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In Ancient Egypt, the oasis had two names.The name 'ḏsḏs' is first mentioned on a scarab dating back to the Middle Kingdom.In the New Kingdom, this name is rarely found, although it does appear for example in the Temple of Luxor and in the account of King Kamose, who occupied the oasis during the war against the Hyksos.
Because the Sinai Peninsula was the main region where mining of turquoise was carried out in Ancient Egypt, it was called Biau (the "Mining Country") [3] and Khetiu Mafkat ("Ladders of Turquoise") [5] [6] by the ancient Egyptians.
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 .
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 water rises to the surface from an aquifer in the Nubian sandstone, but its precise source is unclear as the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System is at great depths in this area. [3] Just to the north of the oasis is a cliff which gives its name to the Moghra Formation , a thick layer of clastic sedimentary rocks with some minor carbonate interbeds.
The Black Desert (الصحراء السوداء) is a region of volcano-shaped and widely spaced mounds, distributed along about 30 km (19 mi) in the Western Desert between the White Desert in the south and the Bahariya Oasis in the north. Most of its mounds are capped by basalt sills, giving them the characteristic black color.
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.
The arid, desert conditions were a boon throughout the history of ancient Egypt for burials of the poor, who could not afford the elaborate burial preparations available to the elite. Wealthier Egyptians began to bury their dead in stone tombs and use artificial mummification, which involved removing the internal organs , wrapping the body in ...