BURIALS IN THE COMPLEX OF THE GREAT AMIR QURQUMAS (NO. 162) IN CAIRO'S “NORTHERN NECROPOLIS”
BURIALS IN THE COMPLEX OF THE GREAT AMIR QURQUMAS (NO. 162) IN CAIRO'S “NORTHERN NECROPOLIS”
Author(s): Maciej G. WitkowskiSubject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Qurqumas; Cairo; Mamluk/Ottoman/Islamic; burial customs; cemetery; tomb; Qur’an
Summary/Abstract: The article summarizes results of a comprehensive investigation — anthropological, archaeological and architectural — of burials of late Mamluk through late Ottoman(?) date, explored in the funerary complexes of the Great Amir Qurqumas (No. 162) in Cairo’s Northern Cemetery in the years 1972/1976–2000 by a Polish–Egyptian Restoration and Conservation Mission.
Journal: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: XX
- Page Range: 587-604
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English