Editing Avaris (section)

==Minoan connection==
{{Further information|Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Daba}}
[[File:Minoan fresko avaris 2.png|thumb|300px|Fragment of a Minoan fresco found in Avaris, Egypt. This fresco is very similar to [[:Image:Knossos frise taureau.JPG|another fresco]] from [[Knossos]], [[Crete]].]]

Avaris, along with [[Tel Kabri]] in Israel and [[Alalakh]] in Syria, also has a record of [[Minoan civilization]], which is otherwise quite rare in the Levant. [[Manfred Bietak]], an Austrian archaeologist and the excavator of Tell Dab'a, has speculated that there was close contact with the rulers of Avaris, and that the large building featuring the frescoes allowed the Minoans to have a ritual life in Egypt. French archaeologist Yves Duhoux proposed the existence of a Minoan 'colony' on an island in the [[Nile Delta]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Duhoux |first=Yves |title=Des minoens en Egypte? "Keftiou" et "les îles au milieu du Grand vert" |year=2003 |publisher=Univ. Press |location=Liège |isbn=90-429-1261-8 }}</ref>