Articles | Volume 70, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-187-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-187-2021
Preface
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23 Jul 2021
Preface |  | 23 Jul 2021

Preface: Special issue “Geoarchaeology of the Nile Delta”

Julia Meister, Eva Lange-Athinodorou, and Tobias Ullmann

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This is the preface to the special issue "Geoarchaeology of the Nile Delta: Current Research and Future Prospects", which brings together geoarchaeological case studies from different regions of the Nile Delta.
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