Rahim Tabet | Oktober 30, 2014 |
Africa
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Egypt
12,000 years ago the savannahs. Were Now there is the Great Nothing: the Western Desert of Egypt. Boring? No. On a half-day drive from Cairo are oases where one after another burial chamber discovered in recent years and there is the White Desert, with strange limestone formations. An impression.
The Valley of the Golden Mummies
Egypt mummy country. In the headquarters of the archaeological service in Bawati you find in a glass case ten gold specimens. They are in painted wooden sarcophagi, with a likeness of a man, a woman, eyes wide open, as if still amazed at all that lamp.
At the edge of Bawati you encounter the Catacombs of Qarat Qasr Salim, an enclosed piece of barren land between the houses. The first is the family tomb of the rich merchant Zed-Amun-ef-ankh and his family. Five meters below ground; eight steep steps, then another ten. The ceiling extends a vulture protective wings. In the second burial chamber, the colors are brighter. The gods neatly in a row.
The paintings are well preserved, because the square 'staircase' was again filled up with sand. After the funeral You hid kill you. No one was there anymore. Only the immediate family knew where under the sand the burial chamber was located.
Bahariya, the northernmost oasis
Five are oases in the Egyptian desert west of Cairo; Bahariya is the northernmost. In the main street of Bawati (the biggest village of the oasis) men sitting on the sidewalk cafés, roads dates off the dadelmarkt let their hair cut, fooling around with each other or cracks rowdy hard by on bikes without light.
The inhabitants of this region call themselves Wahati ('Oasis'), and assume that they are descendants of the people who have lived here since the Neolithic, ten thousand years BC, the time that it rained a relatively large and the deserts are prat were savannas.
From a vantage point on a hill Bahariya seems to consist of merely date palms. Dry desert air mixes with the smell of green. In the distance a motor, simmering somewhere braying donkey. Cairo is 370 kilometers away. But the city seems infinitely far away.
The rock formations of the White Desert
If you drive through the desert, on guard for large sand hills. Before you know it you'll be stuck. But not at the Desert Flower, where you will find bizarre pieces of stone, solidified lava millions of years ago from small openings flowed into the sea floor. Not with the rock which is the form of a gate. Has Not with Chrystal Mountain, with the quartz crystal in the ground.
And certainly not in the White Desert. That seems to be the surface harder, you drive on a plain between the capricious rock formations, the wind cut off the white limestone.
It is difficult to imagine, but once there was here a shallow sea. The skeletons of tiny sea creatures and shells sank to the bottom and formed calcium deposits. After the area which have been dried up, sand-blasted by the wind. Now it is an area full of jagged, meter vormen.Grote Nothing: the Western Desert of Egypt. Boring? No. On a half-day drive from Cairo are oases where one after another burial chamber discovered in recent years and there is the White Desert, with strange limestone formations.
The Valley of the Golden Mummies
Egypt mummy country. In the headquarters of the archaeological service in Bawati you find in a glass case ten gold specimens. They are in painted wooden sarcophagi, with a likeness of a man, a woman, eyes wide open, as if still amazed at all that lamp.
At the edge of Bawati you encounter the Catacombs of Qarat Qasr Salim, an enclosed piece of barren land between the houses. The first is the family tomb of the rich merchant Zed-Amun-ef-ankh and his family. Five meters below ground; eight steep steps, then another ten. The ceiling extends a vulture protective wings. In the second burial chamber, the colors are brighter. The gods neatly in a row.
The paintings are well preserved, because the square 'staircase' was again filled up with sand. After the funeral You hid kill you. No one was there anymore. Only the immediate family knew where under the sand the burial chamber was located.
Bahariya, the northernmost oasis
Five are oases in the Egyptian desert west of Cairo; Bahariya is the northernmost. In the main street of Bawati (the biggest village of the oasis) men sitting on the sidewalk cafés, roads dates off the dadelmarkt let their hair cut, fooling around with each other or cracks rowdy hard by on bikes without light.
The inhabitants of this region call themselves Wahati ('Oasis'), and assume that they are descendants of the people who have lived here since the Neolithic, ten thousand years BC, the time that it rained a relatively large and the deserts are prat were savannas.
From a vantage point on a hill Bahariya seems to consist of merely date palms. Dry desert air mixes with the smell of green. In the distance a motor, simmering somewhere braying donkey. Cairo is 370 kilometers away. But the city seems infinitely far away.
The rock formations of the White Desert
If you drive through the desert, on guard for large sand hills. Before you know it you'll be stuck. But not at the Desert Flower, where you will find bizarre pieces of stone, solidified lava millions of years ago from small openings flowed into the sea floor. Not with the rock which is the form of a gate. Has Not with Chrystal Mountain, with the quartz crystal in the ground.
And certainly not in the White Desert. That seems to be the surface harder, you drive on a plain between the capricious rock formations, the wind cut off the white limestone.
It is difficult to imagine, but once there was here a shallow sea. The skeletons of tiny sea creatures and shells sank to the bottom and formed calcium deposits. After the area which have been dried up, sand-blasted by the wind. Now it is an area full of jagged, meter vormen.Grote Nothing: the Western Desert of Egypt. Boring? No. On a half-day drive from Cairo are oases where one after another burial chamber discovered in recent years and there is the White Desert, with strange limestone formations.
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