Mendes

Alternative site names:

Tell el Rub'a Djedet; Thei el Amdid

Type of site:

Temple; mastaba tombs; animal necropolis

Timeframe:

Temple (18th Dynasty, 19th Dynasty, 26th Dynasty); mastaba tombs (Old Kingdom); animal necropolis (New Kingdom)

Excavation season:

Relevant publications:

Naville, Edouard, J. J. Tylor, and F. Ll. Griffith 1894. Ahnas el Medineh (Heracleopolis Magna): with chapters on Mendes, the nome of Thoth, and Leontopolis / The tomb of Paheri at El Kab. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 11. London: Egypt Exploration Fund

Redford, Donald B. 2010. City of the ram-man: the story of ancient Mendes. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press.