The ground-penetrating radar (GPR) prospection method has rarely been used previously
in Egyptian archaeology and never for a necropolis. Archaeologists have looked
at GPR as a powerful method for exploring subsurface spatial patterns in the archaeological
record without excavation. The results of the GPR survey were compared
with the archaeological excavation outcomes on two archeological sites in Assiut.
The first site is the temple located on a rocky bench on the northern slopes of El-
Hamamia, the Eastern bank of the Nile (a part of El Badari civilization period, belongs
to Predynastic cemeteries). The second is the rocky tomb at the Western bank of the
Nile at Gahdem (belongs to the period from the IXth to the XXXth dynasty). The main
purpose of this study is to correlate the types of reflections recorded from GPR profiles
and high-amplitude features visible in amplitude maps with unearthed archaeological
features. The applied software was able to process and analyse different
digital data set with the given parameters. In each investigated archaeological area,
the details of the GPR model are correlated level-by-level to the data of archeological
excavations of ancient ages and data of the historical documents. Three-dimensional
time-slices of the GPR data allow the identification of the enhanced targets of potential
archaeological interest before planning excavation. Therefore, this research paper
can be used as a benchmark to evaluate the efficiency of GPR method for identifying
buried archaeological artifacts/vestiges for future archaeological prospection in
Egypt.