Wadi Al-Hitan

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Whale skeleton in Wadi Al-Hitan
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Whale skeleton in Wadi Al-Hitan

Wadi Al-Hitan (Arabic: وادي الحيتان‎, Whale Valley) is a palaeontological site in the Al Fayyum Governorate of Egypt. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2005 for its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest whale forms, the archaeoceti. The fossils show remnants of hind limbs, recording the evolution of whales from land-dwellers to ocean-dwellers.

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World Heritage Sites in Egypt

Abu Mena | Islamic Cairo | Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur | Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae | Saint Catherine Area | Thebes with its Necropolis | Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)


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