Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey, 2013^*

Abstract

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Geo-Environmental Estimation of Land Use Changes and Its Effects on Egyptian Temples at Luxor City

“…Besides the importance of Luxor city as a tourism spot and the increasing in the population numbers in Luxor city, most of the urban encroachment has been focused on the archaeological areas. Many environmental studies have been carried out in the Luxor area [53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]. Most of these references focused on hydrology, geology, and climate setting for monitoring the environmental status around the archaeological areas, which are necessary, but performed using the classical methods.…”

Holocene fluvial history of the Nile's west bank at ancient Thebes, Luxor, Egypt, and its relation with cultural dynamics and basin‐wide hydroclimatic variability

“…NK textual sources and tomb scenes suggest the former existence of (royal) canals fronting some of the Temples of Millions of Years (Jaritz, 2005;Lacau & Chevrier, 1977;Schlüter, 2009), which has led to the hypothesis that natural or human-made waterways may have connected the main channel of the Nile with the desert edge (Graham et al, 2014). This could explain the concentration of temples in the zone between Medinet Habu and the Ramesseum, as waterways would have provided easy means of transport and connection between the different localities visited during the Beautiful Festival of the Valley.…”

“…3). The exact positions of boreholes and ERT profiles were recorded using a Leica Real Time Kinetic (RTK) base-rover global positioning satellite system, with elevations referenced to the Survey of Egypt Datum (Graham et al, 2014). Boreholes were spaced at an average distance of no more than 250 m apart, which is a length-scale smaller than the characteristic dimension of geomorphological features in the Nile flood plain and thus ensures that no major natural subsurface elements were missed.…”

“…This included removal of the third level of data in the profiles, which contained unusually high resistivity values across profiles, potentially caused by the water table levels and erroneous readings by individual probes. The profile data were then passed through the least squares inversion modeling, with up to 12 iterations used to produce a model of the subsurface resistivity along each traverse (Graham et al, 2012;Loke, & Dahlin, 2002). The ERT profiles are presented at a very basic level, discriminating between sands, and fine (clayey) silt deposits using an arbitrary twofold division; calibrated to <8 (fine silts), and >8 Ωm (sands) based on lithological information from boreholes.…”

“…During abandonment, the channel was used for the dumping of refuse from the NK temples located nearby (Fig. 2), based on the vessel types and low abrasion of ceramics (Graham et al, 2016).…”