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Map sheet showing Faiyum Oasis site A scenic view of Faiyum Oasis archaeology region. Karanis Site Museum, also known as Kom Aushim Museum, (Arabic: متحف كوم أوشيم) is an archaeological museum located in Tamiya, Faiyum Governorate, Lower Egypt. It is situated directly adjacent to the archaeological site of Karanis.
Faiyum (/ f aɪ ˈ j uː m / fy-YOOM; Arabic: الفيوم, romanized: el-Fayyūm, locally [elfæjˈjuːm]) [a] is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location. [2]
The Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Wāḥat al-Fayyum) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. The extent of the basin area is estimated at between 1,270 km 2 (490 mi 2 ) and 1,700 km 2 (656 mi 2 ).
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'Wadi of the Whales' Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈwa.diː elˈħit.æːn] ⓘ) is a paleontological site in the Faiyum Governorate of Egypt, some 150 kilometres (93 mi) south-west of Cairo. [1] It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site [ 2 ] in July 2005 [ 3 ] for its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest forms of whale , the ...
The Abgig obelisk (also known as the Begig obelisk and the Faiyum obelisk) is an ancient stone monument erected by the Egyptian pharaoh Senusret I in the 20th century BC near what is now Faiyum. Made of red granite, it is likely that the obelisk once stood 12.9 metres (42.3 ft) high with a base of four limestone slabs.
Waterfalls between upper and lower lakes in the Wadi el-Raiyan (Wadi el-Rayan), Egypt. The valley of Wadi El-Rayan is an area of 1,759 km 2 (679 sq mi), 113 km 2 (44 sq mi) of which are the dominating water body of the Wadi El Rayan lakes. It is located about 65 km (40 mi) southwest of Faiyum city and 80 km (50 mi) west of the Nile River. The ...