EES Delta Survey - Tell Faraoun

For the third season running, during March and April 2011, Dr Patricia Spencer, the Society’s Director, will be posting regular updates from the Delta, Egypt.

Further information on the Egypt Exploration Society’s Delta Survey can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6vjngj.

Tell Faraoun – Imet

Ahmed Saeed Ibrahim el-Kharadly is discussing the site of Tell Faraoun (Petrie’s Nebesheh) in Arabic and we are grateful again to Randa Baligh for translating the talk.

The site is located on a sand gezira bordered on the north-west by the now extinct Pelusiac branch of the Nile. It was originally about 1 square km but is now much smaller. Ahmed is describing previous excavations at the site which found a Roman bathhouse.

In 2007 excavations were undertaken in the centre of the city, but were never completed. The site has an extensive cemetery, partly excavated by Petrie, with tombs which can be dated to the late New Kingdom and the early Third Intermediate Period.

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