Nile Delta

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The Nile Delta is a region in the north of present-day Egypt and an important region of ancient Egypt, broadly representing Lower Egypt.

Sites

• Tell Ibrahim Awad

Bibliography

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Chlodnicki, M, R. Fattovich and S. Salvatori. 1992. "The Italian Archaeological Mission of the C.S.R.L.-Venice to the Eastern Nile Delta: A Preliminary Report of the 1987-1988 Field Season", CRIPEL14, 45-62. ---1992b. "The Nile Delta in Transition: A view from Tell el-Farkha", In The Nile Delta in Transition: 4th.-3rd. Millennium B.C ed.by E.C.M. van den Brink, Tel Aviv, 171-190.

Fattovich, R (M. Chlodnicki and S. Salvatori) 1987. Italian Archaeological Mission to the Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt. Report of 1987 Field Season. Unpublished MS

Gomaa, Farouk. 1974. Die libyschen Furstentumer de Deltas vom Tod Osorkons II. bis zur Wiedervereinigung Agyptens durch Psametik I. Tübinger Altas des Vorderen Orients B6. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichart Verlag. ---. 1987. Die Besiedlung Agyptens wahrend des Mittleren Reiches. II. Unteragypten und die angrenzden Gebiete. Tübinger Altas des Vorderen Orients B66/2. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichart Verlag.

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Kroeper, K. 1989. Settlement in the Nile Delta to the End of the Old Kingdom. Doctoral Diss. University of Warsaw, Poland.

Krzyzaniak, L. 1989. "Recent archaeological evidence on the earliest settlement in the eastern Nile Delta", in L. Krzyzaniak and M. Kobusiewicz (eds.) Late Prehsitory of the Nile Basin and the Sahara. Poznan, 267-285.

Mokhtar, G. 1989. "Classical Archaeology of the Delta: A General Survey", in A. Nibbi (ed.), The Archaeology, Geography and History of the Egyptian Delta in Pharaonic Times. Proceedings of Colloquium, Wadham College 29-31 August, 1988, Oxford. Discussions in Egyptology, Special Number 1. Oxford, 216-26.

Müller, H.W. 1966. "Bericht über im März/April 1966 in das Östliche Nildelta unternommene Erkundungsfahrten," Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, Heft 8, Munich.

Muller,H. 1975, "Neue Fruhgeschichtliche Funde aus dem Delta" Revue d'Egyptologie 27, 180-194. ---. 1979 "Zur Archaeologie der Vor und Frühgeschichte des Deltas", in Reineke (ed) Acts of the First ICE Cairo, Berlin, 483-7.

Nibbi, A. (ed.) 1989. Proceedings of Colloquium The Archaeology , Geography and History of the Egyptian Delta in Pharaonic Times, Oxford 29-31 August 1988. Discussions in Egyptology Special Number 1, Oxford.

Snape, S.R. 1986. Six Archaeological Sites in the Eastern Nile Delta. Liverpool.

Spencer, A.J. 1982. "The Delta." in T.G.H. James (ed.), Excavating in Egypt. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 37-50.

Tyldesley, J. A. 1985. “Sites of the Eastern Nile Delta”, in Popular Archaeology, July 1985, 31-36.

van den Brink. E.C.M. 1988a. "The Amsterdam University Survey Expedition to the Northeastern Nile Delta (1984-1986)", in E.C.M. van den Brink 1988b (ed.), 65-114. ---. (ed.) 1988b. The Archaeology of the Nile Delta: Problems and Priorities. Amsterdam. ---. 1989. "A Transitional Late Predynastic-Early Dynastic Settlement Site in the Northeastern Nile Delta, Egypt", MDAIK 45: 55-108. van den Brink, E.C.M. (ed.) 1992a. The Nile Delta in Tansition; 4th - 3rd. millenium BC. Proceedings of the Seminar held in Cairo, 21.-24. October 1990, at the Netherlands Institute of Archaeology and Arabic Studies. Tel Aviv. van den Brink, E.C.M. 1992b. "Preliminary Report on the Excavations at Tell Ibrahim Awad, Seasons 1988-1990". In van den Brink (ed.) 1992a, 43-68. ---. 1993. "Settlement Patterns in the Northeastern Nile Delta during the Fourth-Second Millennia B.C." in L. Krzyzaniak, M. Kobusiewicz, J. Alexander (eds.), Environmental Change and Human Culture in the Nile Basin and Northern Africa until the Second Millennium B.C. Poznan, 279-304.

von der Way, T., “Investigations concerning the early periods in the Northern Delta of Egypt, in Brink, 1988a, 245-249.

Yoyotte, J. 1953. "La Ville de "Taremou" (Tell el-Muqdam)", BIFAO 52, 179-92. ---. 1957. "Promenade a Travers les Sites Anciens du Delta", Bulletin du Société Francais d'Égyptologie 5, 13-24 ---. 1961. Les Principautes du Delta au temps de l'anarchie libyenne. Melanges Maspero 1 (4), 121-179.

Zibelius, K. 1978. Ägyptische Siedlungen nach Texten des Alten Reiches. Wiesbaden.

External links

• the Delta Survey - web site of the Egypt Exploration Society survey