ADAIMA

   Modern name for a site on the west bank of the Nile south of Esna in Upper Egypt. It contains the remains of a settlement and cemeteries from the Naqada I Period of the Predynastic Period to the Early Dynastic Period. Adaima was first excavated on behalf of the Brooklyn Museum from 1906–1908. The site was examined by a team from the French Institute in 1973 and since 1989 by a French expedition.

   See also Gerzeh; Kafr Hassan Daoud; Minshat Abu Omar; Tell el-Farkha; Tell Ibrahim Awad.