Kharga Oasis - Archaeological Sites

Archaeological Sites

The Temple of Hibis is a Saite-era temple founded by Psamtik II, which was erected largely ca. 500 BC. It is located about 2 kilometres north of modern Kharga, in a palm-grove. There is a second 1st millennium BC temple in the southern most part of the oasis at Dush. An ancient Christian cemetery at Al-Bagawat also functioned at Kharga Oasis from the 3rd to the 7th century AD. It is one of the earliest and best preserved Christian cemeteries in the ancient world.

The first list of sites is due to Ahmad Fakhri but serious archaeological work was initiated by IFAO's director Serge Sauneron only in 1976.

Sites

(with wikimedia image sub-categories under "Category:Kharga Oasis" of external link below)

• Ain el-Beleida (Roman)
• Ain el-Labakha (Roman)
• Ain Manawir (Persian, Roman)
• Ain Shams el-Din (Coptic church)
• Ain el-Tarakwa (Roman)
• Ain Tauleib (Roman)
• Deir Mustafa Kashef (Coptic monastery)
• Deir el-Munira (Roman)
• Gabbanat el-Bagawat - Coptic cemetery
• Gebel el-Teir (Rock inscriptions starting from prehistoric times)
• El-Nadura (Roman)
• Qasr el-Dabashiya (Roman)
• Qasr Dush (Greco-Roman)
• Qasr el-Ghweita (Late Period)
• Qasr el-Gibb (Roman)
• Qasr el-Zayyan (Greco-Roman)
• Sumeira (Roman)
• Temple of Hibis (Persian - c. 500s BC.)
• Umm el-Dabadib (Roman)
• Umm Mawagir (Middle Kingdom, 2nd Intermediate Period)