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el-Mahasna

Alternative site names: 
Mahasna; el Mahasna; Mahasna; el-Mahasneh; el Mahasneh; Mahasneh; el-Mahâsna; el Mahâsna
Arabic site names: 
المحاسنة
Type of site: 
Cemetery
Timeframe: 
Cemetery (Early Dynastic Period)
Overlay map: 
Excavator's sketch map of el-Mahasna and Bet Khallaf superimposed on a modern Google map image. Created by Kristian Brink, 2015.
Relevant publications: 

Catalogue of exhibition of antiquities: found by the officers of the Egypt Exploration Fund at Abydos and Mahasna; exhibited at King's College, Strand, July 8th to July 31st, 1909 / Egypt Exploration Fund. 1909. London : Egypt Exploration Fund.

Anderson, David A. 2011. Evidence for early ritual activity in the predynastic settlement at El-Mahâsna. In Friedman, Renée F. and Peter N. Fiske (eds), Egypt at its origins 3: proceedings of the Third International Conference "Origin of the state: predynastic and early dynastic Egypt", London, 27th July - 1st August 2008, 3-29. Leuven: Peeters.

Ayrton, Edward R. and W. L. S. Loat 1911. Pre-dynastic cemetery at el Mahasna. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 31. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.

Ayrton, Edward Russell 1909.  Excavations at El Mahasna, Archaeological Reports 1908-1909, 5-7.

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