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The Siwa Oasis (Arabic: واحة سيوة Wāḥat Sīwah [ˈwæːħet ˈsiːwæ]) is an urban oasis in Egypt.It is situated between the Qattara Depression and the Great Sand Sea in the Western Desert, 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of the Egypt–Libya border and 560 kilometres (350 mi) from the Egyptian capital city of Cairo.
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.
English: 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. Siwa, Libyan Desert, Sahara Desert, Egypt.
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 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.
Some 20 kilometres (10 mi) west of the depression lie the oases of Siwa in Egypt and Jaghbub in Libya in smaller but similar depressions. The Qattara Depression contains the second lowest point in Africa at an elevation of 133 metres (436 ft) below sea level, the lowest point being Lake Assal in Djibouti.
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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.