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. Key elements of sacred landscapes of the Nile Delta werelakes, canals and artificial basins connected to temples, which were builton elevated terrain. In the case of temples of goddesses of an ambivalent,even dangerous, nature, i.e. lioness goddesses and all female deities whocould appear as such, the purpose of sacred lakes and canals exceeded theirfunction as a water resource for basic practical and religious needs. Theirpleasing coolness was believed to calm the goddess' fiery nature, and duringimportant religious festivals, the barques of the goddesses were rowed onthose waters. As archaeological evidence was very rare in the past, thestudy of those sacred waters was mainly confined to textual sources.Recently applied geoarchaeological methods, however, have changed thissituation dramatically: they allow in-depth investigations andreconstructions of these deltaic sacred landscapes. Exploring these newlyavailable data, the paper presented here focuses on the sites of Buto, Saisand Bubastis, by investigating the characteristics of their sacred lakes,canals and marshes with respect to their hydrogeographical andgeomorphological context and to their role in ancient Egyptian religion andmythology as well.

Implications of geoarchaeological investigations for the contextualization of sacred landscapes in the Nile Delta