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	<description>A detailed guide to the archaeological sites of the Nile Valley and desert areas of Egypt</description>
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		<title>Early Dynastic Tombs at Saqqara</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lower Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saqqara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archaic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Saqqara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tombs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A ridge that runs along the eastern edge of the North Saqqara escarpment, all the way to Abusir, has been found to contain the Early Dynastic burials of many Dynasty I and Dynasty II elite. First properly excavated by Walter Emery in the 1930s and by successive archaeologists since then, the dense area of large [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3453&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Dynasty I &#38; II Necropolis at Saqqara</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Niched facade of Early Dynastic mastaba</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Recently excavated mastaba under protective walls</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Dynasty II royal mastabas near the Pyramid of Unas</media:title>
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		<title>Gebel Fuga</title>
		<link>http://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/gebel-fuga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Su</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deserts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest of Pillars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gebel Fuga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gebel Fuga, in the remote Sinai interior to the east of Serabit el-Khadim, is a large desert plateau surrounded by mountains. On a sloping hillside there is one of the most interesting geological oddities to be seen on the peninsula. This area has been given the name Forest of Pillars &#8211; an accurate description for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3381&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Gebel Fuga - the Forest of Pillars</media:title>
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		<title>Wadi Mukattab</title>
		<link>http://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/wadi-mukattab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Su</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deserts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nabataean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wadi Maktab]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Running adjacent to the Wadi Feiran, from north-west to south-east, lies the Wadi Mukattab, whose name means the &#8216;Valley of Writing&#8217;. In the base of the valley the steep rocky walls contain around three kilometres of ancient writings and graffiti carved or bruised into the rock. The wide sandy wadi was deserted and very beautiful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3375&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Wadi Mukattab</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Inscriptions in Wadi Mukattab</media:title>
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		<title>Wadi Maghara</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Deserts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turquoise Mines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wadi Maghara is located in the southwest of the Sinai Peninsula to the east of Abu Rudeis on the coast road and just to the north of Wadi Feiran. Several rock faces in the wadi have relief inscriptions of early rulers of Egypt which document their expeditions to mine the precious minerals, primarily turquoise and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3371&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rock inscription of Sanakht from Wadi Maghara (British Museum)</media:title>
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		<title>Serabit el-Khadim</title>
		<link>http://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/serabit-el-khadim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Deserts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hathor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rod al-Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serabit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The temple of Hathor at Serabit el-Khadim stands on a massive rocky outcrop at an altitude of 850m above sea level in the highlands of Sinai, roughly 50km from the coastal town of Abu Zenima. It is not the easiest place for tourists to reach and perhaps should be considered more of a trekking expedition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3358&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Entrance to the Temple of Hathor</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Serabit el-Khadim</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Hathor and Thoth at Serabit</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The Shrine of Ptah</media:title>
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		<title>Introduction to Sinai</title>
		<link>http://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/introduction-to-sinai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Su</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deserts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Sinai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serabit el-Khadim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Catherine's Monastery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Katerina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For many visitors to Egypt, their experience of Sinai may be limited to the tourist towns of Sharm el-Sheikh and Dahab with their luxury hotels, clubs and beach parties much frequented by tourists from both Egypt and beyond. This part of the Red Sea Coast however, is also a vertitable paradise for divers and naturalists. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3343&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Serabit el-Khadim</media:title>
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		<title>Qasr Muharib</title>
		<link>http://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/qasr-muharib/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Su</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deserts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baharia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qusur Muharib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Fortress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About 12km east of modern Bawiti, the monuments at Qasr Muharib are among the largest extant Roman structures in Bahariya Oasis. This was a village and lookout post, built on a ridge overlooking the plain from where the ancient caravan routes going north or east from el-Qasr could be guarded.
The ruins of the village cascade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3339&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bawiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Deserts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahariya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bannentiu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qarat el-Faragi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qarat el-Subi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qarat Qasr Salim]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are numerous ancient sites around the town of Bawiti, the principal town of the oasis. Since Bahariya&#8217;s fame which came with the discovery of the &#8216;Valley of the Golden Mummies&#8217; some of the other monuments are now beginning to open up to visitors. At the Antiquities Department in Bawiti, visitors can buy one ticket [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3333&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Scene from the tomb of Bannentiu</media:title>
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		<title>Qasr el-Migysbah</title>
		<link>http://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/qasr-el-migysbah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Deserts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander ‘The Great’]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahariya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[el-Tibbaniya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temple of Alexander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temples]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few kilometres north-east of el-Qasr, in the area known as el-Tibbaniya where the ancient caravan route from Bahariya to Siwa begins, are the ruins of a temple complex first excavated by Ahmed Fakhry between 1939 and 1942. This is the only known temple in the whole of the Western Desert to be built in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3324&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Temple of Alexander</media:title>
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		<title>Valley of the Golden Mummies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Deserts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahariya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golden Mummies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Necropolis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The oasis of Bahariya has become famous in recent years for the astonishing discovery of a Roman Period necropolis now known to the world as the Valley of the Golden Mummies. Although the news was only released to the press in 1999, the discovery took place early in 1996 when antiquities inspector Ashry Shaker announced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=egyptsites.wordpress.com&blog=1494164&post=3320&subd=egyptsites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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