Archaeology meeting geophysics on Polish excavations in Egypt

The ar ti cle pres ents the re sults of ar chae o log i cal ex ca va tions in two lo ca tions where geo phys i cal sur veys were car ried out for the first time on Pol ish ex ca va tions in Egypt: Tell Atrib (an cient Athribis in Lower Egypt) and Saqqara (west of the pyr a mid of Djoser). It em pha sizes the in ter de pen dence of ar chae o log i cal and geo phys i cal re search. Par tic u larly in - ter est ing were the re sults of three geo phys i cal sur veys made in Saqqara in 1987, 1997 and 2012 by three dif fer ent teams us ing dif fer ent meth ods. All of them helped iden ti fy ing ar chae o log i cal struc tures in two sub se quent lay ers corre spond ing to two pe ri ods: a) Old King dom (lower stra tum) with rock-hewn tombs of high of fi cials; b) Ptol e maic Pe - riod with hun dreds of buri als found in a layer of sand (up per stra tum).