Map of Egypt: Kom el-Hisn is in the north Delta region, Between Cairo and Aexandria.
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Transcript of Map of Egypt: Kom el-Hisn is in the north Delta region, Between Cairo and Aexandria.
Map of Egypt: Kom el-Hisn is in the north Delta region,Between Cairo and Aexandria
Map of Egypt’s Nile Delta showing the locations of some sites in additionto Kom el-Hisn
Kom el-Hisn today as seen from space
Tomb of Khesu-wer
Kom el-Hisn as it looked in 1988
Typical day of excavating (1988)
Local boys and girls screening excavated sediments
Strings laying out the excavation units
Mud-brick wall
Mud-brick storage silo
Pottery
A typical excavation unit
Reuse of storage pit (grain) for pots or garbage disposal
Layers or ‘strata’ in the sediments
Finished drawing of an excavation unit wall
Mud-brick wall
Ceramics
Strata
Rodent burrows
Excavating an infant burial
Infant burial fully excavated
Excavating an adult burial in a mud-brick tomb
Adult burial with bronze/copper mirror
Bronze/copper mirror with burial shroud preserved
Drawing everything visible to scale
Result of the drawing process
Horus falcon
Inscribed seal
Reassembled and whole pottery
Reassembled but incomplete pottery
Stone tools
Flotation apparatus (San Juan Island, WA)
Water barrel Water pouring off top
Catch bucket
Charred plants caught in cloth (light fraction)
Remainder of sediment sample (heavy fraction)
Pottery
Animal bones and shell
Bone
Fish vertebrae (backbone)
Shell
Fish