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Dakhla Oasis
الواحات الداخلة
Oasis
View to Dakhla Oasis' old town, taken by Vyacheslav Argenberg
View to Dakhla Oasis' old town, taken by Vyacheslav Argenberg
Nickname: 
Inner oasis
Dakhla Oasis is located in Egypt
Dakhla Oasis
Dakhla Oasis
Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 25°29′29.6″N 28°58′45.2″E / 25.491556°N 28.979222°E / 25.491556; 28.979222
CountryEgypt
GovernorateNew Valley Governorate
Area
 • Total2,000 km2 (800 sq mi)
 • Land1,500 km2 (600 sq mi)
Population
 (2002)
 • Total75,000
 • Ethnicities
Egyptians
Time zoneUTC+2 (EST)
Capital'Ain Basil (Balat) (c. 2500 BCE-c. 1500 BCE)
Mut (c. 1500 BCE- )
The center-pivot irrigation in the Dakhla Oasis.

Dakhla Oasis or Dakhleh Oasis (Egyptian Arabic: الواحات الداخلة El Waḥat el Daḵla, pronounced [elwæ'ħæ:t edˈdæ:xlæ], "the inner oases"), is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert. Dakhla Oasis lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) from the Nile and between the oases of Farafra and Kharga. It measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.[1]

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to find is not to be believed." As a result of his excavations at the Dakhla Oasis, in 2015 Olaf E. Kaper of the University of Leiden argued that the Lost...

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period inhabitants of Lower Nubia, and the Kellis population in the Dakhla Oasis.: 219–20  Among the recent groups, the Badari markers were morphologically...

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from the site of Ayn al-Gazzarin, both in the Dakhla Oasis. At the time the tablets were made, Dakhla was located far from centers of papyrus production...

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African theatre of World War I

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These include S. s. sokotrae on Socotra Island, S. s. dakhlae in the Dakhla Oasis, Egypt and S. s. thome on São Tomé Island. The laughing dove is a long-tailed...

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Shoshenq I

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List of Coptic monasteries

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Michael Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Dakhla Oasis) - (Destroyed) St. Matthew Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Dakhla Oasis) - (Destroyed) St. Anthony Coptic...

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generic name, "Igai", refers to a mysterious "lord of the oasis" worshipped around the Dakhla and Kharga Oases during the Old Kingdom of Egypt. The specific...

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Theban Triad

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exist throughout Egypt, such as the one at Deir el-Hagar, close to the Dakhla Oasis. Amenhotep I, the pharaoh who built Karnak, was often depicted amongst...

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Ramesses IX

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Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. Finally, his name has been found at the Dakhla Oasis in Western Egypt and Gezer at Canaan which may suggest a residual Egyptian...

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