3 Archaeological Monasteries to Open in Qena after Rehabilitation

The Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the opening of three archaeological monasteries in Naqadah town in Qena governorate on Wednesday after rehabilitation.

In a statement on Tuesday, Head of the Islamic, Coptic and Jewish Antiquities Sector Osama Talaat said the three-year renovating process included changing the electricity networks and refurnishing them again.

Naqadah is one of the oldest regions of Egypt. It is the site of a Neolithic town and burial grounds of the Predynastic period (before c. 2925 BCE).

It was first excavated by the British archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, and the cultures found there are referred to by scholars as Amratian (Naqādah I) and Gerzean (Naqādah II).