Multidisciplinary Database for BYU Fag el Gamous Excavations

Authors

Ryan Pail Peters, Brigham Young University
Richard Paul Evans, Brigham Young University

Keywords

multidisciplinary database, Fag el Gamous, burial samples

College

Life Sciences

Department

Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Abstract

In 1990, under the direction of Wilfred Griggs, he and six other Brigham Young University (BYU) professors, R. Paul Evans, James Farmer, Marek Kaliszewski, Donald Robertson, Mark Rowe, and Scott Woodward, and at the request of the Egyptian Government Supreme Council of Antiquities, united to begin tissue sampling and DNA analysis of the estimated 150,000 burials at the ancient Fag el Gamous cemetery in Fayum, Egypt, which was utilized approximately between 350 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.

Recommended Citation

Peters, Ryan Pail and Evans, Richard Paul (2013) "Multidisciplinary Database for BYU Fag el Gamous Excavations," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 1221.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/1221