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  • Tuna el-Gebel

  • Tuna el-Gebel

    Tuna el-Gebel was the necropolis of Khmun (Hermopolis Magna). It is located in Al Minya Governorate in Middle Egypt.
    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
    Tuna el-Gebel
    Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Tuna el-Gebel

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2003

    tomb

    Tombs and Necropolises

    Location

    Egypt

    Minya

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    Second Millennium BC

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ptolemaic

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    Ancient Egyptian & Ptolemaic Monuments

     

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