Tombs of El Hawawish in Sohag, Egypt | Facts Pharaonic Tombs, Map, History of 800 El Hawawish Necropolis and more.
The history and facts of the construction of the oldest archaeological pharaonic tombs and the most important discoveries of more than 800 tombs in the necropolis of Hawaweesh, dating back to the era of the Old Kingdom, to tell us the life of the ancient Egyptian in the civilization of ancient Egypt, the pharaohs, more working hours and entry ticket prices.
In fact, the Hawaweesh cemetery is one of the most important and even the most prominent of these archaeological sites in the city of Sohag.
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Tombs of El Hawawish
● These ruins of Hawaweesh are located approximately 10 km east of Sohag, and approximately 7 km from the archaeological city of Akhmim in Sohag.
● Where it was considered as its main cemetery during the era of the rule of the Old Kingdom.
● This is what attracted the Australian Research Council to work or conduct a number of these important or scientific excavations in that archaeological site in that period from the early eighties to the early nineties.
Antiquities in Al-Hawaweesh area
● In fact, that cemetery called Al-Hawaweesh contains more than 800 archaeological tombs. All of these cemeteries date back to the era of the Old Kingdom, which is the period from (2494-2181 BC).
● Some of them used to go back to the era of the first transition period, which is in the period from (2181-2055 BC).
● But until now he still preserved about 60 ancient tombs with some inscriptions on them.
● Some of these inscriptions pertain to those funeral scenes and scenes of offerings and all matters of daily life such as dancing, hunting and completing agricultural operations in the ancient Pharaonic Akhmim region.
● While only about five tombs of all of them are still preserved even the mother in its ancient archaeological form very well.
The shape of those tombs inside and out, and the inscriptions in them
● In fact, many, but most of those archaeological tombs were devoid of any kind of these inscriptions except for a few or some of them that were decorated with a number of scenes that express the administrative life or daily life in that era.
● The inscriptions also disappeared from the very important political and religious role of that ninth province, and a group of texts related to the records of specific families and a number of professions that those families had previously practiced.
● And those tombs were all actually carved when they were built in the rock. They also had a number of imaginary doors, and a group of hieroglyphic texts were written on them.
● Not only this, but also all its walls were decorated with a number of scenes and hieroglyphic texts that represented a group of titles and epithets belonging to the owners of those ancient tombs, both of their mothers and a number of their sons and wives.
● This is in addition to the presence of archaeological inscriptions related to the tables on which offerings of various shapes and sizes are presented, and in addition to the presence of a number of these hieroglyphic texts on how to make offerings.
● Not only this, but all of this, in addition to the presence of inscriptions and writings expressing the scenes of daily life, which depicted the owner of that archaeological cemetery while trying to carry out hunting operations in the bush area.
● Or a number of scenes related to boats carrying the funeral furniture of the owner of the cemetery, or at the same time the process of slaughtering a group of bulls and then harvesting wheat in the city and other most important scenes that actually depicted how the wild life was in the mountain area.
● Such as the presence of a group of inscriptions of goats when climbing the branches of a group of trees, some of them as if they were quarreling with each other, or the distinctive view on those walls of the owner of the cemetery while he was leaning in the inscriptions on a stick in front of him as if he was watching a unique scene of bullfighting.
What is the price of a ticket to visit Al-Hawaweesh for the Egyptians?
● The fee for an adult visitor ticket is 10 Egyptian pounds
● As for the fees for a visitor ticket for Egyptian students, it is: 5 Egyptian pounds
What is the price of a ticket to visit Hawaweesh for foreigners?
● The fees for a visitor ticket are: 60 Egyptian pounds
● If the visitor is a foreign student, the entry fee is 30 Egyptian pounds
