Key elements of sacred landscapes of the Nile Delta were lakes, canals and artificial basins connected to temples, which were built on elevated terrain. In the case of temples of goddesses of an ambivalent, even dangerous, nature, i.e. lioness goddesses and all female deities who could appear as such, the purpose of sacred lakes and canals exceeded their function as a water resource for basic practical and religious needs. Their pleasing coolness was believed to calm the goddess' fiery nature, and during important religious festivals, the barques of the goddesses were rowed on those waters. As archaeological evidence was very rare in the past, the study of those sacred waters was mainly confined to textual sources. Recently applied geoarcha...
Death and the life-giving waters of the Nile were intimately interwoven in ancient Egyptian religion...
The relationship between climate change and the development of Old World riverine civilizations is p...
The Butic Canal – a Roman period transversal route across the northern Nile Delta – was the longest ...
Sacred water canals or lakes, which provided water for all kinds of purification rites and other act...
In the Theban area around modern Luxor (Egypt), the River Nile divides the temple complexes of Karna...
International audienceThis paper presents the results of a geoarchaeological study undertaken in Upp...
In the Theban area around modern Luxor (Egypt), the River Nile divides the temple complexes of Karna...
Archaeological exploration in the Nile Delta has been confined to a handful of expeditions from rece...
The construction of the Aswan Dam put an end to a form of relationship between people and the enviro...
Research in the Nile Delta over the past twenty years has confirmed interest in the study of the nor...
Although Herodot's dictum that "Egypt is a gift of the Nile" is proverbial, there has been only scan...
From 2004 on, geoarchaeological research is being carried out in the Nile floodplain near Dayr al Be...
The last four decades, worldwide, the landscape rapidly evolved in both a physical and anthropogenic...
Northern Egypt was always an unusually important area for our study on the history of ancient Egypti...
Here we present the results of a geoarchaeological study, undertaken in Upper Egypt, in the western ...
Death and the life-giving waters of the Nile were intimately interwoven in ancient Egyptian religion...
The relationship between climate change and the development of Old World riverine civilizations is p...
The Butic Canal – a Roman period transversal route across the northern Nile Delta – was the longest ...
Sacred water canals or lakes, which provided water for all kinds of purification rites and other act...
In the Theban area around modern Luxor (Egypt), the River Nile divides the temple complexes of Karna...
International audienceThis paper presents the results of a geoarchaeological study undertaken in Upp...
In the Theban area around modern Luxor (Egypt), the River Nile divides the temple complexes of Karna...
Archaeological exploration in the Nile Delta has been confined to a handful of expeditions from rece...
The construction of the Aswan Dam put an end to a form of relationship between people and the enviro...
Research in the Nile Delta over the past twenty years has confirmed interest in the study of the nor...
Although Herodot's dictum that "Egypt is a gift of the Nile" is proverbial, there has been only scan...
From 2004 on, geoarchaeological research is being carried out in the Nile floodplain near Dayr al Be...
The last four decades, worldwide, the landscape rapidly evolved in both a physical and anthropogenic...
Northern Egypt was always an unusually important area for our study on the history of ancient Egypti...
Here we present the results of a geoarchaeological study, undertaken in Upper Egypt, in the western ...
Death and the life-giving waters of the Nile were intimately interwoven in ancient Egyptian religion...
The relationship between climate change and the development of Old World riverine civilizations is p...
The Butic Canal – a Roman period transversal route across the northern Nile Delta – was the longest ...