Abadiya is located in the area of "Diospolis Parva", a concession excavated under Petrie's general direction (see also Hiw and Semaineh), in 1898–1899. The expedition was sponsored by the Egypt Exploration Fund. Several cemeteries were excavated, and the work was also led by David Randall-MacIver and Arthur Mace at some locations. Henrietta Lawes drew pottery while Hilda Petrie and Beatrice Orme…

The predynastic cemetery of Abusir el-Meleq was excavated in 1905–1906 by the Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft excavation, under the direction of Georg Möller.

The site of Ahaiwa is located near Naga ed-Deir. It was excavated by George A. Reisner in 1900 (see Reisner, 1936: The Development of the Egyptian Tomb: 377–378; B. Green, 1981: A Preliminary Analysis of Dating and distribution in the Predynastic Cemetery Site of El-Ahaiwah, unpublished manuscript). According to Bodil Morensen (1991: Change in the Settlement Pattern and Population in the…

Akhmim is a site in Upper Egypt that was exacavated, among others, by Robert Forrer. He wrongfully attributed a number of palettes to that site, pretending to have found them during excavation work, but he had publihsed line drawings of these objects in 1891, three years before his excavation. It is unlikely that any predyastic material was ever found at Akmim.

In 1894–1895, William M. Flinders Petrie and James E. Quibell directed two missions in the region of Naqada, which represent to this day the most important archaeological work ever carried out there. Quibell's work, supported by the Egypt Research Account, concentrated in the northern part of the region, nearer the villages of Ballas and Zawaida. Published data is more scarce than for Petrie's…

Jacques de Morgan was the first to notice the existence of a predynastic cemetery at el-Amra, where he excavated a few graves in 1896; material from this work in the Musée des Antiquités nationales in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Later, a group of men under Egyptian overseers digged at el-Amra on the order of Emile C. Amelineau, who was excavating at Abydos at the time. This flurry of activity…

A predynastic site was erroneously attributed to the locality Saghel el-Baglia instead of Gebel el-Tarif. The mistake appeared in de Morgan's Recherches sur les Origines de l'Égypte I (1896: 87): Saghel el-Baglieh. Nécropole archaïque située sur la rive droite du Nil, en face d'Abydos, et renfermant les mêmes mobiliers funéraires que celles déjà décrites. Des sondages y ont été exécutés par le…

The Gerzeh (el-Gerzhe, Gerza) cemetery, discovered by the British archaeological team in December 1910, is located in northern Upper Egypt, near the Fayum depression, in a shallow valley. Excavations by Gerald Wainwright from 1910–1911 revealed 288 Predynastic graves, 38 of which had been plundered. Of the undisturbed tombs, 51 contained children, highlighting a high child mortality rate. The…

Settlement site near Abadiya, in the region of Diospolis Parva.

Hierakonpolis is a vast archaeological area, known to the ancient Egyptians as Nekhen and to modern inhabitants as Kom el-Ahmar. The site encompasses a large number of localities of many different types, representing all periods of Egyptian history. Today, the site is divided in two archaeological concessions: the sites of the desert are placed under the responsability of the Hierakonpolis…

Hiw is located in the area of "Diospolis Parva", a concession excavated under Petrie's general direction (see also Abadiya and Semaineh), in 1898–1899. Several cemeteries were excavated, and the work was also led by David Randall-MacIver and Arthur Mace at some locations. Henrietta Lawes drew pottery while Hilda Petrie and Beatrice Orme drew marks on the pottery and numbered finds and skeletal…

The Matmar village is located in Middle Egypt, approximately 15 kilometers north of the site of Badari. It was occupied throughout the predynastic period and into historic Egypt. A large number of graves have been found, showing good preservation of organic material and exhibiting differences in grave goods assemblages and the size of the graves, which were seemingly related to non-elite…

The cemetery of Mesaid was explored in the early 20th century over the course of two excavation seasons; Georges A. Reisner was granted a large concession in the region of Naqa ed-Deir, which comprised, beside Naqa ed-Deir and Mesaid, the sites of Sheikh Farag, Mesheikh, and Naqa el-Hai. This was first known as the Hearst expedition (1899 -or 1901? –1905). When work resumed in 1910, it became the…

Guy Brunton directed several seasons of fieldwork on behalf of the British Museum in the region of Mostagedda and Matmar in 1927–1931. At Mostagedda, he investigated in two seasons (1927–1929) both cemeteries and settlement contexts dating to a wide range of periods, including the predynastic period.

The Hearst Egyptian Expedition of the University of California, led by George A. Reisner, worked at Naga ed-Deir between February 1901 and August 1904. The Harvard University – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition returned to the site in 1912–13 and 1923, also under Reisner's direction. The Hearst Expedition numbered cemeteries 100 to 3500 around the three wadis at the southern end of the site,…

Naqada is a term that refers to a large archaeological area with several distinct localities having been named as such by different excavators. The main work on predynastic remains in the region was carried out by William M.F. Petrie; the significance of his discoveries led to the phases of the predynastic relative chronology currently used to named after this site. This famous site has attracted…

The prehistoric cemetery of Salmany (cemetery S) is located about 350m to the north-east of Cemetery U at Abydos. It was excavated by Abdullah el Sayed in 1966–67 on behalf of the 'Organization of Egyptian Antiquities'; it contained 136 graves.

Semaineh is located in the area of "Diospolis Parva", a concession excavated under Petrie's general direction (see also Abadiya and Hiw), in 1898–1899. Several cemeteries were excavated, and the work was also led by David Randall-MacIver and Arthur Mace at some locations. Henrietta Lawes drew pottery while Hilda Petrie and Beatrice Orme drew marks on the pottery and numbered finds and skeletal…

Cemeteries excavted by Hermann Juncker in 1909–1910. The area was in the ownership of the Lüthy family who farmed the land. Located between Maadi to the north and Helwan to the south, this area is today entirely built over. Juncker identified two cemeteries: an eastern one (area O), and a western one (areas N, S, and SS). An irrigation canal had cut through the west cemetery and a technical…