Geo-political importance of Tell Ibrahim Awad

Tell Ibrahim Awad is located in the Delta in the immediate proximity of Avaris and Per-Ramses, 14 km north of Faqus. Finds made there, during the joint Russian-Dutch excavations since 1995, give us grounds to believe that this centre played an important role in relationship with the Eastern Mediterranean cultures from the Early Dynastic Period through the FIP. Finds made under the foundations of the temple of the latter period indicate that it was also an important religious centre. The author, director of the Russian team, presents the importance of this location with respect to the geo-political boundaries of early Egypt.