Tell el-Ginn
 
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Tell el-Ginn and Sile in Egypt |
Tell el-Ginn ( Arabic Hill of the Djinns ) is the Arabic name of an ancient Egyptian predynastic settlement and necropolis in the fourth millennium BC. BC, which was only a few kilometers from Minschat Abu Omar on the Pelusian branch of the Nile .
For this time, trade relations to Retjenu are already documented, which also explains that Tell el-Ginn was a station on the original Horus Way .
See also
literature
- Manfred Bietak , Josef Dorner: Tell el-Dab'a - The place of discovery in the context of an archaeological-geographical investigation of the Egyptian eastern delta - . Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0136-8 .
- Stan Hendrickx: Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the early Dynastic Period of Egypt and northern Sudan . Leuven University Press, Leuven 1995, ISBN 90-6186-683-9 .
Web links
- Tell el-Ginn (PDF; 457 kB)
Coordinates: 30 ° 55 ' N , 32 ° 3' E