New Kingdom Town of Sai Island
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 29, 2026 03:02 PM
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History
Located on the eastern side of Sai Island in the Nile River, remains of an orthogonal fortified settlement have been dated to the Egyptian New Kingdom, part of a long history of habitation of the island, both before and after.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/522966643
20.7373279859, 30.3316470033
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Sai Island, Pharaonic settlement (1548 BC - 1086 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- New Kingdom Town of Sai Island located on Jazirat Say (unspecified date range)
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settlement (fortified), archaeological site
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Tom Elliott, 'New Kingdom Town of Sai Island: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/522966643> [accessed: 19 May 2026]
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