El Badari ( ar, البداري) is a town in the
Asyut Governorate
AsyutAlso spelled ''Assiout'' or ''Assiut'' ( ar, أسيوط ' , from ' ) is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate in Egypt. It was built close to the ancient city of the same name, which is situated nearby. The modern city is located at ...
,
Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt ( ar, صعيد مصر ', shortened to , , locally: ; ) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the lands on both sides of the Nile that extend upriver from Lower Egypt in the north to Nubia in the south.
In ancient E ...
, located between
Matmar and
Qaw El Kebir.
Etymology
The older name of the town is ''Berdanis'' ('')'' or ''Badarnos'' (), which Timm derives from ''
Anba Darius''.
Archeology
Main article:
Badarian Culture
El Badari contains an
archaeological site
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology a ...
with numerous
Predynastic cemeteries (notably
Mostagedda,
Deir Tasa and the cemetery of El Badari itself), as well as at least one early Predynastic settlement at
Hammamia. The area stretches for along the east bank of the Nile, and was first excavated by
Guy Brunton
Guy Brunton (1878 in London, England – 17 October 1948 in White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian predynastic culture. He married Winifred Newberry on 28 April 1906. ...
and
Gertrude Caton-Thompson between 1922 and 1931.
The finds from El Badari form the original basis for the
Badarian culture (c. 5500-4000 BC), the earliest phase of the Upper Egyptian Predynastic period.
[Watterson, Barbara (1998). The Egyptians. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 31. ISBN 0-631-21195-0.]
References
Archaeological sites in Egypt
Geography of ancient Egypt
Badarian culture
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