In 2017 a cartoon character has an adventure in the Siwa Oasis and presents interesting drawings.
Evidently the authors have well interpreted the current state of our knowledge. Alix Senator was created by Jacques Martin in 1948. For...
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I propose this post from early 2018 again because I have more information about the spread of Christ
For those who still believe that Christianity has never arrived in Siwa. Belgrave says (Page 88): "Somewhere abaut the fourth century...
The first indisputable attestation of a Bishop in the Siwa Oasis
The first indisputable attestation of a Bishop in the Siwa Oasis is given by a recently identified text, a "Historia episcopatus...
Hermann Burchardt- first photos of Siwa available to my knowledge
The photos, realized in the spring of 1893 in the first trip of Hermann Burchardt, come directly from the archive of the "Ethnologisches...
Does the pilgrimage of the emperor of Mali, Mansa Musa, to Mecca also pass by the Oasis of Siwa?
The precise route is not certain but many sources mention the oasis of Augila as a stop on the runway for Cairo and, in this case, the...
The Geological Map of Egypt published in 1910
The Geological Map of Egypt published in 1910 is also interesting for the toponym of the Siwa Oasis in this period. link to access the...
RIKLI, M., Durch die Marmarica zur Oase Siwa 1929
Some photographs of Siwa and Gara in 1929 taken from an article on the study of vegetation in Marmarica and in the two oases. RIKLI, M.,...
Article on the occupation of Siwa by Italian troops in 1942
Article on the occupation of Siwa by Italian troops in 1942 taken from the French magazine "L'illustation" of 7 November 1942. There are...
Henry Breasted (A History of Egypt)
Henry Breasted, a great Egyptologist of the beginning of the last century, writes one of the first general works of Egyptian history (A...
The World Map of Fra Mauro
In the World Map of Fra Mauro, the most important and complete of the Middle Ages realized in Venice by the monk Camaldolese around 1450...
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