A Reconstruction of the South Town of Naqada (about 3300 BC)
'South Town' is the archaeological name for an extensive settlement site at Naqada; it seems to be the town for the people buried in the Naqada Period cemeteries.
background on the 3D models | |
see the size of other towns in Egypt and Mesopotamia | |
some finds from the site | |
The reconstruction is highly hypothetical. The few remains are
published in:
Petrie/Quibell 1896:
pl. LXXXV (plan of some excavated large scale structures)
with additions from Kaiser 1961:
16, fig. 3 (new plan of the whole site)
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