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About Al ‘Ayyāţ
El Ayyat (Arabic: العياط) is a town in the Giza Governorate, Egypt. Its population was estimated to be 46,747 people in 2023.
From the Wikipedia article El Ayyat (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
The ancient village of Lisht, the capital of Pharaonic Egypt during the Middle Kingdom, is located near Al-Ayat. It was called in the Pharaonic era “It-Tawy,” meaning holding on the two lands. The region is an extension of the famous archeological cemetery of Memphis, located south of the Dahshur region, 50 km south of Cairo from the south of the Meidum region the last extension of the necropolis of Memphis.
King Amenemhat I built his funerary complex there, consisting of the Valley Temple, the Ascending Road and a funerary temple and pyramid . In the 19th century, an American archaeological mission found the tombs of Egyptian dignitaries buried there. Amenemhat's son Senusret I erected a funerary complex nearby.
Efforts are under way to reduce groundwater seepage to prevent damage to royal burial chambers inside the two pyramids and restore inscriptions in the Senusert Ankh cemetery which contain hundreds of spells and texts.
A life-sized statue of King Senusert I was found there, along with the tomb of Het Hatab.
From the History section of El Ayyat on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Cairo International Airport (CAI) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 57 km away.
- Ḩalwān 25 km north, about 25 min by car
- 6th of October City 30 km northwest, about 30 min by car
- Giza 44 km north, about 44 min by car
- Cairo 49 km north, about 49 min by car
- New Cairo 50 km northeast, about 50 min by car
- Shubrā al Khaymah 56 km north, about 56 min by car
- Banī Suwayf 63 km south, about 1 h by car
- Al-'Ubūr 71 km north, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Badr 72 km northeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Al ‘Āshir min Ramaḑān 89 km northeast, about 1 h 30 min by car
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- Nile River,Egypt - panoramio, Jang Woo Lee, CC BY 3.0
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