The tombs of Beni-Hassan near Minya, Egypt
Walking the Staircase to Beni Hassan Tombs in El Minya, Egypt
Beni Hassan tombs reveals a wealth of information regarding the Kemites/Ancient Egyptians, particularly during the Middle Kingdom.
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After the unification of Egypt, the provincial capital of the 16th nome emerged as an important center of trade. It was opposite a trade route to the Red Sea along which the Levantine traders carrying their goods from Sinai and Canaan travelled.[2] During later times of the Old Kingdom, the name of the city was changed to Men'at Khufu, linking it to the Pharoah Khufu or Cheops (reigning around 2550 BC) founder of the Great Pyramid at Giza as it was believed that he was born there. The city of Men'at Khufu has not been located but it is thought to be located on the west bank of the Nile in the vicinity of the modern day Minya.
Following the collapse of the Old Kingdom, and during the First Intermediate Period, rulers of Men'at Khufu became wealthy and powerful and enjoyed a certain degree of autonomy in relation to the central power of Pharoahs. The princes of the Oryx nome initially remained neutral during the long struggle that dominated the First Intermediate Period between the Herakleopolitan and Theban kingdoms, but eventually during the reign of Baket III they formed an alliance with the Thebans in the time of Mentuhotep II. This pro-Theban policy worked to their advantage in that power over the Oryx nome continued to be wielded by the same family after the Theban conquest. The power of the rulers of Men'at Khufu reached its height during the 11th Dynasty.[3]
Like Pharoahs, rulers of the Oryx nome were deeply concerned with their lives after death. Because the pyramid building age was over or maybe because they could not afford to construct their own pyramids, the rulers of Mena'at Khufu chose the limestone cliffs of the eastern desert overlooking a gentle curve in the Nile as an ideal spot on which to carve their tombs. These chapel-tombs at Beni Hasan are the only remnant of the era when Minya rulers wielded power and wealth. Today these thirty nine rock-cut tombs can be visited in the limestone cliffs above the modern day village of Beni Hasan. Though not as great and magnificent as other monuments of ancient Egypt, the Beni Hasan tombs are rather extremely important as their walls reveal more information about life in Egypt 4,000 years ago more than any other monument in Egypt. In fact these tombs provide more insight about daily life in Egypt than about the rulers who constructed them.
With the rise of the 12th Dynasty, the powers of Minya rulers were forcibly reduced by the Pharaoh Amenemhat II (1929--1895 BC). By the end of the 12th dynasty, the role and the power of the rulers of Minya were functionally eliminated.
During the Second Intermediate Period, Minya with the rest of Lower and Middle Egypt fell under the control of the Hyksos. It appears that Minya's rulers actually supported the Hyksos 15th Dynasty rulers against the native Egyptian pharaohs of the 16th and 17th dynasties. Towards the end of the Second Intermediate Period when the Theban Pharaohs started their struggle to expel the Hyksos out of Egypt, Minya was the site where the first major battle of this conflict took place. In 1552 B.C. Kamose, the last Pharaoh of the 17th dynasty marched his Medjay troops north to Nefrusy few miles to the south of Minya and there he defeated the army of a man called Teti son of Pepi, who is said to have transformed Minya into a nest of the Asiatics. This was the first major defeat for the Hyksos which later would encourage Ahmose I, the younger brother of Kamose, to march north and expel the Hyksos out of Egypt for good around 1540 B.C.[4]
As for the Beni Hasan tombs, most of them were later ravaged. Some were defaced by rulers that followed. Mutilation of the tomb chamber was the fate of many monuments during the centuries following the demise of Pharaonic Egypt. Tombs were converted into dwellings, quarried as a ready source of stone, or deliberately damaged by early Christians and Muslims.[5]
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Families were distraught in Egypt on Monday after a judge in Minya sentenced 683 alleged supporters
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Families were devastated in Egypt on Monday as a judge in Minya sentenced 683 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president to death.
This, the latest mass trial to be sentenced, included the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamad Badie, defence lawyers said.
If his sentence is confirmed, it would make him the most senior Brotherhood figure sentenced to death since one of the group's leading ideologues, Sayed Qutb, was executed in 1966.
But in a surprise reversal, the same judge also reduced most of the death sentences handed to 529 defendants in a similar case in March, commuting the majority of them to life imprisonment.
The judge, Said Youssef, said he was referring his ruling on the 683 death sentences for violence and the killing of policemen to the Grand Mufti, the top Islamic official - a requirement under Egyptian law, but one that is considered a formality.
Both mass trials are linked to deadly riots that erupted in Minya and elsewhere in Egypt after security forces violently disbanded sit-ins held by Brotherhood supporters in Cairo last August.
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It is known as the Cave of Artemis, because the Greeks identified Pakhet with Artemis, and the temple is subterranean. The Tombs of Beni Hassan, this Ancient Egyptian cemetery was used and built for provincial governors during the Middle Kingdom over an older burial site used during the Old Kingdom period.
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Le tahtib (Arabe:تحطيب ;taḥṭīb)est une lutte pratiquée en Égypte,(Haute Égypte) pas en subsaharie
Le nom complet de l'arabe taḥṭīb est Al Fann Nazaha Wal Tahtib qui signifie l'Art (Fann) de l'intégrité (Nazaha) grâce à l'utilisation du bâton . Le terme tahtib dérive de l'égyptien Hat-tab » qui se traduit par le « bois à brûler .
Les origines du tahtib semblent remonter à l'Égypte antique au IIe millénaire avant notre ère. Quelques-uns des gestes de tahtib sont gravés sur les murs de trois tombes parmi celles qui sont taillées dans la roche du site archéologique de Beni Hassan, sur la rive orientale du Nil, près de la ville d'Al-Minya. La nécropole comprend des tombes de nomarques des XIe et XIIe dynasties.
Dans l'antiquité égyptienne, les nomarques étaient les fonctionnaires qui administraient les nomes (provinces) au nom du pharaon.
Bien que les nomarques fussent normalement nommés par le pharaon, l'affaiblissement du pouvoir central conduisit souvent à la création de dynasties locales ; la fonction se transmettait alors héréditairement. Durant les « périodes intermédiaires » (périodes de troubles profonds) les nomarques devenaient de véritables petits roitelets qui allaient parfois jusqu'à utiliser les attributs du pharaon sur les décors de leurs sépultures
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El Minya also has many facilities that can accommodate tourists, with great hotels along the corniche and some boats perfect for picnics. The name of the city is derived from its Ancient Egyptian name Men'at Khufu, meaning the nursing city of Khufu, linking it to the Pharaoh Khufu or Cheops, founder of the Great Pyramid at Giza.