The site of Beni Hassan is located on the east bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt, approximately 20 km south of the provincial capital of Minya. It is best known for its rock-cut tombs built for senior officials of the Eleventh and Twelfth Dynasties of the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2125-1795 BCE). These tombs have been the subject of much scholarly discussion since Percy Newberry systematically investigated them in 1890 as part of the larger archaeological survey project launched by the Egypt Exploration Fund in London. Far less attention, however, has been given to the Christian monks who came to the site well over two thousand years later (ca. 500 CE) and converted several tombs into spaces for living and worship. Such adaptive reuse was by no means unique for the time and indeed the region seems to have been populated in late antiquity with monks who were fashioning residences and chapels out of former tombs, temples, and quarries in the mountains and wadis of the outer desert. The Beni Hassan in Late Antiquity Project, an ARCE-affiliated field project, was inaugurated to examine these practices in their regional context.