Abu Ballas (the pottery hill) is an archaeological site in the Libyan Desert of Egypt. It lies about 200 km (120 mi) south-west of the Dakhla Oases and consists of two isolated sandstone cones in the otherwise flat desert. Both hills are covered with Egyptian pottery. These vessels were at the beginning of the 20th century often well preserved, but are today - due to modern tourism - very much destroyed. The site was discovered in 1918 and 1923.[1] More recent research was undertaken in the last years.[2]
The area is name giver for the geological Abu Ballas formation.[3]
^H. Kemal l Dine, L. Franchet: Les dépots de jarresdu désert de Lybie, in: Revue scientifique 65 1927), pp.596-600.
^Frank Förster: Beyond Dakhla: The Abu Ballas Trail in the Libyan Desert (SW Egypt), In: Frank Förster, Heiko Riemer: Desert Road Archaeology in Egypt and Beyond, Cologne 2013, ISBN 9783927688414, pp.297-337.
^F. Hendriks; E. Schrank, The marine Abu Ballas formation of southern Egypt: a clay-mineralogic and microfloral reconstruction of the Aptian paleoclimate, Journal of African Earth Sciences, (1990) Volume 10, Issue 3, pp.471-481.
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