
Climate change at the end of the Old Kingdom in Egypt ...
04/03/2014 · Bedrock in western Saqqara is composed of the Upper Eocene sandy and pelitic limestones that are covered with a thick bed of Quaternary deposits. The latter are the redeposited Pleistocene fluvial deposits, the Edfu Gravels of the Protonile River (cf. Youssef et al., 1984) and the late Holocene debrissandy deposits .