PROJECT PRESENTATION AT THE KNOWLEDGE FAIR 2014 AT BERGA, CATALONIA 

During the next two days (3rd and 4th of April 2014) the project “Study of the viticulture and oenology in Ancient Egypt” from Unitat d’Estudis i Recerca en Ciència i Cuina (UERCC), Campus de l'Alimentació/Food Campus of the Universitat de Barcelona will be displayed at the Knowledge Fair (Fira del Coneixement 2014), in a stand at the Swedish Pavilion.

PHOTOGRAPHIC MISION TO THE PRIVATE TOMBS WITH VITICULTURE AND WINEMAKING SCENES IN LOWER EGYPT

In December 2013, Mahmoud Ibrahim and Mr Ahmed Amin Abdel-Rahim, photograph of the Supreme Council of Antiquities working at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, went to Lower Egypt (Giza Governorate), to accomplish the third photographic mission of the the “Irep en Kemet” Project.

A total of 25 tombs with viticulture and winemaking scenes were located, identified and photographically recorded. This work is being done with the authorization of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities.

All photographs Copyright: Irep en Kemet Project

The “Irep en Kemet” Project has accomplished, between the 24th and the 28th November 2013, the second phase of the photographic mission to record all the Egyptian private tombs with viticulture and winemaking scenes. This time Mahmoud Ibrahim, head of the mission, and Mr Ahmed Amin Abdel-Rahim, photograph of the Supreme Council of Antiquities working at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, went to Middle Egypt to Asiut, Miniya and Beni Sueif to photograph the tombs located there.