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The current project aims to "provide a regional description of the archaeology of the region around Dayr al-Barsha, the southern limit being at al-Shaykh Sa’id and the northern one at Dayr Abu Hinnis." There have been several significant finds at Dayr al-Barsha during the current investigations.
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excavated a number tomb shafts, including several in the forecourt of the tomb of
Djehutyhotep. In several of these tomb shafts they found elaborately decorated and inscribed coffins of officials of the twelfth-dynasty, and grave goods such as offerings tables and wooden models. In 1902, Kamal
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Belgian Mission to Deir al-Barsha.
319:. The tomb contained an enormous collection of wooden models representing scenes of daily life and boats along with the extraordinary painted coffins of Djehutynakht and his wife. The grave goods are now in the collection of the
364:. The chamber contained a large ka-statue of the deceased, as well as wooden tomb models representing workers making bricks, women grinding grain, a model of a boat with rowers, and full sized wooden sandals painted white.
248:, with third-dynasty "rock-circle tombs," the largest yet found of this time period, have been found on the west of the Middle Kingdom cemetery (zone 8). It also continued to be used as a cemetery until the end of the
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returned to excavate at Dayr al-Barsha with a "Mr. Antonini, the owner of the sugar factory at Mallawī," and "only one object was considered worthy of publication, an offering table made of calcite alabaster."
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is near the Nile valley town of Minya, 225 km south of Cairo. An elite cemetery Middle
Kingdom on the North Hill (referred to as Zone 2) is the most well known area of the necropolis. During the
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In the 1970s, there were some excavations that remain unpublished from the village of Dayr al-Barsha, undertaken by the
Egyptian Antiquities Organization.
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expedition dug at Bersha. They excavated a tomb (designated number 10A) that belonged to an early Middle
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