El Badari, Egypt

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Ancient Badarian mortuary figurine.

El Badari (Template:Langx) is a town in the Asyut Governorate, Upper Egypt, located between Matmar and Qaw El Kebir.

Etymology

The older name of the town is Berdanis (Template:Langx) or Badarnos (Template:Langx),[1] which Timm derives from Anba Darius.[2]

Archaeology

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El Badari contains an archaeological site with numerous Predynastic cemeteries (notably Mostagedda, Deir Tasa and the cemetery of El Badari itself), as well as at least one early Predynastic settlement at Hammamia. The area stretches for Script error: No such module "convert". along the east bank of the Nile, and was first excavated by Guy Brunton and Gertrude Caton-Thompson between 1922 and 1931.[3][4]

The finds from El Badari form the original basis for the Badarian culture (c. 5500-4000 BC), the earliest phase of the Upper Egyptian Predynastic period.[5][6]

References

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  3. Holmes, D., & Friedman, R. (1994). Survey and Test Excavations in the Badari Region, Egypt. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 60(1), 105-142. doi:10.1017/S0079497X0000342X
  4. Brunton, G., & Caton-Thompson, G. (1928). The Badarian civilisation and predynastic remains near Badari. British School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College.
  5. Shaw, Ian, ed. (2000). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. pp. 479. ISBN 0-19-815034-2.
  6. Watterson, Barbara (1998). The Egyptians. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 31. ISBN 0-631-21195-0.

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