Wadi el Gamal National Park
Wadi el Gamal National Park or Wadi el-Gamaal - Hamata National Park is a national park in Egypt. It is 7,450 square kilometres (2,880 sq mi) in size, including 4,770 square kilometres (1,840 sq mi) of land and 2,100 square kilometres (810 sq mi) of marine space.
The coastal area features coral reefs with 450 species of coral and over 1200 species of fish. Approximately 17% of the marine life is native to the Red Sea. It also includes five islands, including Wadi El-Gemal Island. These islands are a breeding ground for 13 bird species, and local sea grasses are important sources of food for the endangered dugong and green turtle.
The inland area is home to many animals, including the Dorcas gazelle and the Nubian Ibex.
The park is the site of prehistoric rock art, as well as Ptolemaic and Roman ruins, and the mountain Mons Smaragdus is the site of small mining communities that date back to Pharaonic Egypt.
Mountain Of the Dead
Mountain of the Dead is located 2 kilometers from the province of Mersa Matrouh Siwa area
was discovered by accident in 1944 during World War II, when the people of Siwa resorted to take shelter mountain graves and found it is a conical mountain with a height of 50 meters and consists of soil limestone and serves as ancient cemetery. this mountain is characterized Bmnzerh strange it is bottom to top is graves of the dead carved in the shape of a beehive of stone on the regular and consecutive Authority ranks geometrically resembles the old Oasis shape. The history of this cemetery -26 artifacts to the family and extends to the Ptolemaic and Roman era, and combines these graves in the design of ancient Egyptian art and Greek art and grew this merger as a result of the mixing of cultures. some of these cemeteries there are deep and every cemetery is a vestibule of a rectangular ends to a courtyard and a large square and this yard fork to the dedicated slots group to put the dead. It is the most beautiful cemeteries in Siamun cemetery which belong to taken it wealthy Greeks who had followed the ancient Egyptian religion. he lived in Siwa and buried according to that religion was to maintain that cemetery well. and enjoy this cemetery a series of reliefs and includes a fee representing gods Nat a parked under a sycamore tree. then another cemetery dubbed the crocodile cemetery name and named after fees stamped on them which is a form of yellow-colored crocodile represents deity Subic this cemetery represents a structure more like a cave consisting of three compartments have not been identified the owner of the cemetery until now. in other cemetery called Thypr Bathut They are decorated with paintings charming and inscriptions painted in red, which is dominated pottery used in Siwa yet lying in the cemetery coffin the subject of a stone on the floor of the burial chamber. the climb up the mountain you can see fantastic views of beauty and attractiveness of the Siwa Oasis formed in its entirety many, many landmarks and treasures
