Helwan (cemetery)
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title:
Helwan (cemetery)
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At Helwan south of modern Cairo was excavated a large ancient Egyptian cemetery with more than 10,000 burials. The cemetery was in use from the Naqada Period around 3200 BC to the Fourth Dynasty and again at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom and then up to the Roman Period and beyond. The burial ground was discovered and excavated by Zaki Saad in 1942 to 1954. Further excavations started in 1997 by an Australian expedition. The excavations of Zaki Saad were never fully published, only several
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Archaeological site in Cairo, Egypt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helwan_(cemetery)
date created:
2016-06-05T19:09:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T14:19:20Z
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