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A Neolithic Fishing Camp That Became One of Egypt’s Great Cities was Sais or Sa el-Hagar
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Sais, ancient Egyptian Sa and modern Sa el-Hagar, is one of the most interesting places in Egypt for understanding how a wetland settlement could evolve into a major Egyptian city. It is particularly valuable because the Neolithic Sais is…
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El Omari was a a Neolithic settlement. It was located between the Nile, the desert & Wadi Hof
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> El Omari is one of the most interesting early Neolithic settlements in northern Egypt because it sat directly at the meeting point of three environments: Nile floodplain, desert edge, and Wadi HofIt was not a huge mudbrick city. It…
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One of Egypt’s First Farming Villages is Merimde Beni Salama
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Merimde Beni Salama is one of the most important Neolithic sites in Egypt, and one of the places that makes the transition from mobile hunter-fisher communities to permanent farming villages unusually tangible. It was not an Upper Egyptian site…