Realizada el 23 de septiembre en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional.
The National Archaeological Museum is carrying out excavations at the site of Heracleopolis Magna/Ehnasya el-Medina located in Middle Egypt. The work has taken place in two stages: the first one between 1966 and 1982 under the direction of Almagro, and the second one from 1984 to 2023 directed by Pérez-Die. During the first stage it was possible to carry out the ‘partage des fouilles’
between Egypt and Spain and a good number of finds became part of the collections of the National Archaeological Museum. The objects come from the necropolises of the First and Third Intermediate Periods and from the temple of the local god Heryshef.
In 2008, on the occasion of the renovation of the Museum and the permanent exhibition halls, many objects found at Heracleopolis Magna were selected for display, as they met all the requirements for exhibition: they have a precise archaeological context, a well-established chronology and, in some cases, they are unique and impossible to see in other museums.
Reliefs from the walls of the tombs of the First Intermediate Period showing scenes related to the environment and daily life, false doors separating the rooms with objects belonging to the world of the living from that of the dead, canopic vases, shabtis, models, all presented in their specific context with drawings, photographs, and publications in accordance with the established museological plan, have made Heracleópolis Magna one of the most relevant archaeological sites of Egypt excavated by Spaniards that the visitors can know.