Hierakonpolis, index

Hierakonpolis (Kom el-Ahmar, Nekhen)
(25°05' N 32°47'E)

Main town on the West Bank in the third province of Upper Egypt.

Cemeteries and settlement site, of prime importance in the Pre- and Early Dynastic Period. Cult centre of the god Horus of Nekhen, flourishing particularly in the Early Dynastic Egypt and in the Old Kingdom (about 2686-2181 BC).

plan of the area	Hierakonpolis on maps of Egypt	plan of the town	plan of the Horus temple	the fort

the main deposit	a painted tomb (Naqada II)	New Kingdom

background information