The captain de Saint Exupéry
The captain de Saint Exupéry (father of Antoine, author of the little Prince) made an exploration trip in Sudan in 1898 and then to the...
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Blog de l'Association pour la connaissance de l'histoire du Royaume des Deux Déserts dont le centre politique était l'oasis de Siwa.
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Hansjoachim von der Esch in Siwa
Hansjoachim von der Esch was a German explorer in Egypt and Libya. From 1929 to 1939 he worked representing a German enterprise in Egypt....
Map of Bayle St. John's journey to the Siwa Oasis
Map of Bayle St. John's journey to the Siwa Oasis in 1847 and described in his book: "Adventures in the Libyan desert and the oasis of...
"The Old Town of Siwa"
Some doubts about the authorship of the text but it is, however, a source of 1827. "The Old Town of Siwa Deb Manley sends in an account...
List of the Toponyms of the Siwa Oasis
List of the Toponyms of the Siwa Oasis reproduced on "Voyage à Méroé, au fleuve blanc, au-delà de Fâzoql dans le midi du royaume de...
Siwa, Oasis de Jupiter Ammon, Désert de Libye
"Siwa, Oasis de Jupiter Ammon, Désert de Libye" is an article published by Byron Khun de Prorok in the magazine "Le Monde Colonial...
The Third Zarzura Expedition, organized by Dorothy Clayton East Clayton widow of the late Sir Robert
_____________________________________________________________ Lady Dorothy Clayton’s posthumous memoir of her search for Zerzura, which...
Zarzura's door
A screenshot from the game "Lost Chronicles of Zerzura" The legend of the white city lost in the sands of the western Egyptian desert...
Old map of Alexander's Expeditions by A. Ortelius.
Date of the first edition: 1595 -Date of this map: 1601 Size: 36 x 47cm (14 x 18.2 inches) Verso text: Latin From: Theatrum Orbis...
Memory concerning the Western oases with a description of Siwa from the ''citizen Ripault
the citizen Ripault (we are at the time of the French revolution) had presented to the Institute of Egypt (founded by Napoleon) a memory...
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