Tuna el-Gebel

Tuna el-Gebel (Arabic: تونة الجبل, Coptic: ⲑⲱⲛⲓ[1]) was the necropolis of Khmun (Hermopolis Magna).

In at least the late fourth century BC, two brothers and priests of Thoth, Petosiris and Djed-Thoth-iu-ef-ankh built the first large tombs.

Chemical analysis suggests that the reliefs used red, yellow, black, blue and green pigments, sometimes combined to create new colors.

[2] Isadora was a wealthy and beautiful young woman living in Hermopolis during the time when the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (AD 138–161) ruled over Ægyptus.

Her body was mummified, and her father, overtaken by grief, built an elaborate tomb in her honor; featuring a poem of ten lines inscribed in Greek elegiac couplets.

Isadora's mummified remains are still present, encased in glass, in her mausoleum – a prominent building at Tuna el-Gebel.

[14] In February 2019, fifty mummy collections wrapped in linen, stone coffins or wooden sarcophagi dated back to the Ptolemaic Kingdom were discovered by Egyptian archaeologists in the Tuna El-Gebel site in Minya.

[15][16] Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of the collective graves of senior officials and high clergies of the god Djehuty (Thoth) in January 2020.

Hathor capitals with a demotic script, sculptor models, Ptolemaic period, 323–230 BCE, from Egypt, probably from Tuna el-Gebel. Neues Museum, Berlin