id
	15527
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/15527
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Monuments on a migrating Nile
Creator
	Hillier, John K.
	Bunbury, Judith M.
	Graham, Angus
Date
	2007
Language
	eng
Abstract
	River courses migrate, but many Egyptologists plot the present-day River Nile on maps of the valley in archaeological times. This may have misled interpretations of ancient monuments and settlements. We show a river migrating rapidly on historical timescales in the Luxor region, sweeping>5km across the valley at rates on the order of 2–3km per 1000 years. Satellite elevation data (SRTM), processed by a novel method, and Landsat imagery are used to trace ancient river levees and extend trends present in 200 years of archive maps thousands of years into the past. This supplements observations by Ptolemy (121–141 AD) and places local geo-archaeological studies in a wider spatial and temporal context. Satellite data are demonstrated to be a relatively quick and easy constraint upon ancient river courses, and a basis for investigations along the Egyptian Nile, even in logistically inaccessible regions.
Is Part Of
	Journal of Archaeological Science
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.09.011
Issn
	0305-4403
Issue
	7
Pages
	1011-1015
Uri
	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440306001890
Volume
	34
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/Y8CG74KG/item-list

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