Beni Hassan has yielded images of animals hardly ever seen in Egyptian art, such as bats, pigs, and an incredibly rare image of a pelican.

The Beni Hasan necropolis sits on the eastern banks of the Nile in what used to be known as Middle Egypt. Today, the site is located about 150 miles south of Cairo.

Beni Hassan is the modern name of an ancient Egyptian site, located around 20 kilometres south of Minya. It is a necropolis formed in and around a hillside, in the upper parts of which were carved ...

Beni Hassan tomb interior . Eight years after giving the go-ahead for the National Project to Document Egypt’s Heritage, Beni Hassan necropolis in the Upper Egyptian town of Minya has become the ...

Books Received Published: 21 December 1893 The Tombs at Beni Hasan Nature 49, 169–170 (1893) Cite this article ...