
The Bir Umm Fawakhir Project | The Oriental Institute of ...
Bir Umm Fawakhir is the first intensively studied ancient goldmining town in Egypt, and the only one of its period in the Byzantine empire. Fawakhir is one of only two excavated Coptic/Byzantine towns (vs. monasteries) of the 5th 6th century in Egypt, and the other, Jemê, at Medinet Habu across the Nile from Luxor, was removed to reach the New Kingdom temple.