Beit el-Wali
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.M. Burstein Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.M. Burstein Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 21, 2026 08:52 PM
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History
Beit el-Wali, meaning "House of the Holy Man", was a site in Nubia where Ramesses II built a temple sacred to Amun-Re, Re-Horakhti, Khnum and Anuket. The temple was relocated in the 1960s.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/795784
23.7678417017, 32.8602681763
- Relocated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Temple of Beit el-Wali (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 32011 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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settlement, temple
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 81 C2 Beit el-Wali
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Beit el-Wali
S.M. Burstein, Jeffrey Becker, D. Borough, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, and R. Talbert, 'Beit el-Wali: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/795784> [accessed: 11 October 2026]
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