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El Hawawish (Arabic:الحواويش) is the ancientnecropolis (cemetery) for the city ofAkhmim in the 9th Nome of Upper Egypt (UE09), in modern theSohag Governorate,Egypt.
26°36′N31°49′E / 26.600°N 31.817°E /26.600; 31.817
The local deity of El Hawawish was the fertility and productivity godMin, similar to nearby Akhmim.
Tombs of theOld Kingdom andFirst Intermediate Period are located in the El Hawawish mountain.[1]
The cemetery was excavated extensively by anAustralian archaeological and epigraphic expedition under the auspices of theAustralian Centre for Egyptology andMacquarie University and the direction of ProfessorNaguib Kanawati.
