Alison L. Gascoigne   ( : 131802518)

Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton, UK, Alison L. Gascoigne has undertaken extensive field research throughout Egypt, including in the north-east Nile delta, in Old Cairo, in the Aswan region and in the Kharga oasis. She has also worked at the sites of Jam and Kabul’s Bala Hissar in Afghanistan, and in Uzbekistan. She has published the results of these and other research projects in a number of co-edited volumes and numerous articles. She is currently working on a monograph on Islamic-era Egypt for the Cambridge World Archaeology series.

The Island City of Tinnis
A Postmortem
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Sur une île du lac Manzala, au nord-est du delta du Nil, se trouvent les ruines de Tell Tinnis, port et centre industriel autrefois prospère de la fin de l’époque romaine au Moyen Âge. Bien que très peu de traces en soient encore visibles en surface, des vestiges matériels sont préservés sous terre, accessibles grâce aux études géophysiques et géoarchéologiques, ainsi qu’à la télédétection.