Settlement sites

examples of towns for which archaeological plans exist

5000-1500BC Hieraconpolis - Buhen - Lahun

1500-1000BC Amarna - Deir el-Medina

1000BC - AD500 Memphis - Meroe - Oxyrhynchus

AD500-present Fustat - Suakin

examples of recorded small settlements and single houses

5000-2000BC Fayum Neolithic - Naqada - Hieraconpolis

2000-1000BC Buhen - Lahun - Amarna

1000BC - AD100 Heliopolis and Tell el-Yahudiya - Memphis - Meroe

examples of recorded palaces

(for temples, see under formal art - architecture)

1500-1000BC Amarna - Gurob - Tell el-Yahudiya

1000BC - AD100 Memphis -Meroe

Cemeteries

(for the large burial complexes, see under formal art - architecture)

5000-3000BC Badari - Naqada - Gerza - Hieraconpolis - Abydos - Tarkhan

3000-1000BC Qau - Haraga - Sedment - Haraga - Lahun - Rifa - Thebes

1000BC-AD500 Saqqara - Oxyrhynchus - Meroe

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