Papyrus Marsh in Middle Kingdom Privet Tomb at Beni Hassan (ca. 2055-1650 BCE) Abstract The private tomb of Beni Hassan provides a rich and well preserved record of daily life in the provinces during the middle kingdom, the site had many researches and studies; furthermore, it has potential to yield much more information about daily life topics. Among these topics is the papyrus marsh .This paper aim to highlight the papyrus marsh through displaying, analyzing, and classifying the scenes at four tombs of Beni Hassan. this paper discuss also the location of the papyrus marsh in the tombs which We concluded that it have not specific wall in the tombs , some activities associated with the papyrus marsh for instance hunting birds and fish and fishermen jousting . Keywords: papyrus marsh, , Beni Hassan, birds, animals . Introduction Beni Hassan is situated on the east bank of the river Nile, approximately 25 km south of al- minia and fall within the ancient boundaries of the 16th upper Egyptian province the Oryx Nome. The site was the cemetery of the local governors of this Nome during the middle kingdom 11 th and 12 th dynasty (1) . The wealth and the powerful of these officials reflected in the size, architecture design, as the quality and extensive repertoire of artistic themes represented in the tombs (2) , among this topics is the papyrus marsh which occupied considerable landscape background in many tombs in this period (3) . This paper aims to highlight the papyrus marsh scenes through displaying, analyzing and classifying the scenes and comparing between eleventh and twelfth dynasty at Beni Hassan .