Naqada is a town on the west bank of the Nile in Qena Governorate, Egypt, situated ca. 20 km north of Luxor. It includes the villages of Tukh, Khatara, Danfiq, and Zawayda. According to the 1960 census, it is one of the most sparsely populated areas and had only 3,000 inhabitants, mostly of the Christian faith who preserved elements of the Coptic language up until the 1930s.