Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt

Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt is intended to be a directory, providing an overview and a direction to original sources, without seeking to republish all the known information about each site. It makes available the data on all 783 sites in the Egypt Exploration Society’s Delta Survey.

Data has been gathered from bibliographic sources, dedicated fieldwork and information from Egyptian and foreign missions, presenting a body of material previously available only in summary online. The book provides all the information in enhanced and extended form, with descriptions of each site, noting changes in condition over time, previous discoveries and current fieldwork, together with key references to bibliographic or other sources. This is an essential index of the ancient settlements, alerting archaeologists and historians to the large cities, small towns, fortress and temple sites that covered the Delta in antiquity.

The volume presents the results of a research project extending over four decades on the identification, location and character of the archaeological sites of Lower Egypt. The project has been known since 1997 as the Egypt Exploration Society’s Delta Survey (supported by the British Academy).

"This book is a remarkable achievement and extremely important for Delta archaeology and history. It provides a very approachable, succinct access to basic information, up to date bibliography, references to historic maps, comparative satellite imagery, and recent colour photographs of the sites. Extremely valuable is also the inclusion of information on unpublished excavations. It is a major accomplishment!"

Dr. Robert Schiestl, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany

Dr. Jeffrey Spencer, former Deputy Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum, has been involved in archaeological fieldwork in Egypt for the last fifty years. He was the initiator and first director of the Egypt Exploration Society’s Delta Survey project, for which he surveyed numerous sites.

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