Archaeological site · Egypt
Bagawat Cemetery
مقابر البجوات
An early Christian necropolis of mud-brick domed chapels outside Kharga, with painted Old Testament scenes inside several domes.
Where it is
25.4858, 30.5549
Why go
About six kilometres north of Kharga town, Bagawat is a field of 263 known mud-brick funerary chapels, from single rooms to large family tombs, used from the third century AD onward. Its builders mixed pharaonic burial custom with Christian belief, and mummification continued here long after it faded in the Nile Valley. Visitors walk between the domed chapels; the Chapel of the Exodus and the Chapel of Peace keep painted biblical scenes with Greek labels, alongside centuries of later Arabic graffiti.
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