For her PhD research, Shawki is focusing on settlement archaeology, a relatively new subfield that focuses on non-elite settlements and their daily lives. Almost all of Shawki’s excavations are in the Delta as she believes studying these settlements “is a race against time”. “I’m very proud of recruiting a fully Egyptian team of six members with me for this dig. I’m aiming to finish it off this way with only Egyptian hands unearthing the site, it’s also easier for security reasons,” Shawki said. “Even if we did not find huge discoveries, we are constantly finding artifacts, and in history, anything is something.

Source: Egypt Independent May 02, 2017 13:41 UTC