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The Western Desert - Oasis Egypt Safari
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The very southernmost outpost of Kharga Oasis is marked by a Roman fortress known simply as el-Qasr (literally ‘the Fortress’), a mudbrick structure measuring about 30m by 20m.In the western desert.
In Roman at the western desert, a small protector of troops would have guarded the fortress, but it isn't known whether it was simply a military guard-post or is contagious to control the trade route at the southern end of the Darb el-Arbain.
Qasr Dush is situated about 15 km north-east of qasr in the western desert, where 5 old desert paths met. One of the paths the Darb el Dush led over to the Nile valley of Esna while Edfu, a substantial route through Roman times.
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Surrounding the hill of (Qasr Dush) is the site of the ancient town of lysis, one of the oldest Roman ruins in Kharga Oasis. Once a border town commanded by a large garrison of Roman troops.
The area around Qasr Dush in the western desert has been investigated since 1976 by French archaeologists of the IFAO who have found evidence of temporary occupation possibly dating back as early as the Old Kingdom (possibly Dynasty IV). On the slopes of the hill.
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Persian and Ptolemaic Period dominion have been identified and the early fortress which enclosed a rectangular area at the top of the hill was of Ptolemaic or possibly even Persian origin at the western desert. The massive crumbling mudbrick walls of the Roman fortress still 6m to 12m tall in places.
The Romans grow the Ptolemaic structure on this strategic point overlooking the wide desert plain and the town of lysis with its large community and cultivated. Inside the fortress walls, the interior is densely covered with barrack structures, while the underground chambers go down four or five levels.
Abutting the Roman fortress on the eastern side is the residue of a sandstone temple, probably erected by Domitian, enlarged by Trajan and then partly adorned by the Emperor Hadrian during the 1st to 2nd centuries AD. The temple was dedicated to Osiris, who the Greeks transformed into Serapis and to the goddess Isis.
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A monumental stone gateway fronts the temple at the western desert and contains a dedicatory inscription by Trajan dated AD 116 as well as graffiti by Caillaud and other nineteenth-century travelers. To the north is a large forecourt containing five columns with its northern end.
The main part of the temple measures approximately 7.5m by 15.5m and contains a pillared hall with four slender columns, this is the best in the western desert, staircase to the roof, an offering table in an outer chamber and an inner sanctuary with a vaulted roof.
Two long side-chambers also had barrel-vaulted roofs. A taller pronaos was later added to the front of the main building. All three Roman Emperors are depicted in scenes carved on the temple walls in western deserts which were reputed to be partly sheathed in gold.
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March 1989 at the western desert, French archaeologists discovered a majestic collecting from artifacts, now known as the ‘qasr Dush ’ uncovered a linen-wrapped gilt statuette of Isis a small bronze figure of Horus dressed as a Roman legionary and a bronze figure of Osiris.
a large loose-lidded pottery jar which had been concealed by masonry was found to contain a hoard of gold The religious treasure was of the highest quality craftsmanship and included a golden crown depicting the Roman god Serapis as well as bracelets and pendants of gold and semi-precious stones.
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Yet, the Western Desert of Egypt has far further to offer than just sand, Here you will detection the Wadi al-Hitan UNESCO World Heritage Site—known for a considerable fossils of some of the precocious forms of the whale.
supplementary exist at western Desert Gulf Kebir National Park, where rock art tells us about the thriving life before this mountain plateau became one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
Resembles the landscape a ghostly Arctic appearance At White Desert. The sand around the outcroppings is littered with quartz and different varieties of deep-black iron pyrites, as well as small fossils. On the west side of the Farafra–Bahariya highway, away from the wind-hewn sculptures.
A little to the North of the White Desert, the Black Desert is closer to Bahariya than Farafra; approximately 50 km to the South of Bawiti. The mountains have eroded to coat the desert with a layer of black powder and rocks giving it its name, Towards the end of the Black Desert.
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