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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 addition to Kom el-Hisn. Kom el-Hisn today as seen from space. Tomb of Khesu-wer. Kom el-Hisn as it looked in 1988.

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Map of Egypt: Kom el-Hisn is in the north Delta region, Between Cairo and Aexandria

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  1. Map of Egypt: Kom el-Hisn is in the north Delta region, Between Cairo and Aexandria

  2. Map of Egypt’s Nile Delta showing the locations of some sites in addition to Kom el-Hisn

  3. Kom el-Hisn today as seen from space Tomb of Khesu-wer

  4. Kom el-Hisn as it looked in 1988

  5. Typical day of excavating (1988)

  6. Local boys and girls screening excavated sediments

  7. Strings laying out the excavation units

  8. Mud-brick storage silo Pottery Mud-brick wall A typical excavation unit

  9. Reuse of storage pit (grain) for pots or garbage disposal

  10. Layers or ‘strata’ in the sediments

  11. Rodent burrows Strata Ceramics Mud-brick wall Finished drawing of an excavation unit wall

  12. Excavating an infant burial

  13. Infant burial fully excavated

  14. Excavating an adult burial in a mud-brick tomb

  15. Adult burial with bronze/copper mirror

  16. Bronze/copper mirror with burial shroud preserved

  17. Drawing everything visible to scale

  18. Result of the drawing process

  19. Horus falcon Inscribed seal

  20. Reassembled and whole pottery

  21. Reassembled but incomplete pottery

  22. Stone tools

  23. Water barrel Water pouring off top Catch bucket Flotation apparatus (San Juan Island, WA)

  24. Charred plants caught in cloth (light fraction)

  25. Remainder of sediment sample (heavy fraction)

  26. Pottery

  27. Fish vertebrae (backbone) Fish Bone Shell Animal bones and shell

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