Petrie surveyed an 145 km area in 1897 before settling on excavating the cemetery. He recorded about 150 tombs. Material remains recovered included stone sculpture, coffins, beads and amulets, a scribal palette, baskets, ropes, and tools. Additionally two rock-cut tombs were copied. Two linen garments were recovered.
Catalogue of antiquities from excavations at Deshasheh and Behnesa (Egypt Exploration Fund) and El Kab (Egyptian Research Account) : exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, July 1st to 31st 1897. 1897. London : Egypt Exploration Fund.
Petrie, W. M. Flinders 1898. Deshasheh 1897. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 15. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co.
[6]Petrie's (1898) map of the area of Deshasha taken from plate I of the excavation memoir.
[7]Petrie's map superimposed on a modern-day google map of the area.
Links
[1] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/resources/egypt-exploration-fund-eef
[2] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/w-m-flinders-petrie
[3] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/bernard-p-grenfell
[4] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/arthur-s-hunt
[5] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/h-valentine-geere
[6] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Deshasheh%20cemetery.jpg
[7] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Deshasheh%20merged%20%282%29.jpg
[8] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/node/1078