Marta Migueles Vázquez 1º ESO C
Maybe the thought of Egypt, the visitor will come to mind
ideas like deserts, pyramids, pharaohs and mummies. The
earth color predominating green indicating any vegetation.
However, this is not so completely, as Egypt has a lot of oasis.
T
he oases of Egypt are famous since ancient times, and were managed with the
same attention as other regions during the time of ancient Egypt. Served and
resting place of supply to large Bedouin caravans (He said the Arab nomads who
inhabit their country of origin or live scattered by Syria and North Africa) within the
African traders, mentioning in Egyptian annals of these low the more general term
inhabitants of Libyan territory.
They are therefore the great
treasure hidden oasis in the great
deserts, and arid lands of the western
desert of Egypt are not devoid of these
gems that await travelers to relieve
thirst and heat causing the adverse
weather conditions those lands.
In Egypt the
main
But few imagine that, besides
being a place of rest for the busy plying
Bedouin km sandy sea in the company
of their camels, oases and its nearby
towns can be the perfect place for a
holiday.
oasis are:
The Oasis in Egypt
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Marta Migueles Vázquez 1º ESO C
KHARGA OASIS (EL KHARGA)
Cailliaud charted routes that
travelers like Bernardino Drovetti who
visited the largest oasis o-Quah-theancient remains found Kebyr oasis of
Kharga in southern having remains of an
Egyptian temple whose shrine is covered
with a real vault arc west of the building
is a Roman temple converted into adobe
church Coptic Christians; further north
there is another Egyptian temple whose
walls are covered with Egyptian
inscriptions, the population being about
two thousand inhabitants in the
nineteenth century, seeing there the
remains of an Egyptian temple and over
two hundred brick vaulted Roman
tombs, collecting other nineteenth
century
travelers
various
Greek
inscriptions, including one from the
reign of Galba.
THE OASIS OF FARAFRA
This oasis, located in the west of
the country and considered the smallest
of the place, is specifically located in the
desert of Lebanon, straddling the oasis
of Bahariya, Dakhla. During Pharaonic
times, the town was known as Farafra
Ta-iht, ie the Land of the Cow.
THE OASIS OF AL-FAYYUM
This incredible Oasis is located just
over 100 kilometers from Cairo, Luxor
direction. Located in the middle of the
Western Desert and has an area of 70
miles wide by 60 long, making it one of
the largest in the country. An oasis is an
isolated spot in the desert where they can
find water and vegetation.
OASIS OF DAKEL
Further west of El Kharga and a
little north, a small oasis, that of
Dakel, whose principal place is Balat
to 225 km of Esna. Dakel is a village
with crops like oasis of Thebes, to be
motivated by another traveler,
Drovetti Bernardino, knowledge of
this island vegetation within the
Libyan desert, abounding in the
fruits
like
apricots,
oranges,
pomegranates and figs, having a
small brick pyramid collecting Greek
inscriptions from the time of the
Antonines and four days (nineteenth
century) is reached Farafrech oasis
where in 1820 Cailliaud penetrated,
with some opposition from the
natives, with houses made of earth
with a castle fortified with many
rooms for use by the leading
families, where they keep their
supplies. Formerly also served for
defense against the Bedouins. In this
oasis are collected olives, dates,
cotton, wheat and many fruits and
sometimes it rains in January and
February.
THE OASIS OF BAHARIYA
Bahariya Oasis is further north
of Farafra, but closer to the Nile
Copts call Semsjé the oasis because
of the city of Oxyrhynchus, situated
on the Nile, opposite the oasis,
which is named after Semsjé. The
most notable town called El-Qasr
and the largest oasis is from east to
west, cut through the mountains in
the transverse direction. They are
old hypogea, there are also graves of
adobe, a Roman triumphal arch,
aqueducts, Christian ruins, hot
springs and ferruginous sources.
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THE OASIS OF SIWA OR AMÓN
Herodotus speaks of an oracle of Ammon without indicating the
place where he was. Strabo mentions another near the oracle of
Ammon Pliny places the oracle to twelve days of Memphis. This oasis
was visited in 1792 by Browne and in 1798 by Hornmann. Also have to
know who gave the news at the time Federico Caillaud and Drovetti on
oasis, illustrated by the destruction of part of the army of Cambyses II
and the Great deAlejandro trip. From the vicinity of Alexandria reached
the oasis of Ammon in thirteen days camel is the shortest path starting
from Lower Egypt. Also going from Cairo by the desert and the path he
took Hornmann, addressing the Fezzan.
Alexander left the vicinity of Lake Moeris. Access to Siwa was
difficult for Europeans. To the east are two main villages on the north
by a mountain hollowed tombs and quarries, and between the two
peoples the ruins of a large temple, known for Omn-Beydah.
The ground and the lakes are salt impregnated and petrified shells
filled with stone, but sources are freshwater. The city gives its name to
the Siwa oasis. The products are the same as those of other oases, as
well as objects of commerce, and civilization is not more advanced or
more regulated public administration. The city is built on a conical hill
looks like a beehive. Near the town are the ruins of Omn-Beydah,
surrounded by palm groves. These ruins have the appearance of
Egyptian constructions. There is still a large door standing cover prints
and some parts of the building, the figures are there representing
Egyptian deities, placed on three superimposed records in procession,
with tributes to the supreme god Amun, the ram's head, sitting on a
ship where he received tributes and before him there a king kneeling.
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