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Ain Umm el-Dabadib
🇪🇬 Egypt
The fort of Ain Umm el-Dabadib, or Umm el-Dabadib, is a Roman fort in the New Valley, more than 65 km north of Kharga. The fort was built of mud brick below an escarpment, near a large residential settlement with tombs carved into the mountainside, which includes an ancient irrigation system and trees and is surrounded by a plateau to the north; the monument rises two hundred metres above the surface of the desert, and pottery vessels are scattered around it.
Machine-translated from “أم الدبادب” on the Arabic Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ain Umm el-Dabadib ranks #6,784 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #31 of the 37 mapped in Egypt. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Egypt compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Ain Umm el-Dabadib?
Ain Umm el-Dabadib stands in Egypt, at 25.73321°, 30.42074°.
How famous is Ain Umm el-Dabadib?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,784 of 8,134 worldwide, and #31 in Egypt. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Ain Umm el-Dabadib?
Qasr el-Labakha, about 14 km away.
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