Wadi Hammamat

Wadi Hammamat leads from Qift (ancient Coptos) on the Nile to Al-Qusayr on the Red Sea.

Wadi Hammamat (Arabic: وادي الحمامات, romanizedWādī al-Ḥammāmāt, lit.'Valley of Many Baths', Coptic: ⲣⲱϩⲉⲛⲧⲟⲩ, romanized: rōhentou, lit.'India way; gateway to India'[1]) is a dry river bed in Egypt's Eastern Desert, about halfway between Al-Qusayr and Qena. It was a major mining region and trade route east from the Nile Valley in ancient times, and three thousand years of rock carvings and graffiti make it a major scientific and tourist site today.

  1. ^ Meeks, Cf. D. Coptos et le chemin de Pount. p. 303.

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