El Kab
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Iris Fernandez Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Iris Fernandez Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 20, 2016 10:24 AM
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History
An ancient Egyptian site with settlements dating back to prehistoric and Pharaonic times. The site also features rock-cut tombs from the 18th Dynasty and two temples primarily in use from the Early Dynastic period to the Ptolemaic period.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/440947682
25.130663, 32.808339
- Representative Locations:
- Center of Visible Remains of Settlement at El Kab (2950 BC - 1086 BC) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.
- Center of Visible Remains of Tombs at El Kab (1548 BC - 1086 BC) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.
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- El Kab (English, modern)
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production center (manufacturing, fishing), tomb, settlement
- See Further:
Pleiades
Iris Fernandez, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'El Kab: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/440947682> [accessed: 27 March 2025]
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Seems to duplicate http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786020