépy, Morgan De Dapper, Mohamed Gaber, Bahgat Ibrahim, Magdi Hussein, Mathilde Minotti. Some people participate only a few days: Youri Volokhine, Emad Adli, Bernard Mathieu, Christophe Thiers, Mohamed Hussein, Ayman Hussein, Basem Gehad, Fr. Berteaux, Karim el-Ridy, Marie Millet, Bertrand Bonaventure, Aurélia Masson, Yvan Guermeur, Claire Newton, Florence Martin, Arnault Gigante, Catherine Defernez, Christian Gaubert, Yann Tristant, Alain Lecler, Nicolas Michel, Lucie Cez, Hassan Mohammed Ahmed, Mahmoud Hassan, Mohammed Kamel “Chawqi”, Adel. The inspectors of the Supreme Council of Antiquities who participated in the survey were: Ali el-Bakri, Mohammed Hassan, Gamal, Mahmoud Abd el-Rahman, Ragheb, Hamdi, Mohammed Habib, Mansour and Abd el-Aziz. The head of the site’s keepers, Ahmed Morgan, participated also in the surveys for several days. The drivers, who were key in this “off-road” work, were: Amr Reda, Mukhtar and Ali. Workers who helped in collecting samples and finding our way through the sand dunes were: Abu el-Ezz Abd el-Menem, Badawi el-Taher, Sabri Youssef, Azab Mohammed, Abd el-Razeq, Abd el-Nabi Mohammed Ahmed, Fakhri, Ahmed Gomaa, Nagui Sabri, Mustafa Abd el-Qader, Abd el-Ghani, Hassan Said, Gahalan, Abu el-Qumsan Abdu Hussein, Ahmed Abd el-Rahim, Mohammed Mustafa, Mohammed Sayyed, Ali Marei, Mahmoud Gaber, Yasser Mohammed Hassan, Hassan Hassan Mohammed Soliman, Ahmed Hassan.
The organising, study and publication of the results achieved by the SKOS project are part of the DEChriM project. The publication process has been coordinated by Victor Ghica and Thierry Gonon, in consultation with IFAO and several other members of the SKOS field team.
Pictures included in this database were taken by various members of the project.
The present version of the SKOS database is an abridged variant of the GIS database created at IFAO, which was remodeled and customised for online use. The selection, modification and migration process, from the original PostgreSQL system into this website, were realised by Thierry Gonon and Victor Ghica, with the assistance of Lokranjan Varshney.
A total of 290 sites have been registered, of which 266 are located in the southern part of Kharga, previously mainly known by few sites such as Dush or Shams el-Din. To these 290 archaeological sites are associated 3164 sub-sites (Sous-sites).