Mūṭ - Mūṭ

Old village and new town of Mūṭ
Courage · ‏موط‎
Mothis · Μωθις, Μωθιτῶν πόλις
GovernorateNew valley
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Courage

courage (Arabic:موط‎, Courage), also City of ed-Dāchla (Arabic:مدينة الداخلة‎, Madinat ad-Dachla), is the main town of egyptian Sink ed-Dāchla in the governorate New valley. The city's attractions include its old town and the ethnographic museum. With several simple hotels, it is also a starting point for excursions into the ed-Dāchla valley.

background

history

Mūṭ is that Administrative center and today the most populous city in the valley ed-Dāchla. The place has been inhabited since ancient times and is probably the oldest continuously populated place in the valley.

The Surname the city has been occupied since Pharaonic times. It was called then Pa courage (P3-Mw.t).[1] In Greek and Roman times it was called Mothis (Greek Μωθις, Μαθων, Μωθιτῶν πόλις), from which today's Mūṭ arose. The name of the city, which had the rank of a polis (city), is documented several times on papyri from the 2nd to 7th centuries.[2][3] The administrative area of ​​the city also included the ancient Kellis (Ismant el-Charab).

In the area of ​​the Seth temple, the area is also called Mūṭ el-Charāb (Arabic:موط الخراب‎, „the ruined Mūṭ“), Ceramic shards were found that date back to before the 6th dynasty.[4] A first temple complex was in the 18./19. Dynasty (New Kingdom) created. Other finds from the temple area date from the late period (21st – 26th dynasty) and from the Roman period. In the 19th century, the so-called Dachla stele was also found here, which dates from the time of the founder of the 22nd or Libyan dynasty, Scheschonq I. (10th century BC), and who ruled over all of Egypt. He also paid more attention to the oases in the desert after, according to the stele, he ed-Dāchla found desolate, and he sent the Wayheset officer there to put things in order.[5] On a recently found relief is king Psammetich I., Founder of the 26th Dynasty, portrayed sacrificing to Re-Harachte and Atum.[6]

To the antique Roman settlement, which could possibly have been in the area of ​​today's old town, belonged to cemeteries such as the one in Bir esch-Shaghala in the west of today's city. The Roman State Manual Notitia dignitatum also names the location as the location of the cohort Cohors scutata civium Romanorum (Not. Dign. Or. 31:59), which included about 400 soldiers. The military camp could not yet be located.

In the report of the Arabic-Spanish Historianel-Bakrī (1014-1094) the city was not mentioned. It was only mentioned in the list of places of the Egyptian historian Ibn Duqmāq.[7] He stated that there were vineyards and rice was grown here. Until around 1800 the residential buildings were located exclusively in the old town. Only in the following period did the city expand, in some cases considerably, to the north and northeast.

1819 visited the Italian Bernardino Drovetti (1776-1852) the city.[8] He reported that the settlement was on a hill surrounded by date palms that stood out from the landscape. Nearby were the ruins of an ancient temple within a perimeter wall and a spring pond eight feet deep. For the year 1825 the British gave John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875) indicated that 400 male residents lived here.[9] The German Africa explorer Gerhard Rohlfs found fragments of sandstone pillars within the temple area.[10]

On January 1, 1894, the British Sir Henry Lyons (1864–1944) discovered two steles from the time of Scheschonq I and the Pianchi (25th Dynasty) within the temple ruins. He later bequeathed one to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The first stele dates from the fifth year of Scheschonq I's reign and claims to be a source. Eubaste, prophet of Seth, was shown before Wayheset, governor of the two countries of the oasis and son of the prince of Ma.[5] The second stele comes from the troop commander Esdḥout.[11] On May 22, 1908, the American Egyptologist visited Herbert Eustis Winlock (1884–1950) the temple and described it briefly. It had a four-meter-thick enclosure wall, the ancient spring with a diameter of about 40 meters had dried up, and Winlock named ceramic finds.[12]

The German ethnologist Frank Bliss described the Genealogies several families, which only reached back to around 1700. According to tradition, the Salām family has lived at the highest point of the city hill since "Roman times". They can look back on five to six generations and report that they come from Oase itself. The oldest immigrant families are those of the Bsaīs and Garas. After them came other families from Upper Egypt. The last family, the Firgānī, settled here around 1800. In the first half of the 20th century, two Christian families, ʿĪsā and Ḥanna, also immigrated. In contrast to other localities, there are no other homesteads in the area around Mūṭ.

