Map of Egypt: Kom el-Hisn is in the north Delta region,Between Cairo and Aexandria

Map of Egypt’s Nile Delta showing the locations of some sites in additionto Kom el-Hisn

Kom el-Hisn today as seen from space

Tomb of Khesu-wer

Kom el-Hisn as it looked in 1988

Typical day of excavating (1988)

Local boys and girls screening excavated sediments

Strings laying out the excavation units

Mud-brick wall

Mud-brick storage silo

Pottery

A typical excavation unit

Reuse of storage pit (grain) for pots or garbage disposal

Layers or ‘strata’ in the sediments

Finished drawing of an excavation unit wall

Mud-brick wall

Ceramics

Strata

Rodent burrows

Excavating an infant burial

Infant burial fully excavated

Excavating an adult burial in a mud-brick tomb

Adult burial with bronze/copper mirror

Bronze/copper mirror with burial shroud preserved

Drawing everything visible to scale

Result of the drawing process

Horus falcon

Inscribed seal

Reassembled and whole pottery

Reassembled but incomplete pottery

Stone tools

Flotation apparatus (San Juan Island, WA)

Water barrel Water pouring off top

Catch bucket

Charred plants caught in cloth (light fraction)

Remainder of sediment sample (heavy fraction)

Pottery

Animal bones and shell

Bone

Fish vertebrae (backbone)

Shell

Fish