ABSTRACT
It was in 1928 and 1929 that Petrie and his staff excavated Tell Fara together with its cemeteries. The whole cemetery is divided into three differently located parts. The extreme north-west area is covered with a number of Philistine tombs. There is a group of Late Bronze/Iron Age graves in the northern area. Finally, separate from both of these two, the largest area in the south and east of the cemetery is taken up with the 'Hyksos' tombs of the MBII period. During excavation, a selection of material was made from each group, and the selected objects were allocated to different museums and collections, tomb by tomb. The excavation records show that the material from the tombs was supposed to have been sent to such museums as Bolton, Cambridge, Glasgow, Heidelberg, Hull, Jerusalem, Leicester, Manchester, Reading, Rochdale and the Wellcome Museum, with the bulk of the material to be kept in the Edwards Collection at University College, London.