British cartographer Hugh John Llewellyn Beadnell (1874–1944) gave 1,078 inhabitants for 1897.[13] In 1983 9,795 inhabitants lived here,[14] 2006 19.616.[15]

orientation

City map of Mūṭ

Mūṭ is located on trunk road 10, which connects the sinks in the Western desert connects with each other. It reaches Mūṭ from the northeast. About 1.5 kilometers behind the city entrance you get to the first 1 Hospital Square(25 ° 29 ′ 45 ″ N.28 ° 59 ′ 12 ″ E), Arabic:ميدان المستشفى‎, Mīdān el-Mustashfā, and from now on the road, the Shāriʿ el-ʿĀschir min Ramaḍan (10th Ramadan Street), runs almost to the west. After about 800 meters you will reach the 2 Mīdān et-Taḥrīr(25 ° 29 ′ 42 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 47 ″ E), ‏ميدان التحرير‎, „Liberation Square". Shortly before reaching the square you drive on the 3 en-Naschwātī Mosque(25 ° 29 '43 "N.28 ° 58 ′ 51 ″ E), ‏مسجد النشواتي‎, Masǧid an-Nashwātī, and the central 1 Police station(25 ° 29 '43 "N.28 ° 58 ′ 49 ″ E) both of which are on the north side of the road.

In the north of Mīdān et-Taḥrīr, two roads lead out of town. In a north-westerly direction this is the trunk road to Qaṣr ed-Dāchla, which is called here Shariʿ eṯ-Ṯaura el-Charāʾ (road of the green revolution), and in a north-northeast direction the road to el-Hindāu.

The road to the southwest, the Shari el-Wādī el-Gadīd,شارع الوادي الجديد, After about 550 meters leads to the 4 Mīdān el-Asʿāf(25 ° 29 ′ 25 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 44 ″ E), ‏ميدان الاسعاف. From this place you can reach the after 200 meters in an easterly direction 5 Mīdān esch-Sheikh esch-Sharāwī(25 ° 29 ′ 25 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 50 ″ E), ‏ميدان الشيخ الشعراوي‎, „Sheikh esch-Sharāwī's place“, On the east side of which is the Anwar Hotel. If you follow the road north of the hotel in a north-easterly direction, you will come back to Hospital Square, past the ethnographic museum.

If one leaves the Mīdān el-Asʿāf in a south-westerly direction, later in a south-westerly direction, one arrives at the after 600 meters 6 Mīdān el-Gāmiʿ el-Gadīd(25 ° 29 ′ 10 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 39 ″ E), ‏ميدان الجامع الجديد‎, „New Mosque Square". Furthermore, the road leads to the ruins of Mūṭ el-Charāb and the guest house of King Faruq. To the east of the Mosque Square is the 1 Bus stop for the regular buses(25 ° 29 ′ 9 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 42 ″ E) and even further east the 1 Old town of Mūṭ(25 ° 29 ′ 11 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 48 ″ E).

getting there

In the street

Distances
Cairo750 km
Asyūṭ410 km
el-Chārga190 km
Farāfra230 km
Bāwīṭī410 km

The ed-Dāchla oasis is across highways from Asyūṭ above el-Chārga or from Luxor above el-Chārga reachable from. The trunk road from or to Luxor has been open to traffic since 2005.

By bus

The journey is usually made by bus from el-Chārga, Asyūṭ or Cairo out. The journey usually takes place in one-way buses operated by Upper Egypt Travel. Only the night buses to and from Cairo are air-conditioned (SuperJet, West Delta Travel).

