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  • Qila’a el-Dabba

  • Qila’a el-Dabba

    Qila'a el-Dabba is an Old Kingdom cemetery located in Dakhla Oasis, Balat, Egypt. The site includes a field of mastabas surrounded by a large number of smaller secondary burials. It is dating back to the Old Kingdom period in the 3rd millennium BC.
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    Qila’a el-Dabba
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Qila’a el-Dabba
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Qila’a el-Dabba
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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