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Sandhills, sandbanks, waterways, canals and sacred lakes at Sais in the Nile Delta (2021)
Journal Article
Wilson, P., & Ghazala, H. (2021). Sandhills, sandbanks, waterways, canals and sacred lakes at Sais in the Nile Delta. E&G - Quaternary Science Journal, 70(1), 129-143. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-129-2021

The paper explores the relationship between the archaeological zones of the ancient city of Sais at Sa el-Hagar, Egypt, and the natural landscape of the western central Nile Delta and, in particular, the extent to which the dynamic form of the landsc... Read More about Sandhills, sandbanks, waterways, canals and sacred lakes at Sais in the Nile Delta.

Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC: a new perspective on the Egyptian Predynastic and Protodynastic periods (2021)
Journal Article
Pennington, B. T., Wilson, P., Sturt, F., & Brown, A. G. (2021). Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC: a new perspective on the Egyptian Predynastic and Protodynastic periods. World Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2020.1864463

The role environmental change may have played at the dawn of Egyptian history has been overlooked in comparison with other periods. Natural landscape changes taking place in the Nile Delta are argued here to have been a facilitating factor allowing,... Read More about Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC: a new perspective on the Egyptian Predynastic and Protodynastic periods.