Gebelein - Cemeteries

On the eastern and northern slopes of the higher hill to the west are cemeteries dating from the Pre-Dynastic period (Naqada culture) to the end of the Middle Kingdom, but mainly from the First Intermediate Period. Near here was the town of Aphroditespolis or Pathyris (from Per Hathor, "House of Hathor"), which for a time was capital of a nome.