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Cemetery of El-Bagawat is found About 3 km from the centre of el-Kharga and 1 km north of the Temple of Hibis. It is the early Christian cemetery of Bagawat. It is sprawling up the lower southern foothills of Gebel el-teir and it is perhaps the oldest major Christian cemetery in the world and also has become a main tourist attraction for Kharga Oasis.
The cemetery consists of a vast expanse of domed mud brick mausoleums and underground galleries dating back to the 4th century AD, which were built over the site of an earlier Egyptian necropolis of pit-graves.
As a burial ground Bagawat appears to have been in constant use until the 11th century, although the mud brick structures date only up to the 7th century. The architectural style of the 263 tomb-chapels varies from simple one-room structures to family mausoleums with ornate facades enhanced with faux columns and arches and domed roofs.
Although many of the chapels within the Cemetery of El-Bagawat were undecorated and consisted simply of a single chamber built over the tomb shaft, some were much more elaborate and contained plastered walls with painted biblical scenes in a range mixture of styles while others have elements reminiscent of earlier Egyptian architecture.
Two of the most outstanding and best preserved of the decorated chapels are named ‘Chapel of the Exodus’ and ‘Chapel of Peace’. Inside the Chapel of the Exodus, which is one of the earliest in the cemetery, the interior of the dome is decorated in two bands illustrating scenes from the old Testament; Adam and Eve, Moses leading the Israelites through the Sinai desert in the Exodus, Pharaoh (Ramses II) and his armies, Noah’s ark, Daniel in the lion’s den, Jonah and the whale and several other biblical episodes. In the Chapel of Peace, similar themes are depicted on the dome, including the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary and others, each indentified in Greek. The interior walls are also painted with many Byzantine frescoes of grape vines, peacocks, allegorical figures and inscriptions. The purpose of the Christian tomb-chapels, like their ancient Egyptian counterparts, was for the reverence of the deceased.
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