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Wadi el-Hudi inscriptions
The Wadi el-Hudi inscriptions are the stelae and rock-cut texts left by Middle Kingdom amethyst-mining expeditions at Wadi el-Hudi, in Egypt's Eastern Desert near Aswan.
Wadi es-Sebua
Wadi es-Sebua, the Valley of the Lions, is a temple complex in Lower Nubia built chiefly by Ramesses II and dedicated to Amun-Re and Re-Horakhty.
Wadi Faynan
Wadi Faynan, also written Faynan or Feinan, is a copper-mining and smelting district in the Arabah valley of southern Jordan, worked for roughly 7,000 years until the 13th century AD.
Wadi Gasus stelae
The Wadi Gasus stelae, also known as the Wadi Gasus inscription, are two Twelfth Dynasty stelae from Egypt's Red Sea coast recording expeditions to the land of Punt.
Wadi Haggag
Wadi Haggag (Arabic: وادي حجّاج, "Valley of the Pilgrims") is a valley in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, known for about 400 rock graffiti left by travelers from the 2nd century onward.
Wadi Halfa
Wadi Halfa is a town on the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan, near the Egyptian border, drowned by Lake Nubia in 1963.
Wadi Hammamat
Wadi Hammamat is a wadi in Egypt's Eastern Desert, home to ancient greywacke quarries and the shortest road from the Nile Valley to the Red Sea.
Wadi Hammamat inscriptions
The Wadi Hammamat inscriptions (Hammamat inscriptions) are hundreds of rock inscriptions and graffiti at Egypt's Eastern Desert greywacke quarries, carved from the Old Kingdom into the Roman Period.
Wadi Hammeh 27
Wadi Hammeh 27 is an Early Natufian open-air settlement near Pella in Jordan, occupied around 12,500 to 12,000 BC and known for large pre-Neolithic buildings.
Wadi Hamra (Gilf Kebir)
Wadi Hamra is a dry valley cutting the northern Gilf Kebir plateau in Egypt's Western Desert, known for prehistoric rock engravings of wild fauna, including unique rhinoceros figures.
Wadi Jilat
Wadi Jilat, also written Wadi el Jilat, is a wadi in eastern Jordan, 55 km southwest of Azraq, whose valley holds major Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic sites.
Wadi junction
Wadi junction (WADJ): a gazetteer-designated hydrographic feature, a place where two or more wadies, the dry seasonal valleys of North Africa and the Middle East, join; distinct from the Wadi Junction railway station in Karnataka, India.
Wādī Ki‘ām Aqueduct (Lepcis)
Wādī Ki‘ām Aqueduct (L'acquedotto di uadi Caam), Roman aqueduct of Lepcis Magna, Libya, built AD 119–20 by Q. Servilius Candidus, carrying water about 20 km from Wadi Caam to the city's cisterns, baths, and fountains.
Wadi Koura
Wadi Koura is a wadi and Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture west of Ain Ebel, in the Bint Jbeil District of the Nabatieh Governorate in Lebanon.
Wadi Kubbaniya
Wadi Kubbaniya is a wadi in Upper Egypt reaching the Nile north of Aswan, with Late Palaeolithic sites occupied from about 20,000 to 12,000 BP.
Wadi Maghara
Wadi Maghara, also written Wadi Magharah, is a turquoise and copper mining district in southwest Sinai, Egypt, marked by royal rock inscriptions from the Third Dynasty onward.
Wadi mouth
Wadi mouth: the lower terminus of a wadi where it widens into a floodplain, depression, or waterbody (code WADM). Ephemeral flash-flood sedimentation, fan deltas, estuarine facies, and flood hazards at arid coasts.
Wadi N. Suki
Wadi N. Suki is a Houston nephrologist and physician-scientist, born in Khartoum, Sudan, known for his 1970 paper on acute treatment of hypercalcemia with furosemide.
Wadi N'f'd
Wadi N'f'd (Wadi Nafed or Nefed) is a dry valley in the pre-desert of Tripolitania, Libya, tributary to the Wadi Sofeggin, with Romano-Libyan farms, Gasr Isawi, the Msletten tombs, and UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey monuments Nf 30-31, 37-39.
Wadi Numeira
Wadi Numeira, also printed Wadi Numayra, is a wadi in Jordan bordering the Early Bronze Age walled town of Numeira, 13 km south of Bab edh-Dhra'.
Wadi Rum Protected Area (protected area)
Wadi Rum Protected Area (WRPA, محمية وادي رم), Jordan's largest protected area at 74,000 ha in the southern Hisma desert; UNESCO mixed World Heritage site since 2011 with 25,000 petroglyphs, 20,000 inscriptions, and 12,000 years of occupation.
Wadi Shu'eib (archaeological site)
Wadi Shu'eib, also spelled Wadi Shu'ayb, is a large Pre-Pottery Neolithic B mega-site in the central Jordanian highlands near as-Salt, excavated in 1988 and 1989.
Wadi Suq period
The Wadi Suq period, or Wadi Suq culture, was a Bronze Age archaeological culture of south-eastern Arabia, in what is now the UAE and Oman, dated to about 2000–1300 BC.
Wadi Suq tombs
Wadi Suq tombs are the varied chambered burial monuments of the Wadi Suq culture in Oman and the UAE, built and used from about 2000 to 1600 BC.
Wadi Tumilat
Wadi Tumilat, also known as Wadi Tulaimat, is a fertile valley in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, the 8th Lower Egyptian nome and route of the ancient Red Sea canal.
Wadi-us-Salaam (وادي السلام)
Wadi-us-Salaam (وادي السلام), the Valley of Peace, is the world's largest cemetery, adjoining Imam Ali's shrine in Najaf, Iraq, with an estimated 5-6 million graves, about 50,000 burials yearly, and 1,400 years of continuous use.
Wadia family
The Wadia family is a Parsi family of Bombay that ran the Bombay Dockyard for nine generations from 1736 to 1884, building teak warships for the Royal Navy.
Wadia Group
The Wadia Group is a Mumbai-based Parsi family conglomerate founded in 1736, best known for Britannia Industries and Bombay Dyeing and chaired by Nusli Wadia.
Wadih Arap
Wadih Arap is a physician-scientist in genitourinary oncology who directs the Cancer Program at University Hospital Newark and is known for vascular ZIP codes, tissue-specific blood vessel signatures used for targeted drug delivery.
Wadiyar dynasty
The Wadiyar dynasty was a ruling family of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. It is known for reviving the Dasara festival in Srirangapatna in 1610.