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The Ponda.org platform is an online tool for the scientific community and the wider public, focusing on artefacts from predynastic Egypt dating to the fourth millennium BC. Xavier Droux, external collaborator at the Laboratory of Africa and Anthropology (ARCAN), University of Geneva, initiated this large-scale project and is its current editor; he works in close collaboration with several researchers specialised in predynastic Egypt. The platform primarily aims to associate these objects with their origin, current location in museums and collections, and relevant literature.

The platform consists of interconnected databases for artifacts, individuals (archaeologists, collectors), archaeological sites, collections, and publications. It facilitates collaboration and understanding of ancient Egyptian artifacts, promoting cultural heritage exploration.

The development of this project is supported by the Thomas Heagy Foundation.

Ponda.org

Artefacts of Excavation. British Excavations in Egypt 1880-1980

Digital Egypt web

Digital Egypt for Universities

Inscriptions web

Early Dynastic inscriptions

The Global Egyptian Museum web

Global Egyptian Museum project

Hierakonpolis web

Hierakonpolis Online

ULB web

Iconothèque numérique de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles

LPEDE web

Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt

Potmark web

The International Potmark Workshop

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Next webinars

Friday 7 November 2025 at 1pm (Paris time)

The next online seminar (in French) will be held on Friday 7 November 2025 at 1pm (Paris time):

Dorian Vanhulle

Directeur et conservateur du musée du Malgré Tout, Treignes

Pouvoirs et sociétés en Egypte à la fin du 4e millénaire : l'apport de l'art rupestre

Friday 21 November 1pm

Bart Vanthuyne

Post-doctoral researcher, Institut für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie, Abteilung Ägyptologie Universität zu Köln

Zawyet Sultan/ancient Hebenu - from the Predynastic period to the early Old Kingdom

Raymond Weill was the first to record predynastic tombs at Zawyet Sultan, but little is known about them. This talk will briefly present results from new predynastic tombs found in 2023 and 2025 by the Zawyet Sultan project. In addition, from the Old Kingdom onwards, the site was known as ancient Hebenu, the provincial capital of the 16th Upper Egyptian nome. An overview of local elite and non-elite early Old Kingdom tombs will be given, followed by a discussion on how the burial customs in this provincial capital differ from the more rural cemeteries in the same and neighbouring nomes.

Friday 12 December 1pm

Eric Crubézy

Institut Universitaire de France, UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse

Fondation de l’état en Égypte. Apport de la nécropole d’Adaima

J’examinerai la façon dont les communautés rurales ont joué un rôle essentiel dans la naissance de l’État égyptien, à travers l’évolution des croyances liées à la mort. Je m’appuie sur l’étude de 504 tombes du cimetière d’Adaïma (Haute-Égypte, 3300–2700 av. J.-C.), où j’observe peu à peu la diversification des pratiques funéraires, de la Iʳᵉ à la IIIᵉ dynastie. Au tournant de cette dernière, je vois apparaître une coïncidence saisissante : le lever de l’étoile Sirius, le solstice d’été et la crue du Nil se répondent, redessinant à la fois le temps et l’espace du rituel. Le ciel devient alors, à mes yeux, une clé pour transformer des gestes concrets – comme le démembrement symbolique puis la recomposition du corps – en concepts religieux plus abstraits, appelés à nourrir l’idéologie royale. En comparant avec d’autres nécropoles plus anciennes et avec les Textes des Pyramides, je montre que les grands mythes de la création ne surgissent pas du néant : ils s’enracinent dans des pratiques rituelles de longue durée. J’observe aussi comment le pouvoir naissant s’approprie ces traditions locales, les reformule, et, en leur donnant une portée céleste, en fait un instrument pour légitimer et renforcer son autorité.

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Origins7 Conference in Paris!

19-23 September 2022

Paris hosted the 7th edition of the Origins international conference dedicated to the study of Predynastic and Early Dynastic cultures of the Nile Valley. For five days, specialists in the field will present their work and discuss the most recent results. Archéo-Nil is a partner of the event.

For more information: www.origins7paris.com

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25/06/2021

Early Egypt Bibliography (EEB)

For over 25 years, the “Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic period of Egypt and northern Sudan” has been the essential bibliographical research tool regarding the Prehistoric, Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods in Egypt and northern Sudan (up to the latitude of Khartoum). The original bibliography was published in 1995 by Stan Hendrickx, with yearly updates in the journal Archéo-Nil, from 2010 onwards in collaboration with Wouter Claes. With the generous aid and collaboration of the IFAO (Christian Gaubert) and Archéo-Nil (Yann Tristant), the EEB is now available as a freely accessible and online database at

https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bases/beo/

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05/05/2022

persee.fr

Archéo-Nil is now available open access on Persée!

Our journal is now available open access on the website Persée nd includes the volumes from 1990 until 2021. Each article has a doi and keyword search is now possible. You can find them from the Journal tab or directlty on Persée website.

More articles will be available soon. Happy reading!


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