Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham
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Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham (literally "the resthouse of the mother of vultures")[1] is located on the North coast of Egypt 20 km to the west of Marsa Matruh, and about 300 km to the west of Alexandria[2]
During the reign of Ramesses II, it was the location of a fortress which marked the western extent of direct Egyptian influence.[3]
It was discovered in 1948 and in the subsequent years was sporadically examined by Alan Rowe and Labib Habachi, between 1994 and 2001 extensive excavations were undertaken by a University of Liverpool under the direction of Steven Snape. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Trade secrets uncovered at the 'rest house of the mother of vultures'". http://www.liv.ac.uk/researchintelligence/issue4/vulture.html. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
- ^ "Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham". Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20091022185436/http://geocities.com/zurdig/HomeFrame.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-27.
- ^ a b "Finding a lost civilisation". http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/entertainment/newsandreviews/tm_headline=finding-a-lost-civilisation%26method=full%26objectid=16430455%26page=3%26siteid=50061-name_page.html. Retrieved 2008-09-27.
[edit] Further reading
- L. Habachi: The Military Posts of Ramesses II on the Coastal Road and the Western Part of the Delta, in: BIFAO 80 (1980), S. 13-30
- S. R. Snape: Walls, Wells and Wandering Merchants: Egyptian Control of the Marmarica in the Late Bronze Age in: C.J. Eyre (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Leuven 1998, S. 1081-84
- S. R. Snape: The excavations of the Liverpool University Mission to Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham 1994-2001, in: ASAE 78 (2004), S. 149-160, Kairo.
Coordinates: 31°23′46″N 27°02′38″E / 31.39611°N 27.04389°E
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