| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Nile Delta, Real and Imagined -- I Prelude -- II (Dis)ordered Discourses: Why the Delta? And Why Now? -- III Flowing Lands, Shifting Waters: The Delta's Hydrographical Histories -- IV Imaginative Geographies -- V What Stories Are Told in This Book -- Bibliography -- 2 Call Me by My Names: Naming the Delta through Time and Space -- I Introduction |
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II Two Gazes, Two Names: The Egyptian and Greek Traditions -- III Splitting Head: Polysignificant Delta and Apex as Navel -- IV Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 The Nile Delta before the Pharaohs -- I Introduction -- II From the First Farmers to the First Pharaohs: A Cultural and Chronological Overview -- III From the Last Hunters-Gatherers to the First Herders and Farmers (Early Neolithic 1-2) -- IV At the Onset of Sedentary Village Life (Early Neolithic 3) -- V The Growth of the Lower Egyptian Culture until the Rise of the State (Late Neolithic 1-2, Protodynastic) -- VI Conclusion |
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IV The Northern Delta -- A Second, Larger Faiyum? -- V Case Study: Central Northwestern Delta around Buto (Tell El-Farcain) -- VI Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 6 The Mareotis Area: Integration of a Marginal Territory into Egypt through Wine Production -- I Introduction -- II The Pharaonic Past of Plinthine/Kom El-Nugus -- III The Hellenistic Evidence -- IV Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 From Memphis to Alexandria: The Delta within the Persian and Macedonian Empires (End of the Sixth to the First Century BCE) -- I Introduction -- II The Eastern Delta: Rampart of Egypt and Gateway to Arabia |
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III Memphis and the Central Delta: The Problem of East-West Connections -- IV The Western Delta: Capitals at the Crossroad of the Sea and the Desert -- V Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 Growing with the Empire? From Village to Town: Kom Abou Bellou and Its Urban Development -- I Introduction -- II History of the Excavations and the Neglect of the Urban Area -- III A New Methodological Perspective -- IV Kom Abou Bellou in Pharaonic Times: Mefkat and the Third Sepat -- V The Issue of the Hellenistic City -- VI Terenuthis, the Roman-Period Town, and the Nomos Prosopites -- VII The Roman Necropolis |
| Summary |
The first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. This was and remains the most fertile, populated and strategic part of Egypt and the topics covered range from settlement and water management to tourism and archaeology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2024) |
| SUBJECT |
Nile River Delta (Egypt) -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blouin, Katherine, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781009188494 |
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1009188496 |
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9781009175166 |
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1009175165 |
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1009188496 |
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