Abusir el-Meleq

Abusir el-Meleq (Ar. أبو صير الملق), also Abusir el-Melek - a town and archaeological site in Egypt, located in Beni Suef (Arabic: بني سويف, romanized: Baniswēf), which is the capital city of the Beni Suef Governorate in Egypt, an important agricultural trade centre on the west bank of the Nile River. Abusir el-Meleq is located 114 km (70.8 miles) south of Cairo. It is home to the Necropolis of Abusir el-Meleq which was the main necropolis for Herakleopolis in the first Millenium BC. Of the many burials discovered here, 151 mummies were used in a 2017 DNA study comparing the mtDNA of Ancient Egyptians and modern Egyptians.

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