Minya Governorate, the oppressed city because of the lack of talk about it and its beauty

In the beginning, we know the Minya Governorate. It is the richest of Egypt’s governorates in antiquities. Minya is a name derived from “Minna”, which means a port due to its location on the Nile River.
Today, we will talk specifically about the “Tuna El-Gebel” region of the Mallawi Center. The name of the region, Tuna El-Gebel, is derived from the ancient Egyptian word “Tahni,” which means the lake, because of the presence of a lake in the region that was formed as a result of the Nile flood in the past, and it was distorted in Greek to “Tauns.” Then “tuna” in Arabic and adding the word mountain because it is located in the mountainous region.
The area includes several important monuments. Today we will talk about one of the region’s monuments, which is the “cemetery of the temple”, as the discoverer called it, “the tomb of Petoziris”, the most important tomb of Tuna al-Jabal.
Petuziris is the high priest of the god “Thoth”, a contemporary of the end of the Persian rule and the beginning of the rule of Alexander the Great, and Petuziris is called by the Egyptians “Badi Osiris”, meaning the gift of Osiris.
The cemetery takes a temple, more than a cemetery, and similar to the Temple of Dendera. Inside is the mummy of Petoziris. It includes beautiful inscriptions and scenes from daily life, in which a mixture of Egyptian and Greek art.
His sarcophagus is made of very carefully polished smooth wood, carefully inlaid with the hieroglyphic text of inlaid glass paste, which added indescribable beauty to the coffin.
The books and references also say that the discoverer of the cemetery was the French scientist “Gustave Lefavre”, but we will tell what happened at that time to decide who discovered the cemetery.
What happened was that there was an Egyptian archaeological inspector named “Anton Effendi Youssef” who worked 7 continuous snots in the Tuna El-Gebel area and knew its entrances. He was the one who found the wall of the cemetery of Bitzeres and sent it to the Antiquities Authority at the same time, saying, “We have found what appears to be a temple.” The Antiquities Authority authorized him to excavate, and he discovered the upper part of the temple and sent his report. With the arrival of Gustav Lefavre, who was in charge of the Antiquities Department at the time, he completed the excavation. He said: “We found a temple.” Then he said: a cemetery. 1919 and restored in 1920.