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El Zorro
El Zorro (Fox and Geese, El Zorro y los Gansos) is a traditional asymmetric hunt board game: one fox piece hunts geese or hens on a cross-shaped board, first recorded in the Icelandic Grettis saga around 1300, with Canarian and Andean variants.
El-Ahwat
El-Ahwat, Arabic for 'the walls', is a fortified early Iron Age settlement of about 7.5 acres on a hilltop near Nahal 'Iron in central Israel, discovered in 1992.
El-Amra clay model of cattle
The El-Amra clay model of cattle is a Predynastic Egyptian group of four clay cows, made about 3500 BC and excavated in 1900–01 from grave A23 at el-Amra, Upper Egypt.
El-Amrah
El-Amrah (el-Amra; Al-ʿĀmirah) is an ancient Egyptian cemetery and settlement site near Abydos, the type site of the Predynastic Amratian culture, excavated from 1900 to 1901.
el-Areg
el-Areg (العرج, al-ʿAraǧ), also el-'Arag, an uninhabited oasis and Ptolemaic-Roman rock-tomb site on the Darb Siwa route in Egypt's Western Desert, 120 km from Siwa at the southern edge of the Qattara Depression.
El-Assasif
El-Assasif, also written Asasif, is a valley in the Theban necropolis on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, Egypt, used for elite burial from about 2050 BCE.
el-Ayoun
el-Ayoun (Pleiades 716530) is an ancient Egyptian site at Barrington Atlas 73 F5, a polygonal Roman-era temple probably tied to a spring, occupied roughly 750 BC to AD 300; distinct from Tunisian and Moroccan places of the same name.
el-Bara
el-Bara (al-Bara, بارة), largest of Syria's Dead Cities in Jabal az-Zawiya, Idlib; Byzantine olive-oil town founded 4th century, five churches, pyramid tombs, abandoned late 12th century, UNESCO site.
el-Chatatba
el-Chatatba (Al Khatatibah, El-Chatátba) is a ruined Roman temple of Cipollino marble about 10 km south of Sabratha, Libya, and the nearby oasis at 32°46′N 12°31′E; distinct from El Hattatba, Algeria.
el-Deir
el-Deir (Deir el-Munira, Dayr Umm al-Ghanaim) is an archaeological site in Egypt's Kharga Oasis with a Ptolemaic temple of Amun and a Roman mud-brick fortress built ca. A.D. 288, occupied from the 6th century BC into the Islamic period.
El-Farouk Khaki
El-Farouk Khaki (born 1963) is a Tanzanian-born Toronto refugee and immigration lawyer, founder of Salaam (1991), the first queer Muslim group in Canada, and co-founder of the Toronto Unity Mosque.
El-Hammamiya
El-Hammamiya, also known as Hemamieh, is a Predynastic settlement and cemetery site on the east bank of the Nile in the Badari region of Middle Egypt.
El-Hobagi
El-Hobagi is a Post-Meroitic royal tumulus cemetery on the Nile about 70 km upstream of Meroe in Sudan, with seven royal burial mounds and the latest known Meroitic hieroglyphic inscription.
El-Jadida (district)
El-Jadida (الجديدة), a province of Morocco in Casablanca-Settat, capital of the Doukkala; former Portuguese Mazagan, renamed 1822, UNESCO site 2004, population about 787,000, Jorf Lasfar mining port.
El-Kab
El-Kab, ancient Nekheb and Greek Eileithyiaspolis, is an archaeological site on the Nile's east bank in Upper Egypt, the cult center of the vulture goddess Nekhbet.
El-Khirbe
El-Khirbe is an archaeological site about 9 km west of Nablus, near Dayr Sharaf, known for a Samaritan synagogue of the Late Roman and Byzantine periods.
El-Khokha
El-Khokha is a hillock and burial ground in the Theban necropolis on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, Egypt, with more than 130 private rock-cut tombs.
El-Kurru
El-Kurru is the royal burial ground of the Napatan dynasty of Kush, on the Nile near Gebel Barkal in northern Sudan, in use from about 850 to 650 BCE.
El-Mahasna
El-Mahasna, also written el-Mahâsna, is a Predynastic Egyptian settlement and cemetery about 10.5 km north of Abydos, occupied only during the Naqada I and II phases.
El-Moalla
El-Moalla is a necropolis on the east bank of the Nile south of Luxor, known for the First Intermediate Period rock-cut tombs of Ankhtyfy and Sobekhotep.
el-Muftella
el-Muftella, also written Ain el-Muftella, is an ancient Egyptian temple near El Bawiti in the Bahariya Oasis of Egypt's Western Desert, dating mainly to the 26th Dynasty.
El-Mustagidda
El-Mustagidda, also written Mostagedda, is a Predynastic cemetery and settlement site in the Badari district of Upper Egypt, excavated by Guy Brunton for the British Museum in 1927–1929.
El-Omari
El-Omari is a Neolithic settlement and cemetery at Wadi Hof near Helwan in Lower Egypt, occupied about 4600 to 4400 BC and the type site of the el-Omari culture.
El-P
El-P, born Jaime Meline in 1975, is a Brooklyn rapper and producer who led Company Flow, founded Definitive Jux, and formed Run the Jewels with Killer Mike in 2012.
El-Saff
El-Saff is a predynastic cemetery of the Maadi culture, a Lower Egyptian culture of about 4000-3500 BC, located near the modern village of El-Saff and excavated by the Egyptian Department of Antiquities in 1935.
El-Salam Canal
El-Salam Canal (Arabic for "Peace Canal") is an irrigation canal in northeastern Egypt that carries blended Nile and drainage water under the Suez Canal into Sinai for land reclamation.
El-Shabab power station
El-Shabab power station is a 1,500-megawatt gas-fired combined cycle power station in Tell El Kebir, Egypt, owned by East Delta Electricity Production Company and commissioned in 2011.
El-Sheikh Sa'id
El-Sheikh Sa'id (al-Shaykh Sa'id) is a village on the east bank of the Nile in Minya governorate, Upper Egypt, beside a rock-cut necropolis of Old Kingdom tombs.
El-Tarif
El-Tarif is the northernmost sector of the Theban Necropolis on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, Egypt, serving as the royal cemetery of the Eleventh Dynasty Intef kings.
El-Tod
El-Tod, the ancient town of Djerty, is an archaeological site on the Nile south of Luxor, Egypt, with a temple of Montu and the Tod Treasure, unearthed in 1936.