Category Archives: Pharaonic Monuments

Pharaonic Monuments of Fayoum,Egypt

Hawara Pyramid ( The Last of the great Egyptian Pyramids )

Sphinx of Amenemhat III
Sphinx of Amenemhat III

 Amenemhet III was the last great ruler of the Middle kingdom as numerous inscriptions on monuments from Syria to the third cataract on Nile testify

Hawara’s historical site is not only famous for its pyramid and its mortuary temple. It’s also famous because in 1888 professor Petrie discovered in the tombs around the pyramid, the first of the famous fayoum portraits, the incredibly lifelike portraits that were attached to the mummies of the deceased settlers of roman era in the fayoum. portraits were found in other parts of the fayoum and in other parts of Egypt but most of those we now see in museums around the world were found here at Hawara.