Combined seismic tomographic and ultrashallow seismic reflection study of an early dynastic mastaba, Saqqara, Egypt

Archaeological Prospection

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 245-256

  Metwaly, Mohamed ^a,b   Green, Alan G ^b   Horstmeyer, Heinrich ^b   Maurer, Hansruedi ^b   Abbas, Abbas M ^a   Hassaneen, Abdel Rady Gh ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mastaba; Refraction tomography; Ultrashallow seismic reflection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745507290     PISSN: 10752196     EISSN: 10990763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arp.261     Document Type: Article

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