Tell el-Retaba (Egypt)
Dates of work: 13 September–20 October 2011
Team:
Director: Dr. Sławomir Rzepka, archaeologist (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Co-director: Dr. Jozef Hudec, archaeologist (Aigyptos Foundation, Bratislava)
SCA representative: Khaled Farid
Archaeologist: Bartosz Adamski (Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Veronika Dubcová (Institute of Egyptology, University of Vienna), Sylwia Gromadzka (independent), Lucia Hulková (Institute of Egyptology, University of Vienna), Łukasz Jarmużek (PhD candidate, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Malwina Piorun (PhD candidate, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Lubica Zelenková (Institute of Egyptology, University of Vienna)
Pottery specialist: Dr. Anna Wodzińska (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Archaeobotanist: Claire Malleson (University of Liverpool)
Student trainees: Lukáš Ivančo (University of Trnava,), Łukasz Kumkowski (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Lukáš Štec (Comenius University, Bratislava)
The fifth season of archaeological fieldwork by a Polish–Slovak team at Tell el-Retaba in Wadi Tumilat uncovered a section of a Hyksos cemetery, fragments of an early Eighteenth Dynasty settlement and a large building belonging to the fortress of Ramesses III, of which only the defense walls have been traced. New data contributed information on the inner structure of the fortress. Continued excavations also unearthed more fragments of a Third Intermediate Period settlement.
[Text: PAM]