Room 7 The excavation here reached the ground floor (fig. 1), while also revealing the door opening (fig. 2) to Room 8. Both have very large limestone slabs, which indicate […]
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Field notes from the first week of excavation in 2013 at Cahal Pech.
For this field season, our primary goal was to expose any burials below the terminal phase architecture on pyramid B1 on the E-structure at Cahal Pech, a local site in San Ignacio, Belize.
Room 6 Room 6, being at the eastern end of corridor 21 is another short corridor, though not aligned with it. The excavation has revealed the corner formed by the […]
Room 6 This is a small corridor at the east end of Room 21, another corridor. The excavation of this room aims at understanding their relation better, as they are […]
Room 7 The excavation in Room 7 continued with the in situ conservation and extraction of numerous plaster fragments, which cover the room floor. Beneath those, a relatively large plaster […]
Photographs from the first weeks of the excavation season
Preliminaries The excavation of the Archaeological Society at Athens at Zominthos commenced on the 1st of July under the direction of Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki with the aim to complete the work […]
Areas 26 and 53 [slideshow id=99] In the last week of excavation, we removed two more layers of soil, clearly exposing the walls that delineate Room 26 and 53 with […]
Unearthing an accumulation of pottery Corridor 10
Revealing two conical cups in Corridor 10
Mounting works at the west wall of Corridor 10
General View of the Dig in Area 26
General View of Corridor 10
Exposing the frescoes in Room 9
Excavating Corridor 10
Rooms 7-8 The excavation goes on at the southeast corner of the room where the slabs have been removed. Several pieces of plaster were removed. Many of them bear red, […]
Making a mold for a big piece of carbonized wood that was revealed in Corridor 10 (in order to be removed intact)
Trying to move a huge monolithic slab in Corridor 10
Revealing a conical cup at the opening to Corridor 21
