🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Beni Hasan
Old to Middle Kingdom (2350–1750 BCE; painted peak Twelfth Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
39 nomarch cliff tombs 2100–1750 BCE with Asiatic caravan 37 and wrestling 219 pairs proto-Doric.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Meir (Mir)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1750 BCE peak Twelfth Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
14th nome ridge tombs with Senbi-Ukh-hotep 1970 BCE earliest daily-life genre scenes and pilgrimage frieze.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Qau el-Kebir
Old Kingdom to Late Antique (2600 BCE–700 CE; temple Ptolemaic, tombs Middle Kingdom) · Ancient Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Qau el-Kebir (Antaeopolis, Antaioupolis) is Middle Egypt's great nomarch and late antique metropolis on east bank, capital 10th nome of Antaeus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Asyut Western Cliff Tombs (Lycopolis Necropolis)
First Intermediate to Middle Kingdom (2181–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (13th Upper nome; nomarchs)
First Intermediate nomarch tombs with Djefaihapi mortuary contract.