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Place in Matrouh, Egypt
Siwa Oasis
واحة سيوة
Clockwise from top: Shali Mountain village, Ruins of the Old Siwa, Lake Aftnas, Pigeon Towers, oasis near Siwa.
The Siwa Oasis (Arabic: واحة سيوةWāḥat Sīwah[ˈwæːħetˈsiːwæ]) is an urban oasis in Egypt. It is situated between the Qattara Depression and the Great Sand Sea in the Western Desert, 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of the Egypt–Libya border and 560 kilometres (350 mi) from the Egyptian capital city of Cairo.[1][2][3] It is famed from its role in ancient Egypt as the home to an oracle of Amun, the ruins of which are a popular tourist attraction, giving it the ancient name Oasis of Amun-Ra, after the major Egyptian deity.[4]
^Siwa, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007
^Bard, Kathryn A.; Shubert, Steven Blake, eds. (1999), Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, Routledge (UK), ISBN 978-0-415-18589-9
^Arnold, Dieter; Strudwick, Helen; Strudwick, Nigel, eds. (2003), The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture, I B Tauris, ISBN 978-1-86064-465-8
The SiwaOasis (Arabic: واحة سيوة Wāḥat Sīwah [ˈwæːħet ˈsiːwæ]) is an urban oasis in Egypt. It is situated between the Qattara Depression and the Great...
Egypt. Born and raised in the remote settlement of the SiwaOasis (hence his epithet Bayek of Siwa), he dedicates his life to ensuring the security and...
Look up siwa or Siwa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Siwa may refer to: SiwaOasis, an oasis in Egypt Siwa, Panchthar, a Village Development Committee...
edge of the Qattara Depression, 75 km (47 mi) northeast of SiwaOasis, and belongs to Siwa District within Matrouh Governorate. It is connected to an...
Following its destruction, the temple gradually decayed and collapsed. In SiwaOasis, located Western Egypt, there remained a solitary oracle of Amun near...
Siwi (also known as Siwan or Siwa Berber; native name: Jlan n isiwan) is the easternmost Berber language, spoken in the western Egyptian desert by an estimated...
In ecology, an oasis (/oʊˈeɪsɪs/; pl.: oases /oʊˈeɪsiːz/) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment that sustains plant life and provides...
been sent by Cambyses II in order to subjugate the Oracle of Amun at the SiwaOasis. Around this time, Cambyses, who had succeeded Cyrus the Great as monarch...
shortly before his death to be interred in the temple of Zeus Ammon at SiwaOasis. Alexander, who requested to be referred to and perceived as the son of...
Smaller Berber communities are also found in Burkina Faso and Egypt's SiwaOasis. Descended from Stone Age tribes of North Africa, accounts of the Imazighen...
viewed as natural and compatible with traditional Muslim gender roles. The SiwaOasis was of special interest to anthropologists and sociologists because of...
includes the Moghra Oasis. SiwaOasis (Northwestern Egypt). The "Field of Trees", Siwa is an 80 by 20 kilometres (50 mi × 12 mi) oasis fed by permanent springs...
Alexander passed through Bahariya while returning from the oracle of Ammon at SiwaOasis. Excavations of the Greco-Roman necropolis found in 1995 and known as...
Later he accompanied Alexander during his journey to the Oracle in the SiwaOasis where he was proclaimed a son of Zeus. Ptolemy had his first independent...
Egyptian Berbers from the SiwaOasis in Egypt. A 2009 study by Coudray et al. recorded haplogroup U5 at 16.7% in the SiwaOasis in Egypt, whereas haplogroup...
the Oracle of Zeus-Ammon (Zeus represented with the Horns of Ammon) at SiwaOasis in the Libyan Desert. The term sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient...
sent an army of 50,000 troops west to the SiwaOasis with orders to conquer and enslave the Ammonians of Siwa and burn the oracle of their God Ammon (the...
western and northern Niger, northern Burkina Faso and Mauritania and the SiwaOasis of Egypt. There are also likely a few million speakers of Berber languages...
nekrostolisteis, as is attested to by the archaeological finds of the SiwaOasis, this particularly being an inscription dating to the 1st century CE....
Nobiin, but also Kenuzi. About 30,000 Egyptian Berbers living in the Siwaoasis and its surroundings speak Siwi language, which is a variety of the Berber...
this formation. The SiwaOasis in western Egypt lies about 100 km (62 mi) to the southeast in a similar depression. The Al Jaghbub Oasis was an important...
Great Oasis apparently is the oasis that Herodotus had in mind. However, the usual route from Egypt to the SiwaOasis was via the so-called Small Oasis; a...
Matrouh Governorate is part of Egypt's Western Desert, including the SiwaOasis, in antiquity known for its shrine to Amun. In the center of the Governorate...
gods at Memphis and went to consult the famous oracle of Amun-Ra at the SiwaOasis in the Libyan desert, at which he was pronounced the son of the deity...
a hypothetical federation spanning between the Canary Islands and the SiwaOasis, a large swathe of territory including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya...
the south lies the desert, with sand dunes for several hundred miles. SiwaOasis, a Senussi stronghold, lies 160 mi (260 km) south of Sollum on the edge...
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