North of the pyramid of Hawara, a vast necropolis where he found 146 portraits on coffins dating to the Roman period, famous as being among the very few surviving examples of painted portraits from Classical Antiquity, the \"Fayoum portraits\" illustrated in Roman history textbooks. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawara
Necropolis Hawara
Relevant museums
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National Archaeological Museum, Athens
National Archaeological Museum, Athens -
München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst
München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst -
Berlin, Neues Museum
Berlin, Neues Museum -
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek -
Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark
Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark -
Allard Pierson Museum
Het Allard Pierson Museum is het archeologisch museum van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Nearby sites
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Pyramid of Amenemhet III at Hawara - Brick pyramid
Amenemhet III built his second pyramid near Oasis Fayoum -
Labyrinth of Amenemhet III
Remains of the funerery temple, made of sun dry mud bricks is now badly damage - Herodothus Labirynth -
Shedet - Arsinoe - Crocodilopolis
Coptic Piam or Phiom. Ancient city in the Faiyum Oasis [Fayum, Faijum, Fajum or Fajjum] -
CROCODILOPOLIS THEATER
Roman theater
