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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hdhabat Chajaj Nawamis Alternative Name: Hdhabat Chajaj NawamisCountry: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 38.348 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Sinai Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Hdhabat Chajaj Nearest Village: Sharm El Shaykh
Latitude: 28.858702N Longitude: 34.376503E
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
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| 2 | A long walk |
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In central south Sinai there old tombs from the 5th millennium BCE. The Beduin call them NAWAMIS (plu.) and Namus (sing.) by. The facing West door is built from local sandstone. According to prof. O. Bar-Yosef pre-dinastic people belived that the soul departed westward to the under world. All the tombs in the main part of Egypt are on the western of the Nile. The Nawamis in Southern Sinai are built from local stones, in this area, sandstone, but places like W. Zalaqa are built from local limestone. The construction of the Nawamis is interesting as Namus in Arabic is moskito. The local legend is that when the Israelites were dweling in the desert they encountered a plague of moskitos, so they constracted Nawamis to hide.
Note: Coordinates converted from old Israel datum: 088750E, 808520N.
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