Egypt Express
Egypt has many beautiful places to explore like seas, desert, cities, and Oasis.
Baharyia Oasis is a great Oasis and it is the closest Oasis to Cairo. Although Siwa remained closed to the outside world until the last decade, also the Kharga and Dakhla, the major oases in the New Valley Governorate, have grown and expanded at an equally amazing rate.
But Baharyia Oasis expanded and grown at a very slow rate, it is also highly populated.
People named Baharyia Oasis by many names like Oasis Parva, Little Oasis, Zeszes, and the Oasis of Al-Bahnasa.
Baharyia Oasis has a very important history and a great many ancient sites, but unfortunately, these sites and ruins weren’t enough to know information about Baharyia Oasis, also local antiquities inspectors move at a very slow pace.
There’s only one full study for Baharyia antiquities belongs to Ahmed Fakhry, the twentieth-century Egyptologist, he did a great hard work in the Western Desert over sixty years ago.
And the first materials and studies today was first presented by Ahmed Fakhry. He also published many books belong to these excavations in Baharyia.
Before the Middle Kingdom, people of Baharyia Oasis used to hunt amid the mountains of this oasis and the evidence about this information is still hidden in the cliffs and hills. but also the early history of Baharyia is unknown. There will be more evidence to discover.
In the middle kingdom, Baharyia was named Zeszes and it was ruled by pharaohs. the common transportation between Baharyia and the Nile valley were the Caravans.
Agricultural in the middle kingdom was the most important industry in Baharyia Oasis and there were large estates, houses for the landowners and laborers, military garrisons to keep marauders at bay.
According to Ahmed Fakhry study, the Baharyia was controlled by the great warrior pharaoh.
Thutmose III and he made many changes in it.
It was really a great age for improving the agriculture and rise of population.
In the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties, the minerals wealth was the most important industry in the Nile Valley.
Today the abundance of iron ore is still a vital industry in Baharyia.
