Hawara (Kiman Faris)

The town of Hawara is an archaeological site in El Fayoum Governorate in the Western Desert about 9 km from El Fayoum City. In the area between Hawara and Kiman Fares, there are the ruins of the old city of Shedet, known to the Greeks as Crocodilopolis. Hawara archeological site was excavated for the first time in 1988 and a rare collection of coffins with marvelous portraits dating to the Roman Period were found in the necropolises surrounding the pyramids in the area. In Hawara, there are also the Pyramid of Amem-Em-Hat III, the intact Tomb of Neferu-Ptah (the daughter of Amem-Em-Hat III), and the Complex of Queen Sobekneferu of the Twelfth.