For the first time since the Middle Kingdom, researchers have exposed the foundation of the upper level of the labyrinth temple at Hawara. Greek and Roman houses were later built directly atop the leveled foundation. The site suffered heavily from quarrying, including stones reused for a 19th-century railway.
Middle Kingdom foundation exposed for first time at Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara
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Key facts
- The current excavation exposed the foundation of the upper level of the labyrinth temple for the first time
- This is the first scientific excavation of these foundational remains since the Middle Kingdom
- The excavation documents everything with photography and layers
- Greek and Roman period houses were built directly on top of the leveled Middle Kingdom foundation
- The site was heavily destroyed by quarrying activities, with stones reused for buildings and for the Cairo-Fayoum railway construction in the 19th century
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The lost Egyptian labyrinththe-past.com
Hawara is located on a projecting spur of land, within a gap in the hills through which the canal flows to the Fayum Oasis. A new, small canal ...
Labyrinth of Egypten.wikipedia.org
The Labyrinth of Egypt was a structure, or temple, built south of Amenemhat III's pyramid at Hawara. Not much is known about its use, but it was probably a ...
HAWARA PROJECTarchaeologicalrescue.org
Excavation reveals megalithic wall of the Lost Labyrinth of Egypt! the structure is actively being damaged, primarily by inflowing water from a canal ...
The Labyrinth of Hawara - by Louis De Cordierlabyrinthofegypt.substack.com
Between 1830 and 1835, the Bahr Wahbi Canal was excavated to divert water from the Bahr Yussef to the northeastern Faiyum. This canal cuts ...
LABYRINTH: Conservation, Analysis and Virtual ...eps.leeds.ac.uk
Hawara is an ancient cemetery site in the south-eastern Fayum region, about 80km south of Cairo. It is the burial place of Amenemhat III, the last great king of ...
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