The 2 Final stop of the public buses(25 ° 29 ′ 9 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 42 ″ E) in Mut is located east of Midan el-Gāmi ', Arabic:ميدان الجامع‎, Mīdān al-Gāmiʿ, „Mosque square“, Southwest of the city center. The ticket sales point in the north of the square to the left of the restaurant is open from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. A 3 another stop(25 ° 29 ′ 44 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 45 ″ E) Another stop for buses to el-Farāfra is in the north of Mīdān et-Tahrīr. This ticket booth opens one hour before the bus departs. Some long-distance buses do not start with courage, tickets can only be purchased on the bus and not at the ticket sales point. It is also not foreseeable whether there will still be free places in the buses that do not start with courage.

Of Asyūṭ From there, buses to el-Chārga depart at 11:00, 13:00, 15:00, 17:00 and 20:00 (the buses at 11:00 and 20:00 go to ed-Dāchla further). The ticket to el-Chārga costs around LE 30, the one to ed-Dāchla around LE 60 (as of 4/2015). The travel time from Asyūṭ off is about seven hours.

For the route El-Chārga-ed-Dāchla The following times apply: 01:00 (bus from Cairo), 14:00 and 23:00 (buses from Asyūṭ); the fare is around LE 30 (as of 4/2015), the journey time around 3 hours.

Buses go to courageously Farāfra – Bahrīya – Cairo at 6:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. the price for a ticket is around LE 40, LE 70 or LE 120 (as of 3/2017). The drive to el-Farāfra, el-Baḥrīya and Cairo takes 4, 7.5 and 12 hours, respectively. Buses to el-Chārga and Asyūṭ run at 6:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. At 19:00 and 20:00 there are buses Cairo above el-Chārga and Asyūṭ; the price for this is LE 120 (to Cairo).

Minibuses and service taxis drive to and from el-Chārga or. Farāfra. The central stop for this is in el-Chārga the Midan esch-Sha'ala (Arabic:ميدان السعلة‎, Mīdān al-Shaala); in courage of Midan al-Gāmi '(Arabic:ميدان الجامع‎, Mīdān al-Gāmiʿ). Taxis and pickups 4 Taxis to el-Qasr to el-Qaṣr drive north of the Midah et-Tahrir in the Sh. el-Wadi, minibuses 5 Minibuses to Balat and el-Baschandi after Balāṭ and el-Baschandī in the area of ​​the hospital.

By plane

Courage has the 6 Dakhla airportFlughafen Dakhla in der Enzyklopädie WikipediaFlughafen Dakhla (Q18206268) in der Datenbank Wikidata(IATA: DAK, ​25 ° 24 '42 "N.29 ° 0 ′ 11 ″ E) (Dakhla Airport) southwest of the city. Has due to low passenger numbers EgyptAir but the regular service stopped. Also Petroleum Air Services has stopped its charter flights, once a week, on Tuesday, to and from Cairo.

Alternatively, you can use the 7 El Kharga airportFlughafen El Kharga in der Enzyklopädie WikipediaFlughafen El Kharga im Medienverzeichnis Wikimedia CommonsFlughafen El Kharga (Q14209124) in der Datenbank Wikidata(IATA: UVL) about 10 kilometers north of the city el-Chārga at. Of Petroleum Air Services (Cairo, Nasr City, 5 Doctor Batrawy St., next to Genena Mall, Tel. 20 (0) 2 2403 2180) there are charter flights twice a week, on Sundays and Tuesdays, from Cairo to el-Chārga and back. The remaining 190 kilometers can be covered by taxi, buses or minibuses. Help is available from the el-Chārga tourist information center.

mobility

The Great Mosque in Courage

With buses

Local transport is not particularly well developed. The direction Tineida gets worse than the direction Qaṣr ed-Dāchla supported.

