Dakhla Oasis Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Dakhla Oasis | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 613 ft / 187 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 25°24′40″N29°00′10″E / 25.41111°N 29.00278°E | ||||||||||
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  DAK Location of the airport in Egypt | |||||||||||
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Dakhla Oasis Airport( IATA : DAK, ICAO : HEDK) is an airport serving the archaeological region of Dakhla Oasis, Egypt.
There are currently no scheduled services to and from the airport.
New Valley Governorate or El Wadi El Gedid Governorate is a governorate of Egypt. It is in the southwestern part of the country, in the south of Egypt Western Desert, between the Nile, northern Sudan, and southeastern Libya.
Dakhla Oasis or Dakhleh Oasis, is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert. Dakhla Oasis lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) from the Nile and between the oases of Farafra and Kharga. It measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south.
Titkheperure or Tyetkheperre Psusennes II [Greek Ψουσέννης] or Hor-Pasebakhaenniut II [Egyptian ḥr-p3-sb3-ḫˁỉ-⟨n⟩-nỉwt], was the last king of the Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt.
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Usermaatre Setepenamun Takelot III Si-Ese was Osorkon III's eldest son and successor. Takelot III ruled the first five years of his reign in a coregency with his father, according to the evidence from Nile Quay Text No.13, and succeeded his father as king the following year. He served previously as the High Priest of Amun at Thebes. He was previously thought to have ruled Egypt for only 7 years until his 13th Year was found on a stela from Ahmeida in the Dakhla Oasis in 2005.
DAK is an abbreviation for the Afrika Korps, a famed German World War II unit.
Al-Ma'sarah, also spelled Maasarah or Masarah, is a city in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt.
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The Dakhla Formation, also called the Dakhla Shale, is a Maastrichtian-Danian geologic formation in the Western Desert, Egypt. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.
The Sheikh Muftah culture is attested in the western desert of Egypt and flourished in the 3rd millennium BCE, from about 3200–2000 BCE. They were most likely nomads.
Abu Ballas is an archaeological site in the Libyan Desert of Egypt. It lies about 200 km (120 mi) south-west of the Dakhla Oases and consists of two isolated sandstone cones in the otherwise flat desert. Both hills are covered with Egyptian pottery. These vessels were at the beginning of the 20th century often well preserved, but are today – due to modern tourism – very much destroyed. The site was discovered in 1918 and 1923. More recent research was undertaken in the last years.
Mut or Dakhla, is a city in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. Its population was estimated at 24,400 people in 2018.
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Abu Minqar is an oasis town in Qesm Al Wahat Ad Dakhlah District, New Valley Governorate, Egypt, about 93 kilometres (58 mi) by road southwest of Farafra. It is inhabited mainly by Bedouins and lies along a historical caravan route to Kufra, Libya.
A was the name of an Early Dynastic pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. His name is known from a graffito serekh carved into a sandstone outcropping 10 to 12 kilometers south-west of Umm el-Dabadib at the Kharga Oasis in the Western Desert. The presence of the serekh shows evidence of royal activity in the far reaches of the Western Desert as early as the protodynastic period.
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