The Siwa Oasis (Arabic: واحة سيوة Wāḥat Sīwah [ˈwæːħet ˈsiːwæ]) is an urban oasis in Egypt. It is situated between the Qattara Depression and the Great...
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which have fresh water provided by the Nile or by local groundwater. The Siwah Oasis, close to the Libyan border and west of Qattara, is isolated from the...
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Ammon, the mythical putative father of Alexander who welcomed him in the Siwah Oasis. The Queen of Swords, Olympias, Alexander's mother, was known as a sorceress...
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2016, p. 178. Alexander himself apparently wanted to be buried in the Siwah Oasis originally. Anson 2015, pp. 105–106. Heckel 2016, pp. 178, 179. Green...
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from the Mediterranean and travels through the Libyan Desert to the Siwah Oasis, which he reaches in late February. Alexander consults the famous oracle...
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by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwah oasis in the Libyan Desert. Julius Caesar 42 BCE Deified by the Roman Senate...
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from the Mediterranean and travels through the Libyan Desert to the Siwah Oasis, which he reaches in late February. Alexander consults the famous oracle...
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1869 traversed the desert from Tripoli to Alexandria, visiting the oasis of Siwah, site of the ancient cult of Jupiter Ammon. Returning to Germany, he...
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Arabic and visited the oasis of Siwa. In Paris, he published Two Years in a Levantine Family (1850) and Views in the Oasis of Siwah (1850). After a second...
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Chapter 14 gives the best modern account of Alexander's visit to the oasis at Siwah, with some background material on the Greek conception of Sibyls. Goodrich...
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to the composer. Erklärung der Bildwerke am Tempel des Jupiter Ammon zu Siwah ... Diese Bogen, nebst den beiligenden drei Steindrücken, gehören zu der...
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himself as a living god and son of Zeus following his visit to the oracle at Siwah in the Libyan Desert (in modern-day Egypt) in 331 BC. His attempt in 327 BC...
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fossils. Olympiodorus concluded, from the fossil remains, that the Great Oasis of Siwah had once been an island. He gives detailed accounts of the routes taken...
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ancient capital of lower kingdom. WGPSN Siwah Facula 7°00′N 143°06′W / 7.0°N 143.1°W / 7.0; -143.1 220 1985 Siwa, oasis oracle of Zeus-Ammon; visited by Alexander...
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