In addition to the long-distance buses, minibuses also run from ed-Dāchla to el-Chārga at 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., which return from el-Chārga around 2 p.m., but could be full. They begin their journey at Mīdān el-Gāmiʿ. They can also be used to get to the villages along the trunk road. In addition to minibuses, service taxis stop at Mīdān el-Gāmiʿ. Minibuses to Qaṣr ed-Dāchla cost LE 2 (as of 3/2009).

Minibuses after Balāṭ start from the central hospital (approx. LE 2 (as of 3/2009)).

With taxis

There are few taxis in the city, which are best ordered from the hotel or the tourist information office. The taxis, with which you can reach almost all places, cost around LE 200 to LE 400 a day. An all-terrain vehicle costs around LE 800 a day.

By bicycle

Bicycles can be borrowed from Abu Mohammed opposite the tourist information office and from the Gardens Hotel. The rent per day is LE 15 (as of 3/2008).

Tourist Attractions

Ethnographic Museum

Ethnographic Museum
Entrance to the museum

The interesting one 7 Ethnographic Museum(25 ° 29 ′ 28 ″ N.28 ° 59 ′ 2 ″ E), ‏متحف التراث الشعبي‎, Matḥaf at-Turāth al-Shaʿbī, is one of the few of its kind in Egypt and is a suitable complement to the visit of Qaṣr ed-Dāchla The museum is not open all the time. You can call the museum director, Mr Ibrāhīm Kāmil (Tel .: (0) 92 282 1769, Mobile: (0) 128 574 0789) and he will be at the museum a few minutes later. The entrance fee is around LE 10, and if you want, you can give a tip. The museum is located in the east of the city, east of the Dachla Club. The museum can be reached from Mīdān el-Asʿāf by walking east and passing the Anwar Hotel in the north. The museum is the city's most important attraction and should definitely be visited.

The museum is quite inconspicuous from the outside, it's just a concrete hall. Inside, however, it contains a replica of a traditional house. The tour starts right at the entrance: there is of course a traditional lock on the door. In addition, however, one relies more on a modern padlock. In the following, Mr. Kāmil explains the design and exhibits of the museum in brisk English.

First you get to a small anteroom. Behind it follows the Salamlik, the men's reception area and lounge area. On the right side of the house is the Haramlik, the area for women and children. In the area of ​​the salamlik there are models of a water wheel and a mill. In the niches on the sides and the front there are groups of figures made of clay, created by the artist Mabruk out el-Chārga and are based on scenes from everyday life. At the front there is, for example, the holding of a court.

The walls were used to accommodate a wide variety of exhibits and pictures from everyday life. These include traditional costumes of the women with coins from different villages, which were especially worn at festivals. The predominant color is black. Of course, the farmers' everyday clothing is not missing either. Women's accessories include fans (Marwaha), Make-up vessels and of course jewelry such as nose rings (Shanifa), Bangles (Asura), Anklets (Hagala) and headdress (Quickly).

Wickerwork includes carpets, baskets (Maqtaf) and mats for the transport of clay (Bursch el-Arusa, Bursch et-Tīn). Elongated water containers are made of red ceramic (Garra), Water filter (Turschīya) and tall pitchers (Ballas). The exhibition also includes agricultural utensils such as tools for growing dates, equipment for dividing water and traps (Fachch). A fireplace was also built in the rear of the museum.

Old town of Mūṭ

Old town of Mut
Ruins of the old town

The one that is visible from afar and is situated on a hill 8 Old town of Mūṭ(25 ° 29 ′ 11 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 48 ″ E) is largely uninhabited today and is in ruins. The multi-storey adobe buildings stand on narrow streets. They only have small windows. Sometimes houses also cover the alleys. The whole thing was surrounded by a defensive wall. There is a sheikh tomb to the west of the area. In the north of the old town is the old mosque.

Southwest of the city

Courage Tourist Village

The one by the architect famous for his clay architecture Hassan Fathy (1900–1989) designed 9 Courage Tourist Village(25 ° 29 ′ 20 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 38 ″ E) was never completed and is decaying.

