Deir El Bersha (Arabic: دير البرشا; also written as Dayr al-Barsha, Deir el-Bersheh) is a Coptic village in Middle Egypt, in the Minya Governorate. It is located on the east bank of the Nile to the south of Antinoöpolis and almost opposite the city of Mallawi.[1] During the pharaonic period, there was a vast cemetery, which is most well known for its decorated Middle Kingdom tombs on the north flank of Wadi Nakhla.[1]
sites in the governorate of Minya include Deir Abu Hinis, Deirel-Bersha, El-Sheikh Sa'id, and Tuna el-Gebel. El Ashmunein (Hermopolis Magna) was the capital...
a "griffin or a monster like a griffin" according to W. B. Henning. DeirElBersha The griffin was given names which were descriptive epithets, such as...
Church (El-Bahnasa) The Hermitages Coptic Orthodox Church (Deirel-Bersha) Tombs of al-Barsha (Dair Abu Fam) Coptic Orthodox Church (Deirel-Bersha) The...
him ever! A few coffins from the Middle Egyptian necropolis of el-Bersheh (DeirElBersha) contain unique graphical representations of the realm of the...
both of which were originally interred at the Monastery of Pishoy in Deirel-Bersha. Today, the two bodies lie in the main church of the monastery. Today...
evidence is an inscription discovered in 2012 at a limestone quarry in Deirel-Bersha, just north of Akhetaten, from the pharaoh's sixteenth regnal year....
genealogy. Djehutynakht's tomb – designated 10A – was rediscovered in the Deirel-Bersha necropolis in Middle Egypt in 1915 by the American Egyptologist George...
Intermediate Period they moved slightly northward their official necropolis to Deirel-Bersha, where their remarkable though poorly preserved rock-cut tombs were...
figurines, the spell was written on some mid-Twelfth Dynasty coffins from Deirel-Bersha (about 1850 BC) and is known today as spell 472 of the Coffin Texts...
festival Dubai National School, Al Barsha, school located in Barsha, Dubai DeirElBersha, village in Middle Egypt This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
Reliefs from the tomb of Djehutyhotep, Deir-el-Bersha (1878–1855 BC) Three Granite statues of Senwosret III, Deirel-Bahri (1850 BC) Statue of Rehuankh,...
of the Middle Kingdom. His tomb—the only one among the necropolis of Deirel-Bersha that wasn't damaged by the explosives used in recent quarrying methods—is...
Cemetery, Belouizdad El Kettar Cemetery, Oued Koriche Beni Hasan City of the Dead (Cairo) DeirElBershaEl Bagawat El Hawawish Fagg El Gamous Gabbari necropolis...
There are indicators of possible unrest attested to in texts from Deirel-Bersha possibly dating to the period that led to Amenemhat I's reign. There...
line. The badly legible five line text, found in a limestone quarry at Deirel-Bersha "mentions a building project in Amarna"--Egypt's political capital under...
Saint Bishoy at the Nitrian Desert The Monastery of Saint Bishoy at Deirel-Bersha, near Mallawi The Monastery of Saint Bishoy at Armant, east of Armant...
Newberry and Marcus Worsley Blackden in the Faiyum, in Beni Hasan, in Deirel-Bersha and in the quarries of Hatnub. Less well known is his description of...
Coffin Texts and originally made for a steward named Nefri, was found in Deirel-Bersha and now is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (CG 28088). On it, Wahkare...
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