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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...