Burial in mud!

traveling through the desert we stopped off at Bagawat Necropolis. this is a site where Coptic christians would be buried in large mud brick chapels that were ornately designed with domes, pillars, apses, naves and baptismal fonts This was not an area though where people were living. It was a place where the dead were. The isolated location was quite eery with the wind blowing through the mud brick structures. There were a lot of them. They were plastered, some with frescos. The DK guide is wrong with its description that there are mosaics. We are pleased to announce that in our future careers the travel guide corrector job will be filled by J1 and J2!!! There were some interesting scenes of Noahs Ark, Adam and Eve, Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt and Jonah and the whale. One needed a biblical knowledge to interpret the pictures on the walls. Certainly, this location is lucky to exist because of the lack of rain. Any rain would just wash these tombs/chapels away. Yet they stand tall and have done for 1500 years.