Gebel es-Silsilah

natural · 4500 BC – 300 AD

A mountain on the west bank of the Nile River some 40 miles north of Aswan with over 30 Eighteenth Dynasty shrines. This site was first settled in the late Predynastic period, was an important sandstone quarry in the Eighteenth Dynasty with some inhabitants, and was still used in the Roman period.

Coordinates
24.64857, 32.92935
Also known as
Kheny/Khenu (egy)
Dating
attested

Sources

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