These men supervised hundreds of local workers to conduct the excavation for thirty five days to clear three key areas of the cemetery.

[7] The most consistent excavation campaign was led by the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, and took place between 1969 and 1974 due to the imminent construction of a canal which would have crossed the site.

This is where the archaeological findings of the University of Michigan totaled to over 250 funerary stelae, Teracotta figurines, amulets, jewelry, faience pottery and 480 Ptolemaic, Roman and Islamic coins all of which is believed to date to the late third and early fourth century dating to the late Ptolemaic period.

The most consistent excavation campaign was led by the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, and took place between 1969 and 1974 due to the imminent construction of a canal which would have crossed the site.

Due to the high winds and the "rolling terrain" which granted the sites name of Kom Abou Billou, there is no exact location provided for the 40 tombs.

However, due to natural environmental factors and looting over centuries, only a small portion of the Tarrana burial space has been found and excavated today.

Another temple, dedicated to Apollo, was built at the northernmost border of the site: it was later completely destroyed to its foundations, leaving only a few blocks.

These are inscribed with either Greek or Demotic Egyptian texts, and provide glimpses of daily life of the period between 100 and 300 CE.

[4] Terenuthis became a bishopric that, being in the province of Aegyptus Prima was a suffragan of Alexandria and is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.

After capturing the fortress of Babylon near Cairo in April 641, the Muslim army, led by Amr ibn al-As, moved against the city of Nikiou in the Delta.

The Muslims travelled north along with western bank of the Nile, in order to take advantage of the wide-open spaces along the fringes of the Libyan Desert, but had to cross back over to the east to reach Nikiou.

[19] This event was the main source of tension in Egyptian politics for at least 30 years thereafter, with the Faqari leader Ibrahim Bak Dhu al-Faqar vowing to annihilate the Qasimiya in revenge.

[19] The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Tarrana as a nahiyah under the district of El Negaila in Beheira Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 1,331 (693 men and 638 women).

[23] According to Raffela Cribiore the inscription of this stelae reads: "Ήρακλείδηο Ήρακλείδου άλυπε, χρηοτέ, άωρε, χαίρε έτών πέντε μενών τεςάρ[ων] "Herakleides, son of Herakleides free from pain, good, died untimely, farewell at five years and four months of age".

[23] The indication of the boys age is not a common occurrences in Ptolemaic or Roman art, as found in this stelae commemorating his life.

Many of them found with the exception of few, also exhibit behaviors in the illustration representative of devotion and offering in the Ancient Egyptian culture.