Great mosque

To the west of the old town, near the bus terminus, was a new mosque, the 10 Great mosque(25 ° 29 ′ 9 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 40 ″ E), ‏المسجد الكبير‎, al-Masǧid al-Kabīr, erected with a minaret and a central dome.

Mūṭ el-Charāb

Ruins of Mūṭ el-Charāb

Coming from the Great Mosque, walk / drive in a south-westerly direction along the road to Dakhla Airport. After 500 meters you reach the field of ruins 11 Mūṭ el-Charāb, the ruined Mūṭ, which is on the northwest side of the road. Unfortunately, in the last few years a fence has been put in place around the excavation site.

The once largest temple complex in the valley was located here. The mud brick enclosing wall is the most striking relic today, measures around 240 × 180 meters and is up to 5 meters thick and 8 meters high. The area was already in use in the Old Kingdom. The Sandstone temple for the god Seth, God of foreign lands, deserts and oases, and for Amun-Re was in the 18./19. Dynasty established and was also in the late period, as is the case with finds from the 21st – 26th centuries. Dynasty document, and intensively used and decorated up to the Greco-Roman times. Looters did a great job. Today the temple is almost completely demolished and the few architectural fragments that have been found so far are not enough to be able to reconstruct the building and its architectural history. The god Seth was not only here, but also in the temples of ʿAin Birbīya, Deir el-Ḥagar and Ismant el-Charab adored.

A few graves have been found outside the southern enclosure wall. Another archaeological site in the area around Mūṭ from Roman times is located in 12 Biʾr esch-shaghāla(25 ° 29 ′ 24 ″ N.28 ° 57 ′ 54 ″ E)reached from Mīdān el-Asʿāf.

Guest house

300 meters further, almost at the southwest end of town Fārūq I., Egyptian king from 1936 to 1952 13 Guest house(25 ° 28 '48 "N.28 ° 58 ′ 16 ″ E) erect. It is now owned by the state and is used for selected guests of the state or governorate. It is therefore not accessible.

In the north of the city

The antiquities administration plans since 2004, a new one archaeological museum in ed-Dāchla to build. The Ahmed Fakhry Desert Center is in collaboration with the Heinrich Barth Institute arise. A place north of Mūṭ is planned as the location. So far there is only the plot, the completion is undetermined.

activities

Culture

Safaris

Cacti on the edge of the old town of Mut
Water distribution system in the southwest of Mut

Suitable times for safaris are October to April.

A safari in the Gilf Kebir lasts from ed-Dachla from at least 10–12 days.

All-terrain vehicles (4 × 4)

There are relatively many owners of off-road vehicles in Mut and the surrounding area.

Some providers:

  • Youssef Zeydan, Bedouin Camp el-Dohous, Tel .: (0) 92 285 0480, Mobile: (0) 100 622 1359.

shop

Fruit and vegetable market

There are individual shops on the north side of the trunk road in the area of ​​the central hospital. There's one to the southeast behind the hospital on the side street across from the petrol station 1 Fruit and vegetable market(25 ° 29 ′ 38 ″ N.28 ° 59 ′ 19 ″ E).

kitchen

Restaurants in the city center

  • 1  Dawia restaurant (‏مطعم ضاوية‎, Maṭʿam Ḍāwīya), Midan el-Tahrir (north of the square). The former restaurant is only operated as a café (as of 4/2015).(25 ° 29 ′ 44 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 44 ″ E)
  • 2  Shahab restaurant (‏مطعم شهاب‎, Maṭʿam Shahāb), Midan el-Tahrir (north of the square, south of the Dawia). The very "local" restaurant offers rice, soups, vegetables, chicken, kebabs and kofta.(25 ° 29 '43 "N.28 ° 58 ′ 45 ″ E)
  • 3  Anwar Paradise, Midan el-Sheikh el-Sharawi, courage (right next to the Hotel Anwar). The restaurant is closed (as of 4/2015)..(25 ° 29 ′ 25 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 51 ″ E)
  • 4  Abū Zeid Qalamūnī cafeteria, Midan el-Gami '. Simple dishes like Fūl and Taʿamīya. The cafeteria is mainly used by locals.(25 ° 29 ′ 5 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 43 ″ E)

Furthermore, the hotels have el-Negoom, Mebarez and el-Forsan about restaurants.

