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Hawara is a village about six miles, or nine kilometers, southeast of the town of Faiyum. The ancient Egyptian name of Hawara was Het-waret, which means "Place of the Leg." It was known later as "Labyrinth," which is thought to be derived from the original name of the Hawara temple, Elparahnt, or the "Temple at the Mouth of the Lake."
Hawara has the remains of the pyramid complex of Amenemhat the Third, but the pyramid is now a ruinous heap of dark mud bricks that looks like a natural hill.
In the tombs around the pyramids, Sir W.M. Flinders Petrie discovered 146 of the famous Faiyum portraits, which date back to the first to third centuries AD. |
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