The old Dakhla Oasis was called the "Oasis of Rust", or the southern oases. It was also called Patsno. It was also called Kinnet, with its capital (Tse). , And so far there is a kind of grapes in the oasis of Dakhla has no counterpart in the mainland of Egypt. !!
Eighteenth-century paintings were found in the village of Balat belonging to Dakhla. In the same village are the castles of Anaba, which contains five mud-brick terraces, and Aseel, the residential city.
These two important monuments prove the progress of life and construction in the oases and dates back to the sixth pharaonic family in the period 2420 BC. This is also evidenced by the fact that the area of Balat was the seat of the rulers of oases in the Pharaonic times (the ancient and central state) and was the royal court in the era of Kings Baby I and II.
In the town of the palace there are remnants of the temple of the god Thoth and near it at a distance of ten kilometers there is the temple of the monastery of stone and dating back to the Roman era, and was called (Astag) means the land of the moon and its builders Nero (54 86 m) as well as Dominia (8196) God Amun Ra along with some Egyptian gods.
There are a number of pharaonic and Roman ruins that were not entirely detectable, such as the Barbi'a temple near the village of Beshandi, which is buried underground and whose front parts were only uncovered and built for the worship of the god Amun.
There is also the Kharab cement area, which is the outskirts of a cement village dating back to the Greco-Roman era and continued until the Islamic era.
Many houses, churches, cemeteries, a temple of sandstone, brick bricks and hieroglyphic writings on it turned out to be a construction of the worship of the god Tutu, a god not previously mentioned in ancient texts.
(Marqulah Hill), a mud-brick cemetery near the city of Mout, the capital of the Dakhla oases. It is a mout, an alteration to the ancient name of the goddess Mut.
(Mawat al-Kharab), the remains of a large residential city dating back to the late era.
(Umbrella), a group of mud brick buildings with many structures dating back to the Greco-Roman era.
(The well of the Arabs), a huge coward, some of which are built with mud bricks and some carved in the rock.
(Graveyard of Keithanus), a cemetery near the village of Bashandi built of sandstone dating back to the first century BC and the first century and the owner named Keithanos and the walls of Hieroglyphic writings and scenes representing the cemetery offering sacrifices to the Egyptian gods Osiris and Hoss and Anubis.

(Tombs), two tombs sculpted in rock and Tarikhma of the Roman era has been the ages of many of the artifacts within these tombs discovered by
Dr.. Ahmed Fakhri, may God have mercy on him, who loved the effects of Egypt and treats it as it treats his young children was in every archaeological discovery wrapped statues and stones with cloth and gauze and cardboard when transferred to the museum so as not to scratch and miss some of the writings inscribed on it .. So cut on Mr. Hussein Abdel Salam or Hussein Zekhira of God Living for Dr. Ahmed Fakhri. It was revealed in the early seventies of the tomb of Mazwa and its name, which is decorated for its many colors, clarity, and mummification. It contains many carved tombs in all aspects of the girl. These drawings represent the faith of faith in the Ba'ath, the account, the harvest scenes, the rituals of the embalming process, the various celestial towers including the goddesses Isis and Neptis, .. Ghali .. the ugliness of Sanawaf .. Damot F).
Oases in Coptic times
When Christianity entered Egypt in Roman times, the Romans severely persecuted the Egyptian Christians, forcing them to flee to the oases. The city of the dead, or the monastery of the Begawat and its tombs, which is far from the city of Kharga, is still only a few kilometers away, with 263 structures, a shrine and a church. To study the architecture and early arts of the Coptic era that the buildings reflect several different architectural models, it is said that the name of the pegot is a distortion of the name of the vaults because the buildings of this city covered with domes and strange in these buildings that each cellar was buried inside the tomb of the owner of the house after his death!
There are views that these buildings belong to the followers of Nestorius and the Bishop of Constantinople during the days of Roman rule and fled to the oases because of his extremist views and was followed by many of the believers. The pagodas are a number of shrines for different Gregorian centuries such as the exit shrine, the oldest shrine dating back to the fourth century AD, with drawings for the departure of Moses and his people from Egypt and behind them Pharaoh's army.
The Shrine of Peace dates back to the 5th and 6th centuries AD. It has translated drawings of the Scriptures such as Adam, Eve, Abraham, his son Jacob, and Noah's Ark.
There is another monastery that is slightly removed from the pagans. It is called "Mustafa El Kashef" monastery. It was named for use in the tax collection in the Turkish era. The excavations resulted in the discovery of the real houses of the city of Bejawat near Ain Saff. Rock-cut rock and church dating back to the fifth century AD.
Church of Shams al-Din:
The church dates back to the 5th and 6th centuries AD and is built of bricks and only the walls are left. The church is surrounded by a number of houses and cemeteries located in the north of the village of Paris.

Which mentions agriculture in the Coptic times prior to the Islamic conquest, that viticulture and winemaking were very advanced in oases.

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