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  2. Western Desert - Wikipedia

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    The sea is divided by a long peninsula of rocky desert along the border, leaving the eastern lobe in Egypt and the western in Libya, where it is called the Calanshio desert. On the Egyptian side it was known historically as the "Libyan Desert", taking its name from Ancient Libya , which lay between the Nile and Cyrenaica.

  3. Trimithis - Wikipedia

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    Trimithis (Ancient Greek: Τριμιθις) was an ancient Egyptian city in the Dakhla Oasis in the Western Desert. The site of the city is today known as Amheida (Arabic: أمحيدة) and is located in the New Valley Governorate of Egypt. [1] The Greek name of the city, Trimithis, comes from the Coptic Trimhite, meaning "northern storehouse ...

  4. List of Egyptian castles, forts, fortifications and city walls

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    1960s and 1970s Egyptian Defensive fortifications built by Egyptian Armed forces during the Attrition war on the Western bank of Suez Canal and Bar Lev Line of fortifications on Eastern side of Suez Canal (by Israel occupation forces). [7] 1990s Touristic Castle Zaman, Sinai [57] Unknown time Ain al Qudairat Fort, Hosna, North Sinai. [7]

  5. Siwa Oasis - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Nabta Playa - Wikipedia

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    Although today the western Egyptian desert is totally dry, this was not always the case. There is good evidence that there were several humid periods in the past (when up to 500 mm of rain would fall per year), the most recent one during the last interglacial and early last glaciation periods which stretched between 130,000 and 70,000 years ago.

  7. Ha (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Ha (Ancient Egyptian: ḥꜣ), in ancient Egyptian religion, was a god of the Western Desert & the fertile oasis of Western Desert of Egypt. He was associated with the Duat (the underworld) and pictured as a man wearing the hieroglyph symbol for desert hills on his head. Ha was said to protect Egypt from enemies such as invading ancient Libyans ...

  8. Bahariya Oasis - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. ... Egypt was the Badarian culture, which probably originated in the Western Desert; ...

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