Shams el-Din
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Nate Nagy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Nate Nagy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 04, 2023 09:26 AM
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History
The ancient settlement of Shams el-Din in Egypt's Kharga Oasis, which contains a necropolis and 4th century AD church.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894410373
24.6961205732, 30.600666288
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ain Shams el-Din (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Shams el-Din located in Exotero (Oasis) (unspecified date range)
- Church at Shams el-Din located at Shams el-Din (unspecified date range)
settlement, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis, archaeological site
Pleiades
Reference:
Vivian, Cassandra. The Western Desert of Egypt, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2000. pp. 84.
Nate Nagy, Bruno Bazzani, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Shams el-Din: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894410373> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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