On the Qaṣr ed-Dāchla highway

There are several restaurants on the Sh. El-Thaura el-Khadra (Arabic:شارع الثورة الخضراء‎, Shariʿ aṯ-Ṯaura al-Kharāʾ), following the trunk road Qaṣr ed-Dāchla or. el-Farāfra. They are all on the west side of the street and belong to members of the same family.

Restaurants in the east of the city

accommodation

Cheap

  • 1  Al-Ganain Hotel (‏فندق الجناين‎, Funduq al-Hanāin, Gardens Hotel), Sh. el-Ganein, courage (West side of the street). Tel.: 20 (0)92 282 1577, Email: . This is an inexpensive and very basic hotel that time has not gone by without a trace. The hotel has a small garden, a roof terrace and differently equipped rooms. The prices for 1, 2 and 3-bed rooms with outdoor / indoor bathroom are without breakfast LE 12/15, LE 16/25 and LE 18/24 (as of 3/2009).(25 ° 29 ′ 22 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 49 ″ E)
  • 2  Anwar Hotel (‏فندق انور‎, Funduq Anwar), Midan el-Sheikh el-Sharawi, courage, ‏ميدان الشيخ الشعراوي‎. Tel.: 20 (0)92 282 0070, (0)92 282 1566, Mobile: 20 (0)128 327 8732. The hotel has simple, clean two-, three- and four-bed rooms with a bathroom, some of them with air conditioning. The prices including breakfast are LE 20 for a single room and LE 35 for a double room; there is a discount for students (as of 2/2006).(25 ° 29 ′ 25 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 51 ″ E)

medium

  • 3  El-Forsan Hotel (‏فندق الفرسان‎, Funduq al-Fursan), Sh. el-Wadi el-Gadid, Mout (close to the bus terminus). Tel.: 20 (0)92 282 1343, Mobile: 20 (0)100 614 0949, Fax: 20 (0)92 282 1347, Email: . The 1-star hotel has 1-bed, 2-bed and 3-bed rooms, but they are equipped differently: the better rooms have air conditioning, TV, telephone and refrigerator; simple rooms only have an indoor bathroom and very simple rooms have a shared bathroom outside the room. The hotel has a garden, a restaurant, a cafeteria and a small internet café (LE 10 per hour). The costs without breakfast for a single room are LE 35 (air conditioning, TV, telephone and refrigerator), LE 25 (indoor bathroom) and LE 16.50 (shared bathroom) and for a double room LE 60, LE 45 or LE 25. Breakfast costs LE 5. The costs for lunch and dinner depend on requirements, approx. LE 20 (as of 2/2006).(25 ° 29 ′ 15 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 38 ″ E)
  • 4  Mebarez Tourist Hotel (‏فندق مبارز السياحي‎, Funduq Mibāriz as-Siyāhīy), Sh. El-Thaura el-Khadra, Mout, ‏شارع الثورة الخضراء‎ (at the exit to el-Qasr). Tel.: 20 (0)92 282 1523, (0)92 282 1524, Fax: 20 (0)92 282 1524. The 1-star hotel has clean two-bed rooms with a bathroom, TV, air conditioning and refrigerator. The hotel has a restaurant, a garden and a swimming pool. The price including breakfast is LE 65 in a single room and LE 85 in a double room (two people). Lunch and dinner are available for LE 25 (as of 2/2006). The hotel has a small internet café (LE 15 per hour).(25 ° 29 ′ 54 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 32 ″ E)
  • 5  El Negoom Tourist Hotel (‏فندق النجوم‎, Funduq an-Nuǧūm), Sh. Imām Mālik, Mout, ‏شارع إمام مالك‎ (in the district of el-Horteiya, southeast behind the tourist information). Tel.: 20 (0)92 282 0014, (0)92 282 2791, Fax: 20 (0)92 282 3084. The unclassified, very popular and clean 1-star hotel has 10 single, 20 two-bed and five 3-bed rooms with bathroom, air conditioning, balcony, TV, telephone and refrigerator. The prices including breakfast are depending on the room size for a 1-, 2- or 3-bed room LE 80-120, LE 130-150 and LE 200. Lunch and dinner are offered for LE 30 (as of 9/2012) . Free wifi on the ground floor.(25 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 44 ″ E)

Upscale

In the courage itself there are no hotels that meet high standards. More upscale hotels can be found in Qaṣr ed-Dāchla and Budchulū.

