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KHARGA OASIS :
Bagawat Necropolis
The Necropolis of Bagawat is a reminder of one of the most central
battles of early Christianity; the dispute over the nature of Jesus. The
5th century bishop Nestorius was exiled to Bagawat (as the village was
called) for having claimed that only one of Jesus' natures had suffered
on the cross; the earthly nature, not the divine.
The large extent of the Necropolis of Bagawat is the result of the his
and his supporters' exile. The tombs here are believed to indicate that
worship of the dead was continued in a Christian style.
There are 263 mud-brick chapels climbing up a ridge, the oldest dating
back two centuries before Nestorius, the last dating back to the 7th
century
The tombs were originally
plastered, but this is has since long disappeared.
Some of the tombs have courtyards,
possibly used for ceremonies.
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