Qubbet el-Hawa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Roko Rumora Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Roko Rumora Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 03, 2025 02:02 PM
—
History
Qubbet el-Hawa is a site of a group of rock cut tombs known as the Princes' Tomb on the west side of the Nile, opposite Aswan. The tombs mostly date to the Old Kingdom.
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/979588215
24.1024895619, 32.8891368913
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of the tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa (2670 BC - 2168 BC) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
- OSM location of the Tombs of the Nobles (2670 BC - 2168 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Old and Middle Kingdom Tombs (2670 BC - 1640 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
-
- قبة الهوا (Qubbet el-Hawa: Egyptian Arabic, modern)
- Qubbet el-Hawa located west of Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)
-
None
tomb, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
- See Further:
- Related:
Pleiades
Roko Rumora, Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Mckee, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Qubbet el-Hawa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/979588215> [accessed: 13 December 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/979588215 |title=Places: 979588215 (Qubbet el-Hawa) |author=Rumora, R. |accessdate=December 13, 2025 5:37 am |publisher=Pleiades}}