Monday, August 31, 2026 Search My Trip EnglishChinese
World news · travel · culture
Taiwan The Taiwan Times
Taiwan's window to the world

Hieracon

El Fateh, Egypt

Per Nemty (pr nmty, House of Nemty), an Ancient Egyptian settlement also known in Greek as Hieracon and at the modern village of al-Atawla, on the right/eastern bank of the Nile River northeast of Assiut (5 km). It was the capital of the 12th Nome of Upper Egypt. The town was centered on the Temple of Nemty, the god Nemty being the ferryman god.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other archaeological sites in Egypt