Egyptian Culture History and Archaeology
al-Fustat (Egypt)
Al-Fustat is the name of the first Islamic capital of Egypt, founded shortly after the Ummayyad conquest of Egypt in the 7th century AD.
Al Tiwayrat (Qena, Egypt)
In this Project Gallery report from the September 2005 Antquity, Pierre M. Vermeersch and colleagues report on this Middle Paleolithic site.
Alexandria, Egypt: Discovery of Napoleon's Lost Fleet
A longer article on the underwater archaeology investigations at the 18th century wreck sites of Napoleon's fleet, sunk off Alexandria in 1798. From Athena Review.
Bahariya Oasis - el Haiz
Greco-roman outpost at Bahariya, el Haiz has a Roman period fortress and palace, and a Coptic basilica. From TourEgypt.
Bakchias (Kom-Umm el Atl)
From the Università di Lecce in Italy, a discussion of archaeological excavations at the Roman site of Bakchias. Italian.
Cairo
The Islamic city of Cairo is, oddly enough, one of the newer cities in Egypt, founded in the 7th century AD as a military outpost.
Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
Excavated at the turn of the last century from the Greco-Roman site of Tebtunis, the papyri are held by The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dakhleh Oasis (Egypt)
Dakhleh is an important oasis located in the Western Desert of Egypt about 300 kilometers west of Luxor.
Dahshur
The archaeological site of Dahshur is an Old Kingdom 4th dynasty Egypt site where some of the oldest pyramids in Egypt were built.
Dara
Dara is the name of a site in central Egypt near the modern town of Asyut and outside the Dahklah Oasis.
Egyptian Predynastic
A review of the evidence, a summary of what's known about Egypt prior to the dynastic kingdoms, by Katherine Bard on the Antiquity of Man site.
Excavations at Al-Fustat
From the Egyptian Culture Center, Waseda University, Japan, a brief discussion and some photographs of artifacts.
From Koptos to Myos Hormos
A summary of the results of a survey by a French archaeological team to identify road-stations along the road from Qift (ancient Coptos) on the Nile to Qusayr on the Red Sea.
Karanis
Late Roman and early Byzantine Egypt, excavated by F. W. Kelsey in the 1930s; a site report from the University of Pennsylvania's Kelsey Museum.
Mons Claudianus (Wadi umm Hussayn)
A Roman quarry site in the deserts of eastern Egypt, an article by Marijke Van der Veen in British Archaeology.
Nabta Playa (Egypt)
Nabta Playa is an archaeological site in the western deserts of southern Egypt, where some of the earliest known evidence of domesticated cattle have been identified.
Napoleon's Lost Fleet
Underwater excavations identify the remains of Napoleon's fleet in Aboukir Bay, destroyed during Horatio Nelson's Battle of Aboukir in 1798. Article abstract in Archaeology magazine.
Oxyrhynchus (Waste Paper City)
Oxyrhynchus is known as the Waste Paper City because it is the site where the town dumps preserved over 50,000 fragments of papyrus, everything from shopping lists to great works of literature, mostly dated to the Hellenistic and Roman period. From Cambridge, discussion of the documents including images.
Pan Grave Culture
The Pan Grave culture refers to the Nubian culture, one of the characteristics of which is shallow, round graves reminiscent of frying pans.
Portals to Eternity - Necropolis at Terenouthis and Kom Abou Billou
From the University of Michigan, excavations at these two cemeteries dated to the Greco-Roman period.
Qadan Sites
The oldest sites in Egypt identified to date, the Qadan sites belong to the Upper Paleolithic of 30,000-10,000 BC; from TourEgypt.
Rome in Egypt
An Italian clearinghouse for information about Roman temples and outposts in Egypt; site maps and photographs of several. English
Sikait
American-Dutch research in the Egyptian Eastern Desert have included among other things, excavations in Sikait, the only large-scale emerald mine of the Roman empire, and potentially used as early as the Ptolemaic period as well.
St. Catherine's Monastery
St. Catherine's Monastery is a Byzantine church built between 548 and 565 AD at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt.
Tell el Dab'a
Tell el Dab'a is the modern name of the capital city for the Hyksos in the Nile delta region of Egypt, called Avaris.
Tell el Farkha
Archaeological excavations in the late Naqada and very early Dynastic period site of Tell el Farkha have been conducted by Poznan University.
The Monastery of St. Macarius (Deir Abu Magar)
A Coptic monastery dated to the 4th century AD, the Monastery of St. Macarius has been under excavation by Leiden University in the Netherlands since the mid-1990s. This report is from TourEgypt by Jimmy Dunn.