Umm Mawagir
Umm Mawagir ( Arabic أم مواجير, DMG Umm Mawāǧīr 'mother of all bread forms') is a former trading town in the Kharga oasis , which was once in the Egyptian desert about 500 kilometers southwest of Cairo . It was recently rediscovered by Yale University Egyptologist John Coleman Darnell and his wife, Deborah. Its name is based on the many ovens found there.
The heyday of this trading town was between 1650 and 1550 BC. BC, in which probably already in the 4th millennium BC Several thousand people lived there, growing grain and selling their products to the caravans that passed on the trade route between the Nile Valley and Darfur that passed the oasis .
According to Darnell, in its heyday the site was " of great political importance " and is lined up by him with Thebes , the Nubians and the Hyksos people .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christine Baumgartner: Egypt - 3500 year old trading settlement. In: epoc.de.
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Coordinates: 25 ° 17 ′ 39 ″ N , 30 ° 33 ′ 32 ″ E