Cheryl Ward receives grant to conserve ancient Egyptian artifacts
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Professor Cheryl Ward, director of CCU’S Center for Archaeology and Anthropology, has received a $25,000 grant from the Antiquities Endowment Fund of the American Research Center in Egypt to document and conserve the remains of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian ship.
The artifacts, which include wooden planks and the largest amount of ancient rope ever discovered (with the original knots intact), are in serious danger of fungal decay after being removed from the sand that has acted as a protective covering for thousands of years.
Ward is a specialist in the archaeological study of ancient shipping. Last year she led a team of 24 scientists, shipwrights and sailors in the construction of a full-scale replica of a 3,800-year-old Egyptian ship, the Min of the Desert. The story of the Min and the 18-day voyage on the Red Sea were the subject of an episode of PBS’s science show “Nova” earlier this year.
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