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Qubbet el-Hawa, ‘dome of the winds’ is the name of the ancient Egyptian necropolis on the West bank of Aswan, southern Egypt. What looks like a massive sand dune from the distance is home to rock tombs dating from the 6th Dyn. (2278 BC) to Roman Times. These tombs, the oldest of which are located in the northern part of the necropolis at the uppermost terrace, have been discovered in the 1880s by a British team of archaeologists and are still being (re-)excavated. Until 2015, however, nothing was known about the tombs of those who were supposedly buried ‘at the feet of their master’(s). Since it has been established, the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project (QHRP) investigates tombs and the funerary landscape established in the Lower Necropolis below the rock tombs. As our research showed, Qubbet el-Hawa was in use since the 4th Dyn. (2613-2498 BC) at a time when in the north of Egypt the famous pyramids were built.

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