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El-Assasif
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thumb|1854 view through the granite upper gate of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, looking down into the plain of the Assasif, by John Beasley Greene El-Assasif () is a necropolis near Luxor on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, Upper Egypt. It is located in the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'.
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8 sectionsContents
- Archaeology
- Notable burials
- 18th Dynasty
- 22nd Dynasty
- 25th Dynasty
- 26th Dynasty
- See also
- References
thumb|1854 view through the granite upper gate of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, looking down into the plain of the Assasif, by John Beasley Greene El-Assasif () is a necropolis near Luxor on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, Upper Egypt. It is located in the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'.
El-Assasif contains burials from the 18th, 22nd, 25th and 26th dynasties of ancient Egypt, covering the period c. 1550 to 525 BC.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “El-Assasif” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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