Tell el-Murra. The Polish Archaeological Survey in Ash-Sharqiyyah Governorate (Egypt, the Nile Delta)

• Authors: Mariusz Jucha
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the light of new finds (especially from Tell el-Farkha) it seems that the Nile Delta sites had great significance not only in developing contacts between Egypt and Canaan but also in the process which finally led to the formation of the Egyptian state. It is also obvious that a number of sites of that period occur in that region (especially in the North-Eastern part of the Nile Delta). Several of them were localized during the surveys conducted in the discussed area almost twenty years ago but only a few of them were later researched archaeologically. Further data concerning the early history of the Nile Delta were obtained recently (2008) during the Polish Archaeological Survey in Ash-Sharqiyyah Governorate. The results of the survey were quite promising. Of the six sites visited, two yielded pottery material from the beginning of the Egyptian state. Of these two, the site of Tell el-Murra seems to be most suitable for further research due to the good state of preservation, the results of geophysical research and geological core drillings as well as the chronology of the material found on the surface.

Keywords

EN

Nile Delta; Tell el-Murra; surface surveys; early Egyptian state

• Publisher: Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Journal: Recherches Archéologiques Nouvelle Serie
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 229-238

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Mariusz Jucha

• Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University; Gołębia St. 11, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

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