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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 .
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. Eventually, the ...
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.
Ain Umm Dabadib fort, Kharga Oasis. [17] [18] El Deir fort, Kharga Oasis. [17] [18] Qasr el Labeka fort, Kharga Oasis. [17] [18] Qasr Sumaria fort, Kharga Oasis. [17] [18] Qasr el Geb fort, Kharga Oasis. [17] [18] Al-Haiz fort, Bahariya Oasis. Nadura fort, Kharga Oasis [18] Qasr el-Ghueita fort, Kharga Oasis [18] Qasr el-Zayyan fort, Kharga ...
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.
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 .
100 AD Roman palace at El Haiz area in the Bahariya Oasis, western desert. Islamic. 870 AD Ahmad ibn Tulun Palace at al-Qatta'i in Old Cairo. [9]
The six-month search was conducted along the Egypt–Libya border, in a remote area of 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi) of complex dunes to the southwest of the uninhabited Bahariya Oasis, approximately 100 miles (160 km) to the southeast of the Siwa Oasis.