Silwa Bahari

Silwa Bahari
Silwa Bahari
Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 24°44′20″N 32°56′30″E / 24.7389°N 32.9417°E / 24.7389; 32.9417
Country Egypt
GovernorateAswan
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Silwa Bahari is a town or large village in Aswan Governorate, Egypt. It is located in the Nile Valley about 30 km (19 mi) north of Kom Ombo and 73 km (45 mi) north of Aswan. The village has a population of about five thousand people. There are rock carvings near the village that are believed to date back to the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt, about 1550 BC.

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