AGSL GeoDiscovery

Raster Terrain map of South Saqqara archaeological area, Egypt, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom, (South raster)

Description:

Data has been geo-referenced to projected coordinate system WGS 1984 36N. Files have been slightly modified to remove modern roads, buildings, etc. around the archaeological area of Saqqara. Raster attempts to visualize ancient ground level at the end of the Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom.

Raster created using digitized contour line files based on the Egyptian Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction (MHR Le Caire) 1:5000 series, 1978, H23 and H24. Available at: https://lccn.loc.gov/00553301

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/qz133dv2648

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/qz133dv2648

Language:

eng

Creator:

Sullivan, Elaine A.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Archaeology and Imagery and Base Maps

Theme:

Imagery and Land Cover

Temporal Coverage:

2020

Date Issued:

2020

Spatial Coverage:

Ṣaqqārah (Egypt)

Rights:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license. The material is made available for non-commercial, research purposes. Any third party material may need to be permissioned separately for reuse.

Rights Holder:

Stanford University, 2019.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF

Georeferenced:

false