Sharuna
Sign in to saveSharuna is an archaeological site in central Egypt. It was a settlement in ancient Egypt, located east of the Nile, almost opposite of Per Medjed. It was occupied from the Old Kingdom of Egypt until the Late Roman/Byzantine period. Archaeological excavation of the site began in 1984 and have continued through 2010, locating numerous tombs, temples and churches.
Weather now
cached 1414h ago7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sharuna
- Settlement.image_skyline
- SharunaTombs.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Egypt
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Egypt
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Minya
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- EEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +3
via Wikipedia infobox
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Location
- See also
- References
Sharuna is an archaeological site in central Egypt. It was a settlement in ancient Egypt, located east of the Nile, almost opposite of Per Medjed. It was occupied from the Old Kingdom of Egypt until the Late Roman/Byzantine period. Archaeological excavation of the site began in 1984 and have continued through 2010, locating numerous tombs, temples and churches.
The modern village that stands at this site is called el-Kom el-Ahmar Sawaris. It is located 3 km south of the modern village of Sharuna. It is within the boundaries of the modern Al Minya Governorate.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sharuna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations
Available in 15 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- azb
- Catalan
- Egyptian Arabic
- Finnish
- Lithuanian
- Nederlands
- nup
- Polski
- فارسی
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0