Archaeological sites[edit]

The El Bagawat Christian cemetery at Kharga Oasis

The Temple of Hibis is a Saite-era temple founded by Psamtik II, which was erected
largely c. 500 BC. It is located about 2 kilometres north of modern Kharga, in a
palm-grove.[11] There is a second 1st millennium BC temple in the southernmost part
of the oasis at Dush.[12] An ancient Christian cemetery at El Bagawat also
functioned at the 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
began in 1976 with Serge Sauneron, director of the Institut Franais d'Archologie
Orientale.

Sites
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 (Prehistoric times)
El Nadura (Roman)
Qasr El Dabashiya (Roman)
Qasr Dush (Greco-Roman)
Qasr El Ghuweita (Late Period)
Qasr El Gibb (Roman)
Qasr El Zayyan (Greco-Roman)
Sumeira (Roman)
Temple of Hibis (Persian - c. 6th century BC.)
Umm El Dabadib (Roman)
Umm Mawagir (Middle Kingdom, 2nd Intermediate Period)
Meteorite dagger[edit]
In June 2016, a report emerged that attributed the dagger buried with Pharaoh
Tutankhamun to an iron meteorite, with similar proportions of metals (iron, nickel
and cobalt) to one discovered near and named after Kharga Oasis. The dagger's metal
was presumably from the same meteor shower. [13]

Further reading[edit]
Frank Bliss: Artisanat et artisanat dart dans les oasis du dsert occidental
gyptien. Frobenius-Institut, Kln, 1998.
Frank Bliss: Wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Wandel im Neuen Tal gyptens. ber die
Auswirkungen gyptischer Regionalentwicklungspolitik in den Oasen der Westlichen
Wste. Bonn, 1989.
Dunand, Franoise; Ibrahim, Bahgat Ahmed; Hussein, Magdi (2008). Le matriel
archologique et les restes humains de la ncropole d'An el-Labakha (oasis de
Kharga) (in French). Cyble. ISBN 978-2-915840-07-0.
See also[edit]
Temple of Hibis
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Ball, J. 1900. Kharga Oasis: its topography and geology. Survey
Department, Public Works Ministry, Geological Survey Report 1899, Part II. Cairo:
National Printing Department, 116 pp.
Jump up ^ Introduction to Kharga Oasis
^ Jump up to: a b "Climate: Kharga - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate
table". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
Jump up ^ "Kharga Climate Normals 19611990". National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
Jump up ^ Jobbins, Jenny. "The 40 days' nightmare," in Al-Ahram, 1319 November
2003, Issue No. 664. Published in Cairo, Egypt.
Jump up ^ Burr, J. Millard and Robert O. Collins, Darfur: The Long Road to
Disaster, Markus Wiener Publishers: Princeton, 2006, ISBN 1-55876-405-4, pp. 6-7.
Jump up ^ Smith, Dr. Stuart Tyson. Nubia: History, University of California Santa
Barbara, Department of Anthropology,
<http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/stsmith/research/nubia_history.html>. Retrieved
January 21, 2009.
Jump up ^ Richardson, Dan; (1991). EGYPT: the Rough Guide. Harrap Colombus Ltd,
Kent. Page ii.
Jump up ^ Browne, Travels in Africa, Egypt and Syria, from the years 1792 to 1798
(London, 1799), pp. 185
Jump up ^ L. P. Kirwan, Thompson, Gertrude Caton-(18881985), rev. Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
Jump up ^ "Egyptian Monuments: Hibis", accessed 28 November 2008
Jump up ^ "New Persian temple found at Kharga" Egyptology News 22 February 2007,
accessed 28 November 2008
Jump up ^ King Tutankhamun buried with dagger made of space iron, study finds, ABC
News Online, 2 June 2016
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kharga Oasis.
Wilford, John Noble (6 September 2010) "Desert Roads Lead to Discovery in Egypt"
The New York Times
Information on the forts and archaeological work
Travel guide
(in German) Kharga on Wikivoyage