Description : The predynastic site of Tell el-Iswid is located in the Eastern Nile Delta, 40 km to the north-east of the current town of Zagazig, in the province of Sharqiyah. It was discovered in 1987 when a team from the University of Amsterdam, led by E. van den Brink undertook deep-coring and test-pit campaigns in the area. It is a long-term settlement site, marked by two main phases: the Predynastic and Early Dynastic period, covering all of the 4th millennium BCE, and the Late Period (26th Dynasty: 663-525 BCE). Limited evidence also point to an occupation during the Intermediate Period (4th Dynasty, 11th Dynasty, end of the Second Intermediate Period and beginning of the New Kingdom).
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