In mud forgotten: Old Kingdom palaeoecological evidence from Abusir

Abstract

The study aims to summarise the major evidence on the climate development in the pyramid fields based on the Abusir data and dating to the Old Kingdom (2700–2200 BCE).

Keywords

• Old Kingdom
• pyramid fields
• Abusir
• climate change evidence
• archaeology of the Lake of Abusir
• molluscs
• beetles
• small vertebrae