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Deserts of Egypt, barren areas of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Deserts of Egypt .
Within these zones, Egypt and Israel were permitted varying degrees of military buildup: Zone A: Between the Suez Canal and Line A. Egypt is permitted a mechanized infantry division with a total of 22,000 troops in Zone A. Zone B: Between Line A and Line B. Egypt is permitted four border security battalions to support the civilian police in Zone B.
When the flow of dry air continuously blows over vast desert regions, it picks up fine sand and dust particles and finally results in a dusty wind which is generally felt in the periphery of the desert. When this wind blows over Egypt, it causes high temperatures to soar temporarily at dangerous levels, usually over 49–50 °C (120–122 °F ...
Nabta Playa was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo [1] or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, [2] 22.51° north, 30.73° east. [3] Today the region is characterized by numerous archaeological sites. [2]
Siwa is an oasis located in Egypt, about 50 km (30 mi) east of the Libyan border, in the eastern part of the Great Sand Sea or Egyptian Sand Sea. Although well-known to the Tuareg and traders who traveled with caravans across the Sahara , Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs was the first European to document the Great Sand Sea.
This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1] The list is for sites intended for permanent settlement and does not include fortresses and other locations of intermittent habitation. a capital of ancient Egypt
The Nitrian Desert is a desert region in northwestern Egypt, lying between Alexandria and Cairo west of the Nile Delta. It is known for its history of Christian monasticism. [1] There were three monastic centres in the Nitrian Desert in Late Antiquity.
Rhinocorura (Ancient Greek: Ῥινοκόρουρα, romanized: Rhinokóroura, or Ῥινοκούρουρα, Rhinokoúroura) or Rhinocolura (Ῥινοκόλουρα, Rhinokóloura) was the name of a region and one or more associated towns and rivers lying between Ancient Egypt and Palestine. The name may refer explicitly to: