This edited volume presents a series of reviews, overviews, and
unpublished archives from several historic expeditions in the Naqada
region of Upper Egypt. This includes nineteenth-century fieldwork led by
Gaston Maspero, Jacques de Morgan, and Flinders Petrie through to
surveys conducted in the twentieth century and new initiatives in the
region in the 2010s. It encompasses not just the better-known
Predynastic finds, but also later Pharaonic era material as well as
Coptic heritage. Together the volume argues that the Naqada region in
worthy of renewed critical attention and is a more dynamic and complex
landscape than has generally been acknowledged.