Historical place profile
El Kab
An ancient Egyptian site with settlements dating back to prehistoric and Pharaonic times. The site also features rock-cut tombs from the 18th Dynasty and two temples primarily in use from the Early Dynastic period to the Ptolemaic period.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:440947682
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:440947682
- Place type
- production, settlement, tomb
- Coordinates
- 25.130663, 32.808339
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient Egyptian site with settlements dating back to prehistoric and Pharaonic times. The site also features rock-cut tombs from the 18th Dynasty and two temples primarily in use from the Early Dynastic period to the Ptolemaic period.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
Compare this place with the chronological map at the relevant year, nearby political units, routes, institutions and the period portals. Where the source record is silent about jurisdiction, population or ecclesiastical rank, this profile makes no such claim.