Hemamieh (El-Hammamiya) is a village located in the

Sohag Governorate Sohag () is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is located in the southern part of the country (Upper Egypt), and covers a stretch of the Nile Valley. Since 1960, its capital has been the city of Sohag. Prior to that, the capital was the city ...

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on the east bank of the

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. The site is significant in Egyptology because of its cemeteries from the

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and

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periods. From 1922 to 1931 the British archaeologists Gertrude Caton-Thompson and

Guy Brunton Guy Brunton (1878 – 17 October 1948) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian predynastic culture. Biography At the age of 18, he moved to South Africa. On 28 April 1906, he married Winifred Newberry, a me ...

excavated approximately 10,000 tombs from Qau el-Kebir in the south to Matmar in the north, across an area of about 36 km. At Hemamieh there were some smaller cemeteries, including important burials of the

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and rock tombs of the

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period belonging to the

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of the Wadjit-nome. The best preserved one belongs to

Kaikhenet (II) Kaikhenet was an ancient Egyptian local Nomarch in the 10th Upper Egyptian nome; the latter called Wadjet in the Egyptian language. Kaikhenet lived at the beginning of the Fifth Dynasty and is known from his decorated rock cut tomb at Hemamieh. ...

, who lived at the beginning of the Fifth Dynasty.

References

*G. Brunton, G. Caton-Thompson: The Badarian civilisation and predynastic remains near Badari (= British School of Archeology in Egypt Publications Bd. 46). British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London 1928. *Guy Brunton: Qau and Badari Band 1-3 (= British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account Bd. 44, 45, 50). British School of Egyptian Archaeology u. a., London 1927-1930. *Ahmed El-Khouli, Naguib Kanawati: The Old Kingdom Tombs of El-Hammamiya. Australian Centre for Egyptology, Sydney 1990, . {{coord, 26, 55, N, 31, 29, E, region:EG-AST_type:city_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title Archaeological sites in Egypt Former populated places in Egypt Badarian culture