The Fortress of the Sands
Information search on the Siwa Oasis in the Egyptian texts prior to the 26th Dynasty: Georges Daressy, in a 1926 article on ASAE XVI...
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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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Umm ‘Ubayda Temple (Wenamun funerary Temple) in Siwa oasis
The first photographs available, to my knowledge, of the temple are the two taken by Hermann Burchardt on his journey to the Ammon Oasis...
Du Cameroun au Caire par le désert de Libye
The Journey of Exploration of Bruneau De Laborie in 1923 from Cameroon to Cairo via the Libyan desert (and Siwa). #Siwa #BruneaudeLaborie
The diatribe on which of the two temples is that of the Oracle of Siwa
Until the visit of the Scottish traveler James Hamilton in 1852 all modern travelers (Browne, Horneman, Cailliaud and following) believed...
Martin Briggs' book "Through Egypt in war time"
Martin Briggs' book "Through Egypt in war time" describes Egypt as seen by the author during the First World War and the English Campaign...
Greek inscriptions on the Falesia of Gebel Dakhrur
In the same walk on the mountain of Dakhrur I also found that some of the Greek inscriptions on the Falesia published by Ahmed Fakhry and...
Graffito of 1899 engraved by Baron Von Grünau at Gebel Dakhrur
In the last few days I took a walk on the mountain of Dakhrur in search of the graffito with the name of Cailliaud seen by some of the...
Luis Rivet at Siwa in 1953
Taken from the magazine "Le Canal" n ° 7 August 1953 related to first trip by Luis Rivet at Siwa. I thank Jean Pierre Connan for the...
For a Tuscan, since many years in France, a double pride
With the Franco-Tuscany expedition in Egypt, directed by Jean-François Champollion and Ippolito Rosellini, the scientific Egyptology...
Siwa in Medieval Trade Route Networks
Medieval Trade Route Networks: The site reports the commercial traffic in the world known during the Middle Ages (11th -12th century)...
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