Remarks

The camps (Bedouin Camp el-Dohous, Elias Camp, Bedouin Oasis Village Camp) and the hostel Sol Y Mar Mut Inn on the trunk road between Mūṭ and el-Qaṣr are in the article ed-Dāchla listed.

The completion of the 14 Courage Tourist Village(25 ° 29 ′ 20 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 38 ″ E) of the famous architect Hassan Fathy (1900–1989) northeast of the El Forsan Hotel is indefinite.

health

See the comments under Egypt.

Important hospitals

Pharmacies

  • 3  Pharmacy Dr. Husein Abdallah (in the north of Tahrir Square, west side of the trunk road, south of the en-Nur restaurant). (25 ° 29 '43 "N.28 ° 58 ′ 44 ″ E)

Practical advice

Tourist information

Antiquities Authority

  • 5  Antiquities Authority (‏مكتب الآثار‎, Maktab al-Aṯār) (about 400 meters east of the hospital). Tel.: (0)92 282 0640, (0)92 282 0452, Mobile: (0)128 355 6399 (Kāmil Aḥmad Bayūmī). The Coptic Islamic Department, headed by Mr. Kāmil Aḥmad Bayūmī, is located in the basement. The pharaonic department is located on the upper floor.(25 ° 29 ′ 50 ″ N.28 ° 59 ′ 29 ″ E)

Currency Exchange

  • 2  Bank Misr, Sh. el-Wadi el-Gadid (Arabic:شارع الوادي الجديد‎, Shariʿ al-Wādī al-Ǧadīd (south of the Midan at-Tahrir). The bank has an ATM. Maestro is accepted.Open: Sunday to Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.(25 ° 29 ′ 39 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 45 ″ E)

Credit card usage

The hotels do not accept credit cards! Use the above bank.

police

  • Tourist police (west of the antiquities authority). Tel.: (0)92 282 1687.

Government and city administration

The buildings of the government (Governorate Building) and city administration (City Council) are located opposite the police headquarters.

Gas stations

Petrol stations are located along the trunk road:

Post office and telephone offices

  • 7  Main post office (72711), Mīdān al-Ǧāmiʿ al-Ǧadīd (New Mosque Sq.), ‏ميدان الجامع الجديد‎ (south behind the Great Mosque). Open: Every day except Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.(25 ° 29 ′ 7 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 39 ″ E)

There are telephone offices in various parts of the city.

Internet cafes

All internet cafés work with modems:

  • Mebarez Hotel. LE 15 per hour (as of 3/2008).
  • El-Forsan Hotel. LE 10 per hour (as of 3/2008).
  • 8  Moot Information Center, Midan at-Tahrir, ‏ميدان التحرير‎. LE 3 per hour (as of 3/2008).(25 ° 29 ′ 41 ″ N.28 ° 58 ′ 45 ″ E)
  • 9  Dream Net (in the building of the Shahrzad Restaurant, west side of the side street south of Hospital Square). Open: Closed for lunch.(25 ° 29 ′ 42 ″ N.28 ° 59 ′ 12 ″ E)
  • 10  Nameless internet café (a little further south of the Dream Net, side street to the west). (25 ° 29 ′ 35 ″ N.28 ° 59 ′ 9 ″ E)

