ʿAin Bisāi - ʿAin Bisāi

Source lake of ʿAin Bisāi
ʿAin Bisāi · ‏عين بساي‎
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ʿAin Bisāi

The source and archaeological site 'Ain Bisai (also Ain / Ayn Ebsai, Ain Ibsai, Ain Bsai, ʿAyn Ibsāwī, Arabic:عين بساي‎, ʿAin Bisāi orعين إبساي‎, Ain ibisāi) is located about 10 kilometers southwest of el-Farāfra in the desert, about halfway between today's road and the el-Quss-Abū-Saʿid plateau.

background

The source of ʿAin Bisāi was already used by the German Africa explorer Gerhard Rohlfs (1831–1896) visited on his 1873–1874 expedition.[1] 1897 was also used by the British geographer Hugh J.L. Beadnell (1874–1944) described and mapped.[2] His compatriot William Joseph Harding King (1869–1933) also named them, but without having visited them during his stay in 1912.[3]

However, they did not recognize it as an archaeological site. This only succeeded the Egyptian Egyptologist Ahmed Fakhry (1905–1973), who listed the archaeological sites of the El-Farāfra depression. Archaeological research is still missing today.

Beadnell stated that the residents of el-Farāfra reported to him that the sources of ʿAin Bisāi, ʿAin el-Bilād, ʿAin Bishwī (ʿAin Bishoi) and ʿAin esch-Sheikh Marzūq were created in ancient, probably Roman, times. The well shafts were cleaned regularly by divers.

getting there

The journey can only be made with an all-terrain four-wheel drive vehicle or a motorcycle. The driver should be familiar with the area.

Tourist Attractions

ʿAin Bisāi was the most important archaeological site in the El-Farāfra depression until the 1980s, when you Wādī el-Ubeiyiḍ has overtaken the rank with its prehistoric finds.

In ʿAin Bisāi there is a cemetery, several rock graves without inscriptions, the remains of adobe buildings, a well and about 150 meters northeast the ruins of a small limestone chapel.

In the area of ​​the site there is the ʿAin Bisāi spring, whose spring pond is eight meters deep.

On the way here you will find ʿAin el-Ḥagar (Arabic:عين الحجر) A dead field.

Ancient settlement remains in ʿAin Bisāi
Ancient rock tomb in ʿAin Bisāi
Dead field of ʿAin el-agar

kitchen

Food must be taken with you. The waste should be taken back and not scattered in the desert. There are restaurants and food stalls only in the city Farāfra.

accommodation

Accommodation is only available in the city Farāfra.

trips

The archaeological site can be combined with other well areas such as ʿAin Gallaw and ʿAin el-Ḥadīq in the south of the city el-Farāfra visit.

literature

  • Fakhry, Ahmed: The oases of Egypt. Vol. II: Bahrīyah and Farafra Oases. Cairo: The American Univ. in Cairo Pr., 1974, ISBN 978-9774247323 , P. 163 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Jordan, Wilhelm ; Rohlfs, Gerhard (Ed.): Physical geography and meteorology of the Libyan desert: according to observations, carried out in the winter of 1873-74 on the Rohlfs expedition. Cassel: Fisherman, 1876. The source is listed in a hand drawing.
  2. ↑Beadnell, Hugh John Llewellyn: Farafra Oasis: its topography and geology. Cairo: National Printing Department, 1901, Geological survey report; 1899, pt. 3, ISBN 978-1436857314 , Pp. 10-12, panel II.
  3. ↑Harding-King, William Joseph: Mysteries of the Libyan Desert. London: Seeley, 1925, ISBN 978-1850779575 , P. 229.
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