Beni Hasan (also written as Bani Hasan, or also Beni-Hassan) (Arabic: بني حسن) is an ancient Egyptian cemetery. It is located approximately 20 kilometers...
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pilgrims. Catacombs from the New Kingdom period in the Bubastis, Saqqara and Beni Hasan necropoli were reused as cemeteries for mummies offered to Bastet. In...
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Middle Kingdom (20th century BCE). He is well known for his tomb at Beni Hasan and its decorations. He was a member of a powerful family of nomarchs...
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Egyptian painting in the tomb of 12th Dynasty official Khnumhotep II, at Beni Hasan (c. 1900 BCE), shows a group of West Asiatic foreigners, possibly Canaanites...
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Bubastis, but also at Beni Hasan and Saqqara. In 1888, a farmer uncovered a burial site of many hundreds of thousands of cats in Beni Hasan. Herodotus also...
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found in a tomb at Deir El Bersha; and sfr/srf "fiery one", attested at Beni Hasan. The descriptive epithet "Tearer" is not uniquely applied to the griffin...
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Qarawat Bani Hassan (redirect from Kurawa Beni Hasan)
to collect taxes on behalf of the Ottoman authorities." In 1838 Kurawa Beni Hasan was noted as a Muslim village, in Jurat Merda, south of Nablus. French...
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Bani Hasan or alternative spellings (Arabic: بني حسن) may refer to: Bani Hasan, Libya, a town in western Libya Beni Hasan, a town in Middle Egypt Beni Hasan...
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Some biographical information about Khnumhotep I came from his tomb at Beni Hasan (BH14) as well as from that of his grandson Khnumhotep II (BH3). Khnumhotep's...
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piece of evidence for wrestling in Egypt appears at 11th and 12th Dynasty Beni Hasan (2000 BC, images at right and above), where wrestling scenes in several...
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Kingdom comes from the rock-cut tombs of its nomarchs, which were buried at Beni Hasan. Like many other nomes, the Oryx nome rose to prominence during the First...
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Twelfth Dynasty. He is only known from his decorated tomb chapel (BH 17) at Beni Hasan. In the decoration of his tomb chapel appear several inscriptions providing...
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Officials’ at Beni Hasan, Egypt. The model was found in the tomb of Keka and Hetep-bu (tomb number 886) during the 1902–04 excavations at Beni Hasan led by the...
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Beni territory an administrative division of North Kivu province Beni Suef Beni Mazar Beni Hasan an Ancient Egyptian cemetery site Beni Mellal Beni ʿAmir...
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Tell el‑Maskhuta Tell er‑Retabeh Tell es‑Sahaba Memphis Lisht Dahshur Beni Hasan The length of time the Hyksos ruled is unclear. The fragmentary Turin...
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the modern day village of Beni Hasan. Though not as great and magnificent as other monuments of ancient Egypt, the Beni Hasan tombs are extremely important...
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centralized in Ancient Egypt. c. 1985 BC – 1795 BC: Rock-cut tombs at Beni Hasan were made. Twelfth Dynasty. "Hippopotamus", from the tomb of Senbi (governor)...
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Egypt. It is located about 2 km south of the Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan, and about 28 km south of Al Minya. Today, the site is a small village...
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of Khnumhotep I. Baqet III was buried in the necropolis of his clan in Beni Hasan inside the tomb no. 15. The tomb is composed of a cult chapel and an inner...
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wall painting from the tomb of a local nomarch named Khnumhotep II at Beni Hasan. Co-regencies are a major issue for Egyptologists' understanding of the...
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tout en bâton". May 16, 2014 – via Le Monde. Beni Hasan (with plates) by Percy Newberry, et al. Beni Hasan - Archaeowiki.org N. de G. Davies's "Rock Tombs...
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series of images only. The earliest example is a fresco in tomb 15 at Beni Hasan, showing illustrations of wrestling techniques dating to the 20th century...
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Ennead Pakhet – A Lioness goddess mainly worshiped in the area around Beni Hasan Renenutet – An agricultural goddess Satis – A goddess of Egypt's southern...
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record of toss juggling is a painting on the wall of Tomb 15 in Egypt's Beni Hasan cemetery complex. This tomb belonged to Baqet III, a provincial governor...
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Kamrin, Janice (2009). "The Aamu of Shu in the Tomb of Khnumhotep II at Beni Hassan". Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections. 1 (3). S2CID 199601200...
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situated on the west bank of the Nile, opposite of the historic site of Beni Hasan. The population of Abu Qirqas is around 400,000 inhabitants. The city...
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Netjernakht was an Ancient Egyptian official known from his tomb chapel at Beni Hasan in Middle Egypt. He lived most likely in the Twelfth Dynasty. His exact...
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how obelisks were quarried. Hatshepsut built the Temple of Pakhet at Beni Hasan in the Minya Governorate south of Al Minya. The name, Pakhet, was a synthesis...
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Detail of the wrestling fresco in tomb 15 at Beni Hasan...
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in his large, lively decorated tomb (no. 2) within the necropolis of Beni Hasan. The tomb's chapel consisted in a large room with four columns, placed...
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