trips

literature

  • Bliss, Frank: Economic and social change in the “New Valley” of Egypt: on the effects of Egyptian regional development policy in the oases of the western desert. Bonn: Political working group for schools, 1989, Contributions to cultural studies; 12th, ISBN 978-3921876145 , Pp. 13, 99 f.
  • Hope, Colin A.: Egypt and Libya: Excavations at Mut el-Kharab in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis. In:The Artefact: Pacific Rim archeology, ISSN0044-9075, Vol.24 (2001), Pp. 29–45, PDF. The file is 1.3 MB in size.
  • Hope, Colin A.: The 2001–2 Excavations at Mut el-Kharab in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. In:The Artefact: Pacific Rim archeology, ISSN0044-9075, Vol.26 (2003), Pp. 51-76, PDF. The file is 2.1 MB in size.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Cruz-Uribe, Eugene: The demotic graffiti of Gebel Teir. San Antonio, Texas: Van Siclen Books, 1995, Hibis Temple Project; 2, P. 42, inscriptions Hibis 101.2 and Hibis 133.3.
  2. ↑Wagner, Guy: Les oasis d’Égypte à l’époque grecque, romaine et byzantine d’après les documents grecs. Le Caire: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1987, Bibliothèque d’étude ; 100, S. 189 f.
  3. ↑Eintrag Mothis (Mut) auf Trismegistos.org
  4. ↑Hope, Colin A. ; Bowen, Gillian E. ; Dolling, Wendy ; Healey, Emmeline ; Milner, James ; Kaper, Olaf E.: The Excavations at Mut el-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis in 2008. In:The Bulletin of the Australian Centre of Egyptology (BACE), ISSN1035-7254, Bd. 19 (2008), S. 49–71, PDF.
  5. ↑ 5,05,1 Spiegelberg, Wilhelm : Eine Stele aus der Oase Dachel, in: Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes (RecTrav), Band 21 (1899), S. 12–21, Tafel; Gardiner, Alan Henderson : The Dakhleh stela, in: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA), Band 19 (1933), S. 19–30, Tf. V–VII.
  6. ↑Siehe Grabungsberichte des Dakhleh Oasis Projects.
  7. ↑Ibn-Duqmāq, Ibrāhīm Ibn-Muḥammad : Kitāb al-Intiṣār li-wāsiṭat ʿiqd al-amṣār ; al-Guzʿ 5. Būlāq : al-Maṭbaʿa al-Kubrā al-Amīrīya, 1310 AH [1893], S. 11 unten–12, insbesondere S. 12, Zeilen 6 f.
  8. ↑Drovetti, [Bernardino] : Journal d’un voyage à la vallée de Dakel, in: Cailliaud, Frédéric ; Jomard, M. (Hg.) : Voyage à l’Oasis de Thèbes et dans les déserts situés à l’Orient et à l’Occident de la Thébaïde fait pendant les années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818, Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1821, S. 99–105, insbesondere S. 102.
  9. ↑Wilkinson, John Gardner: Modern Egypt and Thebes : being a description of Egypt ; including the information required for travellers in that country; Bd.2. London: Murray, 1843, S. 365.
  10. ↑Rohlfs, Gerhard: Drei Monate in der Libyschen Wüste. Cassel: Fischer, 1875, S. 257 ff., 297. Nachdruck Köln : Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 1996, ISBN 978-3-927688-10-0 .
  11. ↑Spiegelberg, Wilhelm : Die Tefnachthosstele des Museums von Athen, in: Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes (RecTrav), Band 25 (1903), S. 194–196, Tafel gegenüber S. 196.
  12. ↑Winlock, H[erbert] E[ustis]: Ed Dākhleh Oasis : Journal of a camel trip made in 1908. New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1936, S. 40, Fußnote 44, Tafel XXXII.
  13. ↑Beadnell, Hugh John Llewellyn : Dakhla Oasis. Its topography and geology, Kairo, 1901, (Egyptian Geological Survey Report; 1899,4).
  14. ↑Bliss, Frank, a.a.O., S. 13.
  15. ↑Einwohnerzahlen nach dem ägyptischen Zensus von 2006, eingesehen am 3. Juni 2014.

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