The Dark Side of a Model Community: The ‘Ghetto’ of el-Lahun
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The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture
vol. 2, 2017
The Dark Side of a Model Community:
The ‘Ghetto’ of el-Lahun
David Mazzone
El-Lahun1 , also called Kahun or Illahun, is the site of one of the largest state-planned settlements dating back to the Late Middle Kingdom period of Egyptian history (c. 1850-1700 B.C.).3
Pyramid towns were associated with the pyramid complex and were located in the vicinity of the
pyramid necropolis. The development of el-Lahun seems to conform to an essential principle of
town planning in ancient Egypt in that they indicate a purely functional approach to the physical
form of the urban environment. The state’s first goal was to identify the functional requirements.
An urban form would follow and then a particular social formation would result.
The complexes at Abydos and el-Lahun show the same orthogonal layout of residential areas, the
same overall shape of the settlement, and both seem to have accommodated large and multi-cultural urban communities.1
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The Dark Side of Urbanisation: Inequality, Precarity and “Gentrification” in Middle Kingdom Tell el-Dabca, Ancient Avaris
2022
Uroš Matić
Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Tell el-Dab c a, ancient Avaris (eastern Delta in Egypt), was initially settled in the late 11 th-early 12 th dynasty, when a planned settlement was built in area F/I. This settlement was abandoned two times. The first abandonment was followed by the return of the same people, or the people of the same social background and class, to the existing planned settlement. After the second abandonment and a hiatus, the demolition and levelling of the area took place. These changes were previously interpreted as a simple reorganization of space. This paper argues that the changes in the settlement structure in the area, are a reflection of a profound change in the social background and class of the inhabitants. These changes are a consequence of class inequality and pre-carity understood as "politically induced condition" which allowed the "gentrification" of the area.
