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Bahariya Oasis (Arabic: الواحات البحرية, romanized: El-Wāḥāt El-Baḥrīya, "the Northern Oases") is a depression and a naturally rich oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. It is approximately 370 km away from Cairo .
Bahariya Formation (Egypt) The Bahariya Formation (also transcribed as Baharija Formation ) is a fossiliferous geologic formation dating back to the early Cenomanian , which outcrops within the Bahariya depression in Egypt , and is known from oil exploration drilling across much of the Western Desert where it forms an important oil reservoir .
The Valley of the Golden Mummies is a huge burial site at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, dating to the Greco-Roman period. Discovered in 1996 by Zahi Hawass and his Egyptian team, approximately two hundred fifty mummies approximately two thousand years old were recovered over the period of several seasons.
The Black Desert (Arabic: الصحراء السوداء, aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ as-sawdāʾ) is a region of volcano-shaped and widely spaced mounds, distributed along about 30 km (19 mi) in western Egypt between the White Desert in the south and the Bahariya Oasis in the north.
English: Al Farafra is a small oasis located in Egypt's Western Desert. It's one the most isolated ones. Very few cars travel this road. White Desert is a site of cliffs, dunes and large white chalk rock formations, created through erosion by wind and sand. White Desert, part of Saharan Libyan Desert, some 30 km to the east of Al-Farafra, Egypt.
Criticism of Hawass, in Egypt and more broadly, increased following the protests in Egypt in 2011. On July 12, 2011, The New York Times reported that Hawass receives an honorarium each year "of as much as $200,000 from National Geographic to be an explorer-in-residence even as he controls access to the ancient sites it often features in its ...
Oasis Polis (Greek: Ὄασις Πόλις; literally “Oasis City”) is said by Herodotus (Histories, III.26.1-3) to be an ancient Greek colony from Samos in the Egyptian Desert. The oasis that would fit in with Herodotus's story here (the conquest of Egypt by Persian king Cambyses II in 525 BCE) is the so-called Small or Bahariya Oasis.
On a low ridge overlooking El-Bawiti are a pair of nicely decorated underground tombs of the 26th Dynasty, a high time in Bahariya Oasis.The tombs, belonging to the wealthy local merchants Zed-Amun-ef-Ankh and his son Banentiu, have an inner court with 4 columns and up to 7 side chambers.