>>>>13-metre thick mud brick walls
dat’s a lotta mud!
:’) Ken, they must have shipped ‘em in. ;’) The dating of these (18th / 19th dynasties) must be incorrect, or the identification of this as the site of Tharu / Avaris (they were two names for the same place in ancient times) must be incorrect. I’d suggest that this structure is NOT Tharu (not surprisingly, Tharu / Avaris was previously identified with just as much certainty, at a site west of this one) which was a fortress built by the Hyksos. Should be amusing if / when Persian artifacts show up in inopportune contexts. ;’)
The Peace Canal (whatever the project is now named) which Egypt has been building to move Nile water to Sinai settlements and (perhaps, eventually) Gaza (not to Israel, because Sudan threatened war over that idea) has uncovered a bunch of stuff in the northern Sinai and eastern delta.