Archaeological Record

Types of site

settlements, palaces, cemeteries

from survey to

the Petrie years in Egypt

1880s-1930s

Amelia Edwards and Flinders Petrie:

the formation of the Petrie Museum as a teaching collection

-Expeditions since 1945 represented in the Petrie Museum

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SITES BY TYPE

(numbers in bracket after a site name refer to number of web-pages on Digital Egypt for Universities)

Settlements

--- Examples of towns for which archaeological plans exist

--- Examples of recorded small settlements and single houses

--- Examples of recorded palaces (for temples, see under formal art - architecture)

Cemeteries (for the large burial complexes, see under formal art - architecture)

5000-3000BC Badari (77) - Naqada (80) - Gerzeh (17) - Hierakonpolis (15) - Abydos (60) - Tarkhan (118)
3000-1000BC Abydos (60) - Bet Khallaf (2) - Elkab (10) - Qau (62) -Badari (77) - Harageh (20) - Hawara (43) - Sedment (64) - Lahun (70) - Meydum (62) - Rifeh (17) - Thebes (72) - Zaraby (6)
1000BC-AD500 Saqqara (48) - Matmar (6) - Hawara (43)