Egypt Express
Kharga Oasis, one of the most popular Oases in Egypt, actually it is the seat of the New Valley Governorate, it has the most beautiful landscape that overwhelms the traveler.
It also offers a variety of sites of interest to the visitor.
You know that desert and Oases went through many stages, In times of prosperity in the Nile Valley its control reached into the oases. In hard times, the oases were left to fend for themselves. Evidence of early human presence can be found throughout the Kharga depression, including along the escarpment. Most settlements occur around water sources including playa lakes and springs that are now fossilized.
Some ancient settlements also have been found in the passes leading out of the oases.
In pharaonic times Kharga Oasis, have been hard to come by. Only a little evidence for Kharga Oasis was found nearer to the Nile Valley and situated between it and Dakhla.
There are references to the oasis region as far back as the Sixth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, when Harkhuf, a governor of Aswan, undertook several expeditions into the Western Desert, but it has not been possible to firmly identify his ‘Oasis Road.’
New information about the Middle Kingdom has recently been found around the Luxor-Farshut road at the fringe of the Nile Valley.Desert pottery from as early as the Middle Kingdom has been found in the area.
There must be a wealth of information about the oases and oasis travel in ancient Egypt awaiting discovery along this road.
Perhaps the present study by the Oriental Institute of Chicago will solve some riddles about ancient life in the desert.
