Ain Amour
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Wagner Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Wagner Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 29, 2025 11:13 AM
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History
A small oasis lying about 60 km north west of Kharga, on the escarpment outlining the depression. It was the only water source along the Darb Ain Amur, one of the two tracks that linked Kharga and Dakhla. The archaeological remains consist of a Late Period stone temple and a large cemetery. Surveyed between 2006 and 2011 by the North Kharga Oasis Survey project.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776143
25.651954, 29.990903
- Representative Locations:
- center point of Ain Amur oasis (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.
- Ain Amour part of (regional) Oasis Magna/Thebaidos (unspecified date range)
- Roman temple at Ain Amur located at Ain Amour (unspecified date range)
oasis, settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 79 B2 Ain Amour
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ain Amour
G. Wagner, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Bruno Bazzani, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ain Amour: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776143> [accessed: 12 May 2026]
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