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Siwa Oasis is an official map for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which belongs to North Africa Campaign. [68] The fifth mission from the game Sniper Elite III takes place on the Siwa Oasis. [69] Siwa is prominently featured in the videogame Assassin's Creed: Origins and is the birthplace and home of the protagonist Bayek of Siwa. [70]
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 interior of the Matrouh Governorate is part of Egypt's Western Desert, including the Siwa Oasis, in antiquity known for its shrine to Amun. In the center of the Governorate is the Qattara Depression, descending to 133 metres below sea level. Marsa Matrouh is the ancient Koinē Greek: Παραιτόνιον Paraitónion, Latin Paraetonium.
According to Quintus Curtius Rufus and Justin, Alexander asked shortly before his death to be interred in the temple of Zeus Ammon at Siwa Oasis. [4] Alexander, who requested to be referred to and perceived as the son of Zeus Ammon, did not wish to be buried alongside his actual father at Aegae. [4]
English: Cleopatra's Pool (Cleopatra's Bath or Cleopatra's Spring) is one of many in the area and is located on the path that leads to the Oracle Temple. The Siwa Oasis (Siwah, Isiwan), an oasis in Egypt to the east of Great Sand Sea (Western Desert), about 50 km east of the Libyan border, one of Egypt's most isolated settlements.
The Moghra Oasis in the northeastern part of the Depression has a 4 km 2 (1.5 sq mi) brackish lake and a Phragmites swamp. [5] [6] The southwestern corner of the depression is part of the Siwa Protected Area which protects the wild oasis in and around the Siwa Oasis.
Siwa archaeological area: Matrouh: 1994 (cultural) Siwa Oasis contains several archaeological sites, including the oracle temple of Amun. [17] Temple of Serabit Khadem: South Sinai: 1994 (cultural) This nomination comprises the Temple of Serabit Khadem and Saint Catherine's Monastery. The latter was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2002. [18]
English: Siwa's ancient role as the home to an Oracle of Ammon, the ruins of which gave the oasis its ancient name Oasis of Amun Ra. The Siwa Oasis (Siwah, Isiwan), an oasis in Egypt to the east of Great Sand Sea (Western Desert), about 50 km east of the Libyan border, one of Egypt's most isolated settlements.