
Tuna El Gebel it is considering the main features in el Minya, a large necropolis for the ancient town of Khnum or Hermopolis, The cemetery was located 11km from the city, in an area which is perhaps better known as the north-western boundary of Akhenaton’s city of Akhenaton and is marked by a boundary stela (stela A).
Feast your eyes with this cemetery which date back to Akhenaton era, when visiting Tuna el-Gebel, Akhenaton’s boundary stela is the first monument to be reached, on the right hand side of the road and also the earliest monument at the site, amuse yourself with The royal statues on the left are now headless and support tall offering tables depicting the couple’s three eldest daughters.
After the Catacombs, we will find another monument, which is the Tomb of Petosiris, This Tomb decorations is unique because carvings and the paintings inside the tomb itself, treat yourself t be pampered with traditional farming scenes with people who are dressed with Greek costume.
Behind the tomb of Petosiris is the tomb of Isadora, which dates to the 2nd century AD, a young girl who lived in the town of Hermopolis and renowned for her beauty and good nature. Isadora fall in love with a Roman Solider and they wanted to get married but her father refused this marriage, so they decided to run away but unfortunately while she was crossing the Nile river she drown. Her father built her this tomb and wrote her story in the Greek language, and also he mummified her body and put it In her mausoleum which is still in the tomb till the momunt in glass box to be visible for the visitors.