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Wikipedia: Hawara is an archaeological site of Ancient Egypt, south of the site of Crocodilopolis (Arsinoe) at the entrance to the depression of the Fayyum oasis. The first excavations at the site were made by Karl Lepsius, in 1843. William Flinders Petrie excavated at Hawara, in 1888, finding papyri of the first and second centuries, and, north of the pyramid, 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.
![[The Pyramid of Amenemhet III at Hawara, from the east]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pyramid_of_amenemhet_hawarra_01_s.jpg "The Pyramid of Amenemhet III at Hawara, from the east")
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![[Petrie unearthed a number of vivid Fayoum mummy portraits in 1911]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Hawara_MoS_1911_210_1_s.jpg "Petrie unearthed a number of vivid Fayoum mummy portraits in 1911")
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![[Amenemhet III from his funerary temple (Cairo Museum)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Amenemhat_III_Musee_du_Caire_s.jpg "Amenemhet III from his funerary temple (Cairo Museum)")
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