Historical place profile
Tell el-Samara
Located adjacent to the modern village of el-Samara (Dakahlia governorate, Egypt) and partly covered by its cemetery, this tell provides archaeological evidence for one of the earliest settlements identified in the Nile delta. Excavations have demonstrated that the settlement was founded in the 5th millennium BCE and subsequent habitation of the site continued to the beginning of the third millennium BCE.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:17661158
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:17661158
- Place type
- settlement, tell
- Coordinates
- 30.920916, 31.613893
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Located adjacent to the modern village of el-Samara (Dakahlia governorate, Egypt) and partly covered by its cemetery, this tell provides archaeological evidence for one of the earliest settlements identified in the Nile delta. Excavations have demonstrated that the settlement was founded in the 5th millennium BCE and subsequent habitation of the site continued to the beginning of the third millennium BCE.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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