Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

2/1/1992 - 1/31/1993

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$13,900.00 (approved)
$13,900.00 (awarded)


Excavations of Late Predynastic/Archaic Mendes

FAIN: RO-22348-91

Robert J. Wenke
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Seattle, WA 98195)

To support excavations of pre-3000 B.C. occupations at the large settlement mound of Mendes in the Egyptian Delta in order to learn more about the formation of Egyptian civilization and its ties with the Near East.