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Danaus, was the son of King Belus of Egypt and the naiad Achiroe, daughter of the river god Nilus, [3] or of Sida, [4] eponym of Sidon. He was the twin brother of Aegyptus , king of Egypt while Euripides adds two others, Cepheus , King of Ethiopia and Phineus , betrothed of Andromeda .
The dunes of the Great Sand Sea cover about 10% of the total area of the Egyptian Western Desert. Siwa is an oasis located in Egypt, about 50 km (30 mi) east of the Libyan border, in the eastern part of the Great Sand Sea or Egyptian Sand Sea.
Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647. Gil-T., Felipe (2006): A new hostplant for Danaus plexippus L. in Europe. A study of cryptic preimaginal polymorphism within Danaus chrysippus L. in southern Spain (Andalusia) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Danainae).
Trek some of the world’s tallest sand dunes (Namibia) ... (Egypt) Egypt's Siwa Oasis offers an adventurous escape from the heat of the Sahara. ... Located around a six-hour drive north of Cape ...
Dush, Egypt, or (Douch in French) formerly known as Kysis, [1] is a small Ptolemaic and Roman era fortress located in Egypt's vast Western Desert in the Kharga Oasis. [2] [3] which was built under the Ptolemies and then under the Roman Emperors Domitian, Trajan and Hadrian. Dush is strategically located "about 15 km northeast of El-Qasr, at a ...
Danaus did not want his daughters to go ahead with the marriages. He fled with them in the first boat to Argos, which is located in Greece near the ancient city of Mycenae. Danaus agreed to the marriage of his daughters only after Aegyptus came to Argos with his fifty sons to protect the local population, the Argives, from any battles.
Lepsius-Projekt at Kingdom of Egypt. Wadi Maghareh (also spelled Maghara or Magharah, meaning "The Valley of Caves" in Egyptian Arabic) is an archaeological site located in the southwestern Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. It contains pharaonic monuments and turquoise mines dating from the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt.
The Great Sand Sea is a desert in the Sahara between western Egypt and eastern Libya in North Africa, 74% of the area is covered by sand dunes. The Great Sand Sea stretches about 650 km (400 mi) from north to south and 300 km (190 mi) from east to west.