Beni Hasan

Alternative site names:

Beni Hasan; Beni-Hassan; Beny-Hasan; Béni Hassan

Arabic site names:

بني حسن

Site description:

The explorations of the site undertaken by Percy Newbury and George Willoughby Fraser was primarily a recording expedition of the 39 tombs of nomarchs in order to preserve a record of the tomb decoration both in drawing and in photography. The tombs were cleared and surveyed by Fraser.

In John Garstang's excavations of the site 1902-1904, 888 tombs were excavated. Garstang's excavations covered a wide geographic area from north the south: Kom el-Ahmar includes tombs of 5-6 dynasties and 12-15 dynasties; Nureat which has ca. 100 small rock cut tombs from dynasties 2-4; North Beni Hasan which has ca. 900 tombs of officials and elites from dynasties 11-12; and South Beni Hasan (Speos Artemidos) ca. 250 tombs from dynasties 12-15 and Old Kingdom rock cut tombs (dynasties 5-6).

Type of site:

Tombs

Timeframe:

Tombs (6th Dynasty, 11th Dynasty, 12th Dynasty).

Excavation season:

Relevant publications:

Catalogue of drawings of scenes and hieroglyph : copied from wall-paintings in ancient Egyptian tombs of B. C. 3800 to B. C. 2500 at Dêr el-Gebrawi, El-Bersheh, and Beni Hasan ; exhibited by the Egypt Exploration Fund at the Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, September - October, 1893 / Egypt Exploration Fund. 1893. London : Egypt Exploration Fund.

Excavations at Beni Hasan in Upper Egypt, 1902-3-4: catalogue of exhibition, inaugurated by H. R. H. Princess Henry of Battenberg, held by permission of the council in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries, July 7th to 23rd 1904. [Liverpool : Brakell], [1904].

Fraser, George Willoughby and Newberry, Percy (eds). 1891. The season's work at Ahnas and Beni Hasan: 1890-1891. London: Gilbert & Rivington.

Garstang, John 1903. Excavations at Beni-Hasan, 1902-3. Man 3, 97-98.

Garstang, John 1907. The burial customs of ancient Egypt as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom: being a report of excavations made in the necropolis of Beni Hassan during 1902-3. London: Constable.

Newberry, Percy E. and F. Ll. Griffith 1893-1900. Beni Hasan, 4 vols. Archaeological survey of Egypt 1-2, 5, 7. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.

Newberry, Percy Edward 1891. The tombs of Beni Hasan. In The season's work at Ahnas and Beni Hasan. London : Gilbert & Rivington.