Behbeit el-Hagara Attractions

The ancient site of Behbeit el-Hagara, the lseum or lsidis Oppidum of classical times, lies near the provincial capital of El-Mansura in the northern part of the Nile Delta. The modern name derives from the ancient Egyptian Hebet or Per-Ehbet, the "house of the god of Hebet" (i.e. Horus).

Lying within the Saite nome, the place was much revered by the kings of the 30th Dynasty, who stemmed from the neighboring town of Sebennytus, as a center of the cult of Isis, her brother and husband Osiris and their son Horus.