El Sheikh Sa'id

El Sheikh Sa'id is a small village in the Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt.

Situated on the east bank of the Nile, it is named after a local Muslim saint buried in the area.

El Sheikh Sa'id comprises the rock-cut tombs of the nomarchs of the Hare nome (the 15th Upper Egyptian nome) from the 6th Dynasty.

These tombs are cut in steep cliffs.

[1] The use of this necropolis declined during the First Intermediate Period, when the nomarchial necropolis was transferred slightly northward to Deir El Bersha.