Sharuna

Sharuna is an archaeological site in central Egypt, once a settlement of ancient Egypt on the east bank of the Nile, almost opposite Per Medjed. It was occupied from the Old Kingdom until the Late Roman and Byzantine period. Excavation began in 1984 and continued through 2010, locating many tombs, temples and churches. The remains include tombs of the late Old Kingdom, a destroyed Ptolemaic temple, a funerary church of the Late Roman or Byzantine era and the Deir el-Qarabin monastery used by Coptic Christians. A team from the University of Tübingen led by Beatrice Huber carried out six excavations of the main necropolis area between 2006 and 2010. The modern village on the site is el-Kom el-Ahmar Sawaris, in the Minya Governorate, 3 km south of the modern village of Sharuna.