Or Sharm el-Baragat (other spellings include Borigat, Burigat, Briegat) is the name of a village near the modern site of the old town Tebtunis, located on the southern edge of the Fayoum, about one hour drive from the city of Sharm El-Fayoum shares.
It is believed that the city was originally formed in the era of the modern state, although that remains visible to the Ptolemaic Romanian. Tebtunis become one of the largest Greco-Roman cities in the region, through the rest manned the Middle Ages. The town was the site of Tebtunis (Tebtynis) with recently a great deal of reconstruction and consolidation. Has been crowned with low walls, and retaining some original plaster and the remains of paint, to maintain, and there remains a small temple of Soknebtynis ('Lord Sobek Tebtunis'), dating to the Ptolemaic period, Greek.And now covers much of the site by sand, but there is a long-sacred stone paved leading through the rubble to the entrance of the temple, which is guarded by two carved lion statues Greek yellow limestone. On the south side of the temple area, the large number of columns of fine white limestone, from the Greek style, was built in the court on the axis west of the building. The mother of Sharm el-Baragat also home to a large crocodile cemetery where they found more than 1000 mummified crocodiles, and coffins.
Was excavated for the first time signed by Egypt Exploration Fund and the University of California circa 1900. At this time, archaeologists discovered that Egypt was a repository for many of the literature and history in the classical world. He has traditionally been the largest library in the ancient world at Alexandria, unfortunately, badly damaged in Romanian, Christianity, and burning down during the tragic times, the Arab invasion in the 7th century, without leaving any residue. However, archaeologists began working at the end of the 19 th century to search for new sources of old documents, especially from Sharm el Oxyrhynchus and the gift (in middle Egypt) and caches of many of the Fayoum.In Tebtunis, a small temple and a library of the period ROMANIAN found during excavations at a house in the town. These included a group of fragmented papyrus (known as the papyri Tebtunis) many of the documents and literature, medical and administrative as well as the religious texts of the temple.
The grave was found crocodile Greenville and Hunt, excavators nearest the site, while searching for human mummies. In 1900 to find the one factor of crocodile mummies (which was considered worthless) to be wrapped in a sheet of papyrus. Many of the fragments of papyrus Tebtunis now witnessing the restoration operations by the Bancroft Library, whose cataloging digital collection as participants in the application programming interfaces (Advanced Papyrological Information System).
In the recent excavations by a team of French Italian, the work done around the temple Soknebtynis ostraka revealed hundreds of papyri and Greek and demotic. They may also regained quarters of the local and the Romanian spa town in the east of the temple.Have been built many houses in the town of mud brick, and their remains can be seen scattered throughout the site. Has been the construction of villas and larger structures more important with burnt brick or stone and many of these were built now.
About 10km from Baragat Umm Mohammed, near the village of Sharm el-Gharaq Sharm el-Sultani, is the site of an ancient papyrus swamp or thicket of Pharaonic times. It is believed that this area may be also the site of a village called Ptolemaic Kerkeosiris (settlement of Osiris), mentioned in the papyrus Tebtunis. It has been said that a number of other ancient villages may lie under the cultivated fields in the surrounding areas or Sharm el-Baragat.
How to get thereTo take the road out of the South Itsa Sharm el-Medinet Fayoum.Behind the village Shidmoh the road forks - the right fork leads to the village of Sharm el-Gharaq (pronounced Sharm Ghara ') and fork left leads first to the village Tutun. Turn right towards the end and follow the canal Tutun Sea Gharaq about 6km until you come to the edge of the desert. Crossing a bridge over the canal and went to the desert towards the village of Umm Abdel Baragat, where they can find on the ruins of Tebtunis.
