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    Tell el-Dab'a is the modern name for the ancient city of Avaris, an archaeological site in the Nile Delta region of Egypt where the capital city of the...
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  • The Minoan wall paintings at Tell el-Dab'a are of particular interest to Egyptologists and archaeologists. They are of Minoan style, content, and technology...
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    Avaris (redirect from El Daba, Egypt)
    romanized: Avaris) was the Hyksos capital of Egypt located at the modern site of Tell el-Dab'a in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta. As the main course of...
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    Tell El-Dab'a (the site of the Hyksos capital Avaris) in 1966, historians relied on these accounts for the Hyksos period. Material finds at Tell El-Dab'a...
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  • period (such as Tell el-Dab'a, Tell Basta, Tell el-Yahudiya). The settlement architecture is comparable to that of the nearby site Tell el-Maskhuta. Along...
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  • consisting of small huts situated around circular storage pits. At Tell El-Dab'a were excavated remains of a settlement dating to the early Middle Kingdom...
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    sometimes also credited as the founder of a palace recently rediscovered at Tell El-Dab'a (the ancient Avaris). This pharaoh is also known by a ceremonial mace...
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    Tell el-Dab'a and Qantir. Although there were no traces of any previous habitation visible on the surface, discoveries soon identified Tell el-Dab'a as...
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    at the time. Yet Habachi was not convinced. In 1941-42 he worked at Tell el-Dab'a for the Egyptian Antiquities Service and came to the conclusion that...
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    Governorate. Local attractions include ancient Egyptian monuments in Tell el-Dab'a, Qantir, and Omm Egrim. Faqus is identical with the ancient city of...
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  • director of the Austrian excavations at two sites in the Nile Delta: Tell El-Dab'a, which was identified as the location of Avaris, the capital of the...
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  • Chronology and Synchronisms in the Levant: Radiocarbon Dates from Tell el-Burak, Tell el-Dabʿa, and Tel Ifshar Compared", Bulletin of the American Schools of...
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    discovered near the modern village of Ezbet Rushdi el-Saghira – itself just north of Tell el-Dab'a, the ancient Avaris – and dates to the Twelfth Dynasty...
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  • palace of Pi-Ramses (Qantir) was founded 2 km NE of Avaris (or Hawaret, Tell el-Dab'a), the residential area of which overlaps. When the city first passed...
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    civilization, similar to those found at the earlier Thutmosid palace of Tell el-Dab’a in the Delta. Birket Habu was used as an important feature of Amenhotep...
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    identified a large-grained variant from the Second Intermediate Period at Tell El-Dab'a. Other examples include the late 12th and 13th dynasties at Dahshur...
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    Tanis (redirect from San el-Hagar)
    neighbouring archaeological sites of Pi-Ramesses (Qantir) and Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a) made clear that the earlier identifications were incorrect, and that...
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    personal name, title, and the term Retjenu was discovered in the site of Tell el-Dab'a dating to the Twelfth Dynasty. The scarab seal would have been received...
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    attacked and raided the lands around the Hyksos capital, Avaris (modern Tell el-Dab'a). Kamose evidently had a short reign, as his highest attested regnal...
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  • deben, and copper deben. At the Second Intermediate Period site of Tell el-Dab'a were found sets of sphendonoid weighing stones confirming the use of...
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  • Athribis (Modern: "Tell Atrib", Ancient: "Hut-Heryib" or "Hut-Tahery-Ibt") Avaris (Modern: "Tell el-Dab'a", Ancient: "Pi-Ri'amsese") Behbeit el-Hagar Bilbeis...
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    Helmut Buske, pp.7-34. [1997], "The Center of Hyksos Rule: Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a) - Tell el-Yahudiya Ware", in Oren, E. (ed.), The Hyksos: New Historical and...
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    linen manufacture. Hut-waret (Avaris) during Middle Kingdom 19th Set Tell el-Dab'a Auaris, Hawara, Athyria Capital of 14th and 15th Dynasties Per-Ramessu...
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  • Sakir-Har is attested by a single inscription on a doorjamb excavated at Tell el-Dab'a—ancient Avaris—by Manfred Bietak in the 1990s. The doorjamb, now in...
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    royal titulature, except in one rare instance in an inscription from Tell el-Dab'a mentioning an unknown king and describing him as a Hyksos. "Hyksos"...
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  • at Vienna, (7–8 May 2001), 2003, pp. 245–247. “The White Slip I of Tell el-Dab‘a and Thera: Critical Challenge for the Aegean Long Chronology”, The White...
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    Tasian culture Tassili n'Ajjer Tatilti Tel Habuwa Tell el-Balamun Tell El-Dab'a Tell el-Qudeirat Tell Nebesha Temple of Amun, Jebel Barkal Temple of Debod...
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  • Ommerschans 1550 BC – Prince of the Lilies and the Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a 1600 BC – The Gold Diadem of Caravaca, the Minoan snake goddess figurines...
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    and around 1720 BC took control of the town of Avaris (the modern Tell el-Dab'a/Khata'na), conquering the kingdom of the 14th dynasty. Sometime around...
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    horse cultures from Central Asia into Turkmenistan. A horse burial in Tell el-Dab'a, Egypt, evidences the introduction of the horse to Egypt by the Hyksos...
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