Naville, Edouard [Editor]; Newberry, Percy E. [Editor]; Fraser, George W. [Editor]; Egypt Exploration Fund [Editor]: Special extra report: comprising the work of the Egypt Exploration Fund and the progress of egyptology during the year ...: The season's work at Ahnas and Beni Hasan (London, 1891)

it. naville's camp at ahnas (henassieh).

EXCAVATIONS AT HENASSIEH (HANES).

This year's campaign was devoted to the exploration of
Heracleopolis Magna, the Hanes of the Bible ; of the city
which was situate twelve miles west of the present Beni Suef,
near the Bahr Yussuf; and of the necropolis on the opposite
side of the canal, in the ridge of hills which separates the
valley of the Nile from the southern part of the Fayum.

We began with the necropolis, and we settled in the desert
not very far from the village of Isedment el Grebel. I had
explored the place the year before, and I had seen then a
great number of pits which seemed to have been recently
plundered. Greeks from Medinet el Fayum had worked
there ; but I doubt very much whether they were largely
rewarded by the result of their work. The necropolis ex-
tends from the limits of the valley towards the hills, on a
slightly sloping and undulating ground. The tombs are most
numerous on two rocky heights, which rise above the
others at the entrance of a Avide concavity by which the
ridge is interrupted, and which is the way to the Fayum.
In that part the tombs are rectangular pits, at the bottom of
which there are two, and sometimes three, side chambers.
Many of them had been filled with sand, and we cleared
them with the hope of discovering the original interments ;