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  • Hermopolis

  • Hermopolis

    Hermopolis or Hermopolis Magna is the site of ancient Khmun, and is located near the modern Egyptian town of El Ashmunein in Al Minya governorate. The city was the capital of the Hare nome (the fifteenth Nome of Upper Egypt) in the Heptanomis.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Necropolises of Middle Egypt, from the Middle Empire to the Roman period.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Hermopolis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Hermopolis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Hermopolis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Hermopolis

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2003

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Egypt

    Minya

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    Second Millennium BC

    Ancient Egyptians

    Greek + Roman

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