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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.
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