The Amheida project was started at Columbia University in 2001. Since 2008, New York University is the primary sponsoring institution, with Columbia University continuing as a partner in the project.
The excavations at Amheida collaborate with other participating groups in the Dakhleh Oasis Project, an international venture now three decades old dedicated to studying the interaction between human settlement and the environment over the long span from the earliest human presence in the oasis to modern times. Amheida itself has remains spanning nearly three millennia, and paleolithic material is found along its fringes.
The excavations so far have focused on three areas of this very large site: a centrally located upper-class fourth-century AD house with wall paintings, an adjoining school, and underlying remains of a Roman bath complex; a more modest house of the third century; and the temple hill, with remains of the Temple of Thoth built in the first century AD and of earlier structures. Architectural conservation has protected and partly restored two standing funerary monuments, a mud-brick pyramid and a tower tomb, both of the Roman period. A recreation of the fourth-century house has been built near the site entrance as a future visitor center, and a protective enclosure for the decorated blocks from the temple has been built with support from the American Research Center in Egypt.
Reports
Ain el-Gedida
2010 Field report 2009 Field report 2008 Field report 2007 Field report 2006 Field report Publications
Paola Davoli Reflections on Urbanism in Graeco-Roman Egypt: a Historical and Regional Perspective
in: The Space of the city in Graeco-Roman Egypt : image and reality; E. Subías, P. Azara, J. Carruesco, I. Fiz, R. Cuesta (eds.)
Tarragona, Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica (2012), pp. 69-92PDF 3 MB
Anna Boozer Globalizing Mediterranean identities: The overlapping spheres of Egyptian, Greek and Roman worlds at Trimithis.
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 25 (2012), pp. 93-116 https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JMA/article/view/16355
Roger S. Bagnall, Giovanni R. Ruffini Amheida I. Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 1: Texts from the 2004-2007 Seasons
Published by ISAW and NYU Press (2012). Available as part of NYU's
Ancient World Digital Library: http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/amheida-i-otrim-1
In print from NYU Press: http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=11246
Anna Boozer Forgetting to Remember in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
in: Cultural Memory and Identity in Ancient Societies; M.Bommas (ed.)
London and New York, Continuum (2011), pp. 109-126
Dorothea Schulz Die neue Villa des Serenus: Rekonstruktionsarbeiten in der Wüste
Antike Welt 2 (2011), pp. 20-23
Olaf E. Kaper Tempel an der "Rückseite der Oase": Aktuelle Grabungen decken eine ganze Kultlandschaft auf
Antike Welt 2 (2011), pp. 15-19
Olaf E. Kaper A Kemyt Ostracon from Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis
Bulletin de l'Institut Français Archéologie Orientale 110 (2010), pp. 115-126
Paola Davoli, Raffaella Cribiore Una scuola di greco del IV secolo d.C. a Trimithis (oasi di Dakhla, Egitto)
Atene e Roma (2010)
Dorothea Schulz De Villa van Serenus – een reconstructie
Monumenten 31/6 (2010)
Anna Boozer Memory and Microhistory of an Empire: Domestic Contexts in Roman Amheida, Egypt
in: Archaeology and Memory; D.Boric (ed.)
Oxford, Oxbow (2010), pp. 138-157
Raffaella Cribiore, Paola Davoli, David M. Ratzan A teacher's dipinto from Trimithis (Dakhleh Oasis)
Journal of Roman Archaeology 21 (2008)
Olaf E. Kaper Epigraphic evidence from the Dakhleh Oasis in the Libyan Period
in: G.P.F. Broekman; R.J.Demarée and O.E.Kaper (eds.)
The Libyan Period in Egypt, Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st - 24th Dynasties:
Proceedings of a conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007
Egyptologische Uitgaven 23, Leiden
Netherlands Institute for the Near East, 2009, pp. 149-159
[download it from the institutional repository of Leiden University]
Anna Boozer Housing Empire: The Archaeology of Daily Life in Roman Amheida, Egypt
Department of Anthropology. New York, Columbia University. Unpublished PhD Thesis, 2007
[download it from ProQuest]
Paola Davoli (with contributions by Roger S. Bagnall, Olaf E. Kaper) I Romani nel Deserto
Pharaon (Sep.2006)
Paola Davoli, Olaf E. Kaper A New temple for Thoth in the Dakhleh Oasis
Egyptian Archaeology 28 (2006)
Roger S. Bagnall, Paola Davoli, Olaf E. Kaper, Helen Whitehouse Roman Amheida: excavating a town in Egypt's Dakhleh oasis
Minerva 17/6 (2006)
Olaf E. Kaper, Robert J. Demarée A Donation stela in the name of Takeloth III from Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis
Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux 39 (2005)
Anna Boozer In Search of Lost Memories: Domestic Spheres and Identities in Roman Amheida, Egypt
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Working Papers Series 05-07: 1-28 (2005)
Roger S. Bagnall, Giovanni R. Ruffini Civic life in courth century Trimithis. Two ostraca from the 2004 excavations.
Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 149 (2004)
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