Marsa Matruh II

The Objects

by Donald White

Book cover: Marsa Matruh II

Extent: 264 pages

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Subjects: European Prehistory, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Prehistory Monographs

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(October 2002)

ISBN: 9781931534017

Price: $95.00

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(PDF) (Published)

(December 2002)

ISBN: 9781623031206

Price: $76.00

This volume of the report on excavations at Marsa Matruh on Bates’ Island, which is located in a lagoon on the seacoast at the north of Egypt’s western desert, publishes the local and imported pottery, the crucibles and other evidence for metalworking, the organic finds (including ostrich egg shells), and other discoveries made at the site.


This volume of the report on the excavations at Marsa Matruh on Bates’s Island, which is located on the seacoast at the north of Egypt’s western desert, publishes the local and imported pottery, the crucibles and other evidence for metalworking, the organic finds (including ostrich egg shells), and the other discoveries made at the site. The pottery found in the excavations indicates that this small Late Bronze Age settlement had links to several cultures: Cyprus, the Aegean, Egypt, the coast of western Asia, and the local Marmarican people.

  • By (author) Donald C. Haggis