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Introduction
A British Academy Research Project
The Delta Survey has operated by the Egypt Exploration Society since 1997 and was accepted as a British Academy Research Project in 2007. Its purpose was to assess the current condition of the lesser-known archaeological sites of Lower Egypt by conducting on-site assessments enhanced by mapping surveys, geophysical work and selective excavation. The results of these surveys have been combined with information from published and unpublished sources to create an extensive dataset for the archaeology of Lower Egypt. This is now available in the volume by Jeffrey Spencer, The Archaeological Sites of Lower Egypt: A Gazetteer. EES Excavation Memoir 119, 2024, containing all results down to early 2024.
Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt
“This book is a remarkable achievement and extremely important for Delta archaeology and history!”
Dr Robert Schiestl
“This comprehensive publication … is sure to become an essential reference for archaeological research of sites and settlement patterns in Lower Egypt for decades to come.”
Dr Hannah Pethen
Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt is a directory, making available the data on all 783 of the sites in the Egypt Exploration Society's Delta Survey. Data has been gathered from bibliographic sources, dedicated fieldwork and information from Egyptian and foreign missions in order to present a body of material previously available only in summary online. The book provides all the information in enhanced and extended form, with descriptions of each site, noting especially changes in condition over time, previous discoveries and current fieldwork, together with key references to bibliographic or other sources. This is an essential index of the ancient settlements of the Delta, alerting archaeologists and historians to the large cities, small towns, fortress and temple sites that covered the Delta in antiquity. The volume presents the results of a research project extending over four decades on the identification, location and character of the archaeological sites of Lower Egypt. The project has been known since 1997 as the Egypt Exploration Society's Delta Survey (supported by the British Academy).
You may also be interested to visit the separate Western Delta Regional Survey on Durham University's website here: http://community.dur.ac.uk/penelope.wilson/Delta/Survey.html
Delta Reports
Delta Reports is a journal dedicated to the publication of archaeology, geography, history and heritage relevant to the Nile Delta. The first volume Delta Reports 1 Research in Lower Egypt was published in 2009 and edited by Donald Redford. The series has been restarted with a full editorial board and will be published by Archaeopress. Each edition will be published when a sufficient number of papers have been prepared, so there is a rolling deadline.
The publication aims to make fieldwork reports from the North of Egypt (including Alexandria, Wadi Tumilat, Wadi Natrun and North Sinai) available soon after the fieldwork has been completed. Each volume would contain about 10-15 reports from fieldwork, in order to make the material immediately accessible to other archaeologists and interested parties. There is no limit on time-period and historical and heritage material will also be accepted. The volumes will be edited by the editorial board and another academic reviewer. Reports would be published in English or Arabic and all reports would have an English/Arabic abstract.
If you are interested in sending us a paper, please do contact the email address below.
All correspondence and submissions should be made to: deltasurvey@ees.ac.uk
