{"id":92842,"date":"2026-03-15T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=92842"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:39:17","slug":"el-ashmunein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/el-ashmunein\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ashmunein"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>El Ashmunein Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Archaeologists working in El Ashmunein recently uncovered a massive limestone fragment that completes a royal statue first discovered nearly a century ago, revealing new details about Ramesses II, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 BCE. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About El Ashmunein<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Hermopolis Magna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>present-day el-Ashmunein<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is an <\/span><b>ancient town<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>Upper Egypt, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">located on the <\/span><b>west bank of the Nile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> River.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <\/span><b>religious, cultural, and administrative importance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the <\/span><b>Old Kingdom to the Greco-Roman era.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city was <\/span><b>devoted to Thoth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the ibis-headed <\/span><b>god associated with wisdom and writing.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>ancient Egyptian name <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the town was <\/span><b>Khmun <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(&#8216;<\/span><b>City of the Eight<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;), a reference to the <\/span><b>Ogdoad of Hermopolis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a collective of eight &#8220;primordial&#8221; deities whose worship was centered there.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It used to be distinguished as the <\/span><b>capital of the Hare nome<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the fifteenth nome of Upper Egypt.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city featured <\/span><b>monumental structures<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like the <\/span><b>Temple of Thoth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, decorated with statues, inscriptions, and stelae.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In the Christian era<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it became an <\/span><b>early Coptic cente<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">r, marked by a <\/span><b>5th-century basilica.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Archaeological excavations have <\/span><b>unearthed mudbrick houses, cemeteries, altars,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>reused royal cartouches from rulers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like Akhenaten and Nectanebo II, illustrating the city&#8217;s rich multi-era legacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nearby there are also <\/span><b>extensive underground galleries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, constructed mainly between the <\/span><b>Late Period and Roman times.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indiandefencereview.com\/ramesses-ii-statue-hermopolis-missing-half-found-egypt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IDR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Ashmunein, ancient Hermopolis Magna, was a key religious centre linked to Thoth and the Ogdoad. Read more about El Ashmunein, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":92879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6104,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-92842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-el-ashmunein","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92878,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92842\/revisions